What do you mean by middle ground? I thought the build up between Michael and Trevor's past was an okay build up. Franklin's arc seemed like it ended when it began after the first heist and safehouse. His motivation was to get paid, he did. Now he's errand boy for Michael, Trevor and Lamar.
Had to search it up and the character “Stretch” is supposed to be Franklin’s antagonist in GTAV, he’s one of the several guys killed in the game’s True Ending mission. I cannot remember a single thing about that character. I’m guessing he had some plot details in the missions where you have to kill Ballas but I can’t remember it.
A lot of GTA Online's content was repurposed from planned expansions, since they wanted to do wacky shit after RDR Undead Nightmare was a success.
Speaking of, I have had this conversation with friends before but I also wonder how much Steven Ogg not wanting to be Trevor anymore played into them scrapping these ideas? I can't 100% say if it was the root cause but it probably didn't help. (I'm like 90% sure it's also the reason why Trevor never appears again past the start of GTAO and you only interact with his associates like Ron.)
>We were not only robbed of Episodes From Los Santos but also a full blown zombie mod
The rumor I heard was that the 360/ps3 versions of the game couldn't handle the expansions so they were put on the backburner until the next gen versions of the game released but some kind of legal fuckery about the old gen versions not getting the promised content forced them to scrap the expansions and repurpose them into GTAO
As always, it's the fault of the state. The state creates and enforces this delusional and ridiculous fiction of "intellectual property" by which companies like Take Two are able to expropriate other people and dictate them what to do and what not to do. Also, the state regulates what must be done in order to "remain the intellectual property owner", and part of that is "enforcing" it, by doing such things as cease and desist letters.
I mean they never even bother to create a balance between the different tones in the story. One minute it's the ultimate violent edgelord (all the while "parodying" the likes of CoD), the other it would feel like something out of a family-oriented dramedy. Even side missions, some make fun of shady mystical organisations and conspiracies thereabout, others imply they are actually capable of fucked up shit. It's never coherent except for (most) heist missions, which they should've stuck to.
I don't know some people I've seen IRL, would create an state to impose that shit on people if there wasn't any. I know it's kind of an egg/chicken issue, just sayin'.
That's why it's the most important thing to make use of your god-given right to bear arms.
So your idea is for people to mob up to R* HQ and demand GTA 6 like that? That sounds like a GTA mission, actually.
No because that doesn't get rid of the intellectual property grift, it just harasses one profiteer.
always sad to hear this. 7th gen killed so many games.
That's neither Sernando nor MrBossFTW you're linking there, I'm gonna call bullshit
"Man, fuck Rockstar for removing the Liberty City mod, fucking up Online for a decade straight, abandoning RDO, canceling GTA V's single player DLC's and making shitty mobile ports of my childhood games!"
I mean, it's easy to get it all muddled up in the constant niggerese being spoken but Stretch's whole deal basically amounts to this