I think there’s a demand for violent video games. I don’t really play video games anymore, but I see… without fail… a few call of duty, assassins creed, battlefield etc advertised almost every year
Clearly there must be a huge demand for these shooter type/graphically violent, adventurous video games. Rockstar is STILL pouring endless resources into grand theft auto online… GTA V came out in 2013, there’s still a huge player base
I never particuarly understood why GTA V was so great. I played through it when I was around fourteen (oh no… tHiNk oF tHe ChIlDrEn).
Plenty of parents in America were up in arms over the sexual content present within the game. I don’t think they understood an adolescent has access to explicit sexual material over the internet at the click of a mouse that is far more graphic than GTA could ever be.
If anything, they should probably be more worried about the graphic violence and drug use present within the game. Sexuality isn’t an inherently sinful prospect. Hard drug use and violence teeters on antisocial behaviour.
Quite frankly I don’t think any of it matters as it’s just a video game. But if I was going to be worried about something present within the game it’d be the violence/ability to massacre innocent civilians and the interactive drug use. Not the pair of pixelated boobs you can see in a strip club.
Last video game I played was TLOU2, before that it was RDR2. TLOU2 had the SJW influence. Whilst not a bad game, the story really forced through a massive sub plot regarding Ellie being a lesbian, having a GF and them having a child together. What’s more the second protagonist you play as for the second half of the game is clearly designed to “challenge the standards of what a female purportedly should look like”… but she’s muscular as FUCK. Seriously she has 3D delts and traps, a thick neck, large arms and throws grown men around.
In comparison to the first game, Ellie also takes on a more masculine looking appearance. I thought it was amusing. Great game regardless
I remember playing GTA 1 as a kid and my parents banned me from it for years, yet I was still allowed to play first person shooters. I’m still confused by that. I think it’s because of the nature of the game that gets people worked up about it - you’re playing as a criminal and running over bystanders with cars. But if you’re just blasting Nazis in some FPS then no one cares.
Interesting, when I lived in America the problem parents had with it was the strip club fiasco/the ability to hire a prostitute for thirty seconds of simulated sex… no one appeared to have an issue with the violence. It was the sexual content
I found it amusing that a parent would allow their child to play wolfenstein, but not GTA. Wolfenstein: the new order is far more disturbing/graphic
Yeah you get my point. You don’t spend 200 million dollars to develop a video game, hire hundreds of staff and build and troubleshoot shit for years on end because you want to influence people the wrong way.
You do it because you think that’s what people WANT and they’ll pay MONEY for it.
If parents are worried about certain content, don’t buy it for your kid. Know who the fuck your kids are mixing with and get on good terms with their parents so you know whose house you shouldn’t let your kid go over to especially if they’re degenerate liberal hippy snowflakes who let their kids watch Cardi B vids on their 60inch smart tv in 4k all day.
I’ve played GTA for like an hour and I was bored. The novelty of virtually beating up random people wore off in like 15 mins lol. Not into video games at all.
On the other hand if you are an adolescent it’s best to get in good with the kids who have liberal snowflake parents. They let you do whatever you want when you visit.
GTA 1 and 2 caused a pretty big uproar when they came out and they didn’t really have any sexual element to them as they had shitty graphics and were played from a birds-eye view, unlike GTA 3 and beyond. The sexual element was introduced in 3 and led it to being banned or censored in certain countries. Then San Andreas had the Hot Coffee mod which made global headlines.
Compared to a lot of other games and movies I really don’t see the big deal, but people will get up in arms about anything, even dumb shit like banning Harry Potter because it’s “against Jesus” or something.
Have any of you watched or at least heard of Hong Kong movies like Infernal Affairs and the Young and Dangerous series?
When they made these movies, they’d make 2 versions of the endings. This was because the bad guys always won in the end.
The first version would have the bad guys winning. Like what happened in The Departed(remake of Infernal Affairs) if Marky Mark didn’t appear at the end to shoot Matt Damon.
The second version would be for bypassing censorship or acquiring the right to screen these movies in several overseas markets in Asia, where there’d be comical abrupt cuts to a black screen right before the ending with words stating all the main bad guys who won were sentenced to 20-30 years in prison.
This happened in FIVE sequels to Young and Dangerous. Since sequels were part of one long story, all the main characters appeared despite having been sentenced to life imprisonment in all the endings of the previous instalments.
It was funny as fuck.
But it did BALLS. Nothing changed because of this.
These movies were REFLECTIONS of what was going on in society during that era, NOT inciting violence in society. Otherwise they wouldn’t have made 2 endings just to maximize profits and piss the audience in all the other countries off.
There’s another one that surfed on their success, and plays the same kind of old school heavy metal and questionable imagery (and it is actually quite good): EdelweiSS
@unreal24278 You expressed interest in HK movies last month right?
This is from A Moment of Romance, every adolescent kid’s favourite movie in the early 90s. Rock song by a band called Beyond, one of my favorite bands… It’s mostly a gangster flick despite the title.
Figured since there’s lots of death metal in this thread along with some mumble rap, people don’t really care if they understand what the singer’s actually singing lol.
This is some serious psychedelic rock/stoner metal
They just might become a guilty pleasure of mine. Difficult to justify listening to given the nazi symbolism/imagery. Is it tongue in cheek (i.e naziploitation) or are they serious?
the only band I listen to of which is definitely anti-Semitic and/or associated with national socialist black metal would be Burzum.
I recall the Notre Dame fires. Some guy on YouTube compiled Burzums “dunkelheight” over footage of the church burning, as if it was the music video for the song. I found this darkly comical given the association with black metal (esp from the Varg Vikernes era) with church arson… along with how the video was just in such bad taste. Compiled almost directly after the fires
The YouTube channel is called “atmospheric black metal”. I’m not going to directly link the video on here. Watch in 144p-240p for the true black metal
experience
I like Handmade Cities, but I really haven’t heard anything I don’t like by this dude tbh
I can see that about Rudess - BUT the first 4 albums with Rudess are pretty awesome (Scenes through Octavarium).
RE: their singer - there’s a reason I have zero desire to see them live. I’ve watched a few clips and he’s just atrocious. I don’t think he sounds bad on their studio records…
Preach. I remember my dad pushing Rainbow on me when i was a teenage and I just wasn’t interested. Only later when I learned who was in the band did I listen to them. They are/were underrated AF.
Dude was my inspiration for becoming a singer - I wish he wasn’t such a dick offstage though. I love singing Wasted Time and for some reason it doesn’t hurt my voice to do it.
Going back to the beginning for me is going to Iron Maiden. I’m too young to have caught them at their 1-album-a-year peak in the 80’s, so I caught them right when Bruce and Adrian came back in the 2000’s. They were the first concert ticket I ever bought - saw them on the Somewhere Back in Time tour in '08 and then again last year. First song that I heard from them was These Colours Don’t Run and it’s still a staple for me today.
Also, Brave New World and A Matter of Life and Death are hugely underrated albums. They’re aggressive and proggy at the same time and still feel like Maiden.
Lately I’ve been really into southern metal in the vein of Down, Corrosion of Conformity, Black Label Society, Pantera, and some lesser-known bands. Hard part there is finding bands that aren’t just worshipping the confederacy.
