Edit: Wait, I just remembered GTA Online exists. If the writing in GTA Online's expansions is at all indicative of what we'll get in GTAVI it's gonna be the most annoying unfunny dogshit you've ever seen
You just need to install GTAIV Complete Edition and install Fusion Fix on top of that so it's pretty simple (though I also used a mod that restores all the songs that have been cut from the game over the years)
I've always just really liked the beginning of GTA IV where Niko hops off a boat and lives in shitty apartments with his cousin while working for the Russian mafia and low level drug dealers. It begins to lose me when government agents and generic Italian mobsters enter the picture
PS5 controllers are already that much where I live
It'd still be a better deal than a DualSense though since you'd get 4 back buttons in addition to gyro and trackpads, though you'd miss out on dual stage triggers and haptics. Never used a DualSense so I don't know if those are worth anything however.
Seriously though, screw Sony and Microsoft for keeping back buttons exclusive to their exorbitantly priced PRO LEET GAMER controllers. I think you're better served getting an 8BitDo or Vader over an Xbox Series controller at this point in terms of features and build quality
I noticed that every character is almost always doing a bad impression when quoting another character so it's probably just incredibly misguided voice direction. It's absolutely incredible no one in the production pointed out how offensive it would come across in a 2019 title. Maybe they tried but Swery or whomever was directing them insisted they do it his way
You'd expect shit like this from a game from the 90s or early 2000s that was recorded in Japan with voice actors that were just the first five gaijins they could grab off the street, directed by a Japanese dude that speaks no English
The misgendering issues might largely be due to a language barrier, but it's odd no one pointed that or any of the other problematic shit out while translating the script. Actually, at one point York refers to James Cameron's Aliens as "Alien 2" which is what the movie is actually called in Japan. Maybe the game was translated by native Japanese speakers
In the scene with Patricia in front of Lena's house York is meant to have an epiphany when he realises the entire town has been shunning Lena the entire time and he's so deeply offended by their close mindedness that he says something to the effect of "FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE I HATE THE COUNTRYSIDE"
Forcing the idealistic York to confront the darker aspects of close-knit small rural communities could be interesting but if that was Swery was going for it just falls flat on its face. The town consists of silly one-dimensional cartoon characters that barely interact with each other and don't feel like a cohesive community at all and the overall tone is just too light to make that kind of thing work. I feel like if Swery wanted to make a point about the town being transphobic he could've written the town pastor/doctor to be a bigoted, bible-thumping piece of shit but he wouldn't do that because he likes priests being a Buddhist priest in real life and tends to write priest characters in his games as minor self-inserts which is why the pastor wears an owl feather. He did the same thing in The Good Life too with the alcoholic town vicar
Also speaking of movies I think Swery completely overdid the movie loving aspect of York's personality. He's constantly going on long tangents about his obsession with hyperrealism in random 80s movies in every conversation when in the first game he mostly reminisced about old movies during long car rides
From what I've seen the prevailing sentiment seems to be that he actually did consult someone when writing that game. I remember Swery being friends with a bunch of LGBT indie game devs at the time
That controller looks like something I'd be interested in if I ever need to replace my DualShock 4. Also, the Steam Box being somewhat underpowered bodes well for HL3 running on lower-powered PCs
He is a racist though. Right in the beginning of the game he grumbles about having to bunk with "Bill Williamson and a bunch of darkies." He also has camp interactions with every non-white gang member where he antagonises each of them by saying something racist but he's still not as horrible as you'd expect.
Micah is such a cartoonishly massive asshole it contrasts wildly with all the other gang members who are all pretty well-rounded characters and makes you wonder why someone hasn't shot him in the back and left him in a ditch already
Am I the only one that thinks the depiction of racism was somewhat softened in RDR2? Not even the eugenics guy really says anything that specifically racist and mostly just compares miscegenation to bestiality in pretty general terms. For comparison, RDR1 had shit like that one brazenly anti-semitic shopkeep that kept making horrible remarks about Jews every time you went to his store (he also got a really funny death scene in the zombie DLC). Now that I think about it, Herbert Moon also exists in RDR2 but I don't think he ever says anything racist which seems a bit out of character
That's not to say RDR2 pretended racism didn't exist in 1899, we see and hear how racism exists and affects many characters throughout the game and there's at least one hard N-word. I guess Rockstar wanted to be a bit more tasteful about it instead of having NPCs constantly spouting slurs and literal hate speech
There's also a Napster parody called Shitster and it sounds like R* doesn't like file sharing