And by GTA V The Grove was taken over by ballers :(
I know SD and HD are separate universes… but it would make sense that no matter what GSF gets pushed out
Likewise, it fits well as GTA storylines never really have a happy ending
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IndiBrony@lemmy.world 1 week ago
A lot of Sweet’s characterisation is based around the idea that the hood is where he was born and raised, it’s where everyone he knows has always been. He feels he owes a permanent debt to the hood. Through gang warfare he has lost at least two family members and likely more friends. It’s like a duty to him to ensure that those who are under his leadership are taken care of and protected.
Anyone who has played the game, though, understand that literally none of that happens, and that’s down to his own incompetence. He’s not a natural leader and totally out of his depth in trying to be one. As such, he has no real solutions and the Grove tears itself apart as more families see through his incompetency.
His intentions are absolutely noble, but his actions are fucking useless.
cubism_pitta@lemmy.world 1 week ago
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Sweet is what you call a uh, a sucka.
He’s a true believer, a fool, who is dedicated to a whole bunch of rhetoric that objectively is not true, does not function in reality they way he believes it should.
He should know that literally nobody else goes by his code of conduct and honor anywhere near as strictly as he does, because he has repeated, first hand experience with that, but he doesn’t learn, because that code is the basis of his identity.
He is a broken, angry, incompetent man who was sold a lie, and that lie is all he has left.
He is a tragic character, traumatized as fuck.
Samdell@lemmy.eco.br 1 week ago
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I love writing myself and I absolutely despise it.
Not to send you down the TV trope rabbit hole, but I believe it’s “The power of trust” where side characters put unreasonable amounts of trust into a character they’ve only just met (Doctor Who is a bloody classic at this one), mixed with a bit of “The Gift” where people will grant the protagonist unrealistically generous gifts for little to nothing in return.
And it’s not like CJ ever gets called out on the bullshit he does, either. The mission that absolutely stands out to me in terms of CJ’s insanity is the one where he straight up murders the construction site manager in cold blood for harassing Kendl.
Sure, the part where you wreck the construction site makes sense, but to then bury the guy in concrete is plain stupid. If I were Kendl I’d be fucking horrified 😅
abbotsbury@lemmy.world 6 days ago
What gets me is how CJ flips from O.G. Loc to Madd Dogg. Yeah Loc does go on Smoke’s side (although you only know that from like, one radio commercial) and you *could* say seeing the direct impact of his choices on Dogg changed his mind, but it feels more like just chasing whoever can benefit him more. Which makes sense, but why have the weird betrayal?
Denjin@lemmings.world 6 days ago
I think you’re reading a little too much into the writing of a game that is mostly about finding funny ways to kill people.