Posted on 07/09/2005 2:10:07 PM PDT by Panerai
Enough with the endless controversy over violence in video games. Instead, let's talk about sex.
Raunchy, full-contact sex -- the sort of thing you'd see in a porn movie, only with cartoonlike, computer-generated images. According to some software-savvy game geeks, you can find this kind of seamy excitement hidden inside one of the world's most popular computer games, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
As if Grand Theft Auto lacked for controversy. It's already the computer game that critics of the industry love to hate because of its relentless brutality. GTA has inspired a spate of legislation in such places as Illinois, Georgia, North Carolina, and Washington, D.C., all aimed at keeping violent games out of the hands of minors.
But if Dutch gamer Patrick Wildenborg is to be believed, enemies of GTA have a new reason for outrage.
Wildenborg is a ''modder," a gamer who uses software tools to modify the look and feel of his favorite games. Modders have been around at least since the original version of the popular shoot-'em-up Doom, which encouraged users to tweak the program. These days, many games come with tools to make the process easier. Game makers love it because it helps prop up the sales of older titles. Gamers love it because it lets them use their imaginations to create new game scenarios that the original programmers may never have imagined. And they can share their mods with other gamers by publishing them on the Internet.
Inevitably, some modders have reprogrammed popular games to add explicit sexual content. The popular game The Sims has inspired some steamy mods that enable characters to couple and even get pregnant. But ''Hot Coffee," an eye-popping GTA mod created by Wildenborg and some of his friends, goes a good deal further, with highly explicit images.
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I'll say this, I would rather have my kids see sex than the violent slaughter garbage that has been in R rated movies for the last 30 years. The world may be a better place.
I assume then that the price of this game is 400% above the normal price of games? ; )
From their parents.
And who should be the one responsible to make sure games with unacceptable content don't get into the hands of their kids?
Again, their parents.
This is just more screaming and crying for an ever larger Nanny-State to take over the responsibilities (and rights) that parents should exercise themselves. It looks like some "parents" out there still have a lot of growing up to do.
And where was it decided that "appropriate for children" is the touchstone for what is appropriate for everyone?
Finally, it appears to me from the article that this isn't something in the published game, but something added to it by various nerds. How is that the fault of the game maker? This just looks like more of the same logic that would hold gun makers accountable for the actions of criminals. And I'm not buying it.
who cares...
the game is fun...
if the PARENTS don't want their kids to play the games, then THE PARENTS should be the ones to either take it away or NOT buy it in the first place.
Did I say the ONUS of this is on the PARENTS?
There are those parents that are going to start complaining about this, but the last time I checked this game is only for Mature audiences, 17 years old and up.
sure it is....but where do the KIDS get the money to buy these things?
I dont mean 15-17 year olds, I mean the 8 9 and 10 year olds that ARE playing this game....???
I agree. It's a guilty pleasure, but I have GTA 1 through San Andreas. If I had kids though, I'd hide these games like porn. My parents did their best to monitor what sort of entertainment I brought into the house, and I'd do the same.
me too...
depends on how old my kids were, if they were teens I might consider it, but I would reject it out of hand for anyone younger than about 15 or so....
there really is NOTHING in those games that these kids won't or wouldn't have seen in any movies, TV or school.
I watched violent movies all through my childhood in the 80s and 90s and I turned out just fine. But my parents illustrated the difference early and often too....
It's very discouraging that either choice is destructive to the healthy development of our children. While I condemn and despise Islamofacist terrorists and their barbaric, ruthless disregard for human life, I can understand their frustration with the seemingly unstoppable onslaught of filth emanating from Hollywood and the 'information highway'. I, too, am frustrated.
Once a kid is in their mid teens, there really isn't much you can do to stop them from playing GTA, downloading porn, listening to gangsta rap, ect. Even the "good kids" do this. If they were raised right, such influences won't lead them astray.
pretty much...
the teenage years are when kids run into things that hopefully their parents have prepared them for....
parents can't prepare kids for everything, but they can give the kids the foundation needed. My parents did and it wasnt that hard....
Terrorists aren't frustrated with filth from Hollywood.
They are in fear of freedom and liberty stripping them of their power to oppress their women and be abusive control freaks.
They remind me of the old Soviet Union, where the people were denied the luxuries of everyday life in the western world, but you know damn well the "chosen ones" in their society were enjoying it while oppressing their people.
Yes ... on second thought, I think you are right.
I agree.
GTA:SA is a great way to pass the time. Everything about the GTA games is cartoonish.
I defy anyone to complete the Vice City mission where you had to watch a stripper dance for a period of time and come away thinking that was "sexy". I thought the game was broken or locked in a loop when I saw it.
I've got less than 4 months to finish my year in Iraq. Playing games helps a lot. Playing games that I know TROP would kill me over helps even more.
Of course these hypocrites would play it after beheading me.
Outrageous cartoon situations that you'd never actually put yourself in are excellent stress relief.
Kind of like instead of listening to gangster rap it would be far better to listen "Let's Get It On" huh?
Neither of those!
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