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surge.gamer's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PC)
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| [January 21, 2009 10:27:54 AM]
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This log is from this morning:
While playing the game this morning I went on a spree of trying to ride around on top of cars while they are moving. This is something I always find amusing simply because of the reactions of the people inside the cars. I often times carry a baseball bat and start beating on the hood of the car when the driver doesn't start going. Usually that causes them to peel out and veer off the road. This doesn't always end well for CJ, who sometimes ends up being run over or simply falling to the side and getting hurt.
This doesn't necessarily involve any kind of moral implications, but if the driver speeds off while CJ is on the car and I didn't do anything it poses the question: Does the AI have a moral system? The answer to this is of course yes, but in regards to your character, the AI can do whatever it pleases, however if you so much as punch someone, it can cause an entire gang of thugs to come after you or draw the police to you as well.
As my final entry, I figure that reflecting on the situation brought up by games like GTA would be prudent. As in our class discussion, game makers are constantly under scrutiny for what is portrayed in their games. GTA was originally somewhat cartoony and unrealistic, but with the birth of GTA4, the game entered a whole new realm. The level of realism and grit of the game increased exponentially, even though at times, it is still obviously fiction. With the new higher power gaming systems on the market, the line between reality and game is getting more and more blurred as the worlds created grow to be more and more like our own. At what point will things start becoming so detailed they are virtual reality, with full body immersion and sensory assault? As a game design major, these are questions and possibilities that need to be thought about as the game industry evolves.
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| [January 21, 2009 10:16:46 AM]
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This log is for late last night.
This time when I decided to play the game I decided to enjoy playing basketball near CJ's house at the beginning of the game. The basketball can be kind of boring, but it is also fun for a bit when you haven't played for a while or when you are looking for something to do to kill time.
After I finished playing basketball, I found a hand gun and worked on some of my shooting skills. Practicing blowing pedestrians' heads off. This is senseless killing, and I am consciously participating in it, but does it make me a bad person? I do not believe so.
GTA is one of the most notorious games for promoting senseless killing. The sandbox environment gives the users the ability to give in to their own sick fantasies that they could not ever do in real life. Granted, most times after these long killing sprees, the player ends up being killed because of a high wanted level and ridiculous law enforcement units.
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| [January 19, 2009 03:02:43 AM]
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First off the game is a bit different than previous GTA's. You start off in the ghetto with your home boys in your crib and this is after you return home after being away for a while. The primary focus of the storyline in GTA:SA is centered around the role of gang warfare and "turf." Another thing about the game that is different is the added ability to customize CJ's physique (I have played/beaten this game before).
Being a GTA vet and having a full save of the game, I immediately decided to go to the downtown area of Los Santos so I could go to the roof of the central building and sky dive directly into the ground with my face. I always find this amusing. In regards to morals, I suppose this brings up the thoughts of suicide. What right do I have to send the protagonist to his painful and messy death on the pavement? At this point, it doesn't matter, as I have respawned and now am intent on running down some pedestrians in my El Camino.
As we discussed in class this is something that is socially wrong, however the fact that the action is done in an enclosed virtual environment removes the gamer from the action, as there are no real consequences. It is a point often argued about super-violent video games. Do they or do they not affect the gamers who play them? Are teens desensitized by the graphic nature of the mature rated video games that are available?
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