Alright, I've got a question. Why is God of War, a game that is much much much more violent, has topless women and has a mini-sex-game where you have sex with two women at once rated M instead of AO? Isn't that much worse then whatâs in GTA: SA? I mean, at least in GTA: SA, you can't get to the content unless you're actively trying to.
Because in the anti-adult-oriented gaming political regime it is fashionable to attack Grand Theft Auto.
The Sims 2 thing confirms already what I suspected--this is going to daisy chain.
The way legal precedents work, is that lawyers and political affiliations refer to the original case decision as the 'pre-eminent' law...i.e., the Roe vs. Wade case allowed the formation of abortion laws because of the decisions made by the Supreme Court in that case were able to be used as a foundation to push the laws.
To simplify it's like this: now that these anti-game pigs have gotten the rating of one game to be changed to affect its distro (something they've been trying to do since Doom 1--limit the distribution rights based on content), they will now use this case to spearhead every case they bring up.
A good layman's example is this Sims 2 thing. "Well, GTA: SA had virtual nudity, sex, and explicit violence, all of which [insert game they decide to rape here] has, and this is what the ruling was with that situation." The courts and lawyers than face an issue of consistency
These ****ing law pigs don't really think about 'the game in question' like we do. THe Sims 2 is harmless and GTA is very different from the Sims as any gamer will know, it is like comparing an eighteen wheeler to a christmas ham, it just makes no damn sense whatsoever.
But GTA and Sims 2 are two of the biggest selling games of the last few years. And the law pigs understand that much better than content or context--the numbers, the big money. These ****ing people have never seen or played these games. We all know this just from the retardedness of this jump--GTA's virtual drive by's to the Sims 2's nude character models. God of War won't get noticed for quite sometime...I guarandamntee they didn't have that sex minigame in the God of War preview builds, for example. Plus God of War is not on PC, has no guns, and is only on one of the three consoles--its profit margin, while considerable, would pale in comparison to to big PC hits and triple-header titles on all the consoles. So it will be ignored, because it is "not a large threat."
It's all a big ugly ****ing shame, honestly. They're just going to go right down like, IGN's top game sales list...and blast all the big ones. And this landmark decision for GTA will force the court to sort of re-enact similar guidelines. Otherwise they will criss cross and there ends up being an all out red tape war between the games and the assailant dogs of the political regimes who want them gone.
Most ****ed up part...Leisure Suit Larry, because of its sales and the fact that the cover disguises it as a cartoon, will probably keep a low rating.
They're on a crusade to choke the industry off; they say that video games breed unhealthy living and bad habits, that the first person shooter is the progenitor of minds like those of Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, and most importantly they make themselves look like heroic crusaders while villifying a minority--the american money pig's ****ing speciality, right there. These ****ing scumbags think they're saving American youth from a lifetime of obesity, antisocial behavior, and forcibly induced psychosis.
It's all going to quickly get ugly, now that they got that first punch in on GTA. If they can do it to GTA--pretty much the biggest selling console game in recent memory, give or take a few other monster games--then it stands to reason that it will only be easier. Look at the Sims 2 thing, FFS...that was less then 48 hours after the GTA news broke. It's like the ****ing pig has had his hand on the big red SUE button and was just ITCHING to launch the subpoena....
This is going to get worse and worse for us. Gamers as a community need to
do something. Because I'll tell you that aside from GTA their primary target is one near and dear to all computer gamer's hearts...the First Person Shooter. They will tear all of them apart before long.
God...what a ridiculous world....
We have to do something about this.
Us, the people who play. This gaming industry is one of the most lucrative in the world today, people...the US Government controls all the others--Oil, Tobacco, Media--but it doesn't have this. We can't let them take it from us. Video Games are the last real free thing in this country and these dogs are trying to take this one last "uncensored" thing and stamp it into oblivion, reconverting it for their benefits.
We have to do something. We can't just sit and not do anything...God dammit, I am not going to let this sideways ****ed up country destroy another great modern art form. They've numbed us with TV, commercialized and annihilated our music industry, but they can't get this. Not from us.
For ****ing starters I am going to buy San God Damn Andreas tomorrow. I'm not even a fan, hell I might not even play it. But ****ed if I'm going to let these guys get it pulled from the shelves of eight major retailers without helping keep it alive.
And then...
...**** this. I work at the biggest newspaper company in New England now. I am an educated master of the published word, trained by people who have spread knowledge and change all over the world with their publications. There has got to be a way we can let our voices be heard, there has got to be a way we can fight back the stereotypes and change the way the world sees us. No, we're NOT fat, antisocial layabouts with no ambitions and dulled minds; we are the sharpest, we are the best and the brightest in many cases, and we are those whose minds CAN'T be numbed by the ****ing television, those who CAN'T be bought with a thousand advertisements shoved down our throat, those who need something more. We are people whose imaginations have spawned thousands of worlds, thousands of roles for us to play, and given countless hours of intellectual and grandiose fun and entertainment. In many ways we are like gods--who is to say if we are not all just pixels on someone's super-advanced video game screen? We create and we live and we observe and we love the worlds we go to. We love Mario, we love the Master Chief, we love Leon Kennedy, and god dammit we love CJ. These are characters that have been given LIFE, in the pixels and polygons on our screens. And god dammit if I'm going to let these pigs snuff out the most rapidly technologically advancing industry in all of human history's entertainment practices.
They can drag us down to their little area 51s, their hangar 18s, but god damn them straight to hell if I am going to go quietly. Video Games are the last thing keeping everyone in this country from being a tunneled out hollow shell of a human being; video games have gotten me through some of the most horrible things I have ever had to endure; video games have been there for me when Rich White America told me to go **** myself; and for 50 bucks at my local ****ing EB, I can get away from it all.
When I pick up that controller, when I put my hand on that mouse...we aren't Americans any more. We arent' Europeans, we aren't Aussies, we aren't Arabs, we aren't Jews, we aren't citizens of any of these ridiculous nations. No, we are those who surf from plain to plain of one another's imaginations--those who's thoughts are too strong to be caged in the written word, the censored film. No, I'm not a citizen of the U.S. at all when I double click my shortcut on my desktop, or when I press that X button on my PS2.
No. We're something else. We're Game Nation. And we're under attack.
I say it's high time we give them hell.