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RTE Article on GTA release

  • 29-04-2008 10:53am
    #1
    thebman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭


    You'll enjoy this, no copy and paste, just stop being so lazy and click the bloody link.

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0429/games.html?rss

    I especially enjoyed the bit about how the new one is a first person shooter. Can anyone confirm this? :p

    Apparently all modern games are FPS, it just means good graphics these days.


Comments

  • #2
    Vic Vinegar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,241 ✭✭✭Vic Vinegar


    Fantastic journalism as always form the tw@s at RTE! gotta love 'em! :p


  • #3
    corcaigh07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,563 ✭✭✭corcaigh07


    love the way they just dive into "delivers drugs, shoots cops, and beats up prostitutes after falling in with a crime syndicate." you dont HAVE to do these things if you dont want to.


  • #4
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,363 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    The BBC Article is a bit better

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/7372736.stm


  • #5
    thebman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭thebman


    Love that video from the first one :D


  • #6
    Vic Vinegar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,241 ✭✭✭Vic Vinegar


    I'm surprised the Daily Mail isn't doing the usual "ban this sick filth" thing that they usually do when a controversial game/movie/album is released!


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  • #7
    Mr E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,571 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    Give it a week or two for some london chav to pop a cap in someones ass, and GTA4 will be blamed - guaranteed.


  • #8
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,144 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    mountain lips wrote: »
    I'm surprised the Daily Mail isn't doing the usual "ban this sick filth" thing that they usually do when a controversial game/movie/album is released!
    And it features eastern European immigrants as well, how did they manage to miss this?


  • #9
    grizzly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,789 ✭✭✭grizzly


    mountain lips wrote: »
    I'm surprised the Daily Mail isn't doing the usual "ban this sick filth" thing that they usually do when a controversial game/movie/album is released!

    I think the popularity of this title will dissuade a lot of criticism. Papers like the Daily Mail won't go against something that has such mass popular appeal.


  • #10
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,363 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Mr E wrote: »
    Give it a week or two for some london chav to pop a cap in someones ass, and GTA4 will be blamed - guaranteed.


    It's already happened - someone in a hoody stabbed a 23 year old waiting in line to buy GTA4. Looking for a link.

    Edit: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7373348.stm


  • #11
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,144 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    I doubt it's all that popular amongst their readership though, but they have a "duty" to inform the fools that do read the rag not to buy this filth for their sweet little grandkids.


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  • #12
    Jim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,181 ✭✭✭✭Jim


    Thought the article was fairly tame myself. I assumed they'd be out with pitchforks.


  • #13
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,144 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    feylya wrote: »
    It's already happened - someone in a hoody stabbed a 23 year old waiting in line to buy GTA4. Looking for a link.

    Daily Mail of course. ;)


  • #14
    Burning Eclipse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,943 ✭✭✭Burning Eclipse


    robinph wrote: »
    Daily Mail of course. ;)

    The difference in tone between those two articles is astonishing... F'n Daily Mail, such shoddy journalism.


  • #15
    kensutz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,200 ✭✭✭kensutz


    GTA forum tbh :rolleyes:


  • #16
    RobertFoster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,281 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    robinph wrote: »
    Daily Mail of course. ;)
    I love the comments on the article:
    Well, I must admit I'd have been surprised if someone had been knifed to death while queuing to get into church.

    - Anon, Haywards Heath, W.Sussex.
    :pac: Ban this sick filth!


  • #17
    Elem
    Closed Accounts Posts: 357 ✭✭Elem


    Discusting, what a little lazy review.

    'Copy and paste'


  • #18
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,144 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    RobertFoster wrote: »
    I love the comments on the article:
    They do make the Daily Mail web page slightly worth reading, but only for the lol's. :D
    Outraged of London wrote:
    'How long' must we be forced to put up with this 'filth'...?
    Shocked of Oxford wrote:
    But why then is the participation (or training) in a murder simulator (for adults) not a crime?
    Disgusted of Hampshire wrote:
    Its time we stood shoulder to shoulder against these evil games...


  • #19
    thebman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭thebman


    There should be a law against posting or writing on topics your completely ignorant on :(


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