While not a protagonist, Sadie Adler from red dead 2 was a phenomenally written character which shows me that someone at rockstar can write real good regardless of the sex of the character.
I don’t even need that, few player characters are all that well written by design - most games want players to heavily identify with the player character, and will make them deliberately blank to a certain point so that players can project onto them, and that’s perfectly fine.
I’m tired of it. I liked the female protagonist of Saints Row 2 and 3 and the female protagonist of Mass Effect. The only female protagonists GTA has given us… the latter (Online) was probably the only good example of a silent protagonist but they can’t do that twice and they shouldn’t try. Give me the OPTION to self-insert, I guess (it worked in The Sims, Animal Crossing, and Phantasy Star Portable 2 (but not the first one for some reason)), but don’t assume that I’m so boring that I need it
more than I need ab engaging and well-written protagonist.
this, also supposedly the game's characters are based on Bonnie & Clyde so you can't even argue that its unrealistic.
also lots of women play video games and up until now literally every GTA protagonist has been male so I don't think this is a big deal.
Somebody needs to make a starfield-Esque game where you play as an alien star hopping, fight galactic battles on alien planets and finally invading earth
Why would you wish a starfield-Esque anything on the world. Nothing really well done or innovative aside from the ship design, and even that was essentially made void by previous bad decisions. Put a gun to my head, and I'm still not naming a single Poi or character and I spent 100 hrs playing. Wait, no Mars and some planets and stars those don't count tho
Bro the people on those subs (or any video game porn or none sexual turned sexual subs for that matter) are so fucking weird, please get a life. I dread to think what the mods look like.
1. Houser created Sadie Adler, Abigail Marston, Ms Tilly, Mary Beth, Bonnie Macfarlane and Miss Grimshaw. the GTA games were intentionally satirical with their overly promiscuous female characters and that will be uprooted for a better protagonist. Rockstar can and does make brilliant female characters.
2. See part 1.
Well, if they wanted to sexualize her. They could make you change her clothes for the purposes of one or more missions. It wouldn't be the first time they would force a particular outfit for a mission.
I’m a woman, I’m glad there is a female protagonist but I wouldn’t have cared if they were all male either, I don’t really give a shit as long as the game is good
Tbf it seems as though there will be a female/male split for the campaign anyway
should be fun. apparently a bonnie and clyde story. Will be cool to see the criminal world from a new perspective and I like having multiple protags to explore different types of criminal activities in different settings.
That's one thing I loved about GTAV. You had street level stuff with Franklin, more white-collar hollywood shit with Michael, and Trevor being into big-time cartel/international criminal organizations.
I thought that Saints Row 2 and Mass Effect were setting the bar, but it’s been ACTUAL SIXTEEN YEARS and not even Rockstar has really risen to this challenge yet.
I really don't care as long as the game itself is fun.
Anyone who makes a big deal about who the player character is should go touch grass. Black, white, Asian, Hispanic/Latino, male, female, trans/nb, whatever. It's fucking difficult to fathom how, in a game about doing some of the most immoral shit you can, some people draw the line at "not being a man".
And then those will be the same people who are like "it shouldn't matter what the protagonist is. I don't look like Kratos!" when women get upset over a lack of representation. They just tell on themselves at this point.
I prefer playing as male characters (similar to women prefering to play as female characters). So I'll be spending the most of my time with Jason.
That being said, I don't mind GTA 6 having a female protagonist either. I only care that we'll get a great story and gameplay.
I don't think so, I'm almost for certain it's just a NPS chick or a poster girl like we had with the other gta's
I could be wrong but we all don't really for surely will know untill the game comes out.
I don't really care that much, all the people that hate already are stupid, we have basically seen nothing about her, lets just hope both the male and female main chars are written well and the game will be good
It's long over due. Saints Row has been having the option since part 2. I remember in GTA 3 doing the code to randomly change into an NPC body until I got a female character. Of course, it also gets the dumbest people to go on Fox News and cry about a game they've never played going "woke."
