Geez

[Specter 0]

I just saw the ad on the news page for '25 To Life', represent your 'hood online.

Great.

Just what we need. A game based on gang-banging and killing cops and innocents.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I grew up in Denver during the gang-bang revolution, and I just don't see the need for a game like this, and frankly, I'm surprised it's being advertised here.

What, the game devs lose their imagination or what?

[Dan 0]

it sells, look at the GTA series, True Crime-Streets of LA, all that.

[Specter 0]

I know.

It's just that gang-banging hits a particularly raw nerv with me, since it's mostly about kids killing kids, and kids killing or hurting just about anyone who gets in there way.

I remember a guy back home getting killed for wearing blue scrubs(he worked at a hospital), just because he was wearing the wrong color. By a 15 year old kid no less.

I remeber them also doing all kinds of stupid ###### like killing people for flashing your headlights at them to tell them they'd forgotten to turn theirs on. The thing was, they left them off on purpose to get you to flash them.

I remember having to carry a gun to work, and for that matter, even to the shopping mall becuase the bangers thought it fun to rob you at stoplights, and to go after people in the shopping mall. The killer thing was, most of these gun toting kids weren't even old enough to drive.

The Aurora Mall, in Aurora, CO where I used to live, finally ended up putting a police sub-station with a SWAT team in it at the mall.

Because of teenagers who weren't even old enough to get a driver's license.

Games like GTA aren't based on what is a traditionally early teen to late teen criminal activity. For the most part, they are based on adult criminals.

I know crime is crime, but it just really bothers me when they make games out of teenage criminal activities.

Your typical car thief doesn't want to kill anyone, and doesn't do it on a wholesale basis. Your typical robber doesn't either for that matter. But gang-banging is pretty much all about killing, most of it with no rhyme or reason at all, except to prove to someone how big and bad you think you are. It doesn't really get you anything, no real rewards, except maybe a body bag before you are 20.

And to make a game out of that is totally tasteless, and generally as stupid as gang-banging itself. And to glorify something like gang-banging by making a game out if it, is downright wrong.

I know all crime is wrong, and the same can be said about games with other crime in it, but those games usually have the player as the righteous guy, so it sends a different type of message than one that allows you to be the banger.

[Colin 0]

A lot of Games promote killing and violence.

War games promote War and a lot of us play these games.

It seems to me the media in general promote mostly the bad things in life, Im sure all over the world now news chanels are telling about all the bad, Game Devs are thinking of ways to shock us with the type of game you are talking about.

I agree with you its not a good way to educate the young.

The answer is with mum and dad to promote in the early years what is good and what is bad, This way gamers in general will know or have a good understanding of the game they are playing and what it realy means. Just a game, perhaps in bad taste but still just a game.

Parents hold a very large responsability on how there chrildren turn out.

Colin

[Specter 0]

A lot of Games promote killing and violence.

War games promote War and a lot of us play these games.

It seems to me the media in general promote mostly the bad things in life, Im sure all over the world now news chanels are telling about all the bad, Game Devs are thinking of ways to shock us with the type of game you are talking about.

I agree with you its not a good way to educate the young.

The answer is with mum and dad to promote in the early years what is good and what is bad,  This way gamers in general will know or have a good understanding of the game they are playing and what it realy means. Just a game, perhaps in bad taste but still just a game.

Parents hold a very large responsability on how there chrildren turn out.

Colin

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I agree with all of your points.

Like I said, it's just gang-banging in general that I have very serious issues with.

I just saw to many things that those ignorant teenagers and even younger, were doing to innocent people.

Like I said, most games will put the player as the good guy. That's the difference. That, and gang-banging seems to be the crime of choice for kids.

It isn't just the killing in the games. It's the ideals of the game as it comes across to the kids.

Yeah, we all play war games, and yeah, even in some of them, you are anti-US forces. But because you are part of a national rebellion, doesn't make you a bad person.

Being a gang-banger does. That is just wrong on all counts and on so many levels.

Edited May 28, 2005 by =UE=Phantom

[Colin 0]

If you feel this strongly about it do somthing, I am sure their are other people out there that feel the same as you do. seek them out get to gether and make your feelings known. Its one way to go.

Colin