Unexpected sad/depressing moments?

[79'Blazer4x4]

when rockstar announced that they were gonna release a ps4 and xbone version. waste of money

So people with a PS4 or Xbox One shouldn't be able to play GTA V? why?

[Undyne]

Both ending A & B are depressing. I never chose any of those in any playthrough.

 

Then this game is the first GTA that makes me feel bad for killing people. Let alone dogs. The way they cry when you hit/kill them makes me feel as if something gets ripped inside me.

I remember having 2 dogs getting hostile with me and I had to shoot them. That alone made me feel terrible, but the pose they were after killing them made me somehow feel even worse

 

 

 

 

 

 

Damn...it's like they wanted to be together for the last time

You're weak.

[oldbag69]

Franklin getting high is so profoundly depressing

[matajuegos01]

 

when rockstar announced that they were gonna release a ps4 and xbone version. waste of money

So people with a PS4 or Xbox One shouldn't be able to play GTA V? why?

 

i never said that, it's just that it feels so wrong that they've lied about their plans of not making it for next gen.

[Wheatley]

 

 

when rockstar announced that they were gonna release a ps4 and xbone version. waste of money

So people with a PS4 or Xbox One shouldn't be able to play GTA V? why?

 

i never said that, it's just that it feels so wrong that they've lied about their plans of not making it for next gen.

 

 

They didn't lie. If they said "We're releasing a next-gen version of GTA V" around the time of the last-gen versions release then little to nobody would have bought the last gen version. All that work creating that version would have gone to waste. It was more of a business decision than a "lie". Since Rockstar released the last-gen version in 2013 they've made over a billion dollars - that money can be and was most likely used to improve the next-gen version and add more content. Did Naughty Dog "lie" to their fans when they announced The Last of Us: Remastered? No, they didn't - the fans accepted it with open arms not only because the game looked and played better - they also got more content exclusive to that version that made it worth the purchase.

 

Rockstar have done this before when they announced Bully: Scholarship Edition for the Xbox 360 - did they get people complaining and calling them "liars"? I doubt it. People wanted to experience Bully on a new console and they loved it. Nobody complained about the fact that people may have already had the game on the PS2.

Edited October 8, 2014 by Wheatley

[Pavle]

When Trevor said that no one gives a f*ck about him.

[Gnocchi Flip Flops]

Finding out that their claim that they were allowing us to buy safehouses in SP back in July 2013 was a lie. It annoyed me to no return and will always annoy me. Perfect city, beautiful views, but no beautiful house to showcase it all.

[CarnageRacing00]

"The American Dream". Michael, Franklin, Trevor, numerous other main characters and even random NPCs... All chasing the American Dream, yet it's always out of reach.

 

That's what this game is and always has been about. Desperation and hopelessness. Couldn't be more timely.

[DeafMetal]

"The American Dream". Michael, Franklin, Trevor, numerous other main characters and even random NPCs... All chasing the American Dream, yet it's always out of reach.

 

That's what this game is and always has been about. Desperation and hopelessness. Couldn't be more timely.

Now that you mention it... I think so too. Michael's the guy who became what he wanted to become when he started the game. He's got a gorgeous wife, some kids, and is loaded. He's miserable. Trevor's the guy who, somewhere along the line, f*cked up and ended up becoming something what he feared becoming. You can tell how much resentment he has on the trip to LS - he had big dreams and aspirations. He's miserable. They're the guys who grew up with The American Dream but ultimately ended up failing them.

 

And then you have Franklin, who's the guy these two were when they had their aspirations. Except he has these two and his family as reference to what he can become as the years go by; and he's not sure what he wants to be, because he sees that in the long run, he's probably gonna end up miserable like everyone else. He wants to leave his childhood friends because he doesn't see a life in their world; and yet, even when he scores the big house and the big money, he feels unfulfilled: his girl left him for some shill and he's guilty about letting his friends self-destruct, as seen when he gets high. He feels like he's in limbo. He doesn't see any point in living the life he left behind because he knows it'll lead to nothing but the destruction of his life, his friends' lives, and will ultimately leave him as a worthless stain in the grand scheme of the universe. He doesn't want to live his high and mighty life because he feels he betrayed his roots and everything he stood for; he doesn't see a point in being successful without the people he loves and who love him, BUT at the same time, he doesn't want to co-opt in their self-destruction. He's miserable. He comes from the generation that was raised by the kind of people Trevor and Michael are: people who had dreamt big and failed just as gloriously. He doesn't believe in the American Dream anymore, but he's looking for something.