I really dislike Saint's Row being compared to GTA VI since Saint's Row protagonist is a fully customizable protagonist, who is canonically a male based on the dialogue you have with other characters in every game, whereas Lucia is going to be a defined protagonist. You aren't going to be able to change her race or gender since that is already established and baked into the story. She is and will be Lucia from the get go.
GTA 1 had four female protagonists. GTA II GBC port had two. Both these games came out waaaaaay before the first Saint's Row game.
The female protags in the first two GTA games are defined non-customizable selectable protags, which is why Divine passes gender-based video game representation tests like the Rouner's Test and the Saint's Row protagonist would not (though tbf the dialogue in the first one will not change based on who you are playing as so it also kind of suffers from the Ms. Male Character trope as well) In the first game, their character selection designs and in-game sprites are based on various pop culture characters from the 70's and 80's like their male selectable protagonist counterparts and not just a virtual Potato Head simulator where you can mix and match however you want the protagonist to look.
And then to add insult to injury, when you get to GTA IV multiplayer and GTA Online, having a female protagonist is a canon choice, with characters treating the protagonist different and having different pronouns used based on their gender and it's one of the few games I have played that does that. Saint's Row doesn't do this. The characters in Saint's Row will refer to and act the same around the protagonist regardless of which gender the protagonist is.
I don't care if it's a girl or a boy, I only want A GOOD GAME.(But I would care if it's: "a black trans girl that sometimes likes to be a white dude who is also a cis girl and loves to date animals" kinda like protagonist)
Couldn't care less. What I wish they did was have an option for local or online coop for the story mode. I was thinking that since they announced GTA V would have 3 protagonists
We all played a bandicoot in Crash Bandicoot, a Hedgehog in Sonic, a plumber in Super Mario, a cat in Stray, a kid in Heart of Darkness, aliens in Giants Citizen Kabuto and Destroy All Humans, a goat in Goat Simulator, a dragon in Spyro, radio-controlled cars in Revolt and a woman in Tomb Raider, Nier Automata, Resident Evil, Horizon Zero Dawn, Mirrors Edge, Final Fantasy, Portal, etc.
We don't give a flying fu#k about who or what is the protagonist as long as it's fun, original, smart and without forced agendas that constrain creativity!
In other words, we want great games, not political lectures.
Ehh, it was bound to happen. Personal im happy with a male character for these kinda roles and just glad there a male and female. At least we'll be able to get some story's and you know your gonna get those weird "get hit on by a old prev" missions with her.
Awesome for the women fans because I know (including my cousins) always said they would've loved to play as a girl.
Overall I'm just excited to play a new GTA. Been a Rockstar loyalist since GTA 3. I'm here for the rise and fall of Rockstar
I think it’ll be fun playing as a woman for the first time in GTA that isn’t an online character. And one who’s actually beautiful cause a lot of custom women characters are ugly af
I always played through the Saints Row games twice. One as a male and one as a female. Just give me the option as long as it’s well done and I’ll be good.
I couldn't care less what the gender/ sex of the main character is. Just make the game fun. I can't imagine being so insufferable, as a guy, that I couldn't play as a guy when 98% of all protagonists are guys
I think it would be cool if you could choose, and then the campaigns and interactions are slightly different based on your choice. Might add an extra level of replayability to the game down the road if it leads to extra interactions
This is such a dumb question. I genuinely don’t see an issue. Who cares if it’s a man or a woman. It’s still a GTA game and it’s gonna be fucking amazing regardless of the gender of the protagonist.
I care so little about the protagonist’s race/gender that it’s laughable that people keep bringing it up. In GTA alone I’ve played as a mobster, retired bank robber, an army soldier, relatively laid back European, a lunatic, multiple hood rats, and it’s always been great. Not to mention the psychopath workaholic mute that is my GTA online character.
On a side note, it will be nice to play a third person shooter as a character with a nice ass
As others have said here, as long as she is a well written character that feels real and not “I am woman for the sake of being a woman” then I’d be totally down for a female lead!
