"Rockstar Denials Proved False, not Third Party Hack"

[LazerTag]

I'm not a total prude about such things, but I would be irate if I expected a game simply to be another shooter and then find one of my kids gets to watch some porn to boot. Not that it's even cited as being that explicit, but even if my oldest (9yr old) "knows" what boys and girls do (which I don't believe he does as girls still have cooties and are gross) I would bet any money he has no idea about some of the "positions" represented in this thing.

Gamespot article (http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/07/15/news_6129301.html)

Penny Arcades insight into this (http://www.penny-arcade.com/news.php?date=2005-07-20)

PA comic (http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php?date=2005-07-20&res=l)

another related article (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24775)

[retroK]

It's your responsability what your kids do with their computer.
And your 9 year old kid should never play anything like GTA - with or without "porn".

[LazerTag]

It's your responsability what your kids do with their computer.
And your 9 year old kid should never play anything like GTA - with or without "porn".

So it's my responsibility to know that this game company hid something like that in the game before I buy it?

And for the record I would NEVER let my kids play a game like that and I don't. I simply used that as a hypothetical situation. The worse they ever get is Star Wars related stuff.

Maybe I should learn how to hack code then so I can make sure there are no naked images of Lea or Padme huh?

[Jesterhead]

hmm, what is better, violence or sex???

I don´t think that in a Mario-Game is a hidden sex-scene...

So this is a little bit strange for me, why everyone shoot with everything on Rockstar games, they left a scene in the game, someone hacked it, whats the problem???

I don´t think a 9 year old Kid can do that...

[blizz]

Kids shouldn't play the game anyway. "Hey my girlfriend wants me to do a drive by"...ffs what sort of parent buys a GTA game for their kid?

Teens who are too scared to go into their newsagent and buy playboy will get kicks out of it. Everyone else just laughs and moves on.

[Jaz]

Everyone else just laughs and moves on.

Which is exactly the point that everyone is missing. :huh:

[Jesterhead]

No, the point that everyone is missing :

Violence seems to be ok to kids (well, someone should ask Hillary C. if she knows what happend at the Columbine Highschool....), but porn not, that a little bit funny....:yucky:

[Malcolm]

Yeah, I think its pretty bad when families react like this:
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~ What the average family probably goes through. ~
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Father to Mother: I bought Jimmy a new game today at Besy Buy.
Mother: Really, is it another one of those shoot-um-up games?
Father: Yeah, but this one has missions and stuff; he has to act like some sort of criminal who steals cars, kills people and does other stuff for money.
Mother: Do you think that's okey for Jimmy? You know he's only 13 and he's having problems in school.
Father: Well he needs a reward for not skipping anymore!
Mother: *sigh*

(After Jimmy unlocks the porn)

Mother: WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING? Giving Jimmy a game with nude girls?
* Father gets his shit together to sleep on couch.
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I work part time @ an EB and we're already had alot of pissed-to-shit (very angry) fathers coming in with this kinda story.

The mothers just yell at you for selling them (the parrents that is) a game with this shit in it.

I just laugh at the parrents and tell them to phone RockStar because we ain't giving refunds :)

[Doomulation]

Kids shouldn't play the game anyway. "Hey my girlfriend wants me to do a drive by"...ffs what sort of parent buys a GTA game for their kid?
Well, many. And that's the story of our world...
Sad, isn't it?

[DuDe]

A bunch of polygons are engaging in a simulated intercourse with other polygons, STOP THE PRESSES.

[gokuss4]

Which is exactly the point that everyone is missing. :huh:

roflmao, so true. dont know why i cracked up at that, but tis so true.

[WhiteX]

It is a shame that most parent instead of giving an education that makes this sort of game laughable and enjoyable goes on bashing the software companies and blame them for the misleadings their kids go for not havin love, education and limits back home, really sad and disturbing.

[otomo]

A bunch of polygons are engaging in a simulated intercourse with other polygons, STOP THE PRESSES.

well, there was some sort of beauty contest for cg...what?....gals can they be called?.

that`s called double moral.

that`s what society is coming to.

