A sex minigame is poor taste?
In a game where you are encouraged to steal people's vehicles and then run them over with them? A game which puts massive brutality into real world settings? Sex is about the last thing you could call poor taste about Grand Theft Auto. Though personally I think the games are great anyway.
I forgot to say some things from my last reply. Yes the government dont know anything. They basically make lies. What they are trying to do is put bills and have them approved to protect children. They can't do anything to protect them. All I think I hear from videos about the government is that they make these lousy lies about Doom, GTA etc... You know what? Although I never played it, I might make a review about Night Trap from the videos I saw.
A sex minigame is poor taste?
In a game where you are encouraged to steal people's vehicles and then run them over with them? A game which puts massive brutality into real world settings? Sex is about the last thing you could call poor taste about Grand Theft Auto. Though personally I think the games are great anyway.
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Trust me, I think GTA is entirely and completely in poor taste. Always hated the concept, so no, I do not excuse the rest of the game (or violence in games in general) and only hate on "hot coffee," just to be clear on that point.
My personal ethics on violence and brutality in games basically requires that the violence is used to defend oneself in a good vs. evil situation. As I see nothing wrong with executing a headshot on someone who is trying to kill me (and, in many games, invade my planet!). Most games fall comfortably in the paradigm, but I must admit that I still get a little uneasy with certain games such as Gears of War or Doom III, but of course that uneasy feeling is part of the feeling the creators or trying to get.
And, btw, Germany is crazy on this issue! While I would complain about certain things in games, I would never condone outright censorship. Wow.
-Rob
Well, I'm not sure you can call ESRB ratings a failure just because some parents are moronic. I'm sure there are other families that use the information wisely. And the ratings are a gesture anyway; if they hadn't been proactive, the gov't might have tried to create a ratings system for them, a very bad idea. So if the ratings system kept that from happening, then it certainly did its job in my book.
-Rob
Is eradicating that totalitarian government really such a bad thing? I haven't played that game, but if the premise is as simple as getting rid of that evil regime, than I hardly see a problem with that.
-Rob
I really dont know that game where you blow up North Korea. That could be banned by the government. Anyways one of the people who want to ban games, Clinton, wants to run for president. That could mean trouble for gamers. To be honest, I played violent games. I played the Genesis, and Playstation Mortal Kombat, PC and Playstation Doom 1 and 2, all Grand Theft Auto games from 1998 to 2005, and Wolfenstein 3-D. I never played Night Trap for Sega CD and 32x, and 3DO. It is not violent. I dont understand how it got banned. There is no blood or gore or anything. It is sort of like late night shows on TV for Night Trap. Mortal Kombat is violent but less violent on the Genesis, CD, Game Gear, and SNES. The government could have waited at least one year to see how good it was on the systems. Doom in 1999 was the blame for the Columbine shootings. I mean, it was ported to Atari Jaguar, Sega 32x, 3DO, Sega Saturn, N64 and Playstation. But there was other blames such as films and music. It seems like people want to go to Sony only to make games for their systems. Put games on Nintendo and Microsoft's systems. Someone's got to speak to the government if they actually played games, even the violent ones at all. All they ever do is set up a bunch of lies of the games.
feilong you'd be okay with a game to topple the US then right?
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