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Rockstar Censors GTA After Haitian Outcry
Thanks to VE3D for carrying a statement from Take Two/Rockstar announcing the removal of alleged anti-Haitian content from future copies of Grand Theft Auto:Vice City, after a furore which started last month following a CBS TV segment on the game. The controversy, which even had New York's Mayor Bloomberg weighing in on the game's rival gang-related urgings to "Kill all the Haitians", has ended with Rockstar's press release indicating: "We believe that recent media coverage has taken certain statements made in the game out of context... nevertheless, we are aware of the hurt and anger in the Haitian community... we will remove the objectionable statements from future copies of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City."
What about the Orcs? Nobody ever backs the Orcs. They get dissed in more games than anyone. How many other enemies explode on eye contact?
Kill cops.. thats politically correct
Wasn't the point of the game to be crude and offensive?? That's what makes it fun. If they're going to censor themselves they have a lot of work ahead of them
Why is everyone so surprised? This is America! You can kill as many people in as many ways as you want, just as long as you're PC about it.
They can replace the Haitians with elves and the cubans with reindeer. The main character will be Santa Claus and he only scores with Mrs. Claus, who happens to wear a bikini. Merry Christmas indeed! Or was that not the effect these people were looking for?
Hey there Mr Mike Hawk, if you are going to try and grab a first post, please take your head out of your ass long enough to turn on "AC".
So they've effectively shut up the critics by promising to remove the offending dialogue from all copies of the game produced at some unspecified point in the future after the ten trillion copies currently on store shelves have sold out. Pretty good move on their part if you ask me. Say, did Eidos ever get around to releasing the "censored" version of Hitman 2 without all the Sikh stuff?
Shhh.... It's socially irresponsible to tell someone they're socially irresponsible. You'll hurt their feelings and make them feel bad.
With all the WW2 games out nowadays, I wouldn't be surprised if thats what they'll replace the Haitians with in the censored version. Hell, if they did that, I'd buy the game again just so I could hear German ghetto talk.
Ja sind jene Weinerschnitzel die Bombe!
Oh yeah, a Mercedes S class with hydraulics would be better than those slow Voodoos.
...if any. If none, I apologize.
Frankly, I'm ready to write to them, and say thank you for making such a great game. It's rare you see a title where everyone has an equal opportunity to get shot in the face.
Informatus Technologicus
There was an _awesome_ scene in Medal of Honor, in the level where you infiltrate the German submarine pen in Norway. Dressed as a kraut officer, you walk past two troopers having a chat in perfectly accented idiomatic German; something utterly hilarious, to the extent of "I don't know why the Norwegians are all so mad at us, we just want to bring their chicks back to Germany to breed the master race."
I'm a native German speaker, and I think I would have noticed any trace of an accent there, so I can only assume that they used real Germans to record the voiceovers. Frankly, I can't imagine a German voice actor not pissing himself laughing when asked to read something like that out loud."
The BF1942 clips are actually pretty funny--I like the Italians best--it all sounds romantic and beautiful (Va fa'in culo! I have a headwound! Mamma mia, I love you!)
Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage
END THE HATE!
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Join my petition.. demand that humantiy be taken out of such a wretched game! Rockstar must not use humanity for greed!!!
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Let them know! Let our voices be heard!!
So when is Take Two going to remove the alleged anti-seagull content from the game?
Now THERE's a minority we don't want to piss off!
*thinks of poo-splattered car* *shudders*
Goo goo g'joob.
"Kill all the Haitians!" flows. The creators used those words -- that is what they felt would compel the player the most in that situation. Changing a single thing due to censorship utterly destroys the creative flow of the work. And GTA:VC was another masterpiece, from what I've heard, so this is really bad news. What's next, telling them to remove black and mexican gang members form GTA3? I never thought Take Two would cave in this fast. Here's a list of easy things they could have said to protect their creation and creativity in the future: 1) They could say "It's rated M for Mature, deal." 2) They could say "It's called the first ammendment, deal" 3) They could say "It's just a game, deal" 4) They could say "We don't even make that game anymore, it's so last year." 5) They could say "Shut up, guys. Nobody cares. Quit being a bunch of sensative pussies." If somehow none of those things worked, they finally could have come to some kind of agreement by simply not selling the game in that city. If they said "Kill all the Finnish-German-Americans!" I would have laughed my ass off.. Like those Haitians should have too, not spoiled it.
Beware this is Slashdot. You aren't supposed to wonder those kinds of things lest ye be mocked.