There indeed are consumers out there with a half-shaved purple dyed hair and neon clothing listening to skrillex and streaming Among-Us. I think they are misjudging the audience for that kind of theming. It feels very watchdogs, for example, but the world of watchdogs was a heavily constructed one, and not something pulled out of our shared collective-unconscious like the gta games are. It feels derivative for the sole purpose of being derivative. This one with the college students just feels out of place in the genre.
Only Rockstar captured that more inspiring and picturesque Hollywood interpretation of classic LA hip-hop from the 70s, while SR was doing Suburban kid gangster wannabe from MySpace version of hiphop. Coming off of GTA SA, it felt almost like a spiritual sequel. They didn't do a fantasy gangster hip-hop game out of some love for the genre, but because that was hot in 2006.īut it did fit the genre. It was riding hard on the fads of high-school middle class kids of the time. To be fair, if one looks back at the first SR, it was pretty much equally cringey.
