Blogging the experience of gameplayhttps://www.gamelog.cl/gamers/GamerPage.php?idgamer=894https://www.gamelog.cl/logs/LogPage.php?Log_Id=3478The creator of the game I think had no intention of making a realist remake of that day. In fact after thinking about it for some time I believe he was making fun of the whole event in a way. The creator purposefully used the Marylin Manson cd. He wanted to show that this can not be blamed on Manson himself. Also he wanted to show that this was not because of video games or television shows. This game was a satire. He used images of Bart Simpson and the Devil from South Park. To show that what he was doing was not a remake of that day. He wanted to show what the media thinks was the cause of that day. If the creator had the intent of making such a disturbing game he would not have made it a RPG. He would have made the graphics life like. The graphics would be more like in Grand Theft Auto. Over all I did not like this game. It was disturbing playing it. Also it was a tedious game to play. I would not recommend the game to others.Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:50:20 CSThttps://www.gamelog.cl/logs/LogPage.php?Log_Id=3478&iddiary=6525https://www.gamelog.cl/logs/LogPage.php?Log_Id=3478The games target audience is mature gamers. There is a lot of profanity used in the game. Almost every other word is profanity. The game also has dead bodies and shootings everywhere. There is a lot of violence in this game. We see media's implication of Marilyn Manson and video games. The game is trying to show how media does influence children as they grow up. In the second half of the game the player finds himself fighting off demons from the game doom. While the music plays from the the game thought the level. This shows how this disturbed teenagers thought it was a game. When they went around shooting kids and teachers it was like a game to them. The Marilyn Manson cd was very interesting. When you think of Manson you think of disturbing music for the most part. These teens were listening to his music and getting pumped up and ready to kill. I think media has a lot to do with this game. In hell they meet Bart Simpson. Bart is a little trouble maker in the television show. They show Satan as his is depicted in South Park. All of these references show how media affected these kids. The kids were so submersed in games and television that this was normal to them.Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:31:42 CSThttps://www.gamelog.cl/logs/LogPage.php?Log_Id=3478&iddiary=6520https://www.gamelog.cl/logs/LogPage.php?Log_Id=3478In Super Columbine Massacre the player is sent to do a quest, and they must accomplish the task before they can move on. In the game it feels like you are reliving history. In the game the player must start over from the last check point if they die in the middle of a level.I found this interesting in terms of realism. When you shoot someone they die. But if you die you just go back to the check point. The sense of realism is not in the game. I think it would be more interesting if the player only had on chance to complete the game. It would make it harder but also more interesting. The game also has a particular way it must be played. Players are allowed to do what they want but there is not much to do besides fallowing the course the game has set. This is nothing like grand theft auto where you are free to roam the city. It is much more limited here and that is where that sense of realism is lost. I do not think the creators of the game wanted it to be or feel real. But that could explain why the game was made in RPG style. It was not meant to be real.Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:09:33 CSThttps://www.gamelog.cl/logs/LogPage.php?Log_Id=3478&iddiary=6517https://www.gamelog.cl/logs/LogPage.php?Log_Id=3478Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:23:52 CSThttps://www.gamelog.cl/logs/LogPage.php?Log_Id=3478&iddiary=6508https://www.gamelog.cl/logs/LogPage.php?Log_Id=3399I have played the game for several hours over the past few days. I have been having trouble of thinking of a third journal entry. I talked about so much in the last two that I thought I was out of stuff to write about. After looking through my notes on utilitarianism I recognized that CJ may actually be doing well for his people. CJ goes around through out the game trying to better his gang and community. In his world doing good means something completely different from ours. The only way to make life better for his gang is to kill the drug dealers. So his people will stay drug free. Also in the gang environment the only way to make your people happy is to eliminate other gangs. Now this may sound wrong to us but we live completely different lives. But as long as he raises happiness with in his gang he is morally justified for what he has done. For the past several days I thought that this game was just morally wrong and had no ethics. But looking at it from this prospective it looks like I was wrong. According to utilitarianism CJ was morally justified in his actions. I never thought I would say that he was right in what he did.Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:26:35 CSThttps://www.gamelog.cl/logs/LogPage.php?Log_Id=3399&iddiary=6319https://www.gamelog.cl/logs/LogPage.php?Log_Id=3399Almost all the actions in the game go against the devein command theory, Kantianism, and Social Contract theory. No one in the game fallows any type of rules or thinks of what should be done. Everyone does what makes them happy and forgets about others feelings. You can kill people to take their money and you can steal cars in the game. Stealing cars is easy you walk up to a car open the door punch the driver and take off. But if you steal a car from the wrong ethnic group such as the Hispanics they will shoot at you. There are no morals or ethics that concern anyone in the game. I mean CJ can roam the city as he wishes and do what he wishes. If he feels like killing that’s what he will do and he won’t be negatively affected. Another thing that was interesting in the game is health. CJ could be shot several times and he would not die. He would just need to go to a hospital and he would be at full health. What’s interesting about this is that there is a lack of realism in the game. CJ can be shot many times and nothing really happens to him as long as he visits a hospital. This lack of realism is consistent throughout the game. The police give up on you. Rival ethnic gangs don’t go after you when you kill one of their people.Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:04:41 CSThttps://www.gamelog.cl/logs/LogPage.php?Log_Id=3399&iddiary=6318https://www.gamelog.cl/logs/LogPage.php?Log_Id=3399I have played several Grand theft auto games in the past. This was my first time playing San Andreas. I never thought about the game as being morally or ethically wrong. I would just play the game and enjoy myself. Playing this game with that in mind I realized many disturbing things. Everything in the game is very stereotypical from the gangs to the people. The portrayal of gangs is that they are drug pushing cold blooded killers. This can be seen in almost any gangster movie from Scar Face to Casino. These are movies that kids normally would not watch. The game developers are bringing in content not meant for easily influenced minds. The social contract theory about everybody living according to a set of moral rules and having the government enforce them. The social contract theory does not exist in this game. Sure there may be police driving around but they do not do anything. You can kill someone in front of the police in broad daylight. The only thing that will happen to you is being chased by the police for a few minutes. Once you lose the police they forget all about you. The kids that play this game get the wrong message from the game. They think it is cool to be a gangster that kills, steals and does drugs. The best part is the police don’t care about what you do. Some kids may believe this is how the world works and functions. (This entry has been edited1 time. It was last edited on Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:55:08.)Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:38:38 CSThttps://www.gamelog.cl/logs/LogPage.php?Log_Id=3399&iddiary=6317