You Don’t Understand GTA 5’s Story - I Spent 10000 Hours Discovering Franklin’s Untold Lore

- Sorry for all the censors. The 149 times that the f-word and n-word were said was too much for YouTube so they’d always age-gate and demonetised the video. - I do not consider the job mentioned by Franklin on the Paleto Score to be a “heist” he did with Lamar. I was speaking more of the large scale jobs frequent in the game. - Yes, Gerald in online sends us after the Ballas. CGF didn’t like the Ballas, there was just no formal hostilities. In the same way Lamar was willing to “stealthily” kidnap D, Gerald is willing to send us who doesn’t belong to the CGF to steal from the Ballas. He wouldn’t do this himself. Either that, or this was just written later.

Lamar getting recognized while kidnapping D might’ve been the funniest thing in the whole game

This has been one of my favourite series. Shame you're out of main characters to explore

You might have missed one clear indicator about why Lamar isn't an option for a heist gunman and gotten one fact slightly incorrect. According to the Paleto Score dialogue, the first bank heist Franklin pulled was with Lamar. Thus Lamar did in fact have some experience in heists previously. It is also implied that since Franklin was just the getaway driver, Lamar must have been the one that actually was responsible for getting the cash and ultimately responsible for the dye packs being included, causing the heist to fail completely. It makes a lot of sense that Franklin would not want someone who has already proven to cause a heist to fail to be included in another one.

Stretch spent his life working his ass off, and paying the higher ups, just dreaming of one day "retiring" and becoming a higher up himself so he gets paid by the small fry, but said small fry no longer buys into that shit rendering his past struggles and everything he's been looking forward to pointless, like an abusive parent realizing the abuse they suffered from their own parents aren't working on their kids anymore.

This video has reminded me of two things: - The voice acting in this game is freaking amazing - Lamar and Franklin have the most genuine relationship in this game

I always thought stretch was just generic bad guy character. But now i can at least understand why exactly he acted the way he did. Even if it doesn't make him a "good guy", I understand his motivations and philosophy.

I absolutely do not remember ever being phoned by Stretch, and him demanding dues. This was informative. Neither did I realise that Stretch was trying to peace out with the Ballas, after LD's big time fuckup.

Honestly Stretch is sympathetic. Well of course he actually isn't, murders and gangs and assassinations are bad, but in the world of GTA, he isn't actually bad like I thought he was. If Lamar was anything except a main character, if he wasn't Franklin's friend, if he wasn't one of the fan favorite characters, if he was instead a side character and the story centered on Stretch instead. Having to sacrifice that random gang member who went too far and started an entire war between two gangs, and to bring peace between them, is something that would be sympathetic and normal in the world of GTA protagonists. No player would really care about killing Lamar. The only reason we hate Stretch is because Lamar is our friend, but his goal makes sense.

I find it actually really interesting, and something I never thought about. Stretch never tries to set up Franklin. Even tho they HATED each other, Stretch decided to only give up Lamar. He really did try to look out for his gang

35 mins to tell us michael wasnt in witness protection

I think Franlins "change" that gets him a family, is more due to him mostly giving up the "boots on the ground" grunt work, where he can end up dead in a ditch somewhere. So when his illegal schemes became much less about possible getting shot or shanked, Tanisha saw him as still being true to himself like she wanted him to be, while making her feel safe enough in a relationship. And let's be honest here... The normal healthy relationships in this game would still be considered toxic in the real world, so the fact that Tanisha still has reservations about what Franklin does, that's basicly the best possible relationship as far as this game is concerned...

Sorry for all the censors. The 149 times that the f-word and n-word were said was too much for YouTube so they’d always age-gate and demonetised the video.

Ending C was meant to kill Franklin and Lamar replace him as playable character. Lamar's VA revealed that this year (I think) in AMA. He was busy irl, so Rockstar didn't have time to make it. Honestly, I initially picked ending C and expected Franklin to die (considering skull icon on the phone). Seemed like a good outcome, Franklin not being a coward/traitor.

I wish there were more missions involving CGF

I never really thought about the beef between Stretch and Franklin like this, it's a really nice explanation. Frank has imo pretty solid views on gang hierarchy, but Stretch also has equal reason to be like "These two fools are too much of a liability". Nice take!

I know this is a heavily unpopular opinion, but Franklin is absolutely my favorite character in GTA V. His overall levelheadedness makes him become an outlier in the world of Los Santos. I love seeing the way people just use him as a punching bag and treat him differently for being a normal dude. It also helps that I think that he has the funniest dialogue out of the 3 protagonists

Only real ones know how much more work he had to put in to censor all the Fs and Hard Rs. Video still flows smoothly. Nice work

Strech was probably one of the 3 baddies that has reasonable reasoning for what he did, the other 2 mofos got what they deserved but knowing Strech was probably just trying to keep the 2 gangs away from what they were back in 2005 gives him more depth.

I've never accepted the idea that Michael, Franklin and Trevor had "magical superpowers" in the literal sense of the word. Michael is an experienced shooter and Franklin is a talented driver. How do you translate it into the game, if the characters are as good as the person playing? That's right, you give Michael bullet time and you give Franklin the ability to slow down time while driving. It makes perfect sense. As for Trevor, his ability is the adrenaline kicking in when he is consumed by rage. And people are capable of crazy things on adrenaline, including surviving for longer. So his ability makes perfect sense as well. In addition, since GTA V is the first GTA game with more than one playable character, the abilities further differentiate the characters and give you the reason to switch between them. Choosing a driver on I Fought the Law? Franklin is an obvious choice. Fighting in a shootout? Michael and Trevor are preferable and so on. The abilities don't make GTA V a fantasy game, lol.