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lizak's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS3)
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| [April 19, 2012 09:57:03 AM]
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As I was playing the game, I noticed many other stereotypes than just the one I discussed previously. Another stereotype in this game is gender. The role of women in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is negative just like in many other video games. Many if not most of the women portrayed in the game are prostitutes which you can pick up. I do not think you can sleep with them without using any cheats, however I can be wrong. It really interests me in games why it is not the other way around. Why can’t you have a woman main character and male prostitutes throughout the game? Many video games are made by men for men, who of course think this kind of behavior is okay. This made me curious to think what would happen if women were the ones making these games, if they would take it to this level and have their lead female characters sleep around with male prostitutes. But that is a question that we will now never know since it is always possible.
I think is game is fun to play. It lets you escape the real world and do things you wouldn’t otherwise. It made me think about playing it when I was a lot younger. I was playing the game and doing all these bad things without really thinking about them. I know I was not the only one, which made me curious about that attracts young children to want to play such graphic and violent games like this. I know it may seem fun and cool, but at young ages you really do not know what you are doing. It is a little crazy to think about what children can get their hands on these days. But it is even scarier to think about the people making these games. What would posses people to make games where you can kill other people, sleep with prostitutes, and run people over, etc.?
I decided this time, when playing the game, to try and be good. However, it kind of made the game less fun. What is the point of doing the right thing when you could do the wrong thing and still get something out of that? I went along my mission trying not to hurt people nor do anything that would be looked at as morally wrong, but when I thought about it, there was not much left that I could actually do. In video games like this, you are kind of forced to act unethically and immorally if you want to play the game and have fun. You could not kill people, but that in turn would get you killed. In the end I decided to just go along and act immorally and actually stay alive and have fun playing the game.
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| [April 18, 2012 12:25:08 PM]
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The storyline of the game is a little on the boring side; the character tries to escape his life of crime but if pulled back into it when he is accused of crimes he did not commit. This kind of goes along with what we were talking about in class about how sometimes the gamer thinks of ways that they would alter the game while they are playing it, to please them more.
Once you are introduced to the character, you are free to do whatever you please. You have the choice of choosing to do right or wrong in the game. The game is not all about being violent; you can choose to go the other direction. Just life we discussed in Red Dead Redemption you get awarded for doing good in the game, however you can also get rewarded by doing bad. So technically, there is nothing really pushing you to either, other than your own morals. I find that when you just do good things throughout the game it is not as fun. What is the point of being in this virtual world where you could do anything, so many things that you cannot really do in real life but only do good things? It just is not fun. That may sound wrong to some people, however many people get it. Most people play the game because it is just a violent one, where you really can go crazy; killing people, sleeping with prostitutes, etc.
One of the things that came to my mind while playing this game was that this is what our world would potentially be like is people could do whatever they wanted. In this game, there aren’t any rules, showing what people are capable of. It is scary to think about living in a society like this. If in real life people would get rewarded for doing bad things, I believe that people would lose all sense of morality and really just go crazy. That lead me to wonder what if the game followed a Kantian ethical system that wrong is wrong no matter what. If people no longer got rewarded for doing bad things and instead got punished for them, would that change how people behave in the game? Would that motivate people to only do good things? I really doubt that. I think when people have the choice to do good or wrong in a game, they will almost always pick the bad.
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| [April 17, 2012 12:46:03 AM]
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas can be a fun game to play; it is also a very controversial game to play. The game involves many issues of morality that we discussed in class. While playing this game, it is like stepping into another world; a “badass” world because pretty much anything goes. You can do whatever you want and you will not get penalized for it. I have played this game before, many years ago, but of course never really thought much about the game itself or what I was doing; you are too busy having fun to do that. In this game, there are many stereotypes shown that people usually are not drawn to pay much attention to. One of the biggest stereotypes represented is that of black people. Most African Americans in this game are committing crimes and violent acts. Most of the people in this game doing something bad, are people of color. They are portrayed as gangsters, who do whatever they want and suffer little to no consequences. They are usually hanging out in the street, showing how tough they are and that nothing scares them. This is funny to me in a way, because many white people think that this is a true representation of how African Americans really live their lives. They do not know much about them as a group of people, so instead they believe what they see in the media, cinema, etc. and make their assumptions of what they are like based off of that. If you asked someone who is more likely to rob your house, a white person or an African American, it is pretty obvious what the answer would be. This game does a very good job playing into that stereotype. The portrayal of African Americans in this game, can lead young kids or even young adults who have not been exposed to diversity, into thinking that this is what they are really like. They might not be able to distinguish the difference between reality and satirical depictions.
While playing this game, it kind of drills that stereotype into your head subliminally in a way I think. Without even putting much thought into it, you now see people of color as something bad and you know you need to watch out for them when playing this game. It is interesting to play a game just for fun and then play it with intent to look for something specific while playing it; the two experiences will be very different from one another. After talking about stereotypes in class, I looked for it throughout the game and they were easy to find; which is something I never thought much about or looked for back when I used to play the game.
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lizak's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS3)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Tuesday 17 April, 2012
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