Poll: A penis in GTA IV, your thoughts.

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Jester Lord said:
cuddly_tomato said:
A game where you can shoot innocent people dead, or beat them to a pulp with a baseball bat, and a penis is the bit causing controversy?

Does anyone recall the South Park episode "Good Times with Weapons"?
No i don't so can you tell me about it?
On topic i really don't care.
Copy pasted from wiki:-

At the South Park County Fair, the boys come across a vendor dealing "authentic weapons from the Far East". After tricking him into selling them several dangerous ninja weapons, they pretend to be ninjas, each with his own individual powers and weapons. Stan wields a pair of tonfas, Kyle a nunchaku, Cartman a pair of "killer sais" and Kenny two cheap shuriken stars. The episode's animation switches from the usual cutout-and-solid-color style to a higly stylized anime theme. Asian-style ambience plays in the background.

After showing off their weapons to unimpressed classmates, the boys encounter Butters, who asks if he can play, too. The boys refuse, so Butters goes home, dons his foil-lined helmet and becomes his alter ego, Professor Chaos, then sets off to ravage the town. Soon after an argument about the rules of having ninja powers, the boys encounter Professor Chaos, unaware it is Butters even as he challenges them to battle. They then engage in a stylized anime fight. Kyle and Stan are immobilized by Professor Chaos' web. Cartman is granted powers by Kyle(after previously revoking them)which he promptly uses to transform kyle into a chicken. The conforntation comes to a abrupt end as Kenny throws a shuriken into Professor Chaos's left eye. The animation style instantly reverts back from fast-paced anime to regular South Park, showing the real-world outcome of the boys' fight as Butters cries in pain, the shuriken lodged in his eye. The boys realize what they have done and begin to panic, trying unsuccessfully to take the star out themselves. In order to prevent Butters from dying and avoid the punishment that would inevitably follow the questions asked at a regular hospital, the boys dress Butters up (poorly) as a dog (using fur shaved off Sparky) and begin their journey to a veterinarian.

They are waylaid, however, by Craig, Token, Clyde and Jimmy, who have bought their own ninja weapons from the naïve vendor, and challenge the boys to battle. The boys hide Butters in an abandoned stove before facing off with Craig's gang, but he escapes during the fight. After an epic battle, featuring the "Let's Fighting Love" song, the boys realize that Butters has disappeared and enlist Craig's gang to help them to find him before he can tell anyone about their weapons. Butters somehow makes his way to the hospital, but his disguise fools the doctor, who sends him off to the animal shelter. The elderly, myopic and sanguinary animal doctor, also fooled, makes no attempt to treat him, preparing instead to put him to sleep. Before he can do so, however, Butters escapes.

Fearing that they have lost Butters, the boys resolve to return their weapons to the vendor (rather than throw them away and lose the money that they have spent on them) to hide the evidence, but the vendor declares that he does not give refunds. Craig and the others inform the boys that they have seen Butters wandering around on the other side of the fair auction. In a misplaced show of bravery and heroism, Cartman decides to use his power of invisibility, taking off all of his clothes, to get to Butters undetected. Since he does not really have said power, however, he exposes himself to the entire audience. Butters stumbles onto the stage a few moments later and collapses. The final scene of the episode shows the townsfolk protesting at an emergency meeting about the outrage at the auction. The boys are under the impression that the outrage in question is Butters's wound, but it soon transpires that the real polemic is Cartman's public nudity. The latter's ill-received explanation is that it was but a "wardrobe malfunction".

The townsfolk do not seem to care about Butters's now-bandaged injuries. Kyle, relieved, decides to go along with the protest, declaring that his "fragile little eight-year-old mind" cannot cope with what it has seen and that Cartman ought to be punished. Stan, Kyle and Kenny leave the adults to punish their friend, pleased to find that they care more about the effect of nudity and sex than violence. The episode ends with the three of them turning back into their ninja forms in preparation for a continuation of their game.
 

D_987

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shaun1788 said:
I wasnt even being serious........god
Didnt know making a joke was something to be ripped on
Well its kinda hard to tell if your being serious or not just via text.

You have to put /sarcasm at the end of your post or =P or something that lets use know your joking.
 

Bofus Teefus

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I don't care, I can take or leave deh penis in the game, but what is Rockstar thinking? I can already hear the Fox anchor saying "Did you know that when your kids buy video games they're looking at penis?"
 

Zephirius

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MaxTheReaper said:
You might offend an omnipotent being who may not exist.
Phrasing can be very important.

