The scene: big car thief VThe emblematic city of Los Santos. People grind outside an apartment building, probably plotting crimes. Nothing looks out of the ordinary except a lone figure. Dressed in stifling, tight leather pants and a bulletproof vest, she looks ready for anything and everything at once. He also looks like Keanu Reeves. He approaches a close man and asks — practically asks — for a cigarette. “I need my shit … I need my solution,” he says with a nebulous scraper. He is then left behind as he slides repeatedly into a T-position as he repeats the same sentence over and over again. “I need my … I … I … I … I …” That’s it Grand Theft Auto role-playing games and is currently a little different than you remember.
GTA role-playing is exactly what it sounds like: players run GTA Vthe massive open world and pretends to be cops, criminals and everything in between, living daily stories of their own creation. GTA VThe “No Pixel” role-playing game server, made by the player, never disappeared, though the delusions of 2019 GTA RP boom feel like a distant memory. However, at the back of There are no Pixel 3.0 updates (which was released last Friday) i the general popularity of the role-playing game on Twitch, GTA RP is back and it’s bigger than ever. To put it another way: in March 2019, at the height of the trend, GTA V reached 304,053 simultaneous viewers. Last Sunday, that it surpassed 438,350 simultaneous viewers. Even yesterday, which was not as standard a day as Sunday, still surpassed the March 2019 high for nearly 100,000 spectators.
It’s not hard to see why – first and foremost, and obviously the overall viewer on Twitch is now much bigger than in 2019, which means you’re probably getting into a not insignificant number of viewers. GTA RP for the first time. As in 2019, big names have joined the usual cast of cops and thieves of the scene, with the controversial megestrella Félix “xQc” Lengyel who adopts the will of the collective identity of Twitch while, in the end opposite of the spectrum, Chanis “Sodapoppin” Morris resurrects his subtly bright character from the last time, Kevin Whipaloo, the man who refuses to commit crimes in a city where basically the only thing anyone does is crime. Streamers who have seen their star grow since then, such as political juggler Hasan Piker, have also joined the fight after twists the undisciplined barrens of Rovell RP (Piker plays a character with an Italian accent who “disguises himself” using a Texan accent).
The appeal is more or less the same as last time: the streamers represent their own chaotic microdramas and you never know when a big name or celebrity can make a cameo on your favorite streamer show. It is absolutely 100% garbage television; stereotypes and problematic caricatures abound, as well as Jerry Springer-like drama scenes. It is impossible to look away, even if you spend the same amount of time laughing and crying.
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But unlike Rovell or Minecraft, which are much better at facilitating the desperate punching of game trees than the role-playing game, No Pixel 3.0 includes more specific features than ever before. Crime and its surveillance are far from the only real options; now players can also be driving instructors, mechanics, dealership owners, judges and more. Morris ’character, Kevin, runs a burger that has primarily functioned like a real burger, with customers, employees and everything. It may seem boring, but then someone appears who plays an assistant in the parking lot to sell Kevin a “potion” that is actually just a bottle of fructose-rich corn syrup, and the entertainment value of running a restaurant in a crazy city becomes clear.
The biggest example of this dynamic is Burn, a streamer who has spent the last few days playing the character of Keanu Reeves Cyberpunk 2077, Johnny Silverhand. I like Vader the last time GTA RP exploded, Burn is the highlight of this season. His pastix is excellent; he nails Reeves ’intense but believable intensity, turning even mistakes (like stabbing an ally) into excuses to argue about how he won’t stop at anything to bring down the“ scum body ”.
Burn marks everything to do with Reeves ’performance and Cyberpunk up to eleven, liberally spitting out phrases like “this is cyber-screwed up”With a perfect Keanu Reeves voice, while somehow not breaking the character to laugh at how ridiculous it sounds. In what is now his second most popular clip of all time, Burn brings this joke to its conclusion (logical?), Telling a corrections officer department the name of a person who can help him overthrow the evil corporation of Arasaka: Howard. The officer, another player, says he doesn’t know Howard.
“Have you never met Howard?” Burn answers, with Johnny. “What about … Howard Deez Nuts?”
“Oh, my God,” says the officer, walking away.
Burn then makes his avatar Johnny turn around and face the camera, as a badge Cyberpunk 2077 themed music suddenly swells.
“Yeah,” he says, using an emoticon to make it look like Johnny is taking off his sunglasses, “I’m Johnny Silverhand, and you’ve just been a punk.”
It’s the dumbest shit I’ve ever seen in my life, and it made me laugh so much that I’m sure my two-story neighbors heard me.
Burn isn’t just Johnny Silverhand; he is Johnny Silverhand from the famously buggy video game Cyberpunk. This means he also fails regularly and embroiders half-sentences over and over again while using an emoticon to put in T. It’s not exactly an original joke right now, but what sells are the execution and Burn time as well. how of the game will to play. After all, no pixel should exist. It’s unofficial and is made by the player, meaning he’s also prone to excessive comic freakouts.
One of the most popular clips in all of Twitch in recent days he sees Burn colliding with a truck against a mailbox, at which point Lengyel, who was behind him, flies out into the street.
“What the fuck?” Call Lengyel.
Burn starts saying “Cyber-fucked, boy,” but he cuts himself off and starts putting himself in T as he says, “You, you, you, you, you.”
“I think we broke it,” Lengyel says.
But then, without losing pace, Burn resumes normalcy and moves to return to the truck. “I’m perfectly fine,” he replies in a petulant tone full of poison. “Just get in the fucking car.” His character sits out of the car and floats in his place. Burn set up the joke, but it was the game that gave the punchline.
Rovell i Minecraft it could have been overcome, however GTA RP never went anywhere and is now here to remind everyone who is the true king of the art of absurdly silly and somehow good performance. Really, we’ve all been cyberpunk and we’re better at it.