You Don't Have To Kill Prostitutes In 'GTA V'

"Here’s a small fact: You don’t have to go around killing everyone in Grand Theft Auto V. The game gives you an enormous amount of choice, at least outside of the main missions, in who you help shuffle off this mortal coil. It’s a game largely about choices, actually."

[Yi-Long]

Agreed: The player has the freedom to decide what he wants to do. Very simple.

Yes, I can kill cats and shoot animals, but I don't, because for the most part, it just isn't very fun TO ME. But I certainly applaud the fact that they exist in the game! ( I just wish there was ALSO an 'interact' button that allows you to pet a cat, instead of only the option to stomp it, or leave it alone completely)

You kill millions of guys in video games, but with GTA we have a game where you can ALSO kill women (for the simple fact that they exist in that world), and suddenly some people are outraged?

Ridiculous.

Nothing wrong with GTA5's content. In fact, they're already implementing quite a bit of self-censorship, by not including children, disabled, old people, etc etc, in their gorgeous Los Santos.

Also, the violence itself is far from realistic of course, and not at all gory.

[TheShiteHawk]

What if they don't have my MONEY?????

[Lightning Mr Bubbles]

I've never even picked one up in GTA V.

[Yi-Long]

I did pick one up, just to see what would happen, and to check out the 1st person view, but it's nothing special, 1st person view doesn't allow you to actually see anything, and I also didn't bother killing her afterwards, simply because there's no real incentive to do so.

It's nice that you CAN kill a hooker afterwards. Not because I'm into that kinda stuff, but because it would be stupid in this kinda game if you couldn't. It's an open world with lots of freedom. If someone walks in front of your car, yeah, you can run them down. Or you can get out and shoot them.

I don't have any problem with that kind of freedom in these games. I welcome it.

I do have a problem with these hypocrite people jumping on the anti-GTA5 bandwagon about it's so-called 'violence against women', as if somehow fictional violence against women in video games is somehow a huge taboo, while we've seen millions of games where we kill, beat up, maim, etc etc fictional MEN in video games.

Apparently, to these people, the lives of men, both fictional as well as in the real world, are worth much much less than the lives of women(!)

Also, once again there is this huge divide in outrage between video games, and other forms of entertainment, like movies, books, TV shows, etc etc.

Kill some women in a movie? No problem. Write a novel about a serial killer who goes after women? No problem. Have a video game set in an open world which gives the gamer the freedom to get into a vehicle or pick up a gun, and kill pedestrians? OH LORD!!! BAN IT!!!

It's just ridiculous, the different standards and the hypocrisy among many of those attacking GTA5 right now.

As always, it's very simple: If you don't like it, then don't buy it.

But do NOT go around trying to censor and/or ban it for everyone else!

Because that would make me a whole lot more filled with anger, hatred, aggression, etc etc than any video game would ever manage to accomplish.

[NukaCola]

The only reason I have ever killed a hooker in GTA is because I get my money back. I don't enjoy killing them for any reason.

[Yi-Long]

BTW, the Bible, just like other holy books, is filled with horrendous acts of violence and murder.

It's not just filled with violence of murders, but it actively states you should enforce it's rules and punishments.

Now, obviously, the vast majority of the people in the world will not take that literally. Not any more at least. We've mellowed out over all the cruel evil stuff that's in the Bible, and 'we' take from it the parts that seem reasonable and are of use to us.

I sure hope it won't take as long as 2000 years for video games to reach that kind of rational acceptance.

[donwel]

There's no old people in GTAV? I could have sworn that I spotted a geriatric in amongst the crowds

[MasterCornholio]

I know its just a game but when I drive I try to avoid hitting animals. However I dont give a dang about people though.

LOL

[Mutant-Spud]

In Saints row you can do a flying tackle on a woman and pound her face into the pavement, in Dragon's Dogma you can pick up your female companion and throw her off the nearest tower or cliff, in Red Dead Redemption you can tie women up and leave them on the railroad tracks or drag them behind your horse, in Fallout 3 you can...you get my drift.

[EpicDome]

In the old days, the Romans used to actually kill people for fun. Nowadays, we use virtual worlds. It's better.

[TheShiteHawk]

If GTA stops at least one real life psycho acting out his sick fantasies on innocent people by venting their deviant behavior then this game is a lifesaver!

[pkb79]

That's the thing. A psycho is already crazy before they pick up a game controller. It takes a life time of abuse to make killer. A game is not going to create one or stop one for that matter.
It's already in their heads regardless of what the read, watch or play. It's just easier for society to blame an entertainment medium then actually get to of root of the social problems that cause these server mental problems.

[Agent_hitman]

Well in sandbox games like GTA you can do everything that's prohibited in real life. Although, for other people it's ridiculous and unacceptable. Man! it's just a game.

[creeping judas]

I feel bad when I run over people? Or animals like deer in the mountains.

[PaleMoonDeath]

I'm aware that I don't have to, I just want to.

[CocoWolfie]

no! :o ...if polygon says you have to kill prostitutes in gta when you dont. then clearly theres something wrong with them -.-

[Fishy Fingers]

HERESY!!!

[plmkoh]

Sure you do, otherwise how else can you be rewarded with "health points"?

[MasterCornholio]

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And Trevor didnt need to kill the owner of the strip club but he did it anyways.

Sometimes people kill prostitutes in the game for the heck of it. But that doesn't mean the game is centered around that.

[weirdo]

i had to put down a dog as it attacked me, i still feel bad about it

[mixelon]

Yeah, framing the possibility of violence against X group in a sandbox game as bad is a bit silly. You can collect everyone's heads and keep them in a cupboard in Skyrim... It's not part of the game though.

The only way they could really have unkillable prostitutes would be if they either don't exist at all or don't walk around outside and can only be picked up from certain locations, then they sort of disappear. Everything outside is fair game in GTA, can kill everything.. Says more about the player than the creators of they then use it to be a jerk to some minority group (outside of silly hijinks).

I'd find it equally weird someone complaining that you're killing endangered animals in FC4.. Poor tigers! (Never mind the fact that FC4 animals seem to be on some sort of super strength/aggression serum. I sniped a honey badger 4 times last night before it died, wtf)

[Manubiggs]

Actually I tend to go around taking pics of everything and posting it to twitter because the game is gorgeous - no time for killing hookers

[Perjoss]

The only time I remember having to engage with hookers in a GTA game was GTA III, not only did they NOT ask me to kill them but rather I was encouraged to help them save cash on bus fares. Anyone who played the mission where you have to go collect a few ladies of the night and drop them off at the policemans ball will know what I'm talking about.

[Blues Cowboy]

I spent hours just driving around GTA V. Not killing anyone, even obeying traffic laws up to a point, literally because the world is gorgeous and fleshed-out.

The thing about a sandbox is that it's kinda down to you, and speaks to your own innermost tastes/desires/what you find enjoyable, I guess.

[VonBraunschweigg]

Yeah but letting them walk away just feels wrong. After you're done you kill them, that's how it always was, it's like a tradition.

[MasterD919]

I'm sure most people go after cops than hookers in this game. Maybe I'm just oblivious or too busy watching something explode but I don't come across prostitutes too often in GTA V anyways.

[ShaunCameron]

No, because I enjoy banging them.