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| Grand Theft Auto to lose racist comments |
| Sunday, December 14, 2003 at 21:51 by Rich Kavanagh |
Take Two Software have agreed to remove potentially racist comments from its Grand Theft Auto series of games.
The firm received complaints from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) who claimed the game made stereotypical references to both Cubans and Haitians.
A statement made by both Rockstar Games and Take Two, said,
"We offer our sincerest apologies to the Haitian people and Government of Haiti for any offense that may have been caused by statements made in the video game. We will remove the objectionable statements from future copies of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City."
Abraham H. Foxman, National Director for the ADL said,
"Take Two have done the responsible thing by showing sensitivity and by removing all of the offensive language from future versions of the game. We welcome their decision to take corrective action in this case, and are pleased with their immediate response to our concerns."
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| Arg, I wont rant on about this or I will be here all week, But I will simply say, as a gamer. Games are not the place of political correctness, they are worlds of fantasy, an esacpe. People play games to get away from real life issues, and things like over zelous censorship. If the Cubans or the Haitains have a problem with it, then don't play the game, in the same way I don't play games that offened me. (well acttually I do, becuase I just laugh).
The world is lacking on commonsense, and is far to serious, we don't live long, have fun in that time whilst looking after the future. Instead of what is currently happerning, turning the world into a place were you can't speak your mind or laugh at a joke.
It sickens me. |
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| Prime example of something similar was The Getway game on the PS2 a while back - http://www.thegetaway.co.uk/
It was based on London gangsters, all the swearing was in, all the cockney accents, again everything stereotypical with London really.
Being born and raised in London originally, I found and took absolutely no offence at this at all. In fact, I thought it was a great take off. It's a game about London gangsters, they couldn't exactlty have them speaking the Queens English etc eh ?
This reminds me too much of the recent "Master and Slave IDE Jumper Setting" that was in the news recently, how some people found those terms (when used in relation to computer settings) offensive just beggars belief, it really, really does.
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| Well, racist comments are one thing, but that "Master and Slave" business just made me feel sad for Humanity.
Some people really will complain about anything, for the sake of it. I mean, can anything think of a way that this is offensive:
"Hi, I have a CD ROM drive that is a slave."
"My hard drive is a primary master."
What the hell does that have to do with slavery? It's a techincal term used by technical people. Aaagh! |
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| it's a game. they're gangsters, thugs and criminals, of course they're going to be swearing and making 'racist comments', it's all part of the atmosphere of the game. I cant imagine I'd be able to get into it if they said stuff like "now let's go blow their culturally diverse heads off". Besides, anyone who's gonna take the word of some drug-pushing pimp from a video game as the gospels probably shouldnt be playing GTA in the first place. |
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Shadow_Xj5 says "Games are not the place of political correctness"
I beg to differ, every place is the place for political correctness
If people have no place to hear racial comments then they have no means for reproducing them.
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| Seriously folks you should really stop being whiney sensitive babies. As a black man myself I find all this politically correctness a bunch of B.S. I for one am glad that I have an older version of the game and you all need to stop complaining about racism I don't see it in this game and if you do then you're pathetic and you really need to find something better to do with your time. Systems made a comment about the slave & master drives on the computer, first let me say that's funny second you people who find offense in that you are a bunch of losers and as pathetic as the Haitians who took offense to the game |
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| Being PC is becoming something that is blindly enforced throughout the media...What happened to the freedom of speech and expression? |
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