The Third and Fourth SR games were already noticing that a decade ago, and thus why they pivoted to this wacky Wayan-Brothers-style parody comedy those games adopted. The average gamer is just not even nearly as interested in that universe today. THAT world of american-gang-culture is way less culturally relevant today than it was then. Even ignoring the outrage culture that would bitch and moan about representation of this or that. I think it was a hard miss, and sales will suffer.īut I also don't think they could do SR1 again today. I honestly can't imagine the persona Volition was going for here. And in-debt failed college graduates are embarrassed enough with themselves (been there, minus the debt) they don't wanna be reminded of their failures when playing a game. Teens look up to be successful adults, not in-debt failed college graduates. It is cringy because it hits too close to home. And then there is the fact that usually people play games that portray things that they aspire to, and not charicatures of themselves. But I am not sure if that demographic is as large as they think it is, and I think its way more culturally niche than the pop-radio white-kid gangstah-rap of SR1 was in the 2000's. There indeed are consumers out there with a half-shaved purple dyed hair and neon clothing listening to skrillex and streaming Among-Us. I think they are misjudging the audience for that kind of theming.
It feels very watchdogs, for example, but the world of watchdogs was a heavily constructed one, and not something pulled out of our shared collective-unconscious like the gta games are. It feels derivative for the sole purpose of being derivative. This one with the college students just feels out of place in the genre. Only Rockstar captured that more inspiring and picturesque Hollywood interpretation of classic LA hip-hop from the 70s, while SR was doing Suburban kid gangster wannabe from MySpace version of hiphop. Coming off of GTA SA, it felt almost like a spiritual sequel. They didn't do a fantasy gangster hip-hop game out of some love for the genre, but because that was hot in 2006.īut it did fit the genre. It was riding hard on the fads of high-school middle class kids of the time. To be fair, if one looks back at the first SR, it was pretty much equally cringey.
0 kommentar(er)
