I don't think I've been offended in the manner everyone else is talking about, but I was offended in a different way by Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter, given that the games in the series before it are among my favourite RPGs, and that Dragon Quarter turned out to be the single worst video game I've ever played.
Have you ever been offended by a video game?
Also, Sazh looks like he's going to have some pretty serious moments. Have you seen the newest trailer? I don't want to say anything, but then again, it is a free trailer for anyone to watch... (IMO that trailer was full of possible spoilers, but who knows maybe the story is intricate as fuck and the points they brought up in the trailer are minor compared to the whole game)
It would be interesting to hear a female's response to this topic, given how sexist the majority of games are.
I can't recall a time I've been personally offended, though. I don't mind violence and gore, and other peoples opinions usually don't offend me, even if I adamantly disagree with them. As a Caucasian male in the majority, though, it's less common for something to be offensive.
" @CitizenKane said:Yeah, it just looks like you love tomatoes. :P" No, I have never been offended by a video game. In fact, I can't think of anything that has offended me. Maybe I just have thick skin, I don't know. "Thick skin, low standards. Tomato, tomato. Tomato, tomato doesn't really work online. :-\ "
I can't remember ever being offended by something in any entertainment product. I'm not all that easy to offend in real life but it has happened. I doubt anything could do it in a videogame or film unless a character literally started calling me out by name and berating me but now I can't decided whether or not that would be awesome.
Not that I recall. With regard to stereotypical depictions in Japanese games, I regard those as equivalent to the depictions of sex and race in media from 50+ years ago: too foreign to be truly provocative.
That being said, I do remember finding V for Vendetta offensive. The whole statement of that movie, that blowing up a building is a method for sending a revolutionary message, seemed dangerously naive.
The only times where I've been offended by a game is when I find the game to be awful to play. But as for the content to the game, never. It's hard to offend me in real life anyway.
It looks like you've partially mixed up that scene with a section of GTA: San Andreas that was equally, if not more, bothersome." @Asurastrike said:
Try playing Gay Tony. You'll probably have less sympathy for her." Postal - Everything GTAIV - Kidnapping the mobsters daughter and slapping her around. "
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said:Yeah, I have to say the mission where.." @animateria said:
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. "" I wasn't offended but quite a bit disturbed at a certain part in Saints Row 2.
"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.Again, I wouldn't say I was offended but holy crap.. that's going too far. "You throw the rival gang member into a grave and fill it with cement, burrying him alive while he's screaming and begging you to stop was far worse.
I can't remember the exact set up, but C.J. is meant to clear out a bunch of construction workers from some land. The climax of the mission being that he traps the foreman in a port-a-john, using a bulldozer to knock it over and roll the toilet into a pit which he then fills with concrete.
Being buried alive is bad enough, but to be cemented into a coffin full of faecal matter is just a tad too far. Perhaps if the guy had been some gangster who had it coming, the scene might not have been so horrific. But no, he was just some guy who was randomly sentenced to a horrific death for some seemingly trivial reason.
The real rub being that C.J. is supposed to be a sympathetic character.
Hell, I wanted to destroy that gang after that happened.
Saint's Row 2 is all about goofy and over the top violence. And they made it seem like it was hilarious and awesome
As I've said before I wasn't offended, I just felt like their light-hearted mood towards the whole situation felt wrong and messed up.
I'd still recommend the game to anyone that wants to play an open-world crime game.
Hope you guys don't mind if I talk about some of your comments on the upcoming episode of my podcast, No Quarter. The episode will be entitled "No Offense". You'll be given full credit, of course.
EDIT: No Quarter #4 is up, with some of your comments read out. Thanks for your really interesting responses to the question. Got me thinking about a couple of things, that's for sure.
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