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[Three]

There was something similar in GTAV where you get drugged by someone in a trailer in the middle of the desert. Not sure if you are raped or they steal your organs though.

 

[Vawn]

So did the OP go back and kill the raper?

Well, I did. He ran inside and locked the door. Arthur started yelling stuff like, "You better run amigo!" and "Oh, you're dead friend".

Dude was shouting from inside "Go away! I don't want you no more."

I tried burning him inside, but the house wouldn't burn down. So, I had to settle for kicking the door down and shooting him in the back of the head when he tried to run.

Looking at his disgusting bed and picturing what went down there was pretty creepy.

 

[Ceadeus]

Imagine if the player had the choice of Gender. Would have never been accepted!

 

[off duty ninja]

Those categories don't include things like this. There is a separate category of Sexual Violence but when you hide it in the game to randomly spring on players apparently the ESRB doesn't find it.

While I disagree with it being an issue in the game and am probably going to go find this cabin tonight I do agree that it should be more clearly labeled as part of the rating system. I'm not much for trigger warnings generally but clearly listing the contents of a game is just a responsible thing to do.

 

[CloudStrife_ca]

Well, I did. He ran inside and locked the door. Arthur started yelling stuff like, "You better run amigo!" and "Oh, you're dead friend".

Dude was shouting from inside "Go away! I don't want you no more."

I tried burning him inside, but the house wouldn't burn down. So, I had to settle for kicking the door down and shooting him in the back of the head when he tried to run.

Looking at his disgusting bed and picturing what went down there was pretty creepy.

Sounds like he got what he deserved. I'm gonna go there tonight and beat him, then take him to the railroad tracks, hogtied.

 

[prinz_valium]

So you can actually rape someone in the game, but there is a stupid ass profanity filter for horses...

WTF

 

[HotPocket69]

Most of them enjoyed it....Austin Walker chose to pussy out and look the other way though.

I mean is that really so surprising though? The guy is completely worthless.

Lemme guess, his balls dropped off and he decided to boycott it because of how hard Rockstar employees worked to create the most believable game world ever?

 

[hymanator]

Found a video of the scene in question:

Spoiler: video link

 

[E.T. Waifu]

Now THAT is fucked up omg.

 

[Zenaku]

I've let a guy I work with know where to find the cabin, and told him he can find a good shotgun with a ton of ammo there.

I'll report back how he gets on.

 

[Imtjnotu]

Despicable how men are treated as objects in this game. Like they are just some piece of meat to be used Sexually

 

[wolgoen]

Can you name your horse Rape?

 

[base]

Did you like it?

 

[Silent Duck]

Did you like it?

Did he like it? What? That's it!
Now I'm Triple Triggered!

 

[DryvBy]

Well, I did. He ran inside and locked the door. Arthur started yelling stuff like, "You better run amigo!" and "Oh, you're dead friend".

Dude was shouting from inside "Go away! I don't want you no more."

I tried burning him inside, but the house wouldn't burn down. So, I had to settle for kicking the door down and shooting him in the back of the head when he tried to run.

Looking at his disgusting bed and picturing what went down there was pretty creepy.

This is freaking amazing and dark. Like, the level of detail is just mind blowing. What other games have this attention to detail?

 

[Bryank75]

Let Era know so their members can enjoy it.

 

[Vawn]

Let Era know so their members can enjoy it.

They'll be fine. Just like you can't be racist to a white person, you can't rape a man.

 

[Dice]

Look, I'm not saying that anyone here is incapable of engaging with the topic in significant depth or nuance, but if you don't want to (and that is fine, you don't have to), don't blame the length of my posts for your lack of willingness to put in the effort. I was dismissed on three different false presumptions and so I clarified the nature of my position against those. If you didn't want to hear what I think, at least realize that you didn't have to get in my face in the first place. I'm not saying that anyone can't enjoy what I don't.

 

[REDRZA MWS]

Nothing to do with sexism or anything, just find it extremely hard to believe a wild west gunslinger and outlaw would ever let it happen. He'd be killed first.

 

[Elcid]

I just wanna know. Can you kill him before he rapes or you have to get raped to kill him?

