Must sell GTA

Jay P

Okay, this isn't a teenage-why-are-my-parents-so-gay-i hate-them-so-much rant. I just want to make that clear. Anyhoo, mammy and daddy found out that therres some part in the game where a prostitute gets raped and axed to death and they don't want that kind of thing in the house so I have to get rid of it, anyone know of anywhere with good deals to trade it in?

sinjin_smythe

yes ,,,,, me


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ah crap just see ur in Ennis ah well

tman

Jay P wrote: »

Okay, this isn't a teenage-why-are-my-parents-so-gay-i hate-them-so-much rant.

Not gay, just incredibly gullible...

Basq

Put it up on Adverts, OP.

Jet Black

Just finished the game and did not see that.
Think someone is bullsh!ting them.

dazftw

Yea no hooker gets axed to death??

How old are you OP?

EDIT 17.. Well its not to bad for a 17 year old I suppose it is pretty bad with some violent and dirty stuff. Theres no axing of prostitute.. You should try convince your mam and dad again.. Cant be having you miss out on a great game now...

Jay P

dazftw wrote: »

Yea no hooker gets axed to death??

How old are you OP?

17. Its not my age they're worried about, it's the content. They really don't want it in the house

Ciaran500

Haven't finished it yet but a scene like that really wouldn't fit into the games story. Niko is too much of a good guy underneath it all.

Is there any chance of talking them out of it?

johnny_ultimate

Explain to your parents that all the controversy is simply media nonsense from people who have not played the game. Let them watch the game for a few minutes while you do some of the nicer activities, such as bringing your girlfriend to a nice Italian restuarant. Just don't try your luck when you drop her home. Ahem.

But really, GTA is only as ****ed up as you make it. Playing through it straight involves little muderising of prostitutes. Seems the 'journalists' and other media folk who decide to have an agenda against the game simply play it with the goal of trying to stir some **** up, and create some out of context gameplay clips to shock the public.

Shame that such a wonderfully realised game has such a bad rep. Yeah, the dodgy content is there, but it is 18s for a reason.

Jay P

dazftw wrote: »

Yea no hooker gets axed to death??

How old are you OP?

EDIT 17.. Well its not to bad for a 17 year old I suppose it is pretty bad with some violent and dirty stuff. Theres no axing of prostitute.. You should try convince your mam and dad again.. Cant be having you miss out on a great game now...

Thanks. I'll show this to them in a while.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Yep, completed it... haven't seen any axe murdered hoe's at all.
In fact I've gone through the game having not picked up even a single prostitute... they're not central to the game at all, I don't know why anyone even pays attention to them.
People who haven't actually played the game, obviously.

Jay P

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Explain to your parents that all the controversy is simply media nonsense from people who have not played the game. Let them watch the game for a few minutes while you do some of the nicer activities, such as bringing your girlfriend to a nice Italian restuarant. Just don't try your luck when you drop her home. Ahem.

But really, GTA is only as ****ed up as you make it. Playing through it straight involves little muderising of prostitutes. Seems the 'journalists' and other media folk who decide to have an agenda against the game simply play it with the goal of trying to stir some **** up, and create some out of context gameplay clips to shock the public.

Shame that such a wonderfully realised game has such a bad rep. Yeah, the dodgy content is there, but it is 18s for a reason.

I tried the Gerry Ryan line, saying he's full of crap and actually doesn'y know what he's talking about because I'm sure that's where she heard it from because he's the the reason I couldn't get San Andreas, but they were more concerned with this "content" which doesn't actually exist.

Zico

Jesus man, throw out the box and say you sold it, mope around in a sulk like someone just took away your favourite toy and keep playing, say it's Grand Turismo they're not going to know the difference. I remember my mum tried to punish me for something by stopping me using my Amiga 500 (long time ago). She couldn't hide the whole thing so she picked what looked like an important part, the wire that connected to the TV and hid it. I sulked in my room for two weeks, playing away with the sound off and the wire from old set of head phones connecting CPU to TV. Don't think she ever copped it.:p

Jay P

Zico wrote: »

Jesus man, throw out the box and say you sold it, mope around in a sulk like someone just took away your favourite toy and keep playing, say it's Grand Turismo they're not going to know the difference. I remember my mum tried to punish me for something by stopping me using my Amiga 500 (long time ago). She couldn't hide the whole thing so she picked what looked like an important part, the wire that connected to the TV and hid it. I sulked in my room for two weeks, playing away with the sound off and the wire from old set of head phones connecting CPU to TV. Don't think she ever copped it.:p

Yeah, I dunno if that will work, they're annoyingly up to date on today's technology. It's worth a try though. I'd have to hide the box anyway cos my younger brothers aren't allowed play

Rowley Birkin QC

As said above just keep it, very easily done.

