GTA: San Andreas - confirmed!

[duke o' york]

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
As usual it'll simply be a made-up city that bears a remarkably similar resemblance to SF, just like they did with NY in the first game and Miami in the second.

Do you not mean the third and fourth games (assuming that GTA London was an add-on for number one)?

[Saint Marcus]

Though San Fran is very un-ganster like.

True, but plenty of different "groups". Chinese Triads in Chinatown, Italian mobsters in Little Italy, Japanese Kazuya in Japantown. Insane!

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by duke o' york
Do you not mean the third and fourth games (assuming that GTA London was an add-on for number one)?

In the first, there were a fake NY and Miami too. As well as San Francisco (can't remember the 4th city - maybe because I never reached it )

I never thought of Vice City as a 4th installment of GTA. Only as a nice expansion of GTA3.

[duke o' york]

Me too, in the same way that GTA London was an off-shoot of the first one.

The reason you don't remember the fourth city from GTA is that there wasn't one. San Francisco was the best level by miles though - you could go to the gangsters' houses in the top right corner of the map and fly off an enormous jump, go onto the roof of a building, onto another jump, across the top of a bridge and fly right over a cooling tower. Or was this in the second game? Er, oops - it was. That was the level with the hicks, the scientists and the crazy cultists. I'm confused with all the GTAs now.

[Adagio]

Yeah, sometimes I also confuses the GTA games... but I still love those scientists in GTA 2... they were great

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
As usual it'll simply be a made-up city that bears a remarkably similar resemblance to SF, just like they did with NY in the first game and Miami in the second.

GTA games always come in for a lot of criticism from the "everyone-but-me-is-responsible-for-my-horrible-child" crowd of parents and it's never really hurt them before. The controversy raises sales, if anything - Rockstar love it. (well, the execs do ... perhaps the PR guys get a little irritated).

and they always get defended by the "parents are 100% responsible for everything their kids do, no matter what junk pollute culture with" crowd.

Now Im not saying GTA is junk - i havent played it. But if you want to defend the game, defend the game. Dont imply that no cultural product could possibly effect kids.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
I'd love to have a mission breaking up a protest of a violent video game or something .

[Imran Siddiqui]

Dont imply that no cultural product could possibly effect kids.

Well seeing how many people play the game and how many people try to 'act out' the game, I think those people are disturbed in the first place.

[Zopperoni]

Wasn't one of those sniper incidents "inspired" by GTA3?

[Imran Siddiqui]

In terms of there is a killing in GTA3 and the guy killed?

[Space05us]

Wasn't one of those sniper incidents "inspired" by GTA3?

everything is because of violent video games, I picked my nose this morning because a hooker got away in Vice City before I could get my "refund".

[Zopperoni]

Nah, I vaguely remember one of the sniper suspects claiming that playing with the sniper rifle in GTA3 gave him the idea that shooting real people would be cool too.

[Space05us]

Nah, I vaguely remember one of the sniper suspects claiming that playing with the sniper rifle in GTA3 gave him the idea that shooting real people would be cool too.

His lawyer was probably just trying to get him off on insanity, I doubt he got any ideas from any game...unless he's actually insane.

[Sirotnikov]

Zopper - while it's true that GTA has possibly set that idea in his mind, I think most people would agree that you have to be crazy for this idea to catch root in the first place.

Now, I can agree that GTA can have bad effects on already crazy people who are predespositioned for these kind of things.

But then you never know what really triggered it. It could easily have been an episode of COPS just as well.

I think it's more important to deal with people who are problematic in that sense, than simply banning possible triggers.


I admit that at times I wished for the wolrd to be just like GTA, and to spray everyone with an UZI or shoot them dead with a Bazooka. However I never made the jump to make it a reality - only an already problematic person would.

[Imran Siddiqui]

*shifts away from Siro*