idk if anyone here actually cares about gta's stories/lore anymore but is anyone else a bit disappointed that almsot everyone from gta 4's stories were pretty much treated like stuff?
the united liberty paper contact, one of the more classic 'agent' characters, makes up a good part of gta 4's story and knows everything, in a way similar to mike toreno, though he's a more realist type and works both for his nation and patriotism as well as getting the government's more direct wishes solved. his role was pretty important in niko's story needless to say, and what happens to him in gta v? he's pretty much just another dude to shoot down and has no other purpose
marnie, one of the strangers/freaks that niko comes across, helps financially, then helps her flee the city from drug dealers and after which she tells him over e-mail that she's living safe and happily with her parents and going to college to become a psychologist and find out how to help others like her? yeah lmao nah she's a part of some deranged cult now
johnny? an actual protagonist that you spent a whole campaign playing as, spent a whole campaign watching him try to climb himself out of the pit, resolving bad blood, making it through dozens of life-threatening situations, breaking into a loving prison with his gang, and cutting ties with his girlfriend who's obviously being a bad influence on him with her crystal meth addiction? what happens to him? he gets turned into a wimpy methed out bitch that gets murdered in less than a minute just to show off how WACKY and CRAZY XD trevor was
and that's just a few cases, i really don't get why they felt the need to stuff on just about everyone from gta 4's story, almost all of them end up miserable or dead aside from packie. did they just think since people didn't think the game was the best that the best way to respond to it was to cut up and revile the characteristics of it?