LegacyUser

Jay P wrote: »

Yeah, I dunno if that will work, they're annoyingly up to date on today's technology. It's worth a try though. I'd have to hide the box anyway cos my younger brothers aren't allowed play

Surely you can trick them...

grimm2005

yeah, its all media nonsense, half the stuff they say isn't possible in the game and the other half can easily be avoided alltogether unless you go out of your way to do it. I guarantee if all the people in the game were aliens or monsters instead that the game wouldnt have nearly a bad rep as it gets now, if any.

Also i bet they wouldnt prohibit you from watching a gangster film like goodfellas or casino which involve a lot of killing etc

Helix

Jay P wrote: »

Okay, this isn't a teenage-why-are-my-parents-so-gay-i hate-them-so-much rant. I just want to make that clear. Anyhoo, mammy and daddy found out that therres some part in the game where a prostitute gets raped and axed to death and they don't want that kind of thing in the house so I have to get rid of it, anyone know of anywhere with good deals to trade it in?

have you got a bible in your house?

tell them youre not getting rid of gta while theres a copy of the bible which contains far worse and more violent atrocities sitting in your house

Jay P

Helix wrote: »

have you got a bible in your house?

tell them youre not getting rid of gta while theres a copy of the bible which contains far worse and more violent atrocities sitting in your house

Sounds good. Examples please!!!

Mossy Monk

What are you doing with an over 18's game if you are 17. I agree with your parents on this one.

Jay P

Mossy Monk wrote: »

What are you doing with an over 18's game if you are 17. I agree with your parents on this one.

I don't want to be mean or a bstrd but I wasn't asking about the morals of the game or wether they were right or wrong to stop me playing it. The thread was originally about selling it before moving on to how to keep it without them finding out.

Mossy Monk

My point is not a valid one?

Jay P

Mossy Monk wrote: »

My point is not a valid one?

It is yes but I wasn't asking about wether I should be allowed have it or not

Helix

Jay P wrote: »

Sounds good. Examples please!!!

Judges 19:22-29 While they were enjoying themselves, some of the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they shouted to the old man who owned the house, "Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex with him."

The owner of the house went outside and said to them, "No, my friends, don't be so vile. Since this man is my guest, don't do this disgraceful thing. Look, here is my virgin daughter, and his concubine. I will bring them out to you now, and you can use them and do to them whatever you wish. But to this man, don't do such a disgraceful thing."

But the men would not listen to him. So the man took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go. At daybreak the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, fell down at the door and lay there until daylight.

When her master got up in the morning and opened the door of the house and stepped out to continue on his way, there lay his concubine, fallen in the doorway of the house, with her hands on the threshold. He said to her, "Get up; let's go." But there was no answer. Then the man put her on his donkey and set out for home.

When he reached home, he took a knife and cut up his concubine, limb by limb, into twelve parts and sent them into all the areas of Israel.

Numbers 31:7-18

They attacked Midian just as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they killed all the men. All five of the Midianite kings – Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba – died in the battle. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword. Then the Israelite army captured the Midianite women and children and seized their cattle and flocks and all their wealth as plunder. They burned all the towns and villages where the Midianites had lived. After they had gathered the plunder and captives, both people and animals, they brought them all to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and to the whole community of Israel, which was camped on the plains of Moab beside the Jordan River, across from Jericho.

Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the people went to meet them outside the camp. But Moses was furious with all the military commanders who had returned from the battle. "Why have you let all the women live?" he demanded. "These are the very ones who followed Balaam's advice and caused the people of Israel to rebel against the LORD at Mount Peor. They are the ones who caused the plague to strike the LORD's people. Now kill all the boys and all the women who have slept with a man. Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for yourselves.

Deuteronomy 20:10-14

As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor. But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town. But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.

Deuteronomy 22:28-29

If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her.

TomCo

Bah, just run your parents over in a car.

minidazzler

TomCo wrote: »

Bah, just run your parents over in a car.

But only after they make you get rid of it!!!! Then you can say something along the lines of Not having GTA made you do it!!!

Rb

OP, I'll trade you Time Crisis 4 with the gun for it if you're interested. Providing your parents don't mind a fake orange gun being in the house that is. Provided it's a PS3 copy of course.

krudler

Mossy Monk wrote: »

What are you doing with an over 18's game if you are 17. I agree with your parents on this one.

someone call the cops

TomCo

krudler wrote: »

someone call the cops

then run them over and steal their car.

the whole year inn

grow a set of balls it a game for ffs ,as ever 1 said they is alot worse out there,if you want give it to a friend.No offenice to you !trade it to gamestop or game etc of you want rid of it.

cedomination

Nice one,giving/selling it to a friend is a actually a really good idea.

faceman

Poor OP, no point it telling him to give his parents grief, he has to respect their views and rules.

Im with the posters who say to show your parents a few mins of playing the game. And just do friendly activities!

robinph

faceman wrote: »

And just do friendly activities!

Other than the bowling/ pool/ darts what is there that could be considered totally safe to show the parents? I suppose going to Cluckin' Bell is a bit safer to show them in this version than in SA as the staff are a bit less abusive and hoping you choke on their product.

