A torture scene in an 18+ game, similar to things you've probably seen in a film before. SHOCKING. Someone alert the world leaders to take action.
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) and Jamie (@Vault Dweller) are here to talk about United's dreadful home defeat at the hands of Big Ange's Tottenham Hotspur. Should this have been the end of Ten Hag? How long does he actually have left? And does Nik finally want ETH out?!
They didn't even have to make the scene skippable, they could've just had it so that the player didn't control the actual torture.
hardly the point, it's that you do the torture.
hardly the point, it's that you do the torture.
I agree that there should have been an option; for sure.
I can't say I enjoyed it.. but if I'm being totally honest that was only because it took no skill and no effort - a simple button press and an animation would occur.
We see it all the time in TV/Movies/Books - I guess, you're pressing a button to interact, if people feel like that interaction put some responsibility with them in a game, that's fair enough - but it's not an issue for me.. should have been a 'skip' for sure for those people - I imagine Rockstar will have considered this option though; expecting some of the controversy that surrounds it and decided against that.
Plenty of books have far worse imagery in them than that scene, and told in first-person too.
I can't say I enjoyed it.. but if I'm being totally honest that was only because it took no skill and no effort - a simple button press and an animation would occur.
We see it all the time in TV/Movies/Books - I guess, you're pressing a button to interact, if people feel like that interaction put some responsibility with them in a game, that's fair enough - but it's not an issue for me.. should have been a 'skip' for sure for those people - I imagine Rockstar will have considered this option though; expecting some of the controversy that surrounds it and decided against that.
Plenty of books have far worse imagery in them than that scene, and told in first-person too.
Well I for one suddenly have the urge to go and torture someone 
Is it worse or better that you have no choice in whether you do the torture?
Good that you didn't purposely choose to torture, for the enjoyment of doing it - you haven't really got an option, it progresses the story and as such plenty of people were doing it simply 'to progress'.
But then, if given the choice, atleast for those uncomfortable they could have chosen against it and progressed down a different path. You know, Trevor could have called on some Derren Brown shit to read the guys thoughts (and check his Facebook profile).
Oh no! I'm being forced to torture someone but then I can also mass kill civilians in most ways I'd like to! Oh no!
I can see why people would be a bit a irked by the torture mission - I didn't particularly enjoy it myself to be honest - I think the main reason is that you're obviously the one doing the torture, and you're doing it as Trevor, who is obviously getting a massive kick out of it. Perhaps if it was Michael doing it against his own wishes that might be a bit different? I don't know...
Anyway, my main problem with it was that I didn't think the torture stuff was especially clever or funny and did a poor job of getting the point across... and whilst Rockstar are generally excellent at satire, I don't think they did a particularly good job here.
Anyway, my main problem with it was that I didn't think the torture stuff was especially clever or funny and did a poor job of getting the point across... and whilst Rockstar are generally excellent at satire, I don't think they did a particularly good job here.
I was disappointed with that mission, I'd have preferred more control over it
Well it's a bit different.. for one you have the choice whether or not to kill civilians, where as there was no choice with that mission. Also, it's a bit more gruesome and "hands on" (in terms of your controls) then the standard gameplay.
It's a bit like that scene in District 9 where Wikus is forced to shoot the alien... or something.
torture scene didn't bother me at all. It was about as tame as the Casino Royale one ffs.
The rope...still cringe at the thought of it.
On this note - I did the torture mission and thought it was ok - can understand why some people wouldn't like to do it.
But for pure shock, that moment didn't compare to one I had last night. I wanted to try flipping someone off while I was in the car. I pulled over to the side of the road, and a nice young lady (no hooker) came over to the car. I pressed L1 to flip her off, but realised as my Uzi unloaded right in her face that I had forgotten to cycle through my weapons.
It actually genuinely shocked me!
I was surprised myself to be honest, I'm not overly sensitive at all. And it's not like I was disgusted or felt sick (
), but it seemed to me that it was a little unnecessary. Maybe I'm overreacting, but I've played every GTA, and numerous other violent games, and there haven't been many moments where I think 'they might have taken it a bit far here'.Ponsonby's just south of Michael's house. There is a parking bay opposite it, that is where it spawns. but it isn't always there
Anyone else found extra crew members from random encounters? I found a woman next to a crashed car that was a driver but haven't had a chance to use her yet. Not a great sign of her ability though tbh.
I regret the ending I chose.
I think I broke the game. I followed the cop car around the prison in an fbi cruiser, then he put the sirens on, went around the prison twice more, destroyed the fence and the cars in the carpark then sped off. I'm still following the crazed police car. I think I've sent its mapping haywire.
Got killed by a mountain lion (on two seperate occasions) last night
Got killed by a mountain lion (on two seperate occasions) last night
Between this and RDR they have become my most hated of all creatures
I've still not even seen a mountain lion, or been in a blimp.
I still haven't found a Veyron
I still haven't found a Veyron
I've only seen it pop up in that spot during missions. Annoying as hell.
I've still not been in a strip club...
Got killed by a mountain lion (on two seperate occasions) last night
I was worried there were no predators but sharks in the game, glad to hear otherwise. I've not found a bear yet, but I've seen warnings about them.
I think that was the first thing I did to see if they show tits in the game.
There is no "may" about it, you can do it online to buy $ which then buys you houses or weapons or cars etc. Bit pointless but at least a lot of the online content requires a certain rank so you can't just become awesome overnight.
If you listen to her she says how she wouldn't have went off the road if the other persons didn't have a knife to her throat, and she says if she gets crossed, she has only one option, to take them out, so you could take from that either she crashed on purpose to kill the other person, or crashed because of the knife on the neck.
She's actually a good driver. Her driving skill is quite high iirc.
Some of you are