people these days

[Ag3nt_Sm1th]

some people just cant stand games that are too violent and that pisses me off my friend is 15 and his mom was buying that for his son for christmas and a random guy walked up with all 3 og the gta's in his hand telling his mom that you have to sleep with prostitutes to get power points and how would he now if he havent even bought the game i meen her son was right next to her to ,she still didnt buy the game

[MrHoatzin]

You're someone's doppelganger, aren't you?

[Tanukitsune]

You mean it's not you?

But seriously, the game is labeled with an "Adult" rating, AFAIK, so I don't see where's the trouble...

[Intrepid Homoludens]

You're someone's doppelganger, aren't you?

You mean it's not you?

If it were Kingz every other word would have been 'fuckin' and 'prostitutes' would have been 'independently employed women'.

[Taylor]

Uh...

EDIT:

WE POSTED AT THE EXACT SOME TIME OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG

[ysbreker]

<-- use this guy every now and then. It helps, Ag3nt_Sm1th.

[Intrepid Homoludens]

[miffy495]

I agree regarding the general indecipherable sentences employed by our new friend, but I can see the point he's trying to make. I actually had quite the opposite experience with GTA:SA about a week before the stink regarding Hot Coffee. I was at my local EB and a 12 year old kid was trying to convince his mom to buy him the game. She eyed it carefully and spotted the M rating (immediately making her a better parent than most of the people who are bitching about the game) and then proceeded to ask the clerk about it.

Woman: "Excuse me, How much violence exactly is involved in this game?"

Clerk: "It's a very violent game, m'am. It's story centers around brutal gang warfare in the early 90's."

Woman: "Hmm...." *looks to her son* "I don't know..." *to the clerk again* "Is there any swearing?"

Clerk: "Yeah. Quite a bit, actually."

Woman: "Hmmmm...." *looks at the son again* "I don't know..."

This went on for about 15 minutes, and with every question she asked, the clerk gave her the answer that would make the game the LEAST appropriate thing in the store for her son. She quite obviously was uneasy with her son playing a game as adult oriented as SA, and good on her for it, too. The kicker was, though, that after all of these questions (One of which was actually: "Would you say that this game is appropriate for my son?" Answer: "No.") she still bought the game for her kid. Oh, but she did make sure that everyone in the store knew she was responsable by adding "OK. But if there's anything inappropriate in this game, I'm going to have to take it away."

These people are the problem with GTA. I don't know if Smith (Matrix or Killer 7, btw?) was denouncing the injustice of his 15 year old friend not being able to play SA, and I'd be a hypocrite for telling him that it would be wrong for him to play it, myself having played GTA3 on release when I was 15. Still, if his friend's mother was making the buying descision and was uncomfortable with the content, I applaud her bravery in saying "no" to her son. If more people would do that, the media would have a whole hell of a lot less to jump on with regards to violent gaming.

Sorry. That was longer than expected. I'm going to go now.