 

f*ck. I don't wanna know how much of me I put into that. f*ck Rockstar, making me think deep and sh*t.

[rampage08]

Reading all these posts made me think that the game is a deeper than Last Of Us. LoU was amazing but they told us the story in front of us whereas in GTA V, you have to interact with the world to find out the depressing facts.

 

I'm really surprised, i don't play much video games so maybe there are games that are deeper than LoU, GTA V and Walking Dead but damn... GTA V gets me the most because those depressing stuff is hidden within the colorful, fantasy, fun theme and background of the game and the world itself.

[CarnageRacing00]

GTA V hits closer to home, especially for Americans. The land of opportunity... Ruined by corrupt government and rich socialites. You're nothing unless you're someone, and everyone wants to be someone else.

[Daniel123Shaw123]

Patricia leaving Trevor.

 

Michael's family leaving.

 

Franklin and the bong moments.

 

And Trevor saying no one gives a f*ck about him.

[rampage08]

Patricia leaving Trevor.

 

Michael's family leaving.

 

Franklin and the bong moments.

 

And Trevor saying no one gives a f*ck about him.

Yeah now i felt bad for laughing at the "Patricia leaving Trevor" mission. It was sadness hidden within the dark humour that R* created.

 

At first it was funny because i didn't expect the psychotic Trevor to cry like that. I thought the whole part was intended to be funny but you can't help but feel sad for him.

[dyspoid]

I find the entire game kind of sad. Despite being brighter than IV visually, the story and characters are bleaker than ever.

 

Our protagonists all had some kind of deep, pervasive misery that swallowed them up. They all held some kind of desperate optimism, that somehow they could free themselves from their situation - but none of it worked. All of our protagonists are broken people, who once gaining what it is that they wanted, eventually came to realize that they were better without it.

 

Franklin wanted money, in the belief that he would become the man that his estranged lover wanted - BUT the only time we see her, she pleads for Franklin to be the thug she knew.

 

Another depressing facet of the game - the most relate-able aspect of each character are their flaws and bruises to their souls.

[Vec]

 

Both ending A & B are depressing. I never chose any of those in any playthrough.

 

Then this game is the first GTA that makes me feel bad for killing people. Let alone dogs. The way they cry when you hit/kill them makes me feel as if something gets ripped inside me.

I remember having 2 dogs getting hostile with me and I had to shoot them. That alone made me feel terrible, but the pose they were after killing them made me somehow feel even worse

 

 

 

 

 

 

Damn...it's like they wanted to be together for the last time

You're weak.

 

 

Don't get me wrong, I still kill peds. Specially the ones I consider douches, and that usually includes the construction workers that are always insulting each other

[Johnny Spaz]

Nothing made me sad or cry 'cause it's a game, fiction, not real, but probably the most depressing thing is that Johnny K gets killed and Franklin gets 5 minutes of screen time

[grasscid]

Trevor's first mission (not the prologue; "Mr. Phillips") really just killed the mood for me for the entire game. After that, I couldn't like him or even pity him no matter how hard I tried.

Having watched the trailers prior to the games release, I even thought that Trevor would've always been my favorite character.

[DeafMetal]

I find the entire game kind of sad. Despite being brighter than IV visually, the story and characters are bleaker than ever.

 

Our protagonists all had some kind of deep, pervasive misery that swallowed them up. They all held some kind of desperate optimism, that somehow they could free themselves from their situation - but none of it worked. All of our protagonists are broken people, who once gaining what it is that they wanted, eventually came to realize that they were better without it.

