GTA III Vice city

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Ok, Im purile. I like this game. What do I like, stealing every car in sight. Helping cops chase a crook with a buick. Getting 50 bucks for smashing said crook into a wall. Getting guns and ammo to just gun down gang members...

Killing four people with one shotgun blast...

beating a guy to death with a claw hammer..
Beating a guy to death with your bare hands,
getting in that extra kick to the groin just because you can..
Changing stations on the radio

Pulling a Waco.
Thats when a you put as many cars around you as possible, you hole up in an ally and wait for the cops to come. Dont forget the ammo.


Yeah the game is violent and wrong, and I find myself looking at my local grocery store completely differently... (I could drive my car through this!)

But man its kind of fun to play...

[Spriggan]

It's odd, I've never played these games becaue of the morality of it.  Aside from the flat out soft core porn games I've never had that problem either.  I can't bring myself to play GTA games.

[Fellfrosch]

I'm not especially attracted to the violence (though game violence rarely bothers me), but I'd love to play them just for the open-ended structure. It sounds really cool.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Im not really that attracted to violence either... the world is just very rich, and you can really do a lot... that having been said there is a lot you cant do...

[Oseleon]

Just call it an outlet for the pure agression bottled up inside and let fly....
Then again I have a problem where I cant even play an evil role in an RPG.  I have never seen the Dark Side of KOTOR cause I Can't bring myself to be "dark"
When an NPC asks for help... I feel compelled to give it...  
I blame my Father for shoving Arthur (the King, not the Ardvark) down my throat throughout my childhood.

Yet with GTA, I seem able to let loose and run down pedestrians while laughing maniacaly..... I really wonder why....  

[n8sumsion]

Lol, Oseleon. I thought I was the only one. I haven't been able to make it through the dark side in KOTOR, nor the evil path in Fable, because I just feel so darn guilty making those choices. That being said, I do like GTA III for its open-ended gameplay structure (if you want to sound like a hoity-toity know-it-all game designer, you can refer to it's "emergent game play"). I haven't played either of the games that followed it yet, because it just seemed more of the same, but it was one of the first big games to let you play the game at your own pace. For better or for worse, it has had a dramatic impact on the video game industry. Not just with a rise in the number of Mature titles that try to emulate it. Look at Spiderman 2, which borrows liberally from the gameplay structure of the GTA games.  But I am glad I'll never see ole Spidey bounce the shock absorbers of a car with a prostitute and then run her down to get his money back.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Your right, I cant hurt people in Kotor either....

[MoreDew]

cmon guys, half the fun is playing evil in KOTOR.  It's so funny to see the reactions of people when being evil, especially when you save someone's life only to extort money from them and kill them.  It's a good laugh...

[JP Dogberry]

I'd LIKE to see spiderman do that. Especially if the rest of the game wasn't like that, just for shock value.

[Entsuropi]

What, randomly flip out and use his webs to fling someone off of the bridge? Since anyone who heard about him doing it would just regard it as the usual anti-spiderman propaganda

[Captain Morgan]

I half the fun is playing evil in KOTOR like Moredew said. The other half is playing good. That twinge of guilt you think you have goes away after awhile. It is better to be evil in a video game and get it out of your system (hence why I love the GTA series so much) than to do it in real life. For you you twinge at being evil people, I would recommend playing evil the first time, then play good so you feel like you are atoning for your past game.

[Dex1138]

One of my favorite things to do was amass as many vehicles in as small a space as possible and start a chain reaction of exploding vehicles. Any cruisers that happened to be nearby were an added bonus  

Also:

Gov. Matt Blunt (MO) banned video games from the state's prisons Monday, a month after a newspaper reported some of Missouri's most violent inmates were allowed to play games simulating murders, carjackings and the killings of police officers.

[Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock]

I feel like making *bwing twing twing* love! I feel like making *doo-doo do dwaaah!* Love!

[Oseleon]

It is better to be evil in a video game and get it out of your system (hence why I love the GTA series so much) than to do it in real life.

I am a sysadmin.  Evil deeds are my buisness...  

[Captain Morgan]

I am a sysadmin.  Evil deeds are my buisness...

Ahh those were the days. I used to shut off our head network engineer's computer remotley and give him all sorts of nasty messages, and he always thought he had a virus. Man did that crack me up. I finally had to tell him, but it was still fun even afterwards. We would have contests to see who could strike at the most inappropraite time. classic I tell you.