[Phrill]

What would you prefer for the protagonist's Heart?

Who says the MC Can't be a bad guy up everyone's behind all the time?

This post has been edited by Phrill on Monday, Apr 9 2012, 21:23

[UtricularEwe001]

lmao,this is GTA not a love simulator.

[EscoLehGo]

I hope he at least embraces his criminal side and doesn't run from it like John Marston or Niko

[GTA-King]

How about he starts off like any other GTA character as an anti-hero... but as the story goes on, he slowly turns into the antagonist. Like maybe he gets too greedy or something and cuts out one of his closest allies.

[Phrill]

QUOTE (UtricularEwe001 @ Monday, Apr 9 2012, 21:32)

lmao,this is GTA not a love simulator.

Niko was a nice guy at heart, though we can tell he is a cold blooded killer when we are in mission, and niko really wanted another half (GF) Gta 4 was a love simulater

[02fishera]

The title makes the poll seem pointless. Even if the main character is a complete twat, he'd still be the protagonist considering that we'll be trying to achieve his goals.

[EscoLehGo]

QUOTE (GTA-King @ Monday, Apr 9 2012, 21:36)

How about he starts off like any other GTA character as an anti-hero... but as the story goes on, he slowly turns into the antagonist. Like maybe he gets too greedy or something and cuts out one of his closest allies.

That would be bold and a new direction, I'd like for him to be visibly cut throat. Kind of like in Breaking Bad, pretty much all the characters are morally ambiguous like in real life. Things shouldn't be so black and white with good guys and bad guys

[DaWiesel]

QUOTE (Phrill @ Monday, Apr 9 2012, 22:38)

QUOTE (UtricularEwe001 @ Monday, Apr 9 2012, 21:32) lmao,this is GTA not a love simulator. Niko was a nice guy at heart, though we can tell he is a cold blooded killer when we are in mission, and niko really wanted another half (GF) Gta 4 was a love simulater

"I killed people, smuggled people, sold people." Yeah, Niko was such a nice guy.

[Long_Haired_Boy]

How do you play as an antagonist in GTA V?

[EscoLehGo]

QUOTE (Long_Haired_Boy @ Monday, Apr 9 2012, 21:47)

How do you play as an antagonist in GTA V?

The protagonist can have antagonistic traits, shows like The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad, hell even the now defunct Sopranos show how interesting things can get when the "good" guy is morally questionable in character

[GTA-King]

QUOTE (EscoLehGo @ Monday, Apr 9 2012, 21:40)

QUOTE (GTA-King @ Monday, Apr 9 2012, 21:36) How about he starts off like any other GTA character as an anti-hero... but as the story goes on, he slowly turns into the antagonist. Like maybe he gets too greedy or something and cuts out one of his closest allies. That would be bold and a new direction, I'd like for him to be visibly cut throat. Kind of like in Breaking Bad, pretty much all the characters are morally ambiguous like in real life. Things shouldn't be so black and white with good guys and bad guys

Totally agree... I mean this is GTA we're talking about. Like Breaking Bad, GTA tends to focus on the "gray" side. So perhaps this "bold new direction" will let us dip our feet into the "black" side for a change story-wise.

[Gregers08]

Well every GTA protaganist are already either antagonist themselves or anti-heroes, they have certain redeeming qualities but they also do alot of terrible things and end up killing several innocent people along the way. I would like a protagonist who knows how much of a psycho he is and just doesn't give a f*ck the kind of guy that you wouldn't be shocked if he went on a rampage for fun similar to the ones we take the current protagonist on when we get bored.

The only bad thing is that kind of protagonist will probably die at the end of the game so he can get some retribution for all the bad things he's done so some sort of lesson can be learnt. There's a reason why the main character in gangster films usually die or have something terrible happen to them.

[Gtaghost22]

What about something inbetween.. i mean he doesn't have to be very kind (john marston) or a complete "badass" (Alex mercer from prototype) he could be like Nathan Drake from Uncharted (normal guy)

[Ps3blaze22]

QUOTE (Gtaghost22 @ Monday, Apr 9 2012, 21:57)

What about something inbetween.. i mean he doesn't have to be very kind (john marston) or a complete "badass" (Alex mercer from prototype) he could be like Nathan Drake from Uncharted (normal guy)

Nathan drake is more kind than john marston.
On Topic: i want a complete badass who dont give a sh*t about anybody's life (including his family)

[GTA-King]

I think it's time for another Tommy Vercetti personality. I mean, that guy was a cold mother f*cker, and he got what he wanted in the end... Vice City. We need a character with that level of ambition again. Someone who embraces the fact that they are a criminal, and not try to run from it.

I'm tired of playing as cry babies...

[Original Light]

A second John Marston would satisfy me. No cold hearted protagonists!
Why am I posting here?

[Racecarlock]

I always get betrayed. I always get f*cked with. I always kill the worse villain. You know what? I want to do the betraying. I want to f*ck with people. I want to make someone's life hell. I want an anti-hero to come after me, and then in the end I blow his self satisfaction out through his skull. I want the whole city to come at me. I want to kill high ranking government officials and people's heroes and stuff. I'm tired of the old "Oh all the non-mission killing is non-canon" and "He's a criminal but also totally a hero" bullsh*t. I want to be evil for once in these god damn games. If video games can do anything, then why can't I be an irredeemably evil son of a bitch? In prototype, the guy embraced what he was at one point in the story. The saints row 2 and 3 protagonist? He knows what he is and he embraces it. Hell, Rico Rodriguez in just cause 2 embraced his career the whole way through. True, brooding anti-heroes have more fleshed out personalities, but I want to be a terminator for once, instead of the mercenary who means well but still kills a whole lotta law enforcement.

[ubergoon1912]

QUOTE (DaWiesel @ Monday, Apr 9 2012, 16:46)

QUOTE (Phrill @ Monday, Apr 9 2012, 22:38) QUOTE (UtricularEwe001 @ Monday, Apr 9 2012, 21:32) lmao,this is GTA not a love simulator. Niko was a nice guy at heart, though we can tell he is a cold blooded killer when we are in mission, and niko really wanted another half (GF) Gta 4 was a love simulater "I killed people, smuggled people, sold people." Yeah, Niko was such a nice guy.

"perhaps here, things will be different"

yup he so wasn't looking for a brighter future and a better life

[GTA-King]

WARNING BREAKING BAD SPOILER



To those who watch Breaking Bad, this scene alone, in my opinion, is Walt's official cross-over to the dark side. We need a point in V where the protagonist crosses that line and is unable to turn back.

[Sanjeem]

Cruel hearted. In V this time for some reason I want the protagonist to be one of those sociopathic murderers who people see as going over the boundaries, even for a murderer. Maybe he like kills a whole family to get back at another individual enemy of his, I basically would like to see him also betray people and maybe at the end of the game he is betrayed and he wants revenge, but he learns that everything bad that happened to himl he made equally as bad for other people.