Current Events > Anyone else despise the ending of GTA5? *spoilers*

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And I don't mean plot-wise, I mean what was the point of offering the player a choice? It'd be different if each choice had its own negative or positive aspects but it's literally "Do you want these 2 wrong choices or the actual right choice?"

Like even the one where you kill Trevor (which I consider a positive) still leaves several plot threads hanging. I'd honestly just prefer a linear ending than one where 1 choice is clearly the intended one.

I despise GTA5

They A and B endings are sort of interesting thematically, but the "good" ending is more satisfying to me. Even if Michael and Trevor are scumbags, I don't want to kill them because it's GT freaking A.

Maybe if option C wasn't a thing at all it would be one thing. Would be pretty dark and kind of similar to 4's ending choices. Still, I'd like to have all 3 characters post game regardless.

I know everyone online seems to hate Trevor but he was one of my favorite characters in the entire series. Killing him was not an option to me.

Killing Michael just makes no goddamn sense

Yeah, seemed dumb tbh. They should've made it so that the deathwish option ends up with Franklin dying (not necessarily killed by one of the others, could be by a villain or even an accident), so that it really does become a matter of "you must pick one character to die".

At the time, I liked the idea of 3 concurrent storylines because in my head, I thought we were basically getting 3 fleshed out mega plots, like having GTA VC, GTA SA, and GTA 4, all in one game. Instead we just got 3 segmented plots that were about as long as the DLC's for GTA4 instead of 3 feature game length plots that I assumed they meant.

I still enjoyed the game a lot, but I always wished we were given like dozens of more hours of content instead of a single game split into 3.

Also, no DLC still pisses me off to this day. Especially after how well received Ballad of Gay Tony and Lost and the Damned were received. A true shame they didn't just do single player DLC instead of forcing everything into a multiplayer sphere.

i immediately picked C no thought involved

Mechu posted...

Killing Michael just makes no goddamn sense

I don't think killing Trevor makes much sense either at least from Franklin's position as it's not like he doesn't already know Trevor's a violent psycho.

Spiderman23J posted...

i immediately picked C no thought involved

I feel like everyone did because it's blatantly obvious that it's the correct choice. It'd be different if there was some way to fail the mission and that was your ending similar to the one Cyberpunk 2077 mission.

Yeah it's so clear option C is the correct choice. Like the only people who could even possibly benefit from A and B are the ones who absolutely hated those characters. (Which if that's the case, why would they even bother playing the game to this point?)

I wouldn't mind the other two being there if the game didn't force you to stick to it once you do so.

It really feels like the game originally planned that a character dies in each scenario, but at the last minute made the (good) change to have all 3 survive option C.

It is pretty baffling that they decide to give the player a choice in a game that's clearly not about player choice (story-wise).

I dont really remember. I think you could kill Michael or the African-American character or a neither I think. But story mode was never my bag for that game. I love online mode.

The game presents it as Michael dies, Trevor dies, or Franklin dies (aka Death Wish). You're not supposed to inherently know that everyone survives in that ending unless you look up spoilers.

Gobstoppers12 posted...

The game presents it as Michael dies, Trevor dies, or Franklin dies (aka Death Wish). You're not supposed to inherently know that everyone survives in that ending unless you look up spoilers.

I was gonna say, it's been a long time so I don't fully remember, but I don't remember the game making clear that all three will live in that option before you make the choice.

Smiffwilm posted...

Yeah it's so clear option C is the correct choice. Like the only people who could even possibly benefit from A and B are the ones who absolutely hated those characters. (Which if that's the case, why would they even bother playing the game to this point?)

Because the game rules and Trevor needs to fucking die

Gobstoppers12 posted...

The game presents it as Michael dies, Trevor dies, or Franklin dies (aka Death Wish). You're not supposed to inherently know that everyone survives in that ending unless you look up spoilers.

Sure, except it's blindingly obvious that deathwish isn't gonna end with all three characters dying.

I am glad I never even entertained picking either of those half-assed A and B options.

Like why willingly let that devin idiot bitch you out like that, lol. The player just went through a string of missions showing this dude is a moron so narrative-wise it did not make a tiny bit of sense being scared of that guy.

HighSeraph posted...

Sure, except it's blindingly obvious that deathwish isn't gonna end with all three characters dying.

Seriously, this. Me, my brother, or my friend (honestly everyone i know that beat the game, lol) didn't think twice about that lame ass ultimatum from that clown. No one shouldn't have needed to look anything up just to say fuck that guy.

This topic should have been named how many people ran scared from that devin dude's weak threat, lmao.

Mad-Dogg posted...

I am glad I never even entertained picking either of those half-assed A and B options.

Like why willingly let that devin idiot bitch you out like that, lol. The player just went through a string of missions showing this dude is a moron so narrative-wise it did not make a tiny bit of sense being scared of that guy.

Well he really does get the feds off of Franklin's case entirely if the deal is taken. Dude is scum but he wasn't lying. >_>

Diceheist posted...

Well he really does get the feds off of Franklin's case entirely if the deal is taken. Dude is scum but he wasn't lying. >_>

That is after the player makes Franklin cower to him though in the end. Which again doesn't really make sense narrative-wise to be afraid of his threat since the mission where Michael and Trevor damn near easily wipe out that entire merryweather and FIB ambush with just the two of them alongside other missions like that attempt on Michael's family shows just how incompetent devin and his cronies are.

Rockstar most likely assumed that after going through all this after putting devin's buffoonery on full display players will gravitate more to the yeah fuck this guy resistant "deathwish" option compared to blatant kill one of these 2 old dudes that actually had Franklin's back the whole game.

The Michael option out of all is god-awful narrative wise and I seriously don't even know why a player would actually pick that considering franklin and Michael relationship throughout the game.

ClayGuida posted...

Also, no DLC still pisses me off to this day. Especially after how well received Ballad of Gay Tony and Lost and the Damned were received. A true shame they didn't just do single player DLC instead of forcing everything into a multiplayer sphere.

This. I completely lost respect for Rockstar after seeing how they just hopped on the GTA Online gravy train. And then they didn't even bother trying with RDR2's online, even if the main game was still fantastic.

I'm skeptical about how GTA6 will turn out, but by the time it comes out I probably still won't have something to play it on, so I'm not really that concerned. I'm fully expecting the Online experience to be GTA5 all over again, but I'm more interested in the main story overall.

Irony posted...

I despise GTA5

This. Or not really, since I reserve that for GTA 4. 5 was marginally better; including literal super powers like slowing down time (probably one of the things they carried over from that red dead redemption game) was an interesting move. But I just don't like the new engine or physics or the weird ammunition limit cap or anything the game represents. And there was still plenty of what I hated about GTA 4 still in 5.

I did think it was funny that I felt GTA 5 was significantly shorter than 4. I thought it was just in my head but nope, I checked and apparently it has like 20 fewer missions than GTA 4 to finish the story. I'm also ambivalent about the whole multiple protagonists idea. Didn't care for any of them.

The new GTA games are trashfire and San Andreas is still the best one. But I get I'm in the minority since apparently everyone seems to like it for whatever reason.

Yeah it is one of the many reasons why GTA 5 is bad. I was very annoyed how it is just a single mission that just ties up all the lose ends at once. It just felt super rushed

Also I guess the ending is the reason they made every character super annoying and terrible. They had to give some reason people would choose the kill options.

I can understand why people like the mechanics of GTA5 but damn the story and characters are the worst of all the 3d series. And they had to spend time shitting on their previous stories whenever an old character shows up