Here, in as few thoughts as possible, is why so many in gaming are having an odd backlash to GTA 5.
1.Unlike previous entries, 5 tears into the left wing perhaps even more so than the right this time around, and that makes people who can't laugh at themselves uncomfortable. Now, we are the coffee-shop-dwelling yoga practitioners they're poking fun at, and all of a sudden the joke's no longer funny. Interesting.
2.The gaming press "scene" has become stuck on the idea of games being a conversation. GTA is not a conversation. It doesn't care what you have to say. It is a statement. It doesn't care what it makes you feel about yourself. It doesn't care what other, similar games are doing/have done. It is it's own thing.
3.People who have grown up with the series are older now, and more sensitive than they were back then. We're not only seeing this in games, but film and tv as well. Too much violence makes people feel uneasy.
4.They throw around terms like misogyny, racism, and torture as negatives, forgetting that they're playing a game about terrible people doing terrible things. The game is what it is, and always has been. Some will say that's a problem, but I don't. I like that every few years Rockstar delivers how they view American society presently.
