Gordon Copeland is an arse

[Mikkel]

AIYEEE! I was just gonna say a similar thing. The reason you can play GTA for so long and enjoy it is because of the missions. Cheat codes are for loser's with no patience.....

Whereas computer games without cheat codes are for losers with a patience?

Oh you evil evil man - you cheated the computer game shame on you!!!

Played it many years ago. IMO GTA IV makes Caramgeddon very painful. What I like about GTA IV is the missions, the city life, the cars, the weapons. The city is visually beautiful, so well detailed it's simply amazing.

I doubt it'll beat the VR that is meatspace though. Out there you can actually taste the coffee

[Str8 Jacket]

Whereas computer games without cheat codes are for losers with a patience?

That didnt take you long to bite did it!

[onearmedbandit]

I doubt it'll beat the VR that is meatspace though. Out there you can actually taste the coffee

Huh? What's that got to do with the price of fish?

[scumdog]

. Oh sure we could draw correlations between violence in real life and video games, shaky evidence at that, mind you I suppose we also could draw the same conclusions about alcohol, and SD I definitely don't need to lecture you on that. How's that bottle of scotch in your lounge? Feel like giving it up to the government and never touching a drop again because of the actual links between alcohol abuse and violence? No?

Didn't think so.

hey, hey, keep yer knickers from getting twisted OAB, I was making comment on how the reality of life is soo much different to any 'game' - I should have deleted more of the post I was quoting I guess (that second paragraph) as it has thrown my post out of context.


Oh, and I'm drinking the scotch as fast as I can so's it don't fall into the wrong hands...so you're dead right, the answer IS 'no'!!!

["D" FZ1]

Can't see the point of sitting in front of a TV pretending to kill people anyway. Doesn't exactly teach the youth of today much when they have F##k all respect for anything as it is. Would rather spend the time riding my bike.

[Str8 Jacket]

Can't see the point of sitting in front of a TV pretending to kill people anyway. Doesn't exactly teach the youth of today much when they have F##k all respect for anything as it is. Would rather spend the time riding my bike.

There is nothing better than a good mash after a good ride. GTA is great if the traffic has been particuarly bad and the drivers extra moronic while on said ride. It helps to get all that anger out!

[Mikkel]

That didnt take you long to bite did it!

Oh, don't take it as a sign of annoyance though. I think we have established I have a fondness for computer games and have had so for a long time. And I shall never consider the time I have spent thus anything but lost - and I'm still loosing time playing computer games as such it'll only be fair to consider me a loser because of it.

Patience however, I have it not.

Huh? What's that got to do with the price of fish?

Oh, you don't recall the whole coffee controversy surrounding GTA?

There is nothing better than a good mash after a good ride. GTA is great if the traffic has been particuarly bad and the drivers extra moronic while on said ride. It helps to get all that anger out!

It's either that or beating up your partner and flatmates

[Clockwork]

... I voted for FPP as I could see MMP as essentially ''mickey mouse politics. But we are stuck with it and I d rather see dozens of Gordon Copelands compared to Bradfords and Tancztossers!

FPP, the last refuge of the childlike mentality that causes adults to throw their toys out of the cot because "they can't have things all their own way"

[avgas]

Played it many years ago. IMO GTA IV makes Caramgeddon very painful. What I like about GTA IV is the missions, the city life, the cars, the weapons. The city is visually beautiful, so well detailed it's simply amazing.

Can't say i ever completed a mission on any of the GTA games, yet i would have clocked about 300 hours in total on the series (has been going for 10 years). There is just something about stealing cops, killing some Joho's, cop chase, ditching the car, get 5 stars, ditching the car again....repeat.
It gets addictive. Good thing i keep it off the street.
Its basically world of warcraft for anyone other than Sue Bradford

[onearmedbandit]

Oh, you don't recall the whole coffee controversy surrounding GTA?

Ah, yes, yes I do. Only time I ever saw anything of it was on youtube when searching for GTA IV pre-release vids a while back. Otherwise never interested me. The big issue about NZ getting the 'watered down' version of GTA IV doesn't bother me either, if I want to see sexual abuse, excessive death etc, I'd just flick the TV on at 6pm.

[Mikkel]

Ah, yes, yes I do. Only time I ever saw anything of it was on youtube when searching for GTA IV pre-release vids a while back. Otherwise never interested me. The big issue about NZ getting the 'watered down' version of GTA IV doesn't bother me either, if I want to see sexual abuse, excessive death etc, I'd just flick the TV on at 6pm.

I'd say the internet is a better source for that than TV NZ - international news are almost always watered down and/or neglected.

[Usarka]

can someone explain why everyone is so upset that you can kill hookers in the game, but no one cares about the average joe walking down the street minding his own business? at least they didnt take your cash and give you the clap

[Swoop]

I'm still fucked up from Donkey Kong.
Always looking upwards, for a monkey throwing barrels and if I see a barrel on the street, I just have to jump over it.

[onearmedbandit]

I'd say the internet is a better source for that than TV NZ - international news are almost always watered down and/or neglected.

Very true, but as the internet is so often painted as being a source of evil, so much so that we have restrictions on it's use put in place by parents (and lets face it, there is some seriously dodgey stuff out there), it doesn't make for a good yard stick. However with TV's in almost every house in the country, and most tuned into the news at 6, there is an obvious source of violence that no one complains about. I'd almost wager that copycat crimes originate more from TV than any other source, due to its accessibility.

[Mikkel]

Very true, but as the internet is so often painted as being a source of evil, so much so that we have restrictions on it's use put in place by parents (and lets face it, there is some seriously dodgey stuff out there), it doesn't make for a good yard stick. However with TV's in almost every house in the country, and most tuned into the news at 6, there is an obvious source of violence that no one complains about. I'd almost wager that copycat crimes originate more from TV than any other source, due to its accessibility.

Dunno about that. Unless dad hitting mom (or vice versa) is the done thing in your home I doubt that watching TV is going to turn you into a crook.

Bad parenting and a society that does not impose consequences upon unacceptable behaviour is to blame IMHO. As for copycat crime - well the crims do talk to each other and they do get new, and fortunately almost always idiotic, ideas now and again.

If anything the TV is just going to brainwash you into an unquestioning consumer...