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RockStar Speaks
JamesO writes "The alleged sex mini-game on the GTA San Andreas game disc, unlocked using the "Hot Coffee" mod, has been the news story of the week. Several investigations are now underway to determine if the allegations are true. Having kept pretty quiet on this issue, Rockstar has issued a statement clarifying their situation. Meanwhile, in Britain, GTA San Andreas was released with a BBFC rating of 18 in the UK, which makes it illegal to sell the game to anyone under the age of 18. The BBFC has stated that, as a result it does not feel they need to take any action, even if the sex mini game claims are found to be true. Such content would not require the game to be reclassified as it would in other territories where the game had not received a strict adult only rating."
The game [without the scenes] is not appropriate for most kids below the age of 16 anyways. So kudos to them for simply sticking an 18y sticker on it.
Now I'm cheering on the british... stupid hyperactive irresponsible american parents... stop making a fuss over nothing.
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
Oh, no! A Mature rated game has mature themes and adult content. However my child's video game system raise him properly now? Give me a break. If parents were okay with the content of GTA:SA before this minigame was found, they're either still okay with it or they don't really care about parenting.
e2 | LJ
Why hasn't there been a similar outcry regarding God of War? Isn't the sex mini-game always available in that title?
I don't get why GTA:SA gets dragged through the mud when a minigame is found, but God of War gets away with it when it's meant to be played.
Methinks some groups have it out for the GTA series.
e2 | LJ
So how is this little sex scene between two animated figures all that different from the sex scence between two puppets in Team America? Didn't that game get the equivilant of an "M" rating? It really does seem like idiots who don't know how to raise their kids properly have it out for GTA.
America... fuck yeah. That county, along with any other that blames every little thing on GTA without taking the resposibility on other social issues (the widespread use of guns and how so many people have one to begin with) needs to re-think their social values.
Yeah, sooner or later people are just going to accept that these games exist. Just because they're video games doesn't mean they're meant for kids. A parent saying, "but my kid owns an xbox and plays these games on it!" is just as ignorant as saying "but my kid has a tv and watches [R-rated movies] on it!" People have come to grips with the fact that R-rated movies exist (duh), and that it really isn't that difficult for their kids to see them if their parents let them get away with it.
Of course, the difference here is that conservatives love to use the term "killing simulators" or whatever misleading buzz word of the moment to describe video games... they are much more evil than movies because when you're holding a plastic controller with knobs on it, it is the same as training you to kill (or solicit prostitutes)! But I digress...
Movies and video games are approaching very similar levels of audio/visual quality, so just because games have realistic sex and violence doesn't mean that they are the scapegoat for lazy parenting. It's still up to parents to make use of the ratings system and their OWN DISCRETION. It's still the parents that are paying for or buying most of the games themselves.
Why do people care over a fully clothed sex game?
I mean, GTA:Vice City had a strip bar you could purchase, where one objective of the game was to spend 30 minutes staring at a badly animated nude dancer. Totally nude, no pixelation, from all angles. Spend 30 minutes in there, and you unlocked the maximum potential of the strip club and got the most money from it.
I put my character in there, and walked the dog.... it wasn't worth watching. Neither is the "hot coffee" mod. Kids see more realistic flesh watching Baywatch on TV, than in a Rockstar game.
Tepp
The modder says this: "All the contents of this mod was already available on the original disks. Therefor the scriptcode, the models, the animations and the dialogs by the original voice-actors were all created by RockStar. The only thing I had to do to enable the mini-games was toggling a single bit in the main.scm file." (from PatrickW)
Can some savvy person out there verify either of these claims?