 

[captainraincoat]

I came across a guy giving verbal foreplay to his horse.....the voice actor I'm convinced was Stephen ogg (trevor from gta)

You dont actually see horse intercourse but it's pretty clear he wanted to lay lay the nay nay

 

[avalonzero]

Would you be interested in advocating the viability of historical accuracy to a rape victim who experiences this scene?

If we're going to take it there, then what about people that experienced a gunshot or have been held up at gun point? Is it wrong to depict gun violence now because it may trigger bad memories from those individuals? Is it not okay to depict rape and violence in film? Where exactly is the line here for these kinds of things in gaming as opposed to other forms of art and entertainment?

 

[Vawn]

Nothing to do with sexism or anything, just find it extremely hard to believe a wild west gunslinger and outlaw would ever let it happen. He'd be killed first.

They're outlaws, not ninjas. Outlaws are not above getting jumped from behind and knocked out.

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

I've let a guy I work with know where to find the cabin, and told him he can find a good shotgun with a ton of ammo there.

I'll report back how he gets on.

 

[Snoopycat]

If the protag was female and she got raped, Era and their ilk would be up in arms about it, ready to doxx the Rockstar devs responsible. But since it's gay male rape, it's all good; it's "progressive". The double standards these people condone destroys any pretension to credibility they might have. The same people that wanted to demonize asking a girl for her number as sexual harassment, were the ones laughing at Terry Crews when he spoke up about some asshole groping him.

"If the protag was female and she got raped, Era and their ilk would be up in arms about it, ready to doxx the Rockstar devs responsible"

Why would they be outraged about a woman getting raped? If the protag was a female and she took revenge on her attacker that would show her as being a strong character. It's a pretty standard trope.

"But since it's gay male rape, it's all good; it's "progressive".

Can you show any examples at all where Era and their ilk have claimed male rape is "progressive"? Go on, just link one post on Era where someone has said that.

"The double standards these people condone destroys any pretension to credibility they might have."

What double standards? The double standards in your strawman fantasy? Again give us one example of "Era and their ilk" condoning rape.

"The same people that wanted to demonize asking a girl for her number as sexual harassment, were the ones laughing at Terry Crews when he spoke up about some asshole groping him."

God knows what this has to do with RDR2 but again, provide examples of "Era and their ilk" demonizing someone for asking for a phone number while laughing at Terry Crewes.

 

[Solarstrike]

Unplugging my Ethernet cord from my XB1X before the PC movement turns it into a fiasco and Rockstar is forced to remove it

 

[NickFire]

"If the protag was female and she got raped, Era and their ilk would be up in arms about it, ready to doxx the Rockstar devs responsible"

Why would they be outraged about a woman getting raped? If the protag was a female and she took revenge on her attacker that would show her as being a strong character. It's a pretty standard trope.

Did you mean to add an /s to this particular claim?

 

[CrustyBritches]

It would have been more fitting for the rape cabin to have been DLC.

 

[Blam]

I've let a guy I work with know where to find the cabin, and told him he can find a good shotgun with a ton of ammo there.

I'll report back how he gets on.

Haha this is gonna be good. Keep us posted.

 

[Kdad]

I don't have the game so can't check it out.... does he admit to 'rape' or is this an assumption (you mentioned hearing a zipper and groaning but blacking out)....maybe he was just watching some porn and you had food poisoning. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[stranno]

Found a video of the scene in question:

Thank god Rockstar is so political correctness nowdays. In other time we could expect a Hot Coffee hack for that scene..

 

[Torrent of Pork]

Would you be interested in advocating the viability of historical accuracy to a rape victim who experiences this scene?

So what you're saying is that no form of entertainment made for adults can ever use rape as a plot device ever again? Or are you trying to imply that videogames are too low-brow a form of media to tackle the issue of rape, as if videogames can never move beyond the narrative impact of slap-stick comedy?

 

[Torrent of Pork]

Are you guys happy you're getting more LGBT representation in games now?

Why don't we get any good old-fashioned gay villains anymore? Baron Vladimir Harkonen was a fucking badass in the Dune prequel-verse.

 

[Gander]

Never remain in the presence of someone who says you have pretty mouth.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

Sony needs to protect the kids though

Sony can't pull that shit with Rockstar.

 

[Sannakji]

Unplugging my Ethernet cord from my XB1X before the PC movement turns it into a fiasco and Rockstar is forced to remove it

Oddly protective of your right to have your playable character raped aren't we?