 

Franklin wanted money, in the belief that he would become the man that his estranged lover wanted - BUT the only time we see her, she pleads for Franklin to be the thug she knew.

 

Another depressing facet of the game - the most relate-able aspect of each character are their flaws and bruises to their souls.

That was beautiful.

[dyspoid]

 

I find the entire game kind of sad. Despite being brighter than IV visually, the story and characters are bleaker than ever.

 

Our protagonists all had some kind of deep, pervasive misery that swallowed them up. They all held some kind of desperate optimism, that somehow they could free themselves from their situation - but none of it worked. All of our protagonists are broken people, who once gaining what it is that they wanted, eventually came to realize that they were better without it.

 

Franklin wanted money, in the belief that he would become the man that his estranged lover wanted - BUT the only time we see her, she pleads for Franklin to be the thug she knew.

 

Another depressing facet of the game - the most relate-able aspect of each character are their flaws and bruises to their souls.

That was beautiful.

 

 

Haha, a sad, depressing kind of beautiful.

[Undyne]

I find the entire game kind of sad. Despite being brighter than IV visually, the story and characters are bleaker than ever.

 

Our protagonists all had some kind of deep, pervasive misery that swallowed them up. They all held some kind of desperate optimism, that somehow they could free themselves from their situation - but none of it worked. All of our protagonists are broken people, who once gaining what it is that they wanted, eventually came to realize that they were better without it.

 

Franklin wanted money, in the belief that he would become the man that his estranged lover wanted - BUT the only time we see her, she pleads for Franklin to be the thug she knew.

 

Another depressing facet of the game - the most relate-able aspect of each character are their flaws and bruises to their souls.

 

[Nah nah nah Gta 6]

The most unexpected thing is that people actually like Trevor here and they actually noticed he had character, wait till the Johnny K fanboys start spewing bullsh*t everywhere about people complementing Trevor because they were sad their favorite protagonist was killed.

 

The most depressing thing in the game were the A & B endings, mostly the one where Trevor dies, he was betrayed by Franklin and Micheal.

 

Micheal's ending was pretty depressing too, but the feeling of betrayal isn't as big as Trevor's ending.

 

I'm glad Franklin didn't die in the Deathwish ending, they're all great characters, none of them really deserved to die, and killing the antagonists in ending C just had a great feeling to it, It was awesome using Micheal's bullet-time against Stretch or blowing up Wei Cheng with sticky bombs as Franklin.

Edited October 15, 2014 by Stoney0503

[Official General]

 

"The American Dream". Michael, Franklin, Trevor, numerous other main characters and even random NPCs... All chasing the American Dream, yet it's always out of reach.

 

That's what this game is and always has been about. Desperation and hopelessness. Couldn't be more timely.

Now that you mention it... I think so too. Michael's the guy who became what he wanted to become when he started the game. He's got a gorgeous wife, some kids, and is loaded. He's miserable. Trevor's the guy who, somewhere along the line, f*cked up and ended up becoming something what he feared becoming. You can tell how much resentment he has on the trip to LS - he had big dreams and aspirations. He's miserable. They're the guys who grew up with The American Dream but ultimately ended up failing them.

 

And then you have Franklin, who's the guy these two were when they had their aspirations. Except he has these two and his family as reference to what he can become as the years go by; and he's not sure what he wants to be, because he sees that in the long run, he's probably gonna end up miserable like everyone else. He wants to leave his childhood friends because he doesn't see a life in their world; and yet, even when he scores the big house and the big money, he feels unfulfilled: his girl left him for some shill and he's guilty about letting his friends self-destruct, as seen when he gets high. He feels like he's in limbo. He doesn't see any point in living the life he left behind because he knows it'll lead to nothing but the destruction of his life, his friends' lives, and will ultimately leave him as a worthless stain in the grand scheme of the universe. He doesn't want to live his high and mighty life because he feels he betrayed his roots and everything he stood for; he doesn't see a point in being successful without the people he loves and who love him, BUT at the same time, he doesn't want to co-opt in their self-destruction. He's miserable. He comes from the generation that was raised by the kind of people Trevor and Michael are: people who had dreamt big and failed just as gloriously. He doesn't believe in the American Dream anymore, but he's looking for something.