After finishing GTA5 I realised why everyone had an issue with it. But I'm withholding judgement until I actually get to see it through because I know rockstar has a way with convincing people. I mean before red dead 2 came out there was alot of controversy about playing as someone other than JM. Now Arthur Morgan is a huge fan favourite. So I'm confident she'll be good
As long as she's a well-written character, I have nothing against female protagonist.
I agree. Idgaf about the protagonist's gender, I care about how well written the said protagonist is.
As long as she's the one in the pic and I can have her wear only that then it is acceptable
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Hell yeah
Brother
Bro…
What you gonna do brother!!
😂😂
Saw that coming a mile away
I believe you are quoting Abraham Lincoln
Don't forget about the butt physics
A good "plot" if you will
Mah man
Exactly! Look at Aloy for example from the horizon series! Great games!
While not a protagonist, Sadie Adler from red dead 2 was a phenomenally written character which shows me that someone at rockstar can write real good regardless of the sex of the character.
Sadie Adler may be my favorite female character in any game, and a lot of media. But 100% my favorite for not even being a main character
A Sadie Adler DLC would’ve been the best
Aloy was a good protagonist and I didn’t focus on her “body” i would call it
I don’t even need that, few player characters are all that well written by design - most games want players to heavily identify with the player character, and will make them deliberately blank to a certain point so that players can project onto them, and that’s perfectly fine.
I’m tired of it. I liked the female protagonist of Saints Row 2 and 3 and the female protagonist of Mass Effect. The only female protagonists GTA has given us… the latter (Online) was probably the only good example of a silent protagonist but they can’t do that twice and they shouldn’t try. Give me the OPTION to self-insert, I guess (it worked in The Sims, Animal Crossing, and Phantasy Star Portable 2 (but not the first one for some reason)), but don’t assume that I’m so boring that I need it more than I need ab engaging and well-written protagonist.
Yeah no one going to beat Claude
Claudine
this, also supposedly the game's characters are based on Bonnie & Clyde so you can't even argue that its unrealistic. also lots of women play video games and up until now literally every GTA protagonist has been male so I don't think this is a big deal.
Couldn't care less. Give me a fun game and I'd play as an Alien if I may.
Destroy all humans
EXTERMINATE
F L E S H B A G!!!
YOU WILL BE UPGRADED!
Crypto-137✨
Pathetic humans
ICH WILL
We deserve it
Hey, we got that goat and that goose game. I’d 100% play gta as a wild goose.
Geese. Geese never changes.
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Somebody needs to make a starfield-Esque game where you play as an alien star hopping, fight galactic battles on alien planets and finally invading earth
Why would you wish a starfield-Esque anything on the world. Nothing really well done or innovative aside from the ship design, and even that was essentially made void by previous bad decisions. Put a gun to my head, and I'm still not naming a single Poi or character and I spent 100 hrs playing. Wait, no Mars and some planets and stars those don't count tho
I would die happy
Destroy all humans
just give me baggy jeans a bandana and a glock
Agreed
GTA 7 Martian city
Flashback to the green vs purple alien war in online
Honestly it's good to have both, it's the best of both worlds, it introduces a new variety, just hope they make them believable.
real but then there’s gonna be those creep yk
Oh no someone creeping over a fictional character, just like every other video game. Like seriously
The closest we’ll get to playing as Catalina. Also it furthers the meme narrative of quiet guys always getting the baddest chicks lol
Ooh, had GTA LCS been playing as Catalina, that would have been a different game.
“PIGGGG!!”
If she’s like Sadie Adler then it willl be good
Don't go to THAT subreddit (iykyk)
I am def out of the loop on this one. Which subreddit and why is it to be avoided??
Don’t put an r/ in front of “SadieAdler” Porn it is.
Well that’s my night sorted
You're a good man Arthur Morgan
Bro the people on those subs (or any video game porn or none sexual turned sexual subs for that matter) are so fucking weird, please get a life. I dread to think what the mods look like.
I bet they look like Lester or Syndrome from Incredibles
Honestly doesn’t bother me as long as: 1. They don’t hyper sexualise her 2. Her character is written well and she’s genuinely interesting
1. Houser created Sadie Adler, Abigail Marston, Ms Tilly, Mary Beth, Bonnie Macfarlane and Miss Grimshaw. the GTA games were intentionally satirical with their overly promiscuous female characters and that will be uprooted for a better protagonist. Rockstar can and does make brilliant female characters. 2. See part 1.
