I don't consider GTA Online's story to be "canon"

[lol232]

Absolutely sure that majority of people don't either.

 

And I think GTA V's story sucks ass, for many reasons, and it's pretty short on top of that, which doesn't help given the fact that you have 3 protagonists. Lots of stranger missions but main story is far more important. But it's still not as stupid as GTA O post-2015.

GTA Online's story started as a simple prequel, and while there were some wacky stuff it was still somewhat in line. All the original contact missions and original heists take place shortly before GTA V, everything past that (Lamar's missions and onwards) take place after GTA V's story. f*cking hell, I can even imagine all the "prequel" stuff as somewhat canon and even Lowrider's missions but then past that sh*t started getting very f*cking strange especially post gun-running. Doomsday heist is cool gameplay wise, but all that sci-fi invisible clone sh*t made it feel like dollar store Saint's Row. It's all obviously money grab and we know this.

 

It's just very hard to believe that all that stupid sh*t is in the same universe as GTA IV's story. Sure, TBOGT had over the top things but not nearly as much as GTA O did, both in quantity and sheer ridiculousness.

But my main point is, is GTA VI REALLY gonna consider GTA Online as canon?

Edited Sunday at 09:18 AM by lol232

[kobeni]

The fact that Friedlander of all the characters in V is some sort of drug baron now in the new dlc is enough of a strong reason to believe that the current writers for Online must be on some of the strongest crack cocaine known to mankind.

[Moth]

5 hours ago, kobeni said:

believe that the current writers for Online must be on some of the strongest crack cocaine known to mankind.

Seeing the writing of GTA Online has destroyed all hope for me that GTA VI is going to have a good story.

[Ivan1997GTA]

13 minutes ago, Moth said:

Seeing the writing of GTA Online has destroyed all hope for me that GTA VI is going to have a good story.

Maybe GTA VI's Online mode will be set in its own continuity, and V's Online mode will be mostly retconned as a bad drug trip.

[Legomanarthur]

I hope Online isn't considered canon by Rockstar. Online needs to be its own separate continuity, that way none of its most wacky additions should ever impact the series' future entries story-wise.

I was rather confident in the past that Online was too crazy to be part of the HD universe's main timeline but with the recent missions featuring Franklin and Lamar I'm not too sure anymore. I think Online's story lost me the moment I had to fight Avon Hertz's clone army and save the world from his insecure AI.

[untitledupcoming]

GTAO will most likely be uncanon. How does Dr. Friedlander come back? How did the government become so advanced in 2017, that we developed space cannons? Flying motorcycles? Unless VI is Cyberpunk 2077, it's NOT canon.

[Homicidal Hipster]

I consider bits and pieces of it canon. Like what happens to ALIVE characters post story. Franklin getting with Tanisha etc.. And Trevor's heist where he loses the impotent rage statue definitely happened.. but other bits are just bullsh*t alternate reality stuff. So basically I consider things that are convenient to me canon. It's my headcanon and I'm sticking with it. 

[lol232]

I definitely consider the original contact missions (all before heists update), the heists update, and even lowriders. All of it was pretty much in line with GTA V's story and made a lot of sense. 

I do hope that at least past some point, GTA Online's continuity is its own.

 

But as other have said, in GTA O, past Lowriders, every single f*cking story or lore has been stupid as f*ck like someone on crack cocaine wrote it. Especially Doomsday.

Edited 20 hours ago by lol232