anyway, slightly changing the subject. Dont know if anyone here watches CSI but I happened to catch it last night (CSI: Miami) and the case was one I found interesting, but also thought it seemed like it was written by that Jack Thomson (think thats his name)
anyway, the premise was that there were these kids (college students) who were mimicking a game in real life (with the 'unoffical' backing of the developer to 'promote' sales) but the thing that irritated me most about it was that the game was blatently obviously meant to be GTA. The box that they showed for it looked exactly like the GTA box except that the name on it was different, but that wasnt that noticible until they actualy said the games name. The graphics looked just like GTA, the only difference was that this game had a set 'plot' that played through chronologically where the GTA games dont really have that.
now I dont really enjoy the GTA games that much, I've played them a little but really just driving around and get bored of them quite easily, so its not like i have some super love of the game that im defending it, but the statement that the show seemed to be making was what got me. It was essentially an hour of game cause violence.
If the show was spouting utter bull shit about some company making false accusations there would be more lawsuits, faster than...actually, the show would never have aired because it would have been pulled from the season lineup before its debut. Same as if it had a 'bad stereotype' about some 'minority' group. But its ok as it was because 'video games cause violence' and everyone knows its true.
such crap.
anyway, opinions, comments. really i just felt the need to vent about it some. Dont get me wrong i enjoyed the show from an entertainment standpoint but the 'politcal' crap it was spewing just really got to me cause i know its gonna convince some people that video games really do cause violence, what about the 'great game idea' that the show gave all of our emotionaly unbalanced pscyhopaths.
-Darth Simon