April 09, 2008
People, mostly from a hypocritical and pseudo moralistic standpoint, talk a lot of crap about games like GTA. Which in my opinion is a true masterpiece of contemporary culture, with maybe only World of Warcraft rivaling it for relevance. But what I plan to QQ about today is why people don’t attack the man who has turned gamers into a nation of baby-killers. I point the stinkfinger at you Will Wright, you and your Sims franchise. You don’t agree? We’re talking about a game that allows you to lure a women into a Jacuzzi, ply her with booze, lock her in a room, deny her food and water, and watch while she starts shitting herself and talking to aliens. Then, of course, you get to ultimately witness her death. Anyone who throws out “hot coffee” as the pinnacle of offensive game content obviously hasn’t spent enough time trolling the YouTube collection of Sims torture videos created by the legion of Jigsaw-wannabes out there.
So, look, I like The Sims. For a dude like me, it’s fun for about a week’s worth of gaming. But I am sick of the double standard that the ESRB places on games. I’m sick of all the negative flak that companies like Rockstar attract. That shit affects the creative process almost as much as a hostile takeover. The Sims allows you to lock adults in burning rooms without exits, drown your avatars in pools and torture infants. I say no more Will Wright; you have made your last game where you can burn babies on the family BBQ and peddle it to our youth. I also have to say well fucking done. It’s not to easy to slide something like that past the censors.
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