**This is not suitable for young children.*, is how one of my local news anchors described the horrible, bloody, racist video game that may be lurking in your Playstation RIGHT NOW.
Way to stay on top of things there Mr. Diaz.
I like this Onion ready quote by local loser, John Difenderfer:
I think he may even have been wearing a robe as he sat in front of his TV while he said this.
It’s sweeps month, isn’t it?
I am so buying this game when I go to Saipan this month.
Aw, he’s just upset that some guy named Diaz gets capped in the game.
WTF? I haven’t played Vice City, but I’ve tooled around in GTA3 for a while, and unless things have changed radically, the next mission’ll have him swinging bats at the Yakuza or the Hoodz.
Oh! Whaddya know! It hasn’t.
Ya know what? I’ll agree this game is racist, but against the Haitians? If it’s like GTA3 then they have bats!!! Even the frick’n Columbians with their machine guns are worse. And how about the damned Mafia?! They all have shotguns! If they get pissed at you, you can’t even drive past a bistro without having your car blown the hell up!
And what’s with “Players are instructed to exterminate an entire ethnic group!” Guess I’ll have to buy Halo or Battlefield or Bloodrayne or LOTR. I’d never have to exterminate an ethnic group in those. :rolleyes:
Man, my post is longer than the OP. Fine - just to make him happy, I’m loading up GTA3 and taking out only the grannies. 
Hmm. I don’t know about racist. You get to waste people of all colors.
But still, I did pretty much hate the Haitians in that game. Screwing with your mind with their voodoo soup, loitering all over your counterfeiting shop…and those Ogdamned RC planes! If anybody was begging for a driveby…
The Cubans rock though. Except Rico.
Exactly my point. (Note the question mark at the end. ;))
Isn’t the game like, rated MA or something anyway?
If parents can’t see that and get a hit from the clue-bat not to give it to their kids, then I don’t think some journalist trying to get paid to play video games is gonna make a difference.
“You’ve got BIG cajones man. All my friends have big cajones.”
“I think you have to have a strong mind to be able to play this game and not want to go out and kill people."
I think you have to have pretty goddamn weak mind to think that. Fucking idiot. If you think it takes strength to not kill because of a video game, I hope you Darwinized before you reproduce.
I saw the Vice City commercial the other day, and remembered that my roomie had finished it and it has been gathering dust along with his PS2 for a few months now. I was a big fan of GTA3, and I never played Vice, so wish me luck.
Just remember— it is chockfull of killing, and blowing people’s heads off and anti-Haitian (not to mention anti-female, Italian and Cuban) violence. There’s plenty of drug references. Oh, and porn. Let’s not forget the porn missions.
I really feel kind of bad for the Haitian clergy man Mr. Diaz made view the Haitian missions. He was genuinely shocked and appalled by GTA Vice City and I can’t blame him. He got to view the missions completely out of context and did not understand the depth of total depravity of Vice City. All he got to see was (Diaz? I don’t remember who actually said “Kill all the Haitians!!!” in the game) those particular missions. The only conclusion he could possibly come up with was that Rockstar really, really hates Haitians and wishes them all blown to smithereens with an Uzi.
That’s some amazing journalistic integrity. Anybody who’s not out looking to get offended by something (and if that’s you, these are probably not the games for you anyway) can tell pretty clearly that “the Haitians” you’re instructed to wipe out is obviously referring to the Haitian gang, not everybody of Haitian descent. I’m pretty sure there’s plenty of “kill all the Cubans” talk in the opposing set of missions, again with “Cubans” referring to a gang. Not that it isn’t all about killing lots of people, but anyone trying to say the game is about genocide is either a fucking idiot or, more likely, just trying to shock.
Well, it is sweeps time again.
Slow? I’ve owned this game since it came out for PC and I STILL haven’t made it to the first island (or wherever you go)
'course I guess it’s b/c I have a stack of funner games and straight dope eating up my time.
I’m going to try and finish it this weekend.
Hopefully I won’t be inclined to go on a real rampage Monday morning.
I don’t see where he gets off saying it’s got hidden messages of violence. They seem to be pretty obvious messages of violence to me.
I do have to admit that after long VC sessions I do have the urge to drive, let’s call it erratically. Also anytime I see someone on a motorcycle, I’m tempted to elbow him off his bike. Thank god for this strong mind of mine.
OK, since this is a Vice City thread, and because at least one person has mentioned playing it on the PC – I’m playing on a laptop (my only computer), which does not have a separate number pad on the keyboard (does any laptop?). Everything is fine, but I can’t for the life of me switch between weapons! I have a mouse with scroll wheel, which I understand is supposed to be the switch mechanism, but it doesn’t work! And running with this damn chainsaw is a real pain in the butt. Any suggestions?
I can’t wait till this game comes out on XBox so I can rent it and try it out.
featuring the voicing talents of **Dennis Hopper, Ray Liotta, Tom Sizemore, Burt Reynolds, Lee Majors, Philp M. Thomas (of Miami Vice fame), Lawrence Taylor, Gary Busy and Jenna Jameson ** plus I get to kill hookers.
I am going to play right now and listen to some LOVE FIST!