Quote: Scottidog @ November 15 2009, 3:00 PM GMTSociety was damaged long before video games.
I'm guessing they continually refer to GTA.
I don't think youngsters in the uk can copy the violence and crime from that game.
GTA: Stoke on Trent. doesn't have he same ring to it, kids driving about in an old mini metro, throwing coke cans at the elderly and trying to pick up glamorous hookers off the street just ain't gonna happen.
It's amusing that they always namecheck GTA since it's actually an extremely moral game. It's difficult to shoot more than a couple of people outside of a mission without getting a wanted level, you always get busted if you drink drive and even starting a fist fight with a tramp can get you shot.
Because they don't play them, these moral guardians fail to understand that most games habitually reinforce moral codes and behaviours, rather than encouraging people to reject them.
I would bet that GTA 4 has discouraged a sizeable number of kids from getting motorbikes (by showing how easily you die) and that alone makes it worth all the hookers they've run over to get their money back.
