It allows women to not always be the butt of the joke, but make the jokes. Fans are also convinced that GTA 6 could feature the biggest map of all Grand Theft Auto games, and have even theorized how big it could be from leaked coordinates. I believe Grand Theft Auto 6 might, incredibly, not hate women quite as much as its predecessor did, just by virtue of you being able to see the world through a woman’s eyes. Furthermore, other reports claim that the map of GTA 6 could change with DLCs which could add new but familiar areas to the game. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the protagonist is a woman this time round, giving women real autonomy in the Grand Theft Auto world for the first time instead of being cheating bitches or sex workers you can run over with your car. We all know the world is much more polarised now, and video games have to approach their writing with a lot more delicacy. There is room for satire without indulging the misogynistic behaviour of man-trolls whose hobbies include sending women hate on the internet, and the world was a lot more tolerant of this when the last game was released ten years ago. Some of the world’s most popular media criticises wealth, the upper-class, and does so in a thoughtful way without having to punch down. My question is, would this still stand today, and is Take-Two willing to take the risk? We’re in a time when huge franchises like The Last of Us and Horizon are headed by, not just women, but women who date women, and they’re still making tons of money. The world is anxiously anticipating the release of Rockstar Games ’ next Grand Theft Auto game. Many people have spoken about, and debated, the misogyny in GTA 5, and I’m not interested in delving deep into it.
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It felt like a low blow that women were being treated this way in the game while the men that treated them badly were given full character arcs and even shots at redemption. The women in these games didn’t really do anything, they weren’t important to the story, they were just there to be ragged on.
I thought about the times men had spoken to me derisively, objectifying me, and wondered what was funny about it now that it was transplanted straight into a video game, and who the satire was designed to mock. I understood what I was looking at was satire, but it still made me very uncomfortable. I haven’t played Grand Theft Auto 5 in years, since I first played it on my Xbox 360 aged 17, but I remember that my baby feminist brain was having a hard time wrapping itself around what I was being presented with. Here’s the thing about satire - it’s not very good if it’s just what happens in real life, and the way fans treated these reviewers (many of whom still scored it very highly) was close to the way men treated women in the game. Related: Assassin’s Creed Won’t Save Ubisoft Without Big Changes
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