About Rockstar's decision to release a PS4/Xbone/PC version of GTA V....

Give me your money

 

But why did Roman gamble? He wanted the LA mansion on the hillside, the successful life and the 'big titties'. That was his American Dream of 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness'. The American Dream is selfish greed, it's not the betterment of mankind, it's about making yourself well established and safe through some success, and since the rise of the recent consumerist culture, that's meant money. And there's the darker side to that, which means even criminals can reach it if they're good enough, which Nikko succeeds in doing, though he loses someone he loves thanks to his pursuit it. Roman may or may not succeed his dreams depending on the player.

See it would be an opinion on the games, if all lf them weren't created with the American Dream in mind by the writers, but it's been in all of them in some way since Vice City. The Houser brothers have described them as a satirisations of America and its culture. That's why you can tote a mental arsenal and blow things to the moon, because it's a hyperbolic situation satirising America's gun culture.

 

@Saudade, your second member of the /pol/ team?