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The confederate flag is being cut because of what it symbolizes. However, there's a lot more offensive content that can have a negative influence and thus should be cut before the games are released. Soundtracks: There are many offensive songs on the soundtracks that include racial slurs and glorify gang violence. The rock and roll should also be cut because it can be considered satanic. All of it should go and be replaced with less problematic modern artists like Lil Nas X and Ariana Grande. Gangs: All gang references should be cut. Gangs are a serious problem today and this stuff might influence impressionable youth to join a gang. Violence: Many people have been victims of violence. The guns and violence in general should be taken out of these games. Especially since many racist groups such as the Confederate Army used guns and violence to get their points across in the past. Traffic laws: Many people have become disabled due to bad drivers who don't follow traffic laws. The traffic laws need to be enforced in this game. Rockstar Games: The name itself is offensive. No one listens to rock anymore but back in the day rockstars were known to be toxic male misogynists which is not acceptable for modern audiences. Cops: They should be replaced with community workers and therapists in these games. I am proud of Rockstar because removing the confederate flag on the dumb redneck character's shirt is a good start but they have much more work to do.

Dear GSG, I wrote you but still ain't callin'

Me trying to find something interesting in all those unread messages

That missed notification, I bet she ignored @TheLandstalker's email. I am extremely disappointed with GSG.

Oh boy, how to explain it couple words... Look, just because you have a picture of someone sitting in front of Photoshop, dosn't mean the textures were not lazily edited with a sh*tty filter and a smudge tool. You do realize that when people say that they don't mean they put an actual Boston Dynamics AI robot in front of a computer, right? It dosn't mean "no actual humans worked on it", just means they did a sh*tty amateur job and most of it was automated to save time. Not to sh*t on the artists ofc, they probably just didn't hire enough of people for the work and they didn't game them enough of time to fix those textures. So to deal with deadlines, they had to cut corners. This picture will be a good example. Look at those pants. Its not a new texture, its not recreated with new assets, it wasn't redrawn by hand. its the same old low res texture with a photoshop filter on top of it. You could say "well maybe they they smudged it around by hand to give it that cartoon look", but if that was true, you wouldn't have those artifacts you can see near the belt buckle. That shows you it was edited with a simple filter and it wasn't even touched up with proper brushes afterwords to make it look good Now look at the lack of consistency between different textures in that screenshot (not even looking at the environment vs characters, lets just focus on the characters for now). Some textures are more "cartoony" than others. For example his skin/shirt vs pants. If it was "all AI upscaled", all textures would look equally bad. That shows you they were running out of time and for most textures they just said "f*ck it, we don't have time for this, just use a filter" It feels like at the end no one was even there to take a look at every single texture and they all just got approved no matter if it looks good or not cause they were running out of time (that could also explain how the f*ck they allowed Tommy to look like a Bollywood actor lol) This shirt looks like a texture load glitch compered to everything else in that shot And those pants ? They are the equivalent of doing this to your photos:

At this point in time, I've been burned way too many times by devs I actually give a sh*t about. Do I hope it fails? Kinda, cause I hope it would force Take2 to change directions,(though that hope is very small) but I'm not going to hate you for enjoying it. I've just become so disenfranchised by so many of these publishers and devs, who love throwing their loyal fans under the bus. I hate the idea of updating sh*t for or targeting a "modern audience" cause it's just marketing speak for the easily offended on Twitter, gaming journalists and the like. And it pisses me off everything f*cking time it happens, and I am seeing hints of that here with these remasters/remakes. It always starts off with small things, but then it expands to larger things. At this point in time Rockstar has to prove to me that they are worthy of me actually trusting them. I yearn for a new GTA game, but I fear with the lost of Dan House, Lazlow and Leslie Benzies that GTA VI isn't going to be as good. They could hire new people to replace them, but then you'll get something similar to the Saints Row reboot. And this, what feels like, half assed remake isn't helping much. Modders have done more with less. And Take2 is sh*tting on life long fans with these cease and desists. How can anyone think it's a bad thing, while also continuing giving them money? It's like punching yourself in the face. I used to be a massive Rockstar fan, but I know they don't give a sh*t about me and thus I stopped being one. These companies don't learn anything until it costs them tons of money.

