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Hell yea. Playing a woman means I can look at a woman all the time I play.

Why would I want to stare at a man the entire game long.

This is the oldest excuse in the book. Just admit you want to be a girl this time. There's no shame in it. Or any reason at all to say "hur hur I want look at lady, boys gross"
Who even looks at the models? Enjoy the works around the character
- I play female characters without any desire to be a woman. I don’t identify with the characters I play just as a ventriloquist doesn’t identify with his puppet.
- Sorry, but guy asses aren't as pretty as girl asses. Im a bi girl though, so probably not representative of the population.
- Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar....
- I am legit one of the men who likes to play as a woman in games from time to time without any excuse. I have always been a maverick. I always like to go against the perceived norm and I enjoy doing something different. Playing as a woman for me is always spicing things up and a break from the usual man things, whatever that is.
  That said, FemShep is the only Shep!
- I always play female if I can and you are right, for the longest time i wish I were a girl. Not so sure today but I wouldn't mind clothing to be less restrictive. Women can wear all kind of nice clothes and men just... Jeans and a t-shirt it is.
- Lol. You seem to project your personal insecurities a lot here dude.
  If I'd want to be feeling like a woman I wouldn't see that as something I would have to hide. Lol. Even less on an anonymous random internet thread.
  Weirdo!
- Tbh what is even the difference between wanting to look at the character and wanting to be the character. Just pick the character you want to play for whatever reason
I personally pretend to be that man
- I personally pretend to be the woman

To be fair, that is basically describing the beginning few missions of San Andreas anyway.

The best GTA imo. I love how you can change your character by doing things, binge eating/hitting the gym/etc.
- That's an amazing RPG mechanic that I'm amazed that didn't become the norm in RPGs (wonder if they patented it or something).
  The more you run the faster you get, the more you fight the stronger you get.
  You get progress in an intuitive, and rewarding way. No menus.

a few years ago I've heard this straight guy give the advice of "of course I'm picking the girl in a third person view game. i'm not gonna stare at a man's behind for hours of playing"

I alternate between "play the guy because more relatable" and "play the girl because ass"
Then again, my friend also used the "I don't wanna watch a guy all day" reasoning when I asked him and well, now we all know she wanted to be a girl all along.
- The real gender was the one she made along the way.
Another one that irks me for some reason is that a LOT of games get the MOST boring, cookie-cutter action hero voice actor for the dude. I just can't get invested when "me" in the game sounds so unenthusiastic. I tend to pick the female character/voice option just bc they seem to put more effort into it. See: CP2077, most bioware games.
- I picked the female character on cp2077 on a whim and thank God for that. The story is so much better with a female protagonist (at least until now, I haven't finished yet) and V Friendship with Jackie is much more sweet like an unlikely duo. The voice actor is also great. I saw some clips of male V and it not even comparable how different the game feels.
- This is 100% the case in Assassin's Creed Odyssey. Male player character voice sounds absolutely ridiculous, like Christopher Nolan's Batman but even worse.
I used that excuse when I was younger and more insecure. Now I just own it and say I do it because I like to play as women more than men. I'm a man IRL, but sometimes I wanna try on the other sex
I coped like this when I was younger too. Now I say I play the character that I would most want to be. I'd love to be a super fucking hot girl who commits crimes. Unironically, it appeals to the male fantasy lmao
- If one transitions, she can be a super hot girl who commits crimes in numerous countries by simply existing

Florida be swimming with the fishes soon dear, very soon.

Never pay ownership money to rent a game someone else owns and can steal from you at any time. The only games that exist are those you can play in 50 years on a whim because you fucking bought them.

My plan is to play gta 6 in 50 years so I can visit Miami when it no longer exists 😁
- When GTA6 becomes a period piece:
  "Oh! Remember when cars used to look like that?"
  "Remember when cars used to be above water?"
  "It's so dry here!"
The weather is going to continue to get worse but I keep seeing people perpetuating the idea that sea levels rising will be significant enough to put Florida "underwater". Orlando is 112 ft over sea level. Sea level is estimated to rise 10-12 inches over the next 25 years. The Everglades and the Keys will be in trouble but the majority of the state have been built up off sea level because of storm surge. In the grand scheme of things I would be more worried to live in tornado alley or the arid areas like Arizona.
I plan to move to the Canadian border one day to hopefully put some roots in the future green zone.
I'm at 35ft above sea level at the moment and wish I could go a day without seeing something hateful about my state. It's frustrating enough that I have to live around all these conservative geezers. It would be really nice if some aging millennials would start a demographic shift. It's not so long ago that Florida was a swing state.
- You picked the only real landlocked city in Florida to mention sea level? 2,400,000 Florida residents live less than 4 feet above high tide. 75% of the state lives on the coast. I'm here too, and half the roads have drainage problems when it rains. Planes couldn't land at the ft Lauderdale Airport in 2023 because the runways flooded. It's gonna be a mess man
- Large sections will remain above sea level, but Miami is fucked, and arguably before it ever becomes underwater. Sea water creep ruins fresh water sources far further inland than it submerges them, while the Peninsula shape causes most of the state within 50 miles of the ocean. On top of that, hurricanes have already caused neighborhoods to become abandoned, as there isn't the money or will to rebuild something that'll just end up destroyed again. As infrastructure gets ruined and people flee, the state will not have the ability to maintain itself. Florida will go from one of the most populus states to an Oklahoma sized one.

Just manly man things :3

BEING NICE TO WOMEN IS THE MOST BAD*SS THING YOU CAN DO
- Doing girly things us the most sigma male thing one can do. Wearing Neal polish, skirts etc shows you're not insecure about your masculinity.
  Or something idk :3

Hype is real but GTAs usually set the standard for open world games and alway advance the genre. We'll see but excited to see what they got going.

Idk. They haven’t advanced their shooting mechanics in over 20 years. They have advanced predatory anti-consumer practices though.
The narratives are generally good but I’m of the mind that I don’t want satire when living in such a shitty and insane time.
If I get a chance to play for free, I’ll take it but I’m not giving rstar or take2 any money.
- Uh, what do you want them to do for the shooting mechanics in an arcadey 3rd person shooter?
games and alway advance the genre
what was groundbreaking in gta v from a gameplay perspective? Switching characters?
I was playing as the flash in the saints row series at this point.
- Open world in general really. In 2013 you had big titles like black flag and saints row 4 like you mentioned and bioshock infinite lets say.
  Go back and play Black Flag. While the game was a masterpiece and my favorite AC, it just lacked fluid movement.
  Saints Row IV was awesome. It reminded me of what Enter the Matrix should have been, but it didnt have the alive world GTV 5 had.
  Bioshock was beauty and grand but not true freedom or NPC interaction.
  This is all opinion, as art goes. You might love something that I dont and we can disagree. But we still love the space. Rockstar puts together a great package with every title though. I mean you can't argue with results. GTA V is the most double dipped and succesful title ever. Maybe CoD could rival but that's just recycled trash. Let's see what happens, if it sucks, it sucks. Plenty of games out there.