Ever hear of catharsis? Look it up.
It's the critics of video games, not the gamers, who have trouble distinguishing fantasy and reality.
And when his young son looks to Dad as a role model -- well, that's the problem, isn't it?
I’m a hardcore gamer who’s never understood the interest in GTA. I’ve always thought it lame.
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The product is the biggest selling entertainment title of all time. Bigger than any DVD release, than any other game before it. So, there is a market for it. The game, in the UK at least, is some £40. Add to that the console at £160 and you have a price tag thats into £200 ($380ish).
Not many teenagers are going to be able to buy that game, and if the parents are so dumb as to get it for their 14 year old, more fool them. A parent wouldn’t buy a mature film for thir kids, such as Kalifornia or 8mm would they? No, so just dont do the same here.
Also, most gamers today are professionals in their mid to late 20’s. You must be stupid beyond belief if you think that cos we can blow up 50 coppers in GTA, that we’re going to do it in real life.
Crazy people are crazy because of what they are, be it an imbalance in brain chemistry or whatever. Its certainly not because of an entertainment medium.
Was my impression correct?
Ever hear of catharsis? Look it up.
It's the critics of video games, not the gamers, who have trouble distinguishing fantasy and reality.
GTA games are usually a parody of pop culture. Vice City made fun of the 1980's, Miami Vice, and Scarface. San Andreas was a parody of the gangsta rap culture of the 1990's. GTA 3 was a parody of Scarface in a sense as well, but targeted the NY Mob.
I have the movie Scarface. It is 25 years old. I never shot, chainsawed, killed, or did drugs because of the movie. Go back 10 years before that, and it was the Godfather and Dirty Harry movies. Miami Vice was another one of those evil destroy the world things.
Speaking of video games, this is nothing new. Before GTA, there was the Doom series. Before that, there was Wolfenstein. Before that, it was Mortal Kombat and Lethal Enforcers. Before that, it was Leisure Suit Larry. Before all of it was the movie Untouchables....
GTA is also rated M. That means it is rated R for all intents and purposes. It is not for kids.
If I ever get a PS3, I'll get a copy of this game.
But can you get your own NPR radio show afterwards? If not, then I guess GTA4 isn't that realistic after all.
GTA ViceCity helped my driving skills and overall reflexes big time. Great series. To date I have not murdered any prostitutes.
I play the game and im not a killer. I love it. :P
I don’t think it is necessary at all to have filthy language or “simulated sex” in video games - UGH.
Katherine's a moron.
I can’t see them banning this. Heck, they won’t even ban hardcore porn, and that’s real in that the people in it are actually engaging in sex and whatever other perverted acts the porn producer wants in the film.
Huh. Another reason I don’t play video games.
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While this game is an improvement I think we need to continue doing research on how to make better, more realistic graphics such as blood running down the screen and heads rolling off the screen and bouncing on your desktops. Also, when you are able to kill or wound an innocent civilian shouldn’t the sound of terror from those individuals be more realistic? I also have some ideas on some S&M sex graphics but i’ll hold back for now. Wouldn’t that be so much more fun? My kids are already bored with this latest game and are screaming for more sex and violence. I told them they could have the next release only if they are let out on early release or their shrink allows it. /sarc
$500M in a week, folks. Call me an elitist, but our society has some serious growing up to do when a computer game featuring exploding cars outsells every Hollywood movie.
I have to wonder how GTA IV might do in Baghdad ... Aren't they building a Disney theme park over there?