Submitted by mogbert - April 30, 2008 at 2:32 pm -0500139.76.64.66
Vinzent stole my comment, so I'll have to make a new one...
See, where they go wrong is that GTAIV is a game, even if it is a mature game.
What do you want from a game? Should you BLEED if you get shot in the game? Whould you have prefered if people actually DIED when they "lost a life" in Pac-Man?
There are repercusions in the game if you do something bad, however, in this game you are a relatively bad guy. Why? Because they have a lot of the good guy games already covered. It is a pretty untapped market.
Tell you what, you make a "MacDonald's Smile Game" and put it up against this one, maybe you can use sales pressure to push it out of the market. Maybe I'm actualy the reincarnation of Ghandi as well.
Movies with an anti-hero are common. This game is no more detailed or realistic then them, actually a lot less. It isn't a kids game so saying that it teaches kids this or that is hogwash. The moment you tell us that an adult can't play a game because kids might get their hands on it, is the moment that you also condem all movies, writings, alcohol, cigarettes, and guns with that exact same argument.
Posted 07/24/08 at 01:45pm Dark Sovereign: A fitting metaphor lumi
Posted 07/24/08 at 11:21am lumi: their own. Looks like they're arguing with ghosts...
Posted 07/24/08 at 11:20am lumi: Ooh, and to prove the validity of their arguments, they've deleted all the comments from the gamers/outsiders, and just left
Posted 07/24/08 at 11:20am lumi: Wow...there's worse invective and vitriol on that first feminist site's comments than in most gaming forums I've read...
Posted 07/24/08 at 11:19am SimonBob: You guys can read the feminist blogs? One of 'em has over 1400 comments -- my browser locks up when I try to load the page!
Posted 07/24/08 at 10:49am M. Carusi: That's probably the message to describe hardcore feminism in general. :P
Posted 07/24/08 at 10:35am Tom90deg: Meh, it seems like most of the comments are "I'm right, and it you don't agree with me, you're a girl-hating masonogystic pig!"
Posted 07/24/08 at 10:30am M. Carusi: Those comment walls on the feminist blogs complaining about FP are generating some hilarious content.
Posted 07/24/08 at 08:48am E. Zachary Knight: @ lunatic, What you see is what you get. Once a comment gets pushed off it is gone forever.
Posted 07/24/08 at 07:39am sortableturnip: Best...comments...ever: http://jaablog.jaablaw.com/2008/07/06/jack-needs-your-help.aspx?pg=5&view=threaded
Posted 07/24/08 at 05:42am sortableturnip: Alteffor: I 2nd that motion. GP you should have a special section for all of JT's correspondence to you
Posted 07/23/08 at 10:13pm GRIZZAM PRIME: Lunatic: Nope. Ever fading if I'm not mistaken.
Posted 07/23/08 at 08:05pm LuNaTiC: is there a way to view old shouts? sorry if its a noob question.
Posted 07/23/08 at 07:07pm gamepolitics: momma didn't raise no sock puppet
Posted 07/23/08 at 06:15pm Rodrigo Ybáñez García: Jack is a repressed man. Don´t be surprised...
Posted 07/23/08 at 06:07pm GryphonOsiris: So Jack admitted paying for gay porn... all I can say is wow... just wow...
Posted 07/23/08 at 05:09pm lumi: to the case, and he's been on 60 minutes once!
Posted 07/23/08 at 05:09pm lumi: GP, you should mention you'll be filing a legal injunction against him if he doesn't comply. Phoenix Wright will be attached
Posted 07/23/08 at 03:32pm Alteffor: You should add a section to the site for anything Jack CC's to you. It's always entertaining to read the stuff he writes.
Posted 07/23/08 at 03:31pm Matriculated: Does anyone know when the Supreme Court reaches their decission?
See, where they go wrong is that GTAIV is a game, even if it is a mature game.
What do you want from a game? Should you BLEED if you get shot in the game? Whould you have prefered if people actually DIED when they "lost a life" in Pac-Man?
There are repercusions in the game if you do something bad, however, in this game you are a relatively bad guy. Why? Because they have a lot of the good guy games already covered. It is a pretty untapped market.
Tell you what, you make a "MacDonald's Smile Game" and put it up against this one, maybe you can use sales pressure to push it out of the market. Maybe I'm actualy the reincarnation of Ghandi as well.
Movies with an anti-hero are common. This game is no more detailed or realistic then them, actually a lot less. It isn't a kids game so saying that it teaches kids this or that is hogwash. The moment you tell us that an adult can't play a game because kids might get their hands on it, is the moment that you also condem all movies, writings, alcohol, cigarettes, and guns with that exact same argument.