"Daichi" wrote:Look, I'm not one of those retards who whine about video games fostering violent behaviour.
As I mentioned, I'm sympathetic to much of GTA's criticism.
GTA is just a means for middle-aged men and teenage boys with no girlfriends to pretend that they're big bad criminals banging hookers and speeding around in hot cars.
To me, that's the beauty of it, it's so over the top juvenile, gutteral, amoral and all around depraved, it's impossible to take seriously. Like you said, it's laughable.
If it weren't bad enough, parents who are too retarded to be able to figure out the easy-read ESRB rating system, which is hardly a code as it screams "M FOR MATURE" on the front freakin' cover, buy this crap for their little kids. And they're so stupid, the fact that they get ASKED FOR THEIR ID when they buy it isn't a little bit of a tip-off for them!!

So it ain't the material in question so much as the whiny parent groups who want big daddy guv'mint to tell them what to get for their kids, understood, my friend.
Video game companies want business from both parents/kids and cases of arrested development like my friends. They bend over backwards to accomodate both, but sheesh, some of these parents think the latter audience doesn't even exist. Just like those dense heads who get in a tizzy because some comic books and cartoons aren't kid friendly.