Have you ever been offended by a video game?

Sometimes games offend people.
 
Need I invoke the name of N'Gai Croal in relation to Resident Evil 5?
 
Then, there was the obvious incident regarding Cubans and Haitians in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and the mission in the game that was removed/edited because of said controversy. Oh, and the tear gas grenades. 
 
And GUN.
 
I guess the best chance of people being offended is when a game targets a specific racial group or a specific belief held by a group of people, large or small. While I didn't agree with Croal on his point about Resident Evil 5 (although that's not really the discussion I'm trying to bring about here, so it doesn't matter) he was clearly offended by footage of Resident Evil 5 shown early on.
 
I personally have never been offended in such a fashion. But, hey, I'm totally Greek and video games seem to love Greek people. Case in point: God of War.  So, have you ever been offended by a video game?
 
(I'm not talking about taking offense at how bad a game is or was, although such stories are certainly amusing.)

I wouldn't say offended, but the only thing that comes to mind right now was the way the Australian dude in Bioshock had a poster in his rooms for Australia Day with the date reading 1/26.  :P
 
Otherwise, no. Think you have to be a really uptight kind of person to actually get offended by the stuff in games.
Edit: Well, for published games at least. Freeware doesn't count.

That's actually a really interesting question, and I'm quite interested in hearing peoples responses. Unfortunately I can't really add much to the discussion as I can't think of anything from a game that greatly offended me at the moment. I think I've been pretty desensitized by this point, where it really takes something drastic to get an emotional response out of me--at least in terms of sex, violence, language, and the other usual places games attempt to be "edgy."

not offended more than stupid?
fallout 3 with the bloody mess perk (for the damage.) everybodies limbs falling off was just just fine for like, a week, and after that even for the orcs and stuff it was fine. but when you were just WAILING ON regular people and they just FELL APART every single time, it got a little too morbid.

In all honesty... when I first started up Street Fighter IV and saw that God awful intro with its horrendous music. Totally offended.

Nope. 
I find it kinda silly to be offended by a video game. 
No, not silly.. What's the word I'm looking for... 

No, I haven't.  The game would have to go out of its way to be offensive.  I can't take games or their stories very seriously so it makes it difficult to get any sort of emotional response from me.  I still appreciate a good and well presented story... but I can never suspend my disbelief enough to get truly immersed in a game the same way I can with a movie.  It is hard to ignore that I am staring at pixels.

I've actually been offended by games fairly frequently. 
 
It used to be more common than it is now, but in create a character modes it's common for black people to have no option but the stereotypical afro. And that is only included in create-a-character modes as a joke option to essentially make fun of black people. (It's not called "poofy hair option" it's called "Afro".) The only way to make a character who is not a joke is to have no hair at all. It would take only 20 minutes work to put in a black hair style that would cover hundreds of thousands of black people but... apparently... it's not worth it. 
 
I found Barrett in Final Fantasy 7 extremely offensive. The first black character in Final Fantasy, which, up to that point (for entirely other reasons) had been my favorite game series and Square decides to make him a stereotypical big angry black man who speaks in ebonics even though it makes no sense in the context of the world for him to speak that way and nobody else speaks that way.  
 
Many times the portrayal of black people in Japanese games is offensive just based on the cultural depiction of black people in Japanese media. Balrog, Deejay and pretty much all of Capcom's renditions of black people are stereotypical and intentionally ugly. Yet, when they want a female character for sex appeal, they create Elena who is supposed to be from right out of the middle of Africa yet has flaxen white hair and bright blue eyes. Even Birdie who was a fairly normal looking white guy in Street Fighter 1 became ghoulish when they turned him black for the newer games. 

No, why the hell would I? I'd be an idiot to be offended by an entertainment medium. 

I wasn't offended but quite a bit disturbed at a certain part in Saints Row 2.
 

I just played JFK Reloaded because this topic enticed me to find some really messed up games. That game is fucked up and made me a little sick. 

Nope

I regularly get offended by video game trailers and what a sad picture of the industry and medium they paint. Thats is really appalling, regularly.

" I just played JFK Reloaded because this topic enticed me to find some really messed up games. That game is fucked up and made me a little sick.  "

Postal - Everything
GTAIV - Kidnapping the mobsters daughter and slapping her around.

