Graycap23 said:

Guess you never watch horror movies where 90% of the victims are women, or any CSI type show on tv - where countless stories are about women being victimized.

Face it, the mistreatment of women is acceptable entertainment to most.

AshK said:

Can you recommend some good games then?

But I love Grand Theft Auto (even if Rockstar don't love the PS3)....

AshK said:

That's going to change in @ two weeks.

uPtoWnNY said:

I'm a women with principles! lol I only brought my PS3 to play GTA and they go and switch to xbox, I took that personally lol.

I got to say though the last GTA was the only one I didn't play to 100%, only about 70%, it just wasn't as much fun as San Andreas. Did you finish?

I got to say though the last GTA was the only one I didn't play to 100%, only about 70%, it just wasn't as much fun as San Andreas. Did you finish?

If you ever want a good strictly combat game, play this -- the fighting style is SO crisp, unlike alot of the other MKs.

JustErin said:

So why add 2 it with this nonsense of a video game?

Acrylic said:

I love MK, but I couldn't get into this at all. DC heroes??? Thanks but no thanks, I'll stick with PSX MK Trilogy.

AshK said:

If you ever want a good strictly combat game, play this -- the fighting style is SO crisp, unlike alot of the other MKs.

AshK said:

Many times(I'm not into 100%, I just like doing the main/side missions). GTA IV was a great game(see the missions I posted), but San Andreas is the shit - best GTA ever with a badass soundtrack. I'm a GTA maniac, so I play all six non-stop.

Here's how I rank them;

1)San Andreas
2)GTA IV
3)GTA III
4)Vice City
5) VCS & LCS(tie)

I wish Rockstar would give San Andreas, GTA III & Vice the PS3 treatment.

Mmmhmmm, I heard that eventually there will be an update so you can play PS2 games on the PS3 later this year. They said that before though

San Andreas is one of my all time favourites, I cant decide between III and Vice though, they're both great. Love the soundtrack for Vice

JustErin said:

Yeah, don't something like 90% of women have rape fantasies?

Anyway, I'm a female and I LOVE violent video games, great stress reliever and I don't think I'm particularly disturbed. If I'm going to be wasting my time (I'm not even going to try and claim video games are a productive use of my time), I don't want to be playing some dull Sims game, or feed animals on virtual farm, (and since I can now drive)drive on a race track lol

Phishanga said:

yes, it's fantasy, right, an act? Maybe these guys don't really want to rape women either, they want to fantasize about it.

Personally it's not my thing, even in a fantasy
[Edited 3/30/10 15:08pm]

This story is really odd for a couple of reasons. It seems to be a combination of slow news day and someone out for attention for their group.

This game was released in 2006, covered by western media in 2009, is out of print, and in 2009 the makers of this game participated in an industry, not government panel to agree upon the cessation of creating rape games.

FYI, these were not against Japanese law either, which some would say leads to the creation of a culture that is more apt to mistreat women. Not according to the UN however:

UN Rape Rates per 100,000

Canada: 78.08
Australia: 77.79
USA: 32.05
Sweden: 24.47
UK: 16.23
France: 14.36
S. Korea: 12.98
Germany: 9.12
Russia: 4.78
Taiwan: 4.08
Japan: 1.78

Now, adjusted for actual complete populations, those stats change, but in actual numbers that translates to roughly 25,000 rapes in Canada versus 2500 in Japan.

So it really boils down to a news story with 2 easy targets "video games" and "foreign culture" put them together and you get rage 4 years late.

AshK said:

I have an older PS3, so playing PS2 games is no problem.

When it comes to gaming, it doesn't get any better than San Andreas - huge map, great story/characters, plenty to do, and a soundtrack with something for everyone. I even listen to the country station when I'm doing the badlands missions. Radio Los Santos, SF-UR and Radio-X are my favorite stations.

uPtoWnNY said:

I agree but the only thing that would make GTA perfect is having the lead character as a female!

AshK said:

Apparently you haven't played Mario Kart. Best racing game ever.....even better than Forza and PGR. Now, can you throw blue shells at ppl in real life? hmmmmm? Didn't think so. MK beats real driving any day. lol I mentioned Forza, but it's actually a really good realistic game. Good ratings all around.

AshK said:

If they ever do 'San Andreas Stories', it should feature either Cesar or Catalina before they met CJ.

uPtoWnNY said:

It would be interesting to see the response to a female character though, somehow the fact that it's always been a male character that can go around being naughty probably seems more acceptable.

I'm not even going to click on that. The very idea is disgusting and repulsive.

WTH:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/W...tml?hpt=C2

johnart said:

I L4D 1 & 2. They're coming out with new campaigns soon. They're gonna tie in the characters from part 1 to part 2. It looks pretty cool, and I can't wait.

Yep there's a lot of rape porn and animated kiddie porn in Japan. Some fucked up shit indeed!

the world just isn't safe for women and children. not that it ever was. fuckin' Y chromosome muthafuccas! Y'ALL MAKE ME SICK!!!

JustErin said:

Don't you beat up hookers in that or something?

DesireeNevermind said:

They have alot of Sim games there that I can't really describe but...yeah

bboy87 said:

Animated kiddie porn????!!!! Why?

NastradumasKid said:

not exactly kiddie porn, but close to it

bboy87 said:

ewww!!! cartoon sex????!!!! x 100,000

NastradumasKid said:

Don't knock it til you watch it