Posted on 05/08/2008 11:45:55 AM PDT by AreaMan
I always felt coarsened; dirtier and dumber after playing some of the earlier incarnations of GTA.
While I agree with you simply because it is base trash, I would be interested in your view of playing “Thief: The Dark Engine”.
If you’re a believer,
read Ephisians 5 and 6 and get back to us with the answer to whether you should play GTA.
I played it several years ago and felt like I’d been engaging in some sort of violent pornographic venture.
nice... misspelled a book of the bible... Ephesians!
Carolyn
I have never seen it- can someone here enlighten those of us who are curious as to what the big deal is?
Isn’t it a computer game?
(ok I have only ever played QUAKE and that was oddly amusing, but it never made me want to blast someone into chuncks)
I think you are WAY over-analyzing this.
If you’re uncomfortable playing the game, don’t play it.
It’s not exactly one of the great philosophical questions of this Age.
All those ghosts I ate playing Pac Man...I’m so ashamed!!!
That's exactly where the freedom of choosing meets the burden of self-responsibility.
I enjoy playing computer games once in a while. Unfortunately the best games all seem to have been written in the past, and the new ones don’t seem to be worth getting.
It’s too bad that a game with good graphics and competent story line should be pornographic and morally ugly.
For what its worth I played one of the earlier GTA vehicles (so to speak). I enjoyed the missions as a driving challenge, and really enjoyed driving around to the sounds of “Speed Demon” and “Take it to the Limit”. I didn’t notice any dark side to the game, though its possible I wasn’t paying attention.
Maybe the later GTAs are worse, but games just don’t get made over a certain rating as WalMart won’t sell them. I would guess that the game is going to be ‘cleaner’ than you might expect from the advertising and the hype.
Your due diligence does you credit BTW.
It's true, as the apologists say, that playing violent games or watching violent movies won't cause someone to go out and commit violence. It's also true that to look at today's youth and the violence that they seem to embrace is to look into the abyss. The abyss of morality, of ethics, of self-reflection, of the post-modern.
While I can't in good faith call for the censorship of games like GTA, I can morn the loss of the traditions and morality that once would have made its existence unthinkable. And to those who think I'm being melodramatic, I hear in the background of their smug assurances of worldliness, the sound of fiddling, and Rome burning.
I’d play it, but I’m Nintendo-only.
It’s a computer game that pervasively simulates & rewards being a street thug: robbery, grand theft auto, wanton violence, cop killing, hooker use/abuse/murder, drug distribution, etc.
In Quake you ran around fantasy environments blasting hypothetical monsters.
GTA brings violent/illegal behavior much closer to home, something the player can far more closely relate to.
If you’re uncomfortable playing the game, don’t play it.
It’s not exactly one of the great philosophical questions of this Age."
It may not be one of the most astute philosophical observations of this age, but your RESPONSE to it is profound and spot-on!
Not true. Excellent games are being made now, and the best of the past are what survived amidst a sea of crud. The difference being that you notice today's crud, but forgot yesterday's.
Eve-online springs to mind. I've never been much of a gamer, but Eve is a good game, highly complex, challenging, and is reflective of whatever morality you bring to the game.
/johnny
I have shot down over 10,000 aircraft in various air combat simulations. Some went down with no parachute so we gotta assune they died. Does all that killing mean I am a bad person?
No, I don’t think you should.
Not because I think it is necessarily inherently bad, but because if you are unsure, the best answer is a simple “no”.
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