ANOTHER GTA article?

[SoulBlazer]

While delivering papers to all of our guests this morning at the hotel where I work at (USA Today) I noticed on the front page they had yet ANOTHER article about GTA and mature games in general.

Gave the article a quick read. It's not bad, as far as a major publication (read: clueless and stupid) goes, but it begs the question -- how many freakin times can you beat this dead horse allready?

I've actually found CNN and MSNBC to be the best when it comes to reporting on games -- maybe cause they have people who review games and systems for them and these people talk to the ones writing the articles. One can only hope.

Still, might be worth reading if you're interested to see what millions of non game players are going to be reading about today. I'm sure someone will come in and throw a link to the USA Today website when they post the article.

[Sniderman]

I'm sure someone will come in and throw a link to the USA Today website when they post the article.

Here ya go: Click me! CLICK MEEEEE!!!!

Yup, let's drag out GTA:VC yet again as "what's wrong with today's youth." But has anyone noticed that "Manhunt" an "The Suffering" hasn't even registered as a friggin' BLIP on the anti-gaming zealots' radar? It's like they grabbed onto a 3-year-old game and use that as the benchmark when there are similar, even more grotesque, games out there that would make their cause more appealling to the public.

My point? Articles like this are nothing but the rantings of bored housewives and clueless politicians who haven't done the homework themselves and are still dredging up old rheteric instead of going out and discovering NEW anti-gaming rheteric.

Since porn has become virtually mainstream now, the anti-corruption-of-society league needs to find a new scapegoat as to why people are desensitized; have decreasing morality; are randomly violent; and other unproven characteristics they foister on the public.

Asshats. I'd like to kill them all, just like I do in GTA:VC, which has taught me how to do so.

[Oobgarm]

But has anyone noticed that "Manhunt" an "The Suffering" hasn't even registered as a friggin' BLIP on the anti-gaming zealots' radar?

Has anyone here seen or played The Suffering demo in the newest Offical Xbox magazine? If that game's not a poster child for the constant scrutiny of gaming violence and mature content, I don't know what is.

I think that The Suffering, while a cool idea, is just an excuse to see how much foul language and gore they can throw into a game.

[SegaTecToy]

I wonder when the media will find another scapegoat to blame all bad things in this world. The parents will never assume that when their kids do something wrong its their fault or the fault of their kids' stupidity.

[Sotenga]

This is like... what, the twenty-Exty-sixtieth article bashing GTA for its low moral fiber?

"Hey, Billy, why didja reduce the principal to a pile of ashes?"

"GTA makes flamethrowers seem cool!"

Team Rockstar doesn't deserve this flak. They aren't going to hell for corrupting our modern youth. The cowards who can't cope with their own idiocy are the ones who have dug their own grave. And please quote me on this the next time there's a negative article on GTA: I'll just scream.

Asshats. I'd like to kill them all, just like I do in GTA:VC, which has taught me how to do so.

Which do you prefer: The katana, chainsaw, flamethrower, gatling gun, or rocket launcher?

[Jasoco]

Asshats. I'd like to kill them all, just like I do in GTA:VC, which has taught me how to do so.

Which do you prefer: The katana, chainsaw, flamethrower, gatling gun, or rocket launcher?

I kinda like to take 'em all out at once with the Serious Bomb. Like Serious Sam has taught me. It's serious.

[Stamp Mcfury]

The difference, Mayton says, is that any effects of video games are mental, and the First Amendment protects against thought-control by the government.

"Having said that, the First Amendment's not an absolute," he says. "If you can show that the games do cause people to go out there and hurt others, you've got a case for an exception. Perhaps."

So know they have moved from saying that "Rock and Roll brainwashing us to murder" to video games brainwashing us OMFG