Me watching this State of play

As you are already aware, the third stage of UFO event is now live from today until Saturday, October 30. Now, we have three UFOs spawning in simultaneously each day. On Saturday, we will have 5 UFOs spawned in at various locations. The sightseeing script can allow Rockstar to spawn in 23 UFOs at the same time, but it's unlikely we would see that many UFOs in a single session since it would likely cause performance issues. However, it does suggest that on October 31, we could see tons of UFOs spawning in. That's likely when the final stage will occur. Rockstar may say f*ck it and spawn in 23 UFOs on Sunday. Which will be insane and hilarious at the same time. Imagine logging in and witnessing 23 UFOs in a single session. New players be like "hacker drop money plz"

Madlads actually wrote a reply for once and didn't send an automated message:

Good spotting! I think this confirms for me that WDS has been working on all these textures.

For anyone worrying, the chainsaw won't be censored since I've seen a few people worrying about this.

They were not, who told you that? The Mobile version is just low bitrate MP3 versions of the PC Audio. As for Audio there's a thing called the "Master" which is a final mixed UNCOMPRESSED version of the audio. All GTA audio is compressed down for specific platforms. Lazlow already confirmed on his show years ago that he's got copies of the masters so that should remove doubt of their existence. But as for the audio, it's like this, using GTA3 as an example here... > MASTER (Which can be 44.1Khz/48Khz LPCM 16/32bit) >> GTA3 PS2 has it converted to 32Khz 256kbps ADPCM (4bit) >> GTA3 PC has it converted to 32Khz 256kbps IMA ADPCM (4bit) >> GTA3 Xbox has it converted to 44.1Khz 128kbps WMA8 >> GTA3 Mobile has the PC audio further converted down to 32Khz 96kbps MP3 Where as for Vice City it's... > MASTER (Which can be 44.1Khz/48Khz LPCM 16/32bit) >> GTAVC PS2 has it converted to 32Khz 256kbps ADPCM (4bit) >> GTAVC PC has it converted to 44.1Khz 128kbps Xing MP3 >> GTAVC Xbox has it converted to 44.1Khz 64kbps WMA9 >> GTAVC Mobile has the PC audio further converted down to 32Khz 64kbps MP3

2019: GTA 6 is coming in 2021/2022 2020: GTA 6 is coming in 2022/2023 2021: GTA 6 is coming in 2024/2025 2022: GTA 6 is coming in 2025/2026 . . .

Looks like this dude bmotr1

Tomorrow marks 2 weeks until launch, though it's also GTAO bonuses day, so maybe Friday is a good bet again. It would seem a bit unusual not to show some gameplay before it releases considering there's a big change in the control system.

I honestly think sometimes people are confusing their nostalgia for good details in the old games. Even the characters in DE are starting to grow on me, I keep seeing comparison pictures and it really shines some light on how bad the characters did used to look - like human polygons. I respect everyone's views and opinions, but I'm genuinely shocked on just how many things people are picking at. Guess I'm more easily pleased

I appreciate that everyone's being civil with those emails and stuff, but I think it would be great if people stopped sending emails to the devs when they can't talk about anything that is under NDA, and when it's still pretty much a "work in progress" technically, as it's not released. Don't expect anyone to give you satisfactory responses, both GSG and Rockstar already read social media, forums, and all else for this feedback, as most game developers, regardless of company, do. Sending them emails is not gonna do the trick necessarily, other than frustrating everyone. This is how game devs stop replying to emails altogether.

Ruiner 2000 now released (it has functional scanner)

Should I really be surprised seeing the moderating staff here supporting censorship and cancelling? Shirt or no shirt, Rockstar had balls 20 years ago, now they've turned into pussies, catering to people who mostly aren't even old enough to legally play their games, but they bring money, that's all that matters.

Yeah, looks like it's been rated by the PEGI.

