My boyfriend picked up Grand Theft Auto V this week, and just a few days later, it's looking like I'll have a large chunk of reading time to chip away at the huge stack of books that I've let build up.
And it's sounding like Blazing Saddles is playing on a loop at my house.
There are a truly shocking number of racial slurs flying around in this game. And when I mentioned this to some friends recently, it led to a rather amusing examination of the rather arbitrary places people can draw lines. Basically, my arbitrarily drawn lines seemed to say: "Sure, sleep with a prostitute and then kill her to get your money back. Who cares? It's just a game! Wow, that's a lot of n-words."
I think it's because I have a mental image of the team of writers who probably wrote all the dialogue for this game, and that's an image that doesn't quite sit right in my mind. But yeah, I admit, my standards might be a bit goofy on this one.
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I've never played any of the titles in the franchise. Now while I'll admit that the games do have good visuals (especially the last one, obviously), the first thing a bunch of people told me they were looking forward to in the new installment was "killing hookers."
Maybe I'm old-school and boring, but it strikes me as a rather fucked-up thing to be looking forward to (above running from the law, above car chases, above gunfights?), even in a videogame.
FKL
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