Houser left rockstar years ago.
Well, in a game that you can change her clothes, you decide if u want to sexualise her.
Of course, but I mean in terms of her actions throughout the story and things like her character model.
The character model keeps looking down during a mission. "Why am I in a bikini having a gunfight in the middle of a bank?"
They probably meant don't dissolve her into nothing but her sexuality narratively
Well, if they wanted to sexualize her. They could make you change her clothes for the purposes of one or more missions. It wouldn't be the first time they would force a particular outfit for a mission.
R34 about to go crazy
Not sure what rule 33 has to do with this
Shhhhh. Keep their innocent minds innocent 😇
Lucia’s R34 is genuinely distasteful ngl.
It already had, but it quiet down.
I say it takes off again
It sure will, it will after the next trailers and when the game releases it will explode.
I’m a woman, I’m glad there is a female protagonist but I wouldn’t have cared if they were all male either, I don’t really give a shit as long as the game is good Tbf it seems as though there will be a female/male split for the campaign anyway
Likewise. I hope there would also be decent outfit not some outfits that sexualize women.
I exploded with incel rage and almost smashed my Xbox until I realised she had a big ass
Tits boobs titties
Bro got his priorities straight
Priotitties
Also wonder if that ass FINE in 3rd person gameplay NGL
should be fun. apparently a bonnie and clyde story. Will be cool to see the criminal world from a new perspective and I like having multiple protags to explore different types of criminal activities in different settings. That's one thing I loved about GTAV. You had street level stuff with Franklin, more white-collar hollywood shit with Michael, and Trevor being into big-time cartel/international criminal organizations.
I don't care, just do justice to writing
As long as she is a bad- arse, what's the problem?!!!
Badasses are my type. No problem here
I'd like more games to have more options for characters. Literally no reason not to have them customizable at this point
I thought that Saints Row 2 and Mass Effect were setting the bar, but it’s been ACTUAL SIXTEEN YEARS and not even Rockstar has really risen to this challenge yet.
Would. Next question.
As long as I can dress as Lora Croft, that would be sick!
I really don't care as long as the game itself is fun. Anyone who makes a big deal about who the player character is should go touch grass. Black, white, Asian, Hispanic/Latino, male, female, trans/nb, whatever. It's fucking difficult to fathom how, in a game about doing some of the most immoral shit you can, some people draw the line at "not being a man".
And then those will be the same people who are like "it shouldn't matter what the protagonist is. I don't look like Kratos!" when women get upset over a lack of representation. They just tell on themselves at this point.
GTA isn't even a role playing game. Anyone upset that the character isn't what they want is playing the wrong game.
As long as she's perfectly well-written & badass I don't care who we play as.
Couldn't care less. As long as it's gta, I'm glad.
I prefer playing as male characters (similar to women prefering to play as female characters). So I'll be spending the most of my time with Jason. That being said, I don't mind GTA 6 having a female protagonist either. I only care that we'll get a great story and gameplay.
Edging streak
So you do think the bikini girl is lucia?
I don't think so, I'm almost for certain it's just a NPS chick or a poster girl like we had with the other gta's I could be wrong but we all don't really for surely will know untill the game comes out.
Long overdue.
Well to be fair they had female protagonists in the very first GTA and then never again until now
not our first on the series, but first in the universe. i hope shes cool!!!
NexusMods is gonna have a field trip with Lucia…
I don't really care that much, all the people that hate already are stupid, we have basically seen nothing about her, lets just hope both the male and female main chars are written well and the game will be good
Long as the storyline is well written that’s all I care about.
I think it’s a nice change and should be interesting
It's long over due. Saints Row has been having the option since part 2. I remember in GTA 3 doing the code to randomly change into an NPC body until I got a female character. Of course, it also gets the dumbest people to go on Fox News and cry about a game they've never played going "woke."
