[Discussing the online capabilities of GTA4 and then this cuy appears out of no-where...]
Clive Thompson is right on the money. GTA4 IS a lonely game. Now you got multiplayer, and realism, and massive group conciousness with its focus on kill, steal and bascially, hate. Can I help an Old Lady across the rd in the game? Can I be at the hospital to watch my wife give birth to a beautiful baby? Can I go to the park and watch the flowers open as the Sun rises and watch birds feeding their young? WHY the focus on the blood, killing and pseudo-death? you cant respawn in real life, my brothers, unless you get with Jesus in any way you can. The Eleventh hour is upon us. May your hearts know the truth. Amen.
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Y'know, watching flowers and birds kinda loses its impact in the virtual world.
Maybe that's why people don't make games out of that.
Can I help an Old Lady across the rd in the game? Can I be at the hospital to watch my wife give birth to a beautiful baby? Can I go to the park and watch the flowers open as the Sun rises and watch birds feeding their young?
Dude! You can do all those things in real life. Presumably the only place you should be killing, however, is in a video game.
Now, You don't mess with GTA. You get PWND.
PS: Rampaging with an Assault rifle while listening Humppa is an uncanny experience.
wow... so this has got to be the dumbest thing i have heard for a while... i am going to go to hell because i play GTA4?
The reason people play these games is to be entertained. Its fun.
Um, if that's the game you wanna' play, then don't play GTA4.
It really is very, very simple.
This is probably the most forgiveable quote I have read on this site. The GTA series, from what I've heard, really is over the top in terms of violence and senseless crime. Totally does not deserve a 5 on the fundie scale.
BECAUSE ITS A CALLED GRAND THEFT AUTO 4 YOU DUMB FUCK!!
Jesus Christ on a pogo stick! Of course you can't help old ladies across the street....Are people honestly this fucking retarded? Just drive your head in the sand and don't deal with it like you do with every other thing out there that isn't in the bible.
I can't help but notice no jackasses were up in arms about the Left Behind video games where you kill muslims, gays and pagans with a various assortment of weapontry.
Know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna go home and play GTA4 on my console and I'm gonna find any building that even -resembles- a church and I'm gonna give it the business.
Gah!
WHY the focus on the blood, killing and pseudo-death?
Because a video game isn't a video game if I can't blow stuff up.
Thinking back to the storyline- GTA4 did have certain points at which you could make choices, you could spare a life or take it. Hell one of the such choices you'd think Christians might be happy about, I mean with the [spoiler]
not taking revenge for a wrong committed against you (not Dimitri, the other guy who was a broken addict).[/spoiler]
Because, you can appreciate beauty in real life all you want. It is only in video game that you can freely have high speed chases, VD free hookers, and lots of gunfire that you (ideally) could not have as easily in real life. Basically, it is the same reason why there are no novels written about a person getting up for work each morning and appreciating the sunrise, and no plays entirely focused on listening to the birds chirp on an autumn afternoon. Contentment just is not entertaining, nor marketable, unless has something else tied to it. Whereas, when it comes to bloodshed, you barely need anything else!
There are no video games like that.
Video games are Freudian wish fulfillment.
Video games are the worlds where we do what we're not allowed to to make sure we don't ever actually do it.
who the fuck would play a game about watching flowers grow?
GTA 5, coming late 2009! New added features include:
- Awesome 'where the hell are my car keys?' minigame!
- Walking down the street and thinking you hear somebody call your name, so you stop and look around, but you don't see anyone you know, so you keep walking.
- New 'climate balance' technology reminds you to take a sweater with you if there's a chance it could get chilly later on!
- Over four hours of hedge trimming cinematics!
WHY the focus on the blood, killing, and pseudo-death?
If one takes out the "pseudo" infront of death, this guy could be talking about his religion....
I'll watch flowers bloom in my garden, at home, in the real world. You'll notice they have a good smell and a velvety texture--and in the context of their environment, can be much more peaceful than any single moment I spent in some ridiculous church.
But when I'm gaming, I just want kick Slash's *ss while wailing on my axe or blast the sh*t out of Nazi scum. I'd like to swing a sword and visit Aquilonia, too, but alas, I'm onna Mac.
Simple facts of life:
Why focus on killing? Cause 'Watch Your Wife Give Birth Simulator 2000X' would be a pretty horrible game... and only appeal to some really creepy fetishists. That and we can watch sun rises, feed birds, and help people across the street in our every day real lives.
We play GTA because the vast majority of us aren't ever going to be badass hardened criminals having shootouts in warehouses with other criminals and going on thrilling high-speed runs from the police and earning loads of cash for it on the way, it can be enjoyable to indulge in the fantasy once in a while. And the plots tend to be pretty good and the satire hilarious.
Also the multiplayer is just for shits and giggles.
"The Eleventh hour is upon us."
Oh shit. That means it's almost the Dark Hour. Well, I got my evoker in my holster and my trusty anti-shadow golf club by my side just in case anything happens.
... *cough*
But dood. Seriously. What the hell were you expecting with Grand Theft freaking Auto?
I don't need Jesus to 're-spawn'.
[EDIT] callahan, that's what I call
Dude, play Harvest Moon. It lets you help old ladies and watch your wife give birth and keep track of the daily growth of plants and all that stuff, and it's actually fun.
A game that played exactly like GTA but with no violence, though, would be extremely boring. Don't get me wrong, I don't like the random rampages in the first place, I prefer the actual missions and plot.
As a player of Quake IV, I must say that fisher4Christ & his ilk only serves to prove that fundies are completely detached from reality.
It's only a game .
But then, they accept a book of fairytales as fact after all.
Helping little old ladies across the street isn't half as much fun as running them over. This is exactly why GTA was made.
You can still watch the sun rise, though that's something that is much more beautiful in real life as opposed to a video game.
In real life, I can't blast someone's head clean in half with a sniper rife or run over them with a tank. In real life, I can't climb into a suit of powered armor or a fifty foot tall battlemech and stomp soldiers into paste and turn a city into a flaming hellstorm. And in real life I wouldn't anyway.
I play games to do things I wouldn't do in reality.
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