[WhiteX]

Yes, Master, Smeagol likess to sssee CG galss ssstripping...
Smeagol is naughty.:P

One thing is to enjoy as many forms of entertainment as we (sorta) legally can, one entirely different thing is to freak out on a game that is rated to grown ups only, because some kids have access to it.
Otomo dude, it is not about double moral it is about education instead of censorship,
love and rules against hatred and opression, if this kind of vision keeps on going, we will be all emulating all kinds of "Barney" games in the next years.
I am a free man in a free world, i am entitled the right to choose what is entertaining to me and i honestly do no care if it is unffitting to kids because their PARENTS are supposed to be there to teach them that.

[tye stik]

I dont understand when ppl bitch about violence and indecency in video games and movies. I was brought up in an unrestricted enviroment, I watched violent, 'R' rated films and played violent video games since i was in diapers in pant shitting glory. I found my dads stash of porno by the time I was 10.

ABSOLUTLEY NONE of these things have effected me in anyway. I enjoy entertainment, but when the TV is turned off, it dosent somehow make me do things i otherwise wouldnt. Watching a zombie explode into a million pieces with swat teams filling the air with hot lead and seeing Suzy Slut munch on a wang isnt gonna make me bring a gun to school, or whatever ludicris ideas you 'good parents' have as to how it will effect a kid. I think when a kid is making bad choices, whatever the choices may be, ppl look for someone/thing to blame. If you cant distinguish between real life and fantasy then your a screwy rabbit and you need a perscription.

Oh yeah, this was about the polyogon porn on GTA wasnt it? Well, we all learned the birds and the bees sooner or later right? Honestly, it wont be too long until little Tommy finds the mags under your bed anyway... he isnt gonna be irreversably preversed... hes gonna turn out like any other guy born after the Playboy revolution. Horny.

[dukenukem]

I don't see the big deal,there arebq quite a few parents who are dumb enough to buy pporn for their underaged kid without looking at who it's rated for the same way parents do i with games.Tye stik i love your saying with this "seeing Suzy Slut munch on a wang" best stuff i have read in this topic made me laugh a bunch:).

[jdsony]

THe whole nudity things is stupid but what bothers me just is much is the fact that the game DOESN'T allow you to access the sex scenes without a hack which I would consider not being part of the game. Anyone could make a sex addon and post it online and you would have to download that to make it work. So just buying the game and playing it through would not constitute giving the game a higher rating...downloading something to unlock something else in the game goes beyond the games original content.

My Xbox contains electronics that could potentially make a bomb if I attached some explosives. Should Microsoft be punished if someone releases plans on how to turn your Xbox into a bomb?

[euphoria]

But the good thing is that increasing amount of parents nowdays play/have played themselves and know what kind of stuff is out there. Majority of parents a decade ago had no idea of how violent the games could be. At least now we're having parents who know and are capable of making decisions what to allow their kids to play.

[smegforbrain]

And the violence has not only increased, sales of such games have increased as well.

Let's face it: this country is so hypocritical about sex and violence.

There were two attempted assassinations on Reagan, but people love to bring up Clinton getting head instead.

Besides, the game already had a mature rating. If a parent can't figure out that a mature rating means the game isn't for kids, then the parents are the ones who should be hauled away, not the game makers.

[ScottJC]

I think this is relevant but it is a few days old :P
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/050725.jpg

[tye stik]

This post is a little old, but I found a good article on the subject......

<u>Click Here</u> or I'll shoot you for some reason like I would do in video games (http://economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=4246109)

[2fast4u]

i found this (http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=ticket_to_hell) very amusing on the subject.


I just wanted a video game, not eternal damnation in hell.

[tye stik]

Originally posted by <b>tye stik</b>
And so, with quiet reverence and pandas, it ventured in trench spider, shitting aimlessley in the vastness of the void.

Yes. I dont know either.