I always thought gta series as a extreme parody on real life groups portraited by media.

Like, Vice City was a parody of those gangster and the media at the time, like Scarface or any of those 80s generic b movies.

San Andreas, was the rap and gangs , and those movies with drive-bys, ice cold executions and those shit (like “Don’t be a menace to South Central while drinking your juice on the hood”).

Those don’t supposed to have Shakespearean writing, but weird little pastiches from real life with good, and sometimes, amazing character writing