 

f*ck. I don't wanna know how much of me I put into that. f*ck Rockstar, making me think deep and sh*t.

 

 

Nah, I disagree with you both, there was nothing deep about it. I just think it was sh*t story writing and sh*t ideas for a theme on Rockstar's part. The theme of V was not really about The American Dream - that was the theme for Niko in IV as an immigrant to the USA. You guys got your games mixed up. We were told theme for V was about the pursuit of money and riches, which in a way is The American Dream, but the theme was not presented to us in the form of The American Dream. The pursuit of money and riches theme in V became such a tangled up mess that the story had no idea what it wanted to be about - we weren't sure why we were bothering to carry out heists anymore, as we did not always get paid for it, and we began to wonder why the f*ck we were always forever running around doing dirty work for the FIB guys, it was all a mess.

 

Saying V's story was 'deep' is just an attempt to put a thinly veiled disguise over the fact that the story is considered to be sh*t.

Edited October 15, 2014 by Official General

[richard1997jones]

It's realistic. Rockstar are bringing everyday problems into a game.

[Gnocchi Flip Flops]

Dumping 10 million bucks into a Z Type only to find out that it was an under detailed and somewhat ugly piece of sh*t.

[Testarossa]

The moment when Trevor finds his mother in his trailer, man that hit me hard.

 

Then him coming back and finding out she's gone...

[Payne Killer]

The moment when Trevor finds his mother in his trailer, man that hit me hard.

 

Then him coming back and finding out she's gone...

He hallucinated the whole thing.

[Algonquin Assassin]

The moment when Trevor finds his mother in his trailer, man that hit me hard.

 

Then him coming back and finding out she's gone...

 

Am I the only one who thought this encounter was cheesy and made Trevor seem like a badly written joke? If R* were trying to convey empathy it's something I never felt at all.

[El Zodape]

 

 

The moment when Trevor finds his mother in his trailer, man that hit me hard.

 

Then him coming back and finding out she's gone...

Am I the only one who thought this encounter was cheesy and made Trevor seem like a badly written joke? If R* were trying to convey empathy it's something I never felt at all.

You'd only enjoy that scene if it was Roman telling Niko to bring him a van full of bowling balls. Edited October 16, 2014 by Zodape

[Algonquin Assassin]

 

 

The moment when Trevor finds his mother in his trailer, man that hit me hard.

 

Then him coming back and finding out she's gone...

Am I the only one who thought this encounter was cheesy and made Trevor seem like a badly written joke? If R* were trying to convey empathy it's something I never felt at all.

You'd only enjoy that scene if it was Roman telling Niko to bring him a van full of bowling balls.

 

 

Of course and if Niko came back to realise Roman had gone it would break my heart.

[DemonicMoustache]

The characters themselves were kinda sad in my opinion. Some of them were actually well developed despite what people say about them. I thought Franklin's backstory was kinda sad and people who thought he was just a boring stupid character, his backstory was actually focused in his old house and during his bong moments. His father left, mother became an addict yet she loved him(I think) so she gave him to her parents to take care of him, he made friends that turned to backstabbers (except Lamar) Auntie Denise hates him, the fact that he tried to become someone else to win Tanisha's love back only for her to become a killer to save her friend, and tried to do what's right is kinda sad. Michael is heavier considering he tried to protect his family but had to let go of his Friend Trevor which he thought he was dead. In the end they hated him and ended up leaving him but then came back and his death ending was actually depressing. As soon as he was on top of his world, he fell down again, just like how the story all began. Trevor however makes you feel like sh*t, his mother and father abused him, he went to different families only to be abused again, everyone was against him, which molded him into a violent, broken man he is. His tattoo that says RIP Michael but turns out Brad was in the grave and Michael was alive feels like finding out your Dad fuc*ed your wife and daughter. Patrica was the only woman who actually loved him but had to leave yet she calls him from time to time felt like a brick hit your balls. His mother wasn't there at all or was she?