![]() I take note of the group’s individual player tags and agree to catch up soon. ‘That really triggered my own depression’. ![]() The group’s members part ways but not before informing me they gather every few weeks for similar meetings and that I’d be more than welcome to join in again. When we reach the foot of the mountain, I thank the group for letting me tag along, and Craig specifically, for sharing something so personal and sensitive. It’s been three years and I’ve been to counselling, had cognitive behavioural therapy and now I’m on a course of antidepressants. She was pronounced dead at the scene, and that really triggered my own depression and anxiety. “Mum had staggered out of the pub and was knocked down by a bus. “I’ll never forget the night we received the call,” says Craig. This isn’t to say virtual crimes don’t occur within the Los Santos role-play experience – far from it – but voice chat combined with a less crime-centred world provides scope for more nuanced encounters, such as the pseudo self-help group I’ve happened upon. Here, on this server, players enter Rockstar North’s satirical swipe at modern America to try to pursue an honest in-game living, reflective of reality, that eschews the exaggerated chaos that is the open-world game’s default state. Players are expected to live as they would in the real world and obey laws that are enforced by voluntary police and emergency service role-players in turn. My mountaintop encounter with Craig and his friends takes place in one of FiveM’s servers – a bustling 32-person open source modification that lets users work, live and socialise by virtue of jobs, amenities and voice chat. Today, despite its age, the crime simulator’s role-play scene is thriving. Role-play servers on the latter platform, where players act out characters of their own invention in-game, followed shortly after. ![]() Grand Theft Auto V launched on consoles in late 2013 and arrived on PC in April 2015. ‘My mother chose alcohol over her own wellbeing’. ![]()
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