Well everything is part of the experience. If something stands out in the game some people are bound to notice it, and no matter the subject of the game (GTA V was brought to light here but it could be any other popular game) you will probably feel responsible for some of the good reviews the game got (and how successful it was market wise). Beyond what you did as a person you were part of a team working on something that many people enjoyed.

You don't seem to care that the game forces you to kill hundreds of men and even sadistically torture one. I don't think you're even forced once to kill a woman in GTA. And somehow this is a game about violence towards women?!?!

It's amazing how modern 'feminism' has taken the victorian idea of women and children first and somehow made it 'progressive'. The heroes of the first two waves are crying.

>You don't seem to care that the game forces you to kill hundreds of men

Seen that "shoot people in the streets", above? That was the first thing I wrote describing the game.

Also the whole rant re: feminism totally misses the point of my comment. I could not care less about modern feminism.

I just wanted to point out that it's a BS fast-food-like violent game, not some great cultural achievement.

Well technicially one woman dies in the storyline, offscreen.

GTA is a sandbox game. If violence against virtual women is all you do in it and that concerns you, I would highly recommend seeing a psychologist to find help.

>If violence against virtual women is all you do in it and that concerns you, I would highly recommend seeing a psychologist to find help.

Do people really think it's tactful and/or polite to suggest psychiatic treatment to others in a discussion?

Especially after mis-reading their whole point?

I don't do anything in GTA, have never played the game.

The parent comment presented it as a something to be proud about as compared to being a parent/friend/etc.

I just wanted to point out it's not some great achievement humanity wise.

Ah, that explains things. If you haven't played GTA yourself you are unaware how misleading and incisive your description of it was.

Please consider actually getting a first hand impression of things before you regurgitate some propaganda.

I wanted to point out that the things you mentioned are not what the game is about. The suggestion for psychological (not psychiatric) help arose from the fact that you sounded overly distraught from playing a game in your own way.

I don't know, while not immediately familiar with the game, I've read reviews, seen videos of people playing etc. Is this from Wikipedia not accurate, for example:

"The mission "By the Book" features graphic depictions of kneecapping, electrocution, dental extraction and waterboarding, and the player is required to perform the acts in order to progress in the game."