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[sethrak]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/fun.games/12/10/video.game.protest.ap/index.html

Um.... GTA: VC has been out *how* long? And they're only just now raising sufficient fuss about that line to get the makers to remove it from future copies?

If a game came out with a subplot requiring the player to Keel Ze Polacks, I would hope whatever powers may be in the American Polish community would be a bit quicker to protest.

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[frail-obscurity.livejournal.com]

Sethra: GTA Vice City has been under constant attack since its release from a multitude of angles. This Haiti thing isn't as new as CNN is making it out to be; I saw an article similar to it a few months back. The thing that boggles me about the VC controversy is that it's such an obvious Scarface homage, geared towards older, more mature audiences, and yet parents will still buy it for their kids on the context that "it's a video game", and THEN raise a ruckus.

Fucking soccor moms.

[davner.livejournal.com]

I know the line they're talking about and it's total bullshit. They're calling it a call for genocide, and here's the real situation.

Your character is working for the Cuban gang and one of the missions is to kill all the Haitian gang members in the area. So at the bottom of the screen is flashing the info and the instructions, and at the end of the briefing, they boil it down. "Kill the Haitians."

Plug is right, people are bitching about something that was made for adult gamers. If you can't remember playing Asteroids on an Atari 2600, you have no business playing Vice City. But these little rats whine, bitch and moan about how much they want this game and their parents say, "okay, darling. What does M mean?" and the fucking maggot kids say, "Um...Monkeys!" and the fucking dipshit parents say, "Well, there's nothing wrong with monkeys!" and pays for their kid to be indoctrinated into gang warfare.

Fucking assholes.

[frail-obscurity.livejournal.com]

Heh. Looking at my copy now, I suppose parents are too stupid to look at the back where it says in bold lettering:

MATURE, 17+
BLOOD AND GORE
VIOLENCE
STRONG LANGUAGE
STRONG SEXUAL CONTENT

Guess they must've missed that part, what with it taking up a good portion of the bottom of the case, and everything.

[davner.livejournal.com]

Seriously, parents are so fucking ignorant when it comes to video games. When my kids start getting into video games, I'm taking an active part. I'm checking out their games first and I'm limiting their time on them. I have nothing against video games, but like anything else, you have to use them responsibly. I don't care how great a game is, if a kid is playing it eight hours a day, at least SOME of that time is being wasted.

I want my kid to be able to at least THROW and CATCH a ball.