Since you obviously can't get enough Grand Theft Auto IV in your diet (even at a computer site technically devoted to PC-specific news) how about an extended interview with Rockstar guru Dan Houser courtesy Variety.com? Ben Fritz has the scoop, and it's pretty good, insightful stuff, including this bit in which Houser very politely slaps the business angle of his industry:
A lot of our competitors in the game sphere ? all they want to talk about is business. Because they have creative guys making the games but they run it like, ?how can we compete?? We want to kill that stuff in some ways. We want to have very successful launches. We?ve had successful launches before but our angle is always creativity.
The full interview's available here.
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and thats why we all like rockstar, because EA HASNT yet gotten their hands on it! the creativity is still there.
Instead of parents worrying about how violent a game is, they should start taking notice of what their kids are doing. Despite the Mature rating on the game, parents will still be going out and buying it for their kids. All the while complaining that their kids should not be playing it.
Parents and society need to stop trying to blame everyone else, step up and actually do something instead of just talking about it.
Stores are not suppose to sell alcohol and tobacco products to under aged people. The same applies to these games, but you don't see parents getting all worked up about that?
I am pretty sure my kids know the difference between reality and a game. If I didn't want them to play a game I wouldn't buy it for them. This whole idea that my neighbor should be allowed to tell me what to do with my own kids is against the American way of life. Maybe their kids ARE idiots. They must be if their parents are watching Fox News and expecting to get anything other than biased garbage. Stupid parents produce stupid kids.