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GTA V - Digital media, games & play - Digital media, games & play. Initially, GTA V mostly just annoyed me. Annoying characters, annoying gameplay, just annyoing. I don’t care much for driving around, waiting for something to happen, and I had absolutely no interest in the characters. I found the light (yes, the actual light) in the game world to be awfully pretty, though. I don’t know exactly when it happened, but at some point, I started to care. It’s not comparable to the way I cared about Walther White or Ellie or the entire cast from The Wire, but I do care.
GTA is an unruly beast, a giant mess, trying to be so many things, all at once. It’s a huge open world, where you, allegedly, can do more or less what you want to. I am impressed by the scale and the attention to detail. At times, the scale allows for a wondrous sense of exploration, and some of the missions use the world really well. To an extent, it all feels alive. GTA is pretty obviously satire, a caricature of society, of people, of technology, of popular culture.
“Protohipster”. GTA V - Digital media, games & play - Digital media, games & play.