Hot Coffee Cooling Off 559
The storm of media and cynicism that was "Hot Coffee" is, thankfully, coming to an end. To wrap things up, reactions were mixed to the re-rating of GTA. Some thought it too much, some too little too late. With the removal of the M rating, ESRB president Patricia Vance considers the matter closed. Even those in the industry itself seem glad that it's over, though the folks quoted for the 1up story seem cynical about the whole thing. "[Rockstar] TOTALLY screwed the modding community, as far as I am concerned. Because they could have just removed the content. They tried to get cute and leave it in. In my experience that sort of thing is always deliberate. Anyway, the point is that most game developers are recalcitrant and immature jerks. When mom tells us we can't do something, we're sure as hell going to do it. If you get my meaning. I think 'mom' in this case was the ESRB." As a sidenote, stock in Take-Two Entertainment dropped by almost five percent at close of market today, on the news that even Gamestop is dumping the now AO-rated GTA title.
I for one... (Score:4, Funny)
Well... at least (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'm really puzzled (Score:5, Funny)
I think the programmers made them do it!
When you have a game like that (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, and if you can jump out of a car, and let it keep going and run over gangstas and drug lords.
It won't hurt it.
Might even raise the sales of it, truth be told.
Luke
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In other news... (Score:4, Funny)
This just in. "Real Life" has been re-rated AO by ESRB because it features the same violent and sexual content as GTA:SA.
Quote the leader: "We first noticed this when we found out there are a lot of people being invited for 'hot coffee' everywhere! This has to stop! We had no idea sex is available to everyone"
From now on, life is rated AO which means anybody under the magical age of 18 is no longer allowed to have a life.
Re:When you have a game like that (Score:3, Funny)
I've always wanted to do a polygonal woman, they're just hard to find outside of gaming.
If we look at this graph.... (Score:3, Funny)
AO should get the new content (Score:5, Funny)
Next weeks headline : "Geek sues Rockstar for false claims of explicit sex in GTA".
Quote from the article "Steve purchased GTA:SA hoping to get a glimpse of naked women engaged in sexual acts, but instead found himself searching Rockstar's website for a 'patch'. Turns out Rockstar didn't live up to their promise of hot sex and coffee - the only way to get to that content is from a program made by some Swedish guy who doesn't even work for the game developer."
Re:I hate America (Score:5, Funny)
Uhm, no it wouldn't. The fucking apocalypse will have sex. I think you're thinking of the regular apocalypse.
THANK YOU ESRB (Score:1, Funny)
Even though its a game where you steal cars, boats, planes, and government property, shoot cops and bystanders, rob houses, smuggle pot, pimp whores, beat prostitutes to death with a dildo and take pictures when you're done, and generally cause destruction on a massive scale, its a relief to know that I will no longer have to the chance of seeing some badly simulated non-nunde digital sex.
THANK YOU FOR PROTECTING ME ESRB!
Re:Tshirt Already? (Score:3, Funny)
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Grand Theft Elections: Ohio Edition (Score:3, Funny)
The hidden content allows you to tweak other players scores.
Re:Tshirt Already? (Score:4, Funny)
Meta meta spelling nazi?
Re:It's about time! (Score:3, Funny)
Oh hell, it's WAY easier than that...
Just change every instance of the word "wand" to "wang". One little letter makes the whole series perverse.
There's post on bash.org about it, if i recall.... Yup.
http://bash.org/?111338 [bash.org]
Re:Tshirt Already? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It's about time! (Score:3, Funny)
You can do that?!?
This could change the whole rating of the internet to AO, better keep it quiet.
Re:Good! (Score:3, Funny)
You: "I'd like to exchange this copy of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for a version that's suitable for my 12-year old."
Shop Employee: "Certainly. We can easily do that with a simple modification to the retail version of the game." [breaks disk in half] "Here ya go."
Re:It's about time! (Score:2, Funny)