9. Michaels Dysfunctional Family
GTA is often accused of being one of the causes that attributed to the breakdown of what people believed to be the makeup of a normal nuclear family. Obama even alluded to this when he made the following comments during a rally speech, which coincided with the launch of GTA IV;
I was just catching the news this morning about Grand Theft Auto, this video game, which is gonna break all records and make goo-gobs of money for whoever designed it. Now, this isn't intended for kids, although I promise you there are kids who are playing it, but these video games are raising our kids...
So it was nice to see Rockstar introduce some good old-fashioned family drama into GTA 5. Drama that held up a mirror to the lives of the people who claim to be whiter than white but are poster families for the epitome of dysfunction that games like GTA get blamed for Be it Michael finding his wife sleeping with the tennis coach, his daughter hanging out with porn producers or his waster son shouting abuse to his online gaming chums, everything is there that will upset anybody who misses the good ole Victorian values. But as fun as it is to be a fly on the wall and watch Michael and his dysfunctional family go about messing up their lives, anyone paying attention to the underlying story will know that the real cause of all this is Michael himself. He finds it very easy to blame others but he know the real reason is neglect and failure as a husband and father.