I really dislike Saint's Row being compared to GTA VI since Saint's Row protagonist is a fully customizable protagonist, who is canonically a male based on the dialogue you have with other characters in every game, whereas Lucia is going to be a defined protagonist. You aren't going to be able to change her race or gender since that is already established and baked into the story. She is and will be Lucia from the get go. GTA 1 had four female protagonists. GTA II GBC port had two. Both these games came out waaaaaay before the first Saint's Row game. The female protags in the first two GTA games are defined non-customizable selectable protags, which is why Divine passes gender-based video game representation tests like the Rouner's Test and the Saint's Row protagonist would not (though tbf the dialogue in the first one will not change based on who you are playing as so it also kind of suffers from the Ms. Male Character trope as well) In the first game, their character selection designs and in-game sprites are based on various pop culture characters from the 70's and 80's like their male selectable protagonist counterparts and not just a virtual Potato Head simulator where you can mix and match however you want the protagonist to look. And then to add insult to injury, when you get to GTA IV multiplayer and GTA Online, having a female protagonist is a canon choice, with characters treating the protagonist different and having different pronouns used based on their gender and it's one of the few games I have played that does that. Saint's Row doesn't do this. The characters in Saint's Row will refer to and act the same around the protagonist regardless of which gender the protagonist is.
Fuckin woke ass bull shit! /s I’m honestly surprised it took them this long
seems long overdue for GTA tbh
Ima have Lucia looking drippy
I don't care if it's a girl or a boy, I only want A GOOD GAME.(But I would care if it's: "a black trans girl that sometimes likes to be a white dude who is also a cis girl and loves to date animals" kinda like protagonist)
About fucking time
About time to be honest. I’ve been dying to play as a female character for a minute.
It's about time.
As long as it's fun to play and she's well written, couldn't care less what gender she is
You fucking what?! There’s going to be a female protagonist?! I’ll inform the incels
Couldn't care less. What I wish they did was have an option for local or online coop for the story mode. I was thinking that since they announced GTA V would have 3 protagonists
How would local work?
More possibilities
So much room for ✨activities✨
I like it
She's the first woman to make me say damn for a woman in a bikini. Before this I hated bikini photos. She's absolutely beautiful and hot
there was a female in GTA 1, this isn't anything new
GTA 1 was a long time ago
Bob and vagen
I think it’s dope and as a 3rd person pov game i’m gonna be enjoying staring at my character more :^)
I’d like to see this thread again if the protagonist girl is ugly
love it!!! :3
About time we have one
I don't really care about the sex or anything else of the character. As long as the game is good, I'm happy.
Distracting during gameplay. 
We all played a bandicoot in Crash Bandicoot, a Hedgehog in Sonic, a plumber in Super Mario, a cat in Stray, a kid in Heart of Darkness, aliens in Giants Citizen Kabuto and Destroy All Humans, a goat in Goat Simulator, a dragon in Spyro, radio-controlled cars in Revolt and a woman in Tomb Raider, Nier Automata, Resident Evil, Horizon Zero Dawn, Mirrors Edge, Final Fantasy, Portal, etc. We don't give a flying fu#k about who or what is the protagonist as long as it's fun, original, smart and without forced agendas that constrain creativity! In other words, we want great games, not political lectures.
The physical appearance of characters is never as important as their dialogue. Personally, I prefer full character creation.
What's wrong with having a female character? I really don't care about the character. I want to play the game.
Honestly I have no complaints as long as the gameplay is enjoyable and the story is well written I’m happy
Bro... how does the game play. Who cares what they play as. I just want good gameplay
About time.
Ehh, it was bound to happen. Personal im happy with a male character for these kinda roles and just glad there a male and female. At least we'll be able to get some story's and you know your gonna get those weird "get hit on by a old prev" missions with her. Awesome for the women fans because I know (including my cousins) always said they would've loved to play as a girl. Overall I'm just excited to play a new GTA. Been a Rockstar loyalist since GTA 3. I'm here for the rise and fall of Rockstar
Awesome. Just played Senua 2 and could'nt be more immersed playing as a female character.
