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posted by [identity profile] yeloson.livejournal.com at 01:36am on 31/12/2006
While I think videogames have potential as an art medium, for the most part, it's a very commercial media and that often overrules the art factor for the industry. Especially when you also tack on that people live in a real vague fear of school shootings and terrorism.

On the other hand, if you tie it into a well known IP, and paint it as a holy war with Christians as the good guys, you're totally green to build a game of random mass murder.
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posted by [identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com at 07:06am on 31/12/2006
Basically, what saddens me is not just that Rockstar wimped out, but that they felt that they had to wimp out.

I mean, fuck, in GTA you shoot up racial gangs. Those (fictional) kids you're shooting can't be much older than 18. Why the fuck can't they grow the balls to put that sort of thing in Bully?

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posted by [identity profile] yeloson.livejournal.com at 09:28am on 31/12/2006
1. "Gangsters", especially ethnic ones, don't count as kids in the view of most Americans
2. Rockstar was/is still reeling from the "Hot Coffee" scandal.
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