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Originally Posted by Scourge  I personally can't stand GTA or anything glorifying gangs. Don’t get me wrong, I happen to like rap but like I said as long as it doesn’t glorify gangs, but I have a very good reason why. MY FRIEND WAS KIDNAPPED, RAPED, AND KILLED BY A GANG!! So every time I hear anything glorifying gangs, music, games, what ever, I always think back to her... And it hurts. |
Naw naw naw. What you're probably talking about is disorganized gangs. Which are a perverse version of what they used to be. (Back then ::WAY BACK THEN:: , disorganized gangs PROTECTED the neighborhood, they KILLED drug dealers, and helped people around their area... nowadays, they've become just the opposite)
GTA4, like GTA3, GTA2, GTA, GTA: Europe, and Vice City never encouraged those kinds of gangs.
Only San Andreas encouraged those kinds of gangs.
The problem is with games like GTA3 and UP, people don't really look at the rather well-written and extremely understandable storyline.
I admit, some moments are ridiculously insane to do... but the thing is, those are really the moments you CAN'T go to the police to (at least in certain areas where you find more corrupt cops than criminals)... so they try to make the main character not so much the person you should strive to be, but what would happen if you ended up on the wrong side of the fence.
If people paid attention to the storyline, claims against video games causing violence would seem more of a joke.
(and besides, most studies prove that video games DON'T cause violence)
As for me, I'm getting the game.
... and don't associate rap with gangs, it only encourages them. Rap wasn't always for gangs.