Will The GTA Backwash affect The Warriors???

[Marlboroprojects]

As most of you already know, Rockstar Games has come under assault recently with Hillary Clinton leading the charge under the pretense that all the world's evils are caused by video games.

GTA: San Andreas has been pulled from shelves everywhere, and a friend of mine who is a manager at Gamestop/Babbages told me that he had to give a report to his district manager on how many copies he pulled off the shelf and must make a daily accounting to ensure that they are all still in the back and none have been sold since. All this stemming from the fact that some internet genius with far too much time on his hands figured out a way to download a code that supposedly unlocks a sex scene. Upon learning this, a 70 year old Grandma who bought the game for her 13 year old grandson got offended and is sueing Rockstar for unspecified damages. Never mind the game is rated for ages 17 & up and she bought it for a 13 year old, I guess that is Rockstar's fault.

And just last week, Rockstars upcoming game Bully came under fire from the Hillary camp and the public morals patrols for "having a plot too close to the tragedy of Columbine HS". They are demanding Rockstar "cease & desist" production on this and other "mindlessly violent" games.

So, I ask you: how long do you think it will be before "The Warriors" is targeted by Hillary's "Cleaner, Brighter America" campaign?

[E-Man]

...Bully is T rated! Let's just ban mario becomes he gets high off Shrooms and captures dinosaurs agaisnt there wills while we're at it, and ban super monkey ball cause it has the word "ball" in it and is close to the words "balls".

I think she'll comment on the warriors, but not stop it. It's movie based, unlike GTA, Bully, Manhunt, etc...
I think it's more of a " This person did it in real life, in a game based on real life" thing. Shadow of Rome had crap-loads of violence, same with God of War. But they wernt really mentioned i guess because Shadow of Rome is based on historical events, and is true at some points. and God of War is based off of myths. And after letting GTA go with chainsaws, running people over, and katanas. I think warriors can slip a few knives, shovels, and baseball bats : ).
And one question.. how come Conker and Lesiure Suit Larry wernt targeted..?

[Love me! LOVE DOPEFISH!]

Bully was obviously not meant for people still in school, or at least for people before like Junior year. :/

I was kinda wondering on the Leisure Suit Larry issue myself, but I realized, I'm fairly certain LSL isn't sold on store shelves. At least I have never once seen LSL on a store shelf, except maybe from a vendor at a convention.

[E-Man]

Really? I was just assuming it was on shelves becasue at my video stores they have it out for rent.

[Love me! LOVE DOPEFISH!]

Huh. Maybe some places do stock it. It's just you usually only see it on-shelf in small little dives and oft-neglected old computer/software stores. Yeah, I remember seeing Leisure Suit Larry at a place that closed down when I was 8.

[warriorchick]

i'll give it a week before the 'mental health nazis' come down on it. after all, the american public must be protected because we can't think for ourselves

[The Fox]

I actually went and shot 4 people in my home town after playing Grand Theft Auto for the first time and after playing the Warriors i'm gonna kill a load more

[Love me! LOVE DOPEFISH!]

Yeah, I played GTA, then I went outside and got me some heavy weaponry, and fired it into traffic several times. Then the police started chasing me. I fended 'em off and killed like twenty, but then the SWAT teams shot me to death. Luckily, I woke up in the hospital.

So now I learned my lesson. Instead I'm going to go play the Warriors, then I'll get myself and a couple of friends together, and we'll go downtown and beat up those skinhead guys, and deliver a good old fashioned beatdown to some of those latino gangs across town. :/ You know, the ones that are loaded.

But instead I played Bully, so, hey, I'm gonna go beat up kids at school and RULE THAT SCHOOL YEAAAAH. Nevermind that so many of the students there are martial artists, workers, or fighters of some sort. :/

Thank you, Hillary Clinton and Jack Thompson! Without you, too many would be dead in my wake! 8D


(Sorry about off-topicness, but I had to expand on what Jamie said.)

[warriorchick]

i do know what you mean......it used to be the road runner/coyote cartoons that made me want to go out and bash people's heads in with big rocks!!

[Baseball_Fury]

This has got to be the dumbest thing.. Or one of them that's be done towards trying to 'contain' violence.

Who in their right mind would actually go out and run a cop over with a Escalade because they did it with C.J [GTA: San Andreas Main Character]? Who would kill the biggest drug dealer in their town and take it over like they did with Tommy Vercetti? This is moronic really.

With everything going on within the United States.. They're trying to ban VIDEO GAMES. Nothing but Computer Generated graphics on a damn television!? This is as bad or even worse then when they tried to place the blame on Eminem for 'School Violence'.

The moral of the story is that only kids who are clinically retarded would listen to what someone says. Oh, I listen to rap so I'm going to go out, get shot nine times, sell Coke and kill a cop! These politicians should really focus on taking care of problems that are hitting hard at home instead of rocking video games.

The Warriors ARE going to get blasted. I guarantee it. Just as 25 to Life is going to get blasted for "killing authorities". I hope The Warriors get blasted though. I hope it does so The Warriors can take the top prize in ALL of the media as being a "violent game" and more people buy it.

You know what they say right? Bad publicity is better than no publicity.

[SoldierHeavyMuscle]

i don't really care if it catches flack, or not! as long as it's not delayed, or doesn't not come out at all! this, and the new madden were the only games i was REALLY looking forward to this year! and i'm gonna be pissed if this messes with the warriors, at all!!!

[Harley]

You will get a lot of these "safety" groups throwing this scientific research crap at you. Like this one study that monitored kids brains as they played violent video games and said that there was a change in brain activity. Of course there's a change in brain activity, the kids were reacting to the game the same way anybody else does. It's only relevant because it was kids playing a game that was violent, you could probably get the same results having a grown man watch football. Groups like that love to bend information to suite their needs.

[The Fox]

The thing that makes me want to get violent is do-gooders.

They are now going to change the word "Fail" to "Referred Pass".

What is wrong with these people? I think Rockstar should invent a game in which you can go around attacking do-gooders and plough through demonstrators in a tank etc.

You listening Rockstar?

[PunkRockWarrior62]

Oh my god, this is ridiculous. It's not up to the government to decide what's right for our families, it's the parent's decision. Personally, I'm thinking about renting Bully, but I'm not gonna go terrorize some little kids on a playground as a result of playing the game. And I'm sure as hell not gonna start running with a gang just because I'm gonna play the Warriors.

ps-Jamie, sorry bout the swearing.

[GonzoNYC]

It's all about government taking responsibility out of the parents hands. These do-gooders piss me off as well. I played a lot of violent games and watched a lot of violent horror movies when I was young but my parents didn't raise a fool. I know reality from fantasy. If your son or daughter acts out the violence in these games/movies.. guess what parents?...you raised a class A moron!