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Sep 24th, 2009 at 14:38:33 - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (360) |
I'm a little crunched for time on this log. I played for about 45 minutes in between classes today. Today I had to rob a gas station with Catalina. I know stealing is bad, but I really have no problem doing this. It's fine because it's a video game. I'm going to keep playing this game, and i'm sure I'll do more and more morally reprehensible things as I do. They have found a way to make the character relatable to the player even though he is clearly a criminal. I think that is why this game works, otherwise it would just seem like committing crimes for no reason other than just to commit crimes. Although, that part of the game is also fun.
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Sep 24th, 2009 at 14:32:49 - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (360) |
I played San Andreas late last night, for about an hour before having to go to bed. The storyline is fun and interesting, but the real fun in this game is the rampages. Why do I get such a thrill from killing virtual people and cops? I don't think I'd want my kids playing this game. There is one mission I did last night where I had to steal some cargo for Ryder. In the intro of the mission, Ryder is going on about dropping out of school. I think he is supposed to be stoned. So in this mission, we see drugs, quitting school, and killing people in order to steal from them. These are all things that are looked down on and mostly illegal in life. So what justifies it in a video game. The rating on it is M, for Mature, which means no children should play it. However, I see kids with games like these all the time. If our kids are learning this stuff from their games then what is to stop them from doing it in life? On the other hand, how fun is this game? Yesterday I decided that I needed a car to drive around in, so like I do often in this game, I broke into one. A cop saw. I spent about 20 minutes running from and shooting at cops. I finally get arrested and then I am released...literally seconds from then in real life. I think this puts a bad idea in the minds of kids that maybe jail isn't much of a bad thing at all.
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Sep 23rd, 2009 at 19:38:48 - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (360) |
Finally, after days of searching, I found this game for the Xbox 360. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas wastes no time in getting you in the action. In one of the first few missions of the game, you, as CJ, are assigned to pull a "Drive-By" on the rival gang, called the Ballas. This game is interesting in that the protagonist is a criminal. He shoots people, as I command him to, and hangs around former inmates and gangsters. CJ is not hard to root for, however. Killing gangsters on a video game doesn't seem wrong because they're not actually dying. They are fictional. On another mission, I am assigned to drive a friend, Big Smoke, to "Unity Station". Along the way, we see some guys get on a train, and I have to chase these guys on a dirtbike and keep close enough for Smoke to shoot them. After we've killed them all, I have to get him home before the cops show up. Unfortunately, I was caught shooting and had to flee from the police, eventually getting Smoke home safely. Because the game is fictional, I had no problem killing people for no reason and running from the cops, even though I would never do that in real life. It is only wrong to kill the living, not the fictional.
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