Nailz

OP, I feel sorry for you, but don't blame your mother and father for their gullibility on this particular topic. It's only natural for them to look after you in anyway possible, but they are sadly mistaken and easily fooled by it's reputation. All the same though, you have to be proud that they are thinking of you. You can show them many different views of posters here to persuade them to letting you keep it, or you can show them the game as many other people suggested. There is no scene in the game as other people said, the game is played as you want to play it, not the way Gerry "You Fat Twat" Ryan thinks it's played.

Niko is a good guy, just forced into the criminal world, it's not criminals acting like criminals for the sake of being criminals. Make that clear to them. Infact, if you want a lend of one particular banned game I own, I could give you it, just to show it could be worse violence and sickness wise. It's for the PSP though. But OP, good luck, don't let what your parents don't know of the game bring you down.

icemanjimbo04

Personaly id find a way to keep it, but the best way to get rid of it is to tell your parents you cant sell it and ask them to bring it back for a refund. Your parents will get a refund straight away if the shop thinks it was sold to someone under 18..

And if they dont bring it back maybe you can keep it!!

LegacyUser

Nailz wrote: »

OP, I feel sorry for you, but don't blame your mother and father for their gullibility on this particular topic. It's only natural for them to look after you in anyway possible, but they are sadly mistaken and easily fooled by it's reputation. All the same though, you have to be proud that they are thinking of you. You can show them many different views of posters here to persuade them to letting you keep it, or you can show them the game as many other people suggested. There is no scene in the game as other people said, the game is played as you want to play it, not the way Gerry "You Fat Twat" Ryan thinks it's played.

Niko is a good guy, just forced into the criminal world, it's not criminals acting like criminals for the sake of being criminals. Make that clear to them. Infact, if you want a lend of one particular banned game I own, I could give you it, just to show it could be worse violence and sickness wise. It's for the PSP though. But OP, good luck, don't let what your parents don't know of the game bring you down.

You can not be serious. What age are you??? This post is so emotional...that it should be in Personal Issues.

Niko is a good guy, just forced into the criminal world, it's not criminals acting like criminals for the sake of being criminals. Make that clear to them.

And then his parents will put him in an asylum for being a headcase. Niko is not real. He is a character...talking like he is real will make his parents think he is ****ed in the head.

Cunny-Funt

Jesus relax the kacks cheesedude :rolleyes:

LegacyUser

I'm serious though, if i went and told my parents who had the same view as that of the OP, that stuff about how Niko is a good guy and he was forced into the criminal world...they would think I'm a ****ing headcase...just saying it how it is.

*Awaits comment how my parents are the idiots and i'm just being unreasonable and insensitive...

Nailz

Cool it Cheesedude, this is not how I feel. It's just something to help him convince his parents to keep it, I'm not serious or anything. Why would your parents think you're a "headcase" because of it, it's not as if they know the actual story line is it? BTW I'm 22.

Jay P

Wow, many responses in my absence, where to start...I wont do the quotes because I'm really lazy. Oh and I've decided to do the teenage thing and rebel against them by keeping it without telkling them I'm so bold!

1st: Helix.

Love the quote. I will certainly use that if needs be.


Nailz:

That approach won't work, but thanks anyway. They are a bit faster than that, they have seen some of the violent parts already so there isn't much I can do.


rb_ie:

No thanks, I have an xbox not a gheystation.

FruitLover

Mossy Monk wrote: »

What are you doing with an over 18's game if you are 17. I agree with your parents on this one.

Yeah, because that (less than) one year makes all the difference in emotional maturity...

TomCo

Jay P wrote: »

No thanks, I have an xbox not a gheystation.

lol, gheystation 1111

Nailz

Jay P wrote: »

Nailz:

That approach won't work, but thanks anyway. They are a bit faster than that, they have seen some of the violent parts already so there isn't much I can do.

No bother, but you're right, that won't work one bit! And I'll go back on my previous post; You're also right Cheesedude, that was a terribly stupid thing to say. What an awfully gay thing to say... I honestly have to stop listening to the Smiths! And compliments to Helix, that's clever. Jay P, do your parents know that theres no such thing as what they heard? Just make that clear to them before anything else, because that's what started this thing, isn't it?

Sod'o swords

Bah i just explained to my mam that i could be up to much worse.
Then showed her a bit of the game, screw the nice parts, i mowed down people then suicide bombed a hospital.
Needless to say she left the room....

LegacyUser

Sod'o swords wrote: »

Bah i just explained to my mam that i could be to much worse.
Then showed her a bit of the game, screw the nice parts, i mowed down people then suicide bombed a hospital.
Needless to say she left the room....

lol that's hilarious

Jay P

Sod'o swords wrote: »

Bah i just explained to my mam that i could be up to much worse.
Then showed her a bit of the game, screw the nice parts, i mowed down people then suicide bombed a hospital.
Needless to say she left the room....

Ha ha! Brilliant! I think they've accepted I'm not getting rid of it so panic = over

Nailz

Good to hear, enjoy your gaming!