 

[Breakage]

Strange. I doubt they would suggest your character had just been raped if the protagonist were a woman.
Perhaps they are having a pop at "toxic masculinity" and straight men?
You just never know these days.

 

[PleaseDontBanMe]

Is this real or a troll thread?


If its real then it sucks that ppl who've experienced that IRL may be exposed to that but then again this is also a video game where you can do just about every violent act imaginable.

Where do we draw the line on what type of acts are acceptable/unacceptable?


I dont have the answers to that questiom but in todays climate what you described, if true was probably a bad idea and very bold of them to do

 

[REDRZA MWS]

They're outlaws, not ninjas. Outlaws are not above getting jumped from behind and knocked out.

Not simply an Outlaw, a murdering, armed robbing, gun slinging outlaw. Pretty sure he would kill and die before that happened.

 

[Dice]

So...

If we're going to take it there, then what about people that experienced a gunshot or have been held up at gun point? Is it wrong to depict gun violence now because it may trigger bad memories from those individuals? Is it not okay to depict rape and violence in film? Where exactly is the line here for these kinds of things in gaming as opposed to other forms of art and entertainment?

So what you're saying is that no form of entertainment made for adults can ever use rape as a plot device ever again? Or are you trying to imply that videogames are too low-brow a form of media to tackle the issue of rape, as if videogames can never move beyond the narrative impact of slap-stick comedy?

I already addressed these. I will not be responding to repeated queries just because people decided to challenge their perception of what I was saying before reading the rest of the thread.

 

[Ar¢tos]

Such a shit storm over nothing. The rape is in the players minds, if there is any. Guy gets hit in the head, hears noises and then wakes up fully dressed, as he was before, not complaining of any ass pain or discomfort. All these pointless discussions over nothing.

 

[ReBurn]

Did game journos even play this game? Seems like they would have ran into this.

Like they actually play games.

 

[Snoopycat]

Did you mean to add an /s to this particular claim?

No. Which part are you struggling with?

 

[Beerman462]

So what you're saying is that no form of entertainment made for adults can ever use rape as a plot device ever again? Or are you trying to imply that videogames are too low-brow a form of media to tackle the issue of rape, as if videogames can never move beyond the narrative impact of slap-stick comedy?

Not siding with that poster, but it's not like random encounter in RDR2 is "tackling" the issue of rape in any meaningful way. It's just your charecter geting raped and thats it.

 

[Vawn]

Not simply an Outlaw, a murdering, armed robbing, gun slinging outlaw. Pretty sure he would kill and die before that happened.

I don't understand your point. He's not a superhero. Dude knocked him in the back of the head. Being a "murdering, armed robbing, gun slinging outlaw" does not make him invincible, otherwise all those other outlaws you kill wouldn't have been able to have been taken out.

 

[ReBurn]

I don't understand your point. He's not a superhero. Dude knocked him in the back of the head. Being a "murdering, armed robbing, gun slinging outlaw" does not make him invincible, otherwise all those other outlaws you kill wouldn't have been able to have been taken out.

It is possible that you are overthinking this.

 

[Mochilador]

Surprise butt sex.

 

[REDRZA MWS]

I don't understand your point. He's not a superhero. Dude knocked him in the back of the head. Being a "murdering, armed robbing, gun slinging outlaw" does not make him invincible, otherwise all those other outlaws you kill wouldn't have been able to have been taken out.

You really think a hillbilly in a shack is gonna get the jump on a wild west gunslinging murdering outlaw? I dont think so. Those type of badasess would never be in that position.

My guess is R* punished the user for making that exact dumb mistake, putting yourself in a stupid position.

 

[Strife In a Teacup]

Lol, I rode up to him straight up before anything went down and tried to lasso him straight off his porch. He insta-teleported into his house. Started yelling at me. Reloading my save, time to try this another way.

 

[Lionel Richie]

Wheres the outrage from the SJWs? Oh.. it happened to a man so no one gives a fuck.

You lack imagination friend. I'm not going to follow this much because I don't want to risk spoilers, but someone somewhere is probably already speculating that Rockstar did this as a mean of stirring the hypocrisy pot. Expect lots of bans for "arguing in bad faith" and "false equivalence" and shit.