TBH you need to have a really high IQ to understand graphic design and... /s

Difference is that back then liberals were not as extreme and conservatives haven't had any real influence in entertainment for decades anyway so it was easier for Rockstar to make fun of everyone. Now liberals get butthurt over everything on Twitter and no company wants bad press. So literally every game and show is "woke approved" now. Seems like you didn't really read the thread.. No one gives a f*ck about the confederate flag in particular, the problem is that if the devs already removed it so no one gets offended, what else have they changed? You said it yourself its "just" a virtual flag on a virtual t-shirt, so why remove it? Sadly it seems this forum much like Twitter, reddit etc. has also been taken over by woke people. These people can't handle different opinions and will ban anyone who disagrees.

Man rip the 80s bush.

Now for something completely different.

What are guys expecting by contacting employees? They can't say anything after signing NDA, they won't respond with anything you want to hear. I would bet real money on them already seeing the feedback on the models and such, who knows if any action will be taken, but they'll definitely have seen what people's main complaints are.

(sigh) just another day on GTAForums...

I'm going to make exactly one comment on the flag and I'll leave it there. VC is set in 1986, and in the 80s, regardless of the history, it really was seen as a rebel/southern pride thing. Hell, maybe Phil is just a Dukes of Hazzard fan. When I see that flag, that's what I think of, because I grew up watching that show. I think of that and my grandfather, who's from Kentucky and will treat everyone with respect and kindness no matter where they come from or what they look like. He still had one in his back window in the 80s. I just wish people could understand that everyone sees things differently when it comes to it because I can understand both takes. Yes, it has roots in a really, really ugly part of history. Absolutely correct. But for a lot of people, for a very long time, it's had a harmless and prideful context, and I don't think they're wrong either. Regardless of whether you think it's right or wrong, it's only in recent years that popular opinion changed on it. There were always people who did take offense to it, and I'm not saying they're wrong. But in 2002, it was mostly acceptable for a man from the south to have one. I don't think they should change it now. It has context, it's obvious the character isn't racist. Hopefully nothing else is censored, but we won't know until we play them. Now, can we please move on?

His cameo in GTAO even hinted at new music, a car being stolen which contains his new music on a USB drive is what caused him and DJ Pooh to abandon going to Cayo Perico.

I didn't know you had the game yet. How is it?

GSG has been working on this for over 2 years, damn. Had to erase the ID because it's an employee of theirs:

I disagree, there is still a background pattern there. And the texture is really nice, it even has visible seams and stitching.

ICSLV It's Coming Soon - Las Venturas Gta secks confirmed!!11

I can't believe how on board everyone is with these remasters. I swear if it was any other franchise (cough Prince of Persia the Sands of Time cough), the fans would be f*cking livid

Gotta say what an upgrade... the entire building in the background was remodelled and roads were also fixed with much improved textures Remastered Original

State of Play be like:

Me watching state of play

Florida man joins GSG and leaks GTA:SA DE gameplay.

OK before anyone starts overanalysing this, you do realise this is how game dev works right? this is from early 2020 (so probably earlier development), and things need to be done, submitted, tested, checked etc. The VFX artists make the VFX but the programmers have to *integrate* it. There is A LOT more nuance to game dev than people think. Yes, one change requires multiple layers of approval.

Happy Birthday GTA VC

Remember last year when rockstar shut down gta online servers several hours because george floyd incident? was even rumored that they canceled cops and crooks dlc because that, so yes, old Rockstar is no more

If there's one thing I've learned about being here is disabling all my notifications

Don't tell that to those in the quarantined thread lol

It doesn't mention GAME Radio, I'm of the opinion that there's going to be NEW Radio Stations instead if they add to it. The original people who mixed the radio are long gone now, so it'd feel wrong to tamper with that work because quality wise it's going to be different, not to mention missing the point of the original radio stations (GAME Radioo being compromised of tracks ONLY from the GAME Record Label). However if they ADD a new radio station or two (especially in GTA3's case as it mentions others but not heard) that's an easy way to expand the soundtrack.

Ehmm.... immediately following release. and then...

If they are going to censor things, they should at least keep old versions for sale. Not every developer removes old versions after they release a remaster.

For some the trailer did a bad job. As soon as we see some gameplay people are gonna change their tune. Too much GTA V

I thought people wanted an experience authentic to the originals