OT: Yeah, raging about this is kind of ridiculous. But then, people are stupid. We see lots of skin on advertisements everyday but people seem to have adopted a "No genitalia/bosom" stance on nudity, which really makes no sense.
 

Elurindel

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Bofus Teefus said:
I don't care, I can take or leave deh penis in the game, but what is Rockstar thinking? I can already hear the Fox anchor saying "Did you know that when your kids buy video games they're looking at penis?"
Yay for the next game to have as much controversy as Mass Effect!
 

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cuddly_tomato said:
A game where you can shoot innocent people dead, or beat them to a pulp with a baseball bat, and a penis is the bit causing controversy?

Does anyone recall the South Park episode "Good Times with Weapons"?
I do! Nobody cares butters got a deathstar in his face - just that eric got his penis out.
 

yourbeliefs

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Not the worst thing in the world, but I'd still prefer to not have cock presented to me while I'm playing a game.
 

jh322

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MORE COCK FOR THE MASSES! YEAH!

EDIT: on a serious note, people need to calm down. Seen trainspotting? Loved it? Then chill out. Trainspotting was awesome, and had some pretty graphic scenes.
 

fix-the-spade

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It's about damn time.

For years idiots have been going 'OMG BOOBS THIS IS UNAcceptable'

Now they can go 'OMG WANG ROCKSTAR ARE PEADOPHILES EXPOSING OUR CHILDREN TO MALE NUDITY!'

Forgetting of course that children are not supposed to be playing these games, but then if they bothered noticing such things they wouldn't be idiots and they wouldn't care.
 

Jovlo

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yourbeliefs said:
Not the worst thing in the world, but I'd still prefer to not have cock presented to me while I'm playing a game.
Is that because it makes you feel uncomfortable, or because you think it just shouldn't be?
 

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Specter_ said:
Ah, screw the children.
I am tempted to make a catholic priest related joke.
Specter_ said:
While I do agree on the missing representation of penises in videogames, I never really thought "You know what this game lacks? PENIS!". Or maybe I just play the wrong games.
Funny, because I think that about everything.
MaxTheReaper said:
I agree.
 

Inverse Skies

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cuddly_tomato said:
A game where you can shoot innocent people dead, or beat them to a pulp with a baseball bat, and a penis is the bit causing controversy?

Does anyone recall the South Park episode "Good Times with Weapons"?
One of the best south park episodes there is (apart from WoW, the metroesxual one, and the one where they learn sex ed off Mr Macky.) Butter's loses an eye and all they care about is Cartman on stage naked because he thought he had invisibility, gold.
 

mattttherman3

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The only people that do care are homophobes and people who think that seeing something on tv that they most likely have seen in real life at some point would traumatize kids.
 

Starnerf

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So where's the full frontal female nudity? I'm offended that Rockstar is not showing our youth that there are two ways to be naked. Think of all the confused young girls who will be playing this unsupervised and seeing the male form and wondering why they don't look that way.
 

GrimRox

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GrimRox said:
It's all a bit meh really. I always felt that penises aren't represented enough in videogames.
Specter_ said:
While I do agree on the missing representation of penises in videogames, I never really thought "You know what this game lacks? PENIS!". Or maybe I just play the wrong games.
Seriously? If you replaced at least one character in every game with a giant penis, the world would be a better place. Just think about the possibilities!

Is it just me but if this was Lara Croft's bush or a topless option in DOA X, it wouldn't be deemed so much of a problem by most of the gamers posting anti-penis messages?
 

Samurai Goomba

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I think they have the right to put that into an 18+ game, but I have no desire to see another man's digitized junk. So, I don't have any kind of problem with it, but I certainly wouldn't go out of my way to see it. In fact, I'd probably do the opposite.

For me, looking at another guy's... stuff... is a bit like seeing a fat, unattractive person (opposite sex) naked. Does it make me "uncomfortable?" Well, sure. Not in some creepy way, but in the sense that it's a private part. I'm not used to seeing that from strangers, and I'm pretty happy that I don't have to. I guess the best way to describe my feelings about it is with a monosyllable.

Bleah.
 

Specter_

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Monkfish Acc. said:
Specter_ said:
Ah, screw the children.
I am tempted to make a catholic priest related joke.
Go on.

Monkfish Acc. said:
Specter_ said:
While I do agree on the missing representation of penises in videogames, I never really thought "You know what this game lacks? PENIS!". Or maybe I just play the wrong games.
Funny, because I think that about everything.
Even when you look at yourself in the mirror?
 

Jovlo

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Now another question. Do you think people react more strongly to a penis in a game than to breasts?
Or have we gotten used to the idea of breasts in games and will we get used to male genitalia in games as well?