Ha Ha Ha! Luddites.

I agree with the guy, despite his tone I reckon that what he said is 100% bang on the money

You know how some people fight in line for the Xbox360 and PS3. If that happens with Grand Theft Auto IV, this game is doomed to be killed by media (Fox News with Jack Thompson ofcourse).

I hate how GTA is called 'Hyper Violent' because it's not. Just look at the Saw series, Hostel, The Hills has Eyes, etc.

This brings up another point. The Hills has Eyes had a mutant rape scene. I was so outraged and disturbed that I stopped the movie there. Why isn't there an outcry to banned this movie from every country in the world? Why isn't there new laws to banned rated R movies from minors? Because the government can't due to several laws.

Finally, someone steps in and defends their product! Good show!!! Especially like the Luddite reference. That oughta wake these douches up =D

@ kurisu7885

I agree wholeheartedly. If anything, he was restrained!

@Black Manta

Exactly what my point was, after dealing with people like Thompson, how could you not be at least a bit hostile?

I see it as a (remote) possibility of me playing GTA IV. What I will never, ever, do is watch any of the Saw films or The Hills Have Eyes or anything like that. That stuff is way worse.

I couldn't even leave the comercials for saw on, I had to change the channel. And yet I can watch anime where people are impaled (Krelin, DBZ), arms and legs ripped off (Elfen Lied), or hit in such a way that they explode five seconds later in a spray of bloddy mess (Finst of the North Star). Why? I think simply because one is animated, and the other is live action. I know that the mutant is done with make-up. I know that people didn't actually have to saw their own arms off to make the movie ("You better get it right in ONE take!"). However, because you are supposed to suspend your belief while watching those, it is more upsetting then seeing someone's throat torn out by a passing monster (Ergo Proxy) which is animated.

I've played all the violent games, and yet I'm still squeemish if my wife gets a paper cut.

Maybe they should do a study on the effects of actual art on people, stuff you can't ban. See how someone reacts to old paintings of nudes, see how someone reacts to the 1812 Overture, and even new media like measure someones brainwaves while watching Saw or Rambo or something. The current studies showing that games "illicet an emotions response" don't really show anything at all.

Frankly I agree with him 100%.
They are Luddites, in the very sense, they're hitting out at new technology which they don't understand and are in fear of. What's worse is that they do it mainly out of self-promotion rather than for any real belief in it doing good or being in the public interest.

I don't see what he's complaining about. With all the controversy over GTA4, more than any other episode, you know this one will sell the best. Sometimes I think JT is a marketing ploy from Rockstar, some dumbass they hired to boost sales. And it works. The more people attack it, the more the gamers buy it.

So far Bully is the only less-than-M-rated game Rockstar has ever released. And I don't think they would have if it weren't for the controversy. Bully proved you didn't need violence to make a great game like GTA.

So why haven't they made a sequel? Why continue with GTA when all they did for Bully was a rerelease?

Controversy sells. It's what Rockstar feeds on.

@Vake Xeacons

Maybe he's sick of being demonized and deemed a child molester by some know it all moral crusaders?

I prefer calling them neo-Luddites, but I also have to admit that it seems like Rockstar generates a lot of the controversy for the free publicity.

GTA is only controversial because of an asshole named Jack Thompson and a soon-to-be-ex-Prez-nominee whore named Hillary Clinton.

@ Vake Xeacons

I think they made an E rated Ping Pong game also.

All of the stuff in games,it's not real.That's what keeps me from not getting sick.Remember COD4's sniper mission,where you shoot that guys arm off?That was less like shooting someone's arm off and more like popping off Mr.Potato Head's arm off and squirting cherry water after it.Movies and TV shows look like the real thing,but games,you can tell they're just pixels.Gears Of War is extremely violent,yet I got squeamish when I watched the infinitely less violent Platoon,Saving Private Ryan(then again,who could hold back the vomit during the D-Day scene,eh?),and The Descent.I guess because movies look so real,and games,while they've gotten more realistic,are not as bad because there is that fine line.Oh well,it's nothing you people don't already know.

After working for years, those Xboxers fucked GTA, now they know what do they have to do with GTA V.

I know man my dad seems to think that just because I played Resident Evil on the DS (btw awesome game) that I wouldn't think "cutting someones head off" is a bad thing.

oh and btw his favorite movie is SAW, which I refues to watch, nothing more than toture porn

Please don't start console wars. This is the only site i goto where i don't hear little kids bicker about gaming systems. By the way "luddites" i love that word for now on im going to use it agiasnt hillary clinton.

I agree completely with this man. It always seems like its used in the media to scare people and devert their attention from things that really matter. Movies are violent, books are violent, and video games are violent. Why can't they just be classifyed in the same class? This is rediculous how people go so crazy over videogames. But I guess video games are truely acting as comic books did..

Rockstar games ripped PS3 owners off. GTA IV for the PS3's only have a 640p resolution, and there are several missions missing for PS3 owners as well.
On the other hand, Xbox360 owners get to experience 740p resolution along with the addition of several new missions not present in the PS3 version.
I don't think violent video games breed violent kids or people unless they're predisposed to such violence and warped thinking in the first place.
That being said, as a PS3 owner I will be avoiding anything made by Rockstar in the future.