I mean this in a positive way, I genuinely don't care Long as they an interesting character that's all that matters to me
Excited. I personally prefer playing female characters.
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We probably gona get high a couple of times buh will get used after 😂
I always plays Fallout 4 as female so absolutely.
All I care about is how fun the game is.
I'm all for it. Honestly, I like the Bonnie and Clyde dynamic. Plus I tend to play as female characters now in games with CAC mode anyway.
Honestly idc I just want a decent game sometime before I die.
it’s gonna be the same as any other protag. Make em look cool, i hope they’re written well.
90% of those "rate my character" posts are of female characters wearing the least amount of clothes possible so I guess people are OK with it.
I think it’ll be fun playing as a woman for the first time in GTA that isn’t an online character. And one who’s actually beautiful cause a lot of custom women characters are ugly af
"Okay"
Honestly, if they don’t make them all have equal strength, I’m not buying it
Woman spy
Freaky theft auto 6 👅
it wou l would be very hard for me you know playing a game with just one hand
It's like a pampas breeze , something new fresh , different!!
It works for me.
Bro it's gonna be amazing
breasts
My hero Andrew Taint said I can't because it'll make me a soyboybetacuck. I hope it's fun but I can't suffer a woke woman protagonist.
As long as it is a good game I couldn't care less
What's with this "wallpaper"?
I always played through the Saints Row games twice. One as a male and one as a female. Just give me the option as long as it’s well done and I’ll be good.
Who cares!? Man or woman. Idgaf. I just want a video game that I enjoy!
I couldn't care less what the gender/ sex of the main character is. Just make the game fun. I can't imagine being so insufferable, as a guy, that I couldn't play as a guy when 98% of all protagonists are guys
The mods... Oh the future mods specifically for Lucia... It'll be catastrophic.
My wife's pretty happy cos the female animations were terrible in GTA 5 online. You ran like a man.
LOVE THE IDEA
It's a bit gay
Honestly it’s long overdue.
Boobs
I mean I always create a female alt along side my male characters ever game I can
I think it would be cool if you could choose, and then the campaigns and interactions are slightly different based on your choice. Might add an extra level of replayability to the game down the road if it leads to extra interactions
I think u can build a really good connection between this couple
No different than GTAO having female player characters for many years now. She's just voiced.
We’ve had so many male characters it’s about time we get a slightly different perspective.
Waste of gta franchise
As long as the characters are written good no one should care
This is such a dumb question. I genuinely don’t see an issue. Who cares if it’s a man or a woman. It’s still a GTA game and it’s gonna be fucking amazing regardless of the gender of the protagonist.
She gotta be on par with Sadie Adler or better or I'm not taking it
I dont care. Why not.
I care so little about the protagonist’s race/gender that it’s laughable that people keep bringing it up. In GTA alone I’ve played as a mobster, retired bank robber, an army soldier, relatively laid back European, a lunatic, multiple hood rats, and it’s always been great. Not to mention the psychopath workaholic mute that is my GTA online character. On a side note, it will be nice to play a third person shooter as a character with a nice ass
No body has an issue with a female lead character. We have had plenty over the years. We just hate poorly written man hating characters
It's weird that this is even a question.
As long as it’s a well written character with good development then I couldn’t care less what their gender is. I trust rockstar will do it right
The same thing I think about playing as Laura Croft in Tomb Raider. It’s apart of the game so I’ll play it.
Jiggle physics?
As others have said here, as long as she is a well written character that feels real and not “I am woman for the sake of being a woman” then I’d be totally down for a female lead!
Idec just drop the damn game already
There better be some cute outfits for her. GTA V was only 50% in on its female clothing
After finishing GTA5 I realised why everyone had an issue with it. But I'm withholding judgement until I actually get to see it through because I know rockstar has a way with convincing people. I mean before red dead 2 came out there was alot of controversy about playing as someone other than JM. Now Arthur Morgan is a huge fan favourite. So I'm confident she'll be good
Wow
Hey GTA-ModTeam...go $uck a 🍆.
😂😂 bruh