GTA IV Already Slated

[Dark Drakan]

Seems Rockstar never shy away from the controversy spotlight and they have already been slated by NYC officials and New York police commissioner Raymond Kelly. New York officials are already voicing their disdain for the game and saying the similarities are only cosmetic. They have said...

The mayor does not support any video game where you earn points for injuring or killing police officers

It's despicable to glamorize violence in games like these, regardless of how far-fetched the setting may be.

 

[SpArAda1127]

ok soooooooo this means?

 

[Dark Drakan]

ok soooooooo this means?

New York police chief and mayor are basically having a go at Rockstar for portraying New York in a bad way and say that games like GTA shouldnt be allowed to be made.

 

[pinky750]

hahaha... mardy gits! a level of resistance: fall of man is nottingham but i don't see my house infested with chimera!

 

[Dark Drakan]

hahaha... mardy gits! a level of resistance: fall of man is nottingham but i don't see my house infested with chimera!

GTA has always been a game thats under the media spotlight and always will be, also when Manhunt 2 comes out i can imagine the stories and views of people...

They just need to lay off games and stop talking things so seriously and blaming games for problems in society.

 

[pinky750]

it's only the minority of complete retards that re-enacted games. i mean, how thick do you have to be to do that?

 

[Dark Drakan]

it's only the minority of complete retards that re-enacted games. i mean, how thick do you have to be to do that?

Not just thick people its people that are already mentally disturbed that see blaming games as the easy way out and the media spotlight then jumps on the games instead of the psycho individual.

 

[pinky750]

yeah... sad really...

 

[Dark Drakan]

yeah... sad really...

Just any excuse to take heat of them and also seems people just want any excuse to blame violent games and movies for anything.

 

[pinky750]

but there good for sress relief. they should be used in therapy.

 

[Dark Drakan]

but there good for sress relief. they should be used in therapy.

Id agree, nothing better when ive had a bad day than to come home and kill things in a game... the more brutal ways the better.

 

[Lady_0989]

People are soo dumb

 

[Sephiroxas]

:lol: people are and always have been dumb. No matter what..

But it's not like they're taking facial scans of all of the NY police department and putting them in the game or something.

 

[Dark Drakan]

:lol: people are and always have been dumb. No matter what..

But it's not like they're taking facial scans of all of the NY police department and putting them in the game or something.

Seems like the world cant seperate harmless video game fun from a madman on streets with a weapon and seem to think that playing games like this MAKES people do that which is not true.

 

[Lady_0989]

Video games do not infuence peoples behavior, maybe their imagination but not their behavior. ^_^

And tru i dont know why they are getting offended its not like their in the game:lol:

 

[Dark Drakan]

Video games do not infuence peoples behavior, maybe their imagination but not their behavior. ^_^

Correct and if someone imagination causes them to go out and kill someone then they are already messed up in the head and if a game triggers it that just means anything could have. A game/music track/movie... anything...

 

[King Avallach]

I can't say I'm a big GTA fan but they're taking this too far.I mean it's a game (not to mention that the police are, overall, a bunch of incompetents anyway) If they're going to sanction violent video games then they walk the edge of the razor to being the next Hitler esque megalomaniac government.

 

[pinky750]

I can't say I'm a big GTA fan but they're taking this too far.I mean it's a game (not to mention that the police are, overall, a bunch of incompetents anyway)

LOL!!! i agree with that whole sentance!

 

[Dark Drakan]

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