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Must sell GTA

  • 05-05-2008 12:06pm
    #1
    Registered Users Posts: 4,944 ✭✭✭


    Okay, this isn't a teenage-why-are-my-parents-so-gay-i hate-them-so-much rant. I just want to make that clear. Anyhoo, mammy and daddy found out that therres some part in the game where a prostitute gets raped and axed to death and they don't want that kind of thing in the house so I have to get rid of it, anyone know of anywhere with good deals to trade it in?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 995 ✭✭✭sinjin_smythe


    yes ,,,,, me


    pm me


    ah crap just see ur in Ennis ah well


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    Jay P wrote: »
    Okay, this isn't a teenage-why-are-my-parents-so-gay-i hate-them-so-much rant.

    Not gay, just incredibly gullible...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,949 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Put it up on Adverts, OP.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Jet Black


    Just finished the game and did not see that.
    Think someone is bullsh!ting them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,728 ✭✭✭dazftw


    Yea no hooker gets axed to death??

    How old are you OP?

    EDIT 17.. Well its not to bad for a 17 year old I suppose it is pretty bad with some violent and dirty stuff. Theres no axing of prostitute.. You should try convince your mam and dad again.. Cant be having you miss out on a great game now...

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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,944 ✭✭✭Jay P


    dazftw wrote: »
    Yea no hooker gets axed to death??

    How old are you OP?

    17. Its not my age they're worried about, it's the content. They really don't want it in the house


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,225 ✭✭✭Ciaran500


    Haven't finished it yet but a scene like that really wouldn't fit into the games story. Niko is too much of a good guy underneath it all.

    Is there any chance of talking them out of it?


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,584 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    Explain to your parents that all the controversy is simply media nonsense from people who have not played the game. Let them watch the game for a few minutes while you do some of the nicer activities, such as bringing your girlfriend to a nice Italian restuarant. Just don't try your luck when you drop her home. Ahem.

    But really, GTA is only as ****ed up as you make it. Playing through it straight involves little muderising of prostitutes. Seems the 'journalists' and other media folk who decide to have an agenda against the game simply play it with the goal of trying to stir some **** up, and create some out of context gameplay clips to shock the public.

    Shame that such a wonderfully realised game has such a bad rep. Yeah, the dodgy content is there, but it is 18s for a reason.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,944 ✭✭✭Jay P


    dazftw wrote: »
    Yea no hooker gets axed to death??

    How old are you OP?

    EDIT 17.. Well its not to bad for a 17 year old I suppose it is pretty bad with some violent and dirty stuff. Theres no axing of prostitute.. You should try convince your mam and dad again.. Cant be having you miss out on a great game now...

    Thanks. I'll show this to them in a while.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,145 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    Yep, completed it... haven't seen any axe murdered hoe's at all.
    In fact I've gone through the game having not picked up even a single prostitute... they're not central to the game at all, I don't know why anyone even pays attention to them.
    People who haven't actually played the game, obviously.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,944 ✭✭✭Jay P


    Explain to your parents that all the controversy is simply media nonsense from people who have not played the game. Let them watch the game for a few minutes while you do some of the nicer activities, such as bringing your girlfriend to a nice Italian restuarant. Just don't try your luck when you drop her home. Ahem.

    But really, GTA is only as ****ed up as you make it. Playing through it straight involves little muderising of prostitutes. Seems the 'journalists' and other media folk who decide to have an agenda against the game simply play it with the goal of trying to stir some **** up, and create some out of context gameplay clips to shock the public.

    Shame that such a wonderfully realised game has such a bad rep. Yeah, the dodgy content is there, but it is 18s for a reason.

    I tried the Gerry Ryan line, saying he's full of crap and actually doesn'y know what he's talking about because I'm sure that's where she heard it from because he's the the reason I couldn't get San Andreas, but they were more concerned with this "content" which doesn't actually exist.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,416 ✭✭✭Zico


    Jesus man, throw out the box and say you sold it, mope around in a sulk like someone just took away your favourite toy and keep playing, say it's Grand Turismo they're not going to know the difference. I remember my mum tried to punish me for something by stopping me using my Amiga 500 (long time ago). She couldn't hide the whole thing so she picked what looked like an important part, the wire that connected to the TV and hid it. I sulked in my room for two weeks, playing away with the sound off and the wire from old set of head phones connecting CPU to TV. Don't think she ever copped it.:p


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,944 ✭✭✭Jay P


    Zico wrote: »
    Jesus man, throw out the box and say you sold it, mope around in a sulk like someone just took away your favourite toy and keep playing, say it's Grand Turismo they're not going to know the difference. I remember my mum tried to punish me for something by stopping me using my Amiga 500 (long time ago). She couldn't hide the whole thing so she picked what looked like an important part, the wire that connected to the TV and hid it. I sulked in my room for two weeks, playing away with the sound off and the wire from old set of head phones connecting CPU to TV. Don't think she ever copped it.:p

    Yeah, I dunno if that will work, they're annoyingly up to date on today's technology. It's worth a try though. I'd have to hide the box anyway cos my younger brothers aren't allowed play


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,244 ✭✭✭Rowley Birkin QC


    As said above just keep it, very easily done.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    Jay P wrote: »
    Yeah, I dunno if that will work, they're annoyingly up to date on today's technology. It's worth a try though. I'd have to hide the box anyway cos my younger brothers aren't allowed play

    Surely you can trick them...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,892 ✭✭✭grimm2005


    yeah, its all media nonsense, half the stuff they say isn't possible in the game and the other half can easily be avoided alltogether unless you go out of your way to do it. I guarantee if all the people in the game were aliens or monsters instead that the game wouldnt have nearly a bad rep as it gets now, if any.

