“You’ve never met Howard?” replies Burn, as Johnny. The officer, another player, says he does not know Howard. In what is now his second most-popular clip of all time, Burn takes this joke to its (logical?) conclusion, telling a department of corrections officer the name of a person who can help him bring down the diabolical Arasaka corporation: Howard. His pastiche is excellent he nails Reeves’ schmaltzy yet believable intensity, turning even mistakes - like stabbing an ally - into excuses to rant about how he’ll stop at nothing to bring down “corpo scum.”īurn dials everything about Reeves’ performance and Cyberpunk itself up to 11, liberally spitting phrases like “that’s cyber- fucked” in a perfect Keanu Reeves voice while somehow not breaking character to laugh about how ridiculous he sounds. Like Vader last time GTA RP blew up, Burn is this season’s breakout star. The single greatest example of this dynamic is Burn, a streamer who’s spent the past several days role-playing as Keanu Reeves’ character from Cyberpunk 2077, Johnny Silverhand. That might sound boring, but then somebody role-playing a wizard shows up in the parking lot to sell Kevin a “potion” that’s actually just a bottle of high-fructose corn syrup, and the entertainment value of running a restaurant in a city gone mad becomes crystal clear. Morris’ character, Kevin, runs a burger shop that has mostly functioned like a real burger shop, with customers and employees and everything. Crime and the policing thereof are far from the only real options now players can also be driving instructors, mechanics, dealership owners, judges, and more. It’s impossible to look away from, even though you spend equal amounts of time laughing and cringing.īut unlike Rust or Minecraft, which are much better at facilitating the wanton punching of in-game trees than role-playing, No Pixel 3.0 includes more role-playing specific features than ever. It is absolutely, 100 per cent trash television problematic stereotypes and caricatures abound, as do scenes of Jerry Springer-like drama. The appeal is more or less the same as last time: Streamers enact their own chaotic micro-dramas, and you never know when a big name or notorious character might make a cameo in your favourite streamer’s show. “I’m Johnny Silverhand, and you just got cyber-punked.” Streamers who’ve seen their star rise since then, like politics juggernaut Hasan Piker, have also joined the fray following turns in the unruly barrens of Rust RP (Piker is playing a character with a hammy Italian accent who “disguises” himself by using a hammy Texan accent). As in 2019, big names have joined the scene’s regular cast of cops and robbers, with controversial megastar Félix “xQc” Lengyel enacting the will of Twitch’s collective id while, on the opposite end of the spectrum, Chance “Sodapoppin” Morris resurrects his subtly brilliant character from last time around, Kevin Whipaloo, the man who refuses to do crime in a city where basically the only thing anybody does is crime. It’s not difficult to see why: First and most obviously, Twitch’s overall viewership is much larger now than it was in 2019, meaning that a not-insignificant number of viewers are probably getting into GTA RP for the first time.
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Even yesterday, which wasn’t quite as much of a banner day as Sunday, still beat March 2019’s high point by nearly 100,000 viewers. Last Sunday, it topped out at 438,350 concurrent viewers. To wit: In March of 2019, at the height of the trend, GTA V peaked at 304,053 concurrent viewers.
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However, on the back of No Pixel’s 3.0 update (which launched last Friday) and the general popularity of role-playing on Twitch, GTA RP is back and bigger than ever. GTA V’s player-made “No Pixel” role-playing server never went away, but the delirious highs of the 2019 GTA RP boom feel like a distant memory.
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GTA role-playing is exactly what it sounds like: Players run around in GTA V’s massive open world and pretend to be cops, criminals, and everything in between, living out daily stories of their own makings. “I need my…I…I…I…I…” This is Grand Theft Auto role-playing, and these days, it’s a little different than you remember.
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Then he trails off as he repeatedly slides into a T-pose while repeating the same sentence over and over. “I need my fucking…I need my fix,” he says in a hazy rasp. He approaches a nearby man and asks - practically begs - for a cigarette. Clad in suffocatingly tight leather pants and a bulletproof vest, he looks prepared for anything and nothing all at once. Nothing seems out of the ordinary - except for a lone figure. People mill about outside an apartment building, likely plotting crimes. The scene: Grand Theft Auto V’s iconic city of Los Santos.