I also drank a lot of beer and smoked a lot of cigarettes.
It was a dark time.
Sony needs to learn the right lessons from Astro Bot’s post-launch success.
No one has ever done this before!
Crane posits the whole film as, No one has ever done this before!
which, in the absolute base sense of that phrase, is probably true.
No one has specifically ever put on a staged production of Shakespeares Hamlet in GTA: Online.
Theres not even a feasible way of corroborating that.
But communities have been producing theatre in games for decades.
Our own Meg Pellicio has attended several fantastic shows in Final Fantasy 14.
Worried about his English, as a man from Tunisian-Finnish descent, Parteb recites a verse from the Quran.
It is a powerful, somber, and important moment.
It throws the rest of the scripted interactions and poor acting into stark contrast with the real world.
This is a real person, with real problems, reciting something that has a deep personal meaning.
Everything else feels like a farce in comparison.
Moments later, actor Oosterveen is discussing his family with Pinny Grylls, the acting-documentary-maker.
Grylls and Crane are in a relationship and live together.
Great, I thought, this bit seems real enough.
you’re able to tell from the inflection in their voices that this is scripted b*llocks.
Bad acting, ultimately.
The overuse of GTAs emotes during these scenes really tipped me over the edge here.
These topics include male loneliness, suicide, and the power of online communities to either help or hinder.
Once again, these are important issues to me.
What gives them the right to pry into these things in such a way?
Some stage-acting heritage and a bit of MUBI money?
These moments never felt genuine, and left me feeling empty.
Poor editing and pacing makes it difficult to focus on anyone else.
Name tags above players also help with understanding whats going on.
These are the fundamentals that YouTubers learned years ago.
The levity of GTA: Online has worn thin at this point.
Gaming used to be so different back in 2006.
