Blend Games writes: "This past weekend, digital games service Steam had a 30% discount on all titles from Rockstar Games. In my article about the discount, I remarked that the discount was a slap in the face for anti-video game activist Jack Thompson, who has been a vocal opponent of the company for years. My exact words were: "It's 'F--k Jack Thompson Weekend' at digital games platform Steam." Well, Mr. Thompson saw the article (maybe he Googles "f--k Jack Thompson" periodically) and decided to drop me a line on Saturday. The following is a transcript of the e-mail conversation that took place over the past four days:
Jack Thompson: Pete, actually it's called "Help Fuel a Murder Weekend." Glad to clear up your confusion.
Blend Games: Thanks for the clarification. I imagine the Rockstar Games PR department will stake out some sort of middle ground between our two suggestions. I may meet up with one of their reps next week and if so I'll be sure to give them your regards.
Thompson: Tell them I hope they all either repent or die immediately.
And it gets worse..."
As we have all been graced by the release of Grand Theft Auto 6's trailer, we're ranking the best and worst GTA trailers to date.
We be getting these posts All week now lads. Someone noticed a number plate ... Someone noticed a billboard... I can see it now
Just go on YouTube and watch one of the many videos dissecting the whole 1minite 30secs worth.
This site supposed to be for news.
These updates on N4G are going to ruin whats rest of this site. Unfortunate since I was one of the first members.. The site shows unsecure when i login as well.
Grand Theft Auto 4 is an important game for Rockstar, not least because it was the first title in the franchise to use the newly created RAGE engine.
There’s never a bad time to relive its magic, and with rumours of a potential Grand Theft Auto IV remaster making the rounds, why wouldn’t you?
Not really
Overrated
Boring
Liberty City despite being a reimagined version for the HD era lacked any variety
Lacked the GTA fun charm overall
Niko was bland compared to past protagonists like Tommy, CJ or Victor
Like hell it is. San Andreas was far better, much more fun and a better game overall.
Nah, it's a masterpiece in attention to detail and the amount of immersive systems at play. But it really isn't very fun, ESPECIALLY when compared to the previous games in the series. Like tons of things are just wonky and actively kneecap lots of experimentation, or is just lame. Like why do I take huge damage when falling into water, why can I only stand in very specific large trucks when they are moving but not smaller trucks and vehicles, why is the melee combat such a massive down grade from GTA SA and GTA IV, why is the euphoria nowhere near as reactive, why is being drunk using a rasterized animation of staggering rather than the far more entertaining euphoria GTAIV and RDR used when you were drunk, why do npc vehicles barely react to you popping there tires even at high speed, etc etc.
I've always loved playing around in GTA games world. Like the campaigns are great but the majority of my time was always spent just playing in the open world. Yet GTAV is the only game in the series I never really returned to after beating it, it just lacks that fun factor the others have, I spent more time in GTA SA remastered than GTAV
It's one of my least favourite GTA games. It's clunky, the ai is exploitable, it's far too long and the writing is absolutely awful.
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hilarious lol
Maybe Jack needs some drugs of his own, you know the psychiatric type that regulate behavior. That or a frontal lobotomy.
however, Unless your a complete moronic fool. Videogame sales to minors with an M rating is ILLEGAL and action needs to be taken to stop it.
Hence, this is where his attention is.
You cannot argue that.
Also, Games being "Mental Masturbation" as he so pleasantly put it, is 100% Spot on. How the HELL can you argue against that?
I'm a single 26yr old male, have a high paying professional career and I play games a lot. Maybe a few hours a day after work and the gym. Been playing since the Atari and i'm not arguing against Thompson's points. How can you? I lost YEARS of my life on playing an MMORPG known as Ultima Online, are games a waste of time? HELL YES. But its better then wasting that time on television, infact games require more brain use then TV, so games are acutally better. They induce problem solving as well as hand/eye coordination often.
His points are all valid. Were games more fun smoking weed? Yes.
Do I do drugs anymore HELL NO. Drugs screw up your brain. That FALSE pleasure is from your body being poisoned. Weird your destroying your body Yet you enjoy it... Almost a sadistic thing. Obviously my views from 16 to 26 have now changed. I used to say "weed is not a drug", "can't people just relax and not fight." Typical adolescent nieve-ness.
Parents are to blame first and formost and secondly the retailers who sell mature games to under aged kids.
So from what I know I support him on that issue of sales to minors.
I do think his attack soley against Rockstar is fairly idiotic, and the parents need to be blamed more so then the game for real world acts of violence.
"Thompson: Tell them I hope they all either repent or die immediately."
I lol'd