" @W0lfbl1tzers said:

" I just played JFK Reloaded because this topic enticed me to find some really messed up games. That game is fucked up and made me a little sick.  "

@W0lfbl1tzers: From the way I've seen that game represented, it looks more like a simulator of the assassination than an actual attempt to be funny or make light about the event (which would be wrong). Obviously it can't be entirely accurate, but it looks like it might be useful simply as a simulator or a thought experiment. "

I wasn't offended really but late in Persona 4 when

nope, i have balls

No. Offensive content is something video games are perfect for and I think it's awesome.

PC games in the mid 90's used to have these stupid messages when you tried to exit the game like; "What? Too much of a pussy to continue?" or something to that degree. That used to offend me greatly as a kid, and I'd keep playing just so the game wouldn't think I was a pussy.  
 
But as far as taking offense to violence in games, no, that does not become me whatsoever. 

Nope.

There have been moments in games that I did not like, but offended isn't what I would describe my feelings at the time. More like, "Huh, that was petty."

Not ever. Honestly can't imagine being offended by a video game.

Nope.

" I wasn't offended but quite a bit disturbed at a certain part in Saints Row 2.
 

SPOILER WARNING: Click here to reveal hidden content.

Kidnapping a rival gang leader's girlfriend, trapping her in her own car, then leaving the car at a monster truck event where the rival drives over his girlfriend's car, killing her in the process. Then my character and fellow gang members talking about how awesome that plan was... That's just absolutely fucking terrible and tasteless.

"

Beside the stupid people that plague Xbox Live and MMO's, no not really.

No.

I really didn't like having Kurt Cobain playing non Nirvana songs in GH5.

Dirt 2 kind of offended me.  In Europe, Colin McRae's name was still attached to it, despite him having died in a tragic helicopter crash.  That game should have been called Bromancer Racing or something with the way it just oozed that specific X Games sort of culture.  It really irritated me.

No.

Yes: the worst games I've played are so horrible that they offend my very soul. That is how bad they are.

Not that I can recall.
 
I seem to get into the mindset of the characters I play, so things tend to not bother me much (ie the Saints Row 2 scene that's been said). 
 
So...no.

I've never been offended by anything other that the stupidity of others.

" Postal - Everything GTAIV - Kidnapping the mobsters daughter and slapping her around. "

" @animateria said:

" I wasn't offended but quite a bit disturbed at a certain part in Saints Row 2.
 

SPOILER WARNING: Click here to reveal hidden content.

Kidnapping a rival gang leader's girlfriend, trapping her in her own car, then leaving the car at a monster truck event where the rival drives over his girlfriend's car, killing her in the process. Then my character and fellow gang members talking about how awesome that plan was... That's just absolutely fucking terrible and tasteless.

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I guess this came the closest. I wasn't offended, just sorta taken aback cause it sorta took me out of the freewheeling wackiness that had pervaded the game up until then. Likewise the cemetery mission. "

For the most part, no.  However, sometimes I am uncomfortable with the flamboyantly gay stereotype found in some games...well, mostly Japanese games.  It doesn't upset me as something I found offensive would, but it just makes me feel a bit uneasy.  I assume it's a cultural awareness thing, so I understand why those portrayals exist, but that doesn't mean I approve. 

I have a Mexican friend who get really offended by Ghost Recon 2, by the part that you virtually invade the mexico border in a US Tank. I kind of see his point

Not really.

No. It's a video game for christ sake. THEY'RE NOT REAL!

" I've actually been offended by games fairly frequently.  It used to be more common than it is now, but in create a character modes it's common for black people to have no option but the stereotypical afro. And that is only included in create-a-character modes as a joke option to essentially make fun of black people. (It's not called "poofy hair option" it's called "Afro".) The only way to make a character who is not a joke is to have no hair at all. It would take only 20 minutes work to put in a black hair style that would cover hundreds of thousands of black people but... apparently... it's not worth it.  I found Barrett in Final Fantasy 7 extremely offensive. The first black character in Final Fantasy, which, up to that point (for entirely other reasons) had been my favorite game series and Square decides to make him a stereotypical big angry black man who speaks in ebonics even though it makes no sense in the context of the world for him to speak that way and nobody else speaks that way.   Many times the portrayal of black people in Japanese games is offensive just based on the cultural depiction of black people in Japanese media. Balrog, Deejay and pretty much all of Capcom's renditions of black people are stereotypical and intentionally ugly. Yet, when they want a female character for sex appeal, they create Elena who is supposed to be from right out of the middle of Africa yet has flaxen white hair and bright blue eyes. Even Birdie who was a fairly normal looking white guy in Street Fighter 1 became ghoulish when they turned him black for the newer games.  "

"No. It's a video game for christ sake. THEY'RE NOT REAL! "