You can strangle people
My 12-year-old brother rented the video game adaptation of The Godfather. In it, you drive a car around, take missions, and gradually increase your standing within the crime organization.
'So it's like Grand Theft Auto,' I told my brother, who shouldn't even know what Grand Theft Auto is like.
'No, it's completely different,' he said, taking great offense to this accusation.
'Oh really? Then what makes it so different?'
'You can strangle people.'
'Yeah, Grand Theft Auto was really missing the option to strangle people.'
We argued a little after that, but to date the strangling-oriented gameplay is the best (and only) difference he's been able to find between The Godfather and Grand Theft Auto.
I don't know what this says about kids today, but you should probably hit them just to be sure.
(Fishbowl 'til 11:30.)
I watched my brother strangle half a dozen people in that mafia-heavy GTA clone, and I'll be damned if he wasn't smiling like it was Christmas Day and he was forcing protection money out of jolly St. Nick.
My brother also loves basketball games where you play as bling-wearin' urban people. For example, there's NBA Ballers, a basketball game where you can buy SUVs and mansion to further your basketball career...somehow.
Anyway, I'm thinking that someone could capitalize on both the urban sports market and the strangling market with - wait for it - Latrell Sprewell's Basketball Choke Party.
This would be the ideal place for me to post a photoshopped image of the fake video game, but I have work tomorrow morning. So...yeah.
Not the best ending to a blog entry.
'So it's like Grand Theft Auto,' I told my brother, who shouldn't even know what Grand Theft Auto is like.
'No, it's completely different,' he said, taking great offense to this accusation.
'Oh really? Then what makes it so different?'
'You can strangle people.'
'Yeah, Grand Theft Auto was really missing the option to strangle people.'
We argued a little after that, but to date the strangling-oriented gameplay is the best (and only) difference he's been able to find between The Godfather and Grand Theft Auto.
I don't know what this says about kids today, but you should probably hit them just to be sure.
(Fishbowl 'til 11:30.)
I watched my brother strangle half a dozen people in that mafia-heavy GTA clone, and I'll be damned if he wasn't smiling like it was Christmas Day and he was forcing protection money out of jolly St. Nick.
My brother also loves basketball games where you play as bling-wearin' urban people. For example, there's NBA Ballers, a basketball game where you can buy SUVs and mansion to further your basketball career...somehow.
Anyway, I'm thinking that someone could capitalize on both the urban sports market and the strangling market with - wait for it - Latrell Sprewell's Basketball Choke Party.
This would be the ideal place for me to post a photoshopped image of the fake video game, but I have work tomorrow morning. So...yeah.
Not the best ending to a blog entry.
Labels: video games, violence
posted by Henry at 3:17 PM
1 Comments:
On October 31, 2004, the Minnesota Timberwolves offered Sprewell a 3 year, $21 million contract extension, substantially less than what his current contract paid him. Insulted, he publicly vented his outrage, infamously declaring, "I've got my family to feed."
Also, since when did we have to enter in letters to post a reply? /lame
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