While the game has been garnering five stars reviews almost across the board, there is a most insidious side to Grand Theft Auto 5 which Ed Smith highlights in this piece:
"Men with delusions about sexual harassment are playing GTA 5 now and the game is assuring them that their behaviour is okay. It's telling them that not only are they able to touch women in clubs, but in actual fact, if they do it enough, the women will sleep with them."
The GTA 5 Agent Trevor DLC episode could have been a real treat for fans on PlayStation and Xbox, before it was scrubbed sometime before 2017.
With the amount of money they generated, I just don’t understand the scrubbing of this. It would’ve been fantastic for fans.
I really want to know who drove the decision to focus on multiplayer was it Rockstar or take two.
Because when online started taking off many of the studio leads began having falling outs and leading including a founder
One of the reason I believe once gta 6 release, most of us thoroughly play it, enjoy the world they crafted then after that no offline support, no dlc at all
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the game talks to them in a dreamy voice "yes dave, this is ok in real life. dave, you will not be able to distinguish this game from reality. why dave, you no longer have to try and communicate with women, go out there and touch them, they'll sleep with You. now go, go out there and enjoy this world, you know, the one without laws and repercussions"
ha this guy has no braincells, that must suck.
My first reaction to this article was, "Flamebait".
"This article means I've joined the ranks of morally outraged journalists, Daily Mail and Fox News types who fret about Grand Theft Auto. But honestly, with this, I think my concerns are justified."
No they aren't. You have merely joined the extroverts that say video games cause real world violence and corrupt children. You honestly believe that Grand Theft Auto V will somehow convince men that the behavior displayed in the strip clubs in Los Santos is acceptable in real life?
"Men with delusions about sexual harassment are playing GTA 5 now and the game is assuring them that their behaviour is okay. It's telling them that not only are they able to touch women in clubs, but in actual fact, if they do it enough, the women will sleep with them."
"Oh, and there's nothing the law will be able to do to stop them."
So, you're going on the assumption that just because some men are ignorant of the existence of sexual harassment that they in turn will enact the same actions they see in the game without any consequences. Yeah, that's just foolish thinking. Grand Theft Auto has always been a parody of our world. It always pushed the boundaries and led us to laugh at how stupid some things we experience are.
If your frame of mind were applied to movies and music, more people would be mimicking violence in gore movies and dress like idiot pop "musicians". Your article is narrow-minded and flamebait. This is why gamers don't like people who consider themselves journalists.
Pray for me.
I touched a digital stripper.
I expected all the politicians to jump on the video game violence band wagon, but I really don't need to be preached to about my digital sins. It's just a game!
Clearly the writer has never enjoyed a night out at the 'Rippers in Canada where ALL dances are prefaced with a quick speech that says "You can touch here...here...here...you can't do this... but the rest is ok".
Just sayin...The Housers have been to Canada to visit, and they have been to the strip clubs here. I Know this because my buddy who worked for Rockstar has been out with them and partied with them very very hard.
Where the hell is that Lovefist sleevless? I just finished the game and in 50 hours of doing pretty much everything I never came across it.