    Also i bet they wouldnt prohibit you from watching a gangster film like goodfellas or casino which involve a lot of killing etc


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,661 ✭✭✭✭Helix


    Jay P wrote: »
    Okay, this isn't a teenage-why-are-my-parents-so-gay-i hate-them-so-much rant. I just want to make that clear. Anyhoo, mammy and daddy found out that therres some part in the game where a prostitute gets raped and axed to death and they don't want that kind of thing in the house so I have to get rid of it, anyone know of anywhere with good deals to trade it in?

    have you got a bible in your house?

    tell them youre not getting rid of gta while theres a copy of the bible which contains far worse and more violent atrocities sitting in your house


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,944 ✭✭✭Jay P


    Helix wrote: »
    have you got a bible in your house?

    tell them youre not getting rid of gta while theres a copy of the bible which contains far worse and more violent atrocities sitting in your house

    Sounds good. Examples please!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    What are you doing with an over 18's game if you are 17. I agree with your parents on this one.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,944 ✭✭✭Jay P


    Mossy Monk wrote: »
    What are you doing with an over 18's game if you are 17. I agree with your parents on this one.

    I don't want to be mean or a bstrd but I wasn't asking about the morals of the game or wether they were right or wrong to stop me playing it. The thread was originally about selling it before moving on to how to keep it without them finding out.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    My point is not a valid one?


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,944 ✭✭✭Jay P


    Mossy Monk wrote: »
    My point is not a valid one?

    It is yes but I wasn't asking about wether I should be allowed have it or not


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,661 ✭✭✭✭Helix


    Jay P wrote: »
    Sounds good. Examples please!!!

    Judges 19:22-29 While they were enjoying themselves, some of the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they shouted to the old man who owned the house, "Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex with him."

    The owner of the house went outside and said to them, "No, my friends, don't be so vile. Since this man is my guest, don't do this disgraceful thing. Look, here is my virgin daughter, and his concubine. I will bring them out to you now, and you can use them and do to them whatever you wish. But to this man, don't do such a disgraceful thing."

    But the men would not listen to him. So the man took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go. At daybreak the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, fell down at the door and lay there until daylight.

    When her master got up in the morning and opened the door of the house and stepped out to continue on his way, there lay his concubine, fallen in the doorway of the house, with her hands on the threshold. He said to her, "Get up; let's go." But there was no answer. Then the man put her on his donkey and set out for home.

    When he reached home, he took a knife and cut up his concubine, limb by limb, into twelve parts and sent them into all the areas of Israel.


    Numbers 31:7-18

    They attacked Midian just as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed all the men. All five of the Midianite kings – Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba – died in the battle. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword. Then the Israelite army captured the Midianite women and children and seized their cattle and flocks and all their wealth as plunder. They burned all the towns and villages where the Midianites had lived. After they had gathered the plunder and captives, both people and animals, they brought them all to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and to the whole community of Israel, which was camped on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan River, across from Jericho.

    Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the people went to meet them outside the camp. But Moses was furious with all the military commanders who had returned from the battle. "Why have you let all the women live?" he demanded. "These are the very ones who followed Balaam's advice and caused the people of Israel to rebel against the LORD at Mount Peor. They are the ones who caused the plague to strike the LORD's people. Now kill all the boys and all the women who have slept with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves.


    Deuteronomy 20:10-14

    As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor. But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town. But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.


    Deuteronomy 22:28-29

    If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,528 ✭✭✭TomCo


    Bah, just run your parents over in a car.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,739 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    TomCo wrote: »
    Bah, just run your parents over in a car.

    But only after they make you get rid of it!!!! Then you can say something along the lines of Not having GTA made you do it!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    OP, I'll trade you Time Crisis 4 with the gun for it if you're interested. Providing your parents don't mind a fake orange gun being in the house that is. Provided it's a PS3 copy of course.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    Mossy Monk wrote: »
    What are you doing with an over 18's game if you are 17. I agree with your parents on this one.

    someone call the cops


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,528 ✭✭✭TomCo


    krudler wrote: »
    someone call the cops

    then run them over and steal their car.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,099 ✭✭✭the whole year inn


    grow a set of balls it a game for ffs ,as ever 1 said they is alot worse out there,if you want give it to a friend.No offenice to you !trade it to gamestop or game etc of you want rid of it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,586 ✭✭✭cedomination


    Nice one,giving/selling it to a friend is a actually a really good idea.


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