GTA Chinatown Wars for the Nintendo DS will feature a drug dealing mini-game and like clockwork, various organizations are already pissed off about that. Fortunately, the game should be rated “M” meaning that their arguments concerning the affect on children are mute and uncalled for.
According to Drugsline:
Anything using drug-dealing as entertainment is sending out the wrong message. Glamorisation doesn’t help our work trying to educate kids of the dangers of substance misuse.
My problem with uneducated groups like Drugsline is that they somehow believe entertainment is responsible for reality. Entertainment always has and always will imitate reality. GTA games are also rated M for Mature, so kids getting their hands on it basically have bad parens and that shouldn’t be a problem for the rest of us. If I want to deal fake drugs on a fake video game for some leisure time fun, who the hell are these groups that think they can stop us from having clean adult fun?
I have no problem with groups against kids using drugs. In fact, I think kids shouldn’t be using them, but these special interest outfits need to get real and start going after the real causes. Blaming drug use on media or entertainment is basically a simple and easy answer for them even though it isn’t true at all. Drugsline isn’t accomplishing anything jumping on the anti-GTA bandwagon. They should spend their energy actually solving problems…
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1. airhead Says:
September 29th, 2008 at 6:25 pmI agree 100% with you. First off, this game “shouldn’t be rated M,” it WILL be rated M. You must be 17 years old or up to buy the game, and at that age you should be responsible enough to say no. I’ve played the GTA series since I was 9 or 10, starting with #1 for DOS. Old skool and fun game. One of my favorite video games is GTA Vice City, I bought that when I was 14 years old. I have never tried drugs in my life. You can’t blame life’s problems on a video game. “Anything using drug-dealing as entertainment is sending out the wrong message.” Why not target games like Scarface, where you play Tony Montana and you sell and buy drugs for a living? I don’t recall all the media jumping on that game’s story, I mean there’s no point in blaming a video game for kids trying drugs… I never tried drugs, and Scarface has been my favorite movie since age 15. I’ve never beaten someone with a baseball bat, shot someone with a gun (only paintball with my school, and I was going shirtless! lol), or stolen cars or robbed anyone. If you’re going to blame something, blame bad parenting or blame other kids at school, but don’t try pinning something on a video game just to ease your mind. Again, it’s rated mature, if you’re mature enough like myself then you shouldn’t have a problem saying no, even if your own brother offers drugs to you.
And oh yeah, this game is gonna be awesome!
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2. Will Snizek Says:
September 29th, 2008 at 11:23 pmScaface….good choice. I guess special interest groups will always jump on whatever the popular bandwagon is. I love all movies myself including a lot of comedies. Using their deductivereasoning I should be a funny guy.
October 4th, 2008 at 11:03 am
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