Brutalitops
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No, I don't think there's such a thing as too far in a video game. In the end, it's always pixels on a screen.
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Does/Will GTAV's 1st-person mode make its violence too much for you? *GRAPHIC GIF*
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SolidSnakex
Member
Where's the gif of the woman that starts powerwalking when she sees Michael standing with an axe?
wanderingprostheyltite
Member
They happen to be closest. Just before this, he was killing guys with a crowbar.
Is it bad that the overt violence doesn't arrest my attention as much as that dude's gut? Next gen tummies!
They happen to be closest. Just before this, he was killing guys with a crowbar.
Damn and we were so close to derailing this thread with outrage.
Third person... first person... makes no difference to me.
friskykillface
Banned
can see this make the news this week, here we go again
can i do first person parachuting online?
can i do first person parachuting online?
I mean, it does make it a little more different for me. A bit more personal. But that's it. Not too different.
Cold blooded killing is why I'm terrible at Grand Theft Auto. I can't do it, in this or any game. I'll mug someone, or steal their car...but this...nah, just nah.
I hope I never accidentally activate first person mode if I do get GTAV.
93xfan
Banned
100% in agreement. This is not a good thing for kids to be playing.
dapperbandit
Banned
Anybody got 1st person gifs for the police baton?
God damn the animation for that made it hilarious to use.
God damn the animation for that made it hilarious to use.
wanderingprostheyltite
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Jawbreaker
Member
Nah, it's a video game. I can do the most brutal, fucked up, violent shit in games and separate it from reality easily. It doesn't desensitize me to violent acts in real life, either. I remember some people being uncomfortable with God of War 3 (especially the beheading), so I can see how it might be the same case here in a more realistic setting, being first-person.
I don't understand, why is he making her head steer the car?
You're walking down the street killing people. That's not realistic because you just wouldn't do it.
However, you're doing it, and you know you're doing it. Kids shouldn't have been playing these games in 2001 and they shouldn't be playing them now. But they were and they are, and their popularity alongside our support ensures that they'll keep playing them for some time.
We can't suddenly say "Oh that's too much." like we expected them to sanitize this. Detail is inevitable as hardware increases. It's either we want to keep killing people or we don't. Jack Thompson would be laughing his ass off at this thread.
Lord of Castamere
Member
That splatter and blood pool is for real nice though.
Leafhopper
Banned
Uh..well you see... She is really helpful!
TheVampire
Banned
Ehhhh Postal 2 was way more violent with its first person view.
And why does everyone treat first person mode as some huge thing?
It was modded into GTA4 (pc) years ago.
And why does everyone treat first person mode as some huge thing?
It was modded into GTA4 (pc) years ago.
KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
So you're fine with the game "RapeLay" existing?
There's a rape game defense force here, don't call them out please.
Brutalitops
Banned
Yes. I need to stress that doesn't mean I want to play it.
I know its impossible to know these things because there are so many copies of GTA game around, but I remember Stephen King pulled one of his lesser known books from the 70s which was about a school shooting from the killers perspective, because it had a pattern of showing up in book collections of school shooters.
Not to derail but what's the idea behind the name anyway?
I can tell it's trying to be a pun or a witty combination of something but it's beyond me. I'd say rape play, but with the capital L it seems too much like you read it with clear distinction as rape lay.
maneil99
Member
please be joking
MvmntInGrn
Member
With proper animations though? I remember seeing some video of GTAIV in first person but I think its quite a bit different when the game is actually updated with it in mind.
Brutalitops
Banned
Try saying "Rape Play" out loud. The two Ps so close together make it sound weird
corrosivefrost
Member
I've put over 400 hours into Payday 2 -- I don't think robbing a bodega in first-person view is going to be much of a jump for me.
I was wondering if they had those scenes in first person.Question answered.
IdreamofHIME
Member
I mean, it does make it a little more different for me. A bit more personal. But that's it. Not too different.
That gif is brutal, wow.
Technically, no, it's not. Other FPS's you are fighting people who are fighting back. You are in the mode that they deserved it or that you had to kill them. In GTA you can easily shoot some random innocent just for being there. In third person it wasn't as personal when you did it (Though I still managed to freak out my mom with that. IN general she was actually mostly amused with GTA except for when I snuck around and stabbed people, that had her disturbed).
I'm not sure how much more disturbing it is in first person vs. third but I admit stabbing that woman in the front really did feel like it made it a murder simulator. I do think it does make it feel more personal/intimate/like you are that character.
Oh yeah, I get it now.
Carry on.
Is "being in my way" enough of a justified motivation to kill a whole city? Cause that's my main driving factor in GTA for doing what I do.
Andronicus
Banned
corrosivefrost
Member
You can certainly murder "innocent" civilians in PAYDAY2. Hell, it's common practice that whoever is covering the tellers in the bank heists flat out murders them to prevent them from pressing the panic button.
Infernal Monkey
Member
Leafhopper
Banned
Easily.
SolidSnakex
Member
Elections are over, so they have no reason to pretend to care about it.
Sure they do. TV gotta get them views.
ChoklitCow
Member
I think it will be interesting to see if it impacts my actions just like first-person car driving does.
Was watching a stream of Trevor earlier and I forgot how uncomfortable he made me. So well written.
Was watching a stream of Trevor earlier and I forgot how uncomfortable he made me. So well written.
ambientric
Banned
I think it is the minutiae of the world which makes it feel shocking. The incidental detail elements which without even noticing remind you of any convenience store you have ever been in.
The violence might have been repeated ad nauseum in countless fps previously, but not within a world which so closely mimics our own daily existence.
The violence might have been repeated ad nauseum in countless fps previously, but not within a world which so closely mimics our own daily existence.
wanderingprostheyltite
Member
Maybe, but I don't think sex/vidya games are nearly the hot button issue they were back in the days of Hot Coffee. People's attention spans are so fucking small these days with the glut of shit pushed through social media, this will seem like a blip on people's feeds compared to how things were dragged out back then.
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