I thought you had to rape hookers?
I'm sure that was in the first one
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t0ria has forgotten how this all works, Wed 11 Mar 2009, 11:41,
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dont remember that
the original gta didnt deserve the 18 cert when you consider the "realism" it has today.
*excuse this rant, just typing out some ideas as they come up really*
I first played GTA when I went round to my dad's mate who was a copper, I must have been 12 or something. Ive had every one since, except the most recent.. but thats to do with financial issues and generaly being sick of sandbox games.
I gues the reason GTA has the 18 cert is because of the openess to kill/do what you want, the gore in it is pretty panto, yet the gore in somethig like call of duty world at war is fairly sick. CODwow has a 15 cert.
Theyve made a moral judgment that murder in war in more vivid terms is less 'harmfull' to younger minds than having a choice to murder in a fairly un gory fashion.
Games like COD4 and GTA play on the baser human fantasies about violence and war etc. which since time imemorial weve been expressing through stories (beowulf)through to films. Whos side are you on when you watch the Godfather? Saving Private Ryan? You side with the protagonist, you see them in terms of their circumstances, when you leave the cinema though your in your own circumstances.
This is worrying though, not least because of its sick content, because there isn't a history of culturaly glorifying this kind of thing, so it isnt something the vast majority of people can relate to? I gues its trying to play off ideas of power and control for young japanese lads that feel isolated and socialy castrated? I know theres alot of issues in Japanese youth culture? Is that a healthy thing to be exploring in this way though?
I dont think a game like this would contribute to some one turning into a rapist? (weve been discussing this kind of thing in uni in regards to a clockwork orange) But it certainly would allow some one allready on that path to push ans test and act out on their impulses?
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Jorvic, Wed 11 Mar 2009, 13:32,
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