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Apr 18th, 2012 at 12:25:08 - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS3) |
The storyline of the game is a little on the boring side; the character tries to escape his life of crime but if pulled back into it when he is accused of crimes he did not commit. This kind of goes along with what we were talking about in class about how sometimes the gamer thinks of ways that they would alter the game while they are playing it, to please them more.
Once you are introduced to the character, you are free to do whatever you please. You have the choice of choosing to do right or wrong in the game. The game is not all about being violent; you can choose to go the other direction. Just life we discussed in Red Dead Redemption you get awarded for doing good in the game, however you can also get rewarded by doing bad. So technically, there is nothing really pushing you to either, other than your own morals. I find that when you just do good things throughout the game it is not as fun. What is the point of being in this virtual world where you could do anything, so many things that you cannot really do in real life but only do good things? It just is not fun. That may sound wrong to some people, however many people get it. Most people play the game because it is just a violent one, where you really can go crazy; killing people, sleeping with prostitutes, etc.
One of the things that came to my mind while playing this game was that this is what our world would potentially be like is people could do whatever they wanted. In this game, there aren’t any rules, showing what people are capable of. It is scary to think about living in a society like this. If in real life people would get rewarded for doing bad things, I believe that people would lose all sense of morality and really just go crazy. That lead me to wonder what if the game followed a Kantian ethical system that wrong is wrong no matter what. If people no longer got rewarded for doing bad things and instead got punished for them, would that change how people behave in the game? Would that motivate people to only do good things? I really doubt that. I think when people have the choice to do good or wrong in a game, they will almost always pick the bad.
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Apr 17th, 2012 at 00:46:03 - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS3) |
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas can be a fun game to play; it is also a very controversial game to play. The game involves many issues of morality that we discussed in class. While playing this game, it is like stepping into another world; a “badass” world because pretty much anything goes. You can do whatever you want and you will not get penalized for it. I have played this game before, many years ago, but of course never really thought much about the game itself or what I was doing; you are too busy having fun to do that. In this game, there are many stereotypes shown that people usually are not drawn to pay much attention to. One of the biggest stereotypes represented is that of black people. Most African Americans in this game are committing crimes and violent acts. Most of the people in this game doing something bad, are people of color. They are portrayed as gangsters, who do whatever they want and suffer little to no consequences. They are usually hanging out in the street, showing how tough they are and that nothing scares them. This is funny to me in a way, because many white people think that this is a true representation of how African Americans really live their lives. They do not know much about them as a group of people, so instead they believe what they see in the media, cinema, etc. and make their assumptions of what they are like based off of that. If you asked someone who is more likely to rob your house, a white person or an African American, it is pretty obvious what the answer would be. This game does a very good job playing into that stereotype. The portrayal of African Americans in this game, can lead young kids or even young adults who have not been exposed to diversity, into thinking that this is what they are really like. They might not be able to distinguish the difference between reality and satirical depictions.
While playing this game, it kind of drills that stereotype into your head subliminally in a way I think. Without even putting much thought into it, you now see people of color as something bad and you know you need to watch out for them when playing this game. It is interesting to play a game just for fun and then play it with intent to look for something specific while playing it; the two experiences will be very different from one another. After talking about stereotypes in class, I looked for it throughout the game and they were easy to find; which is something I never thought much about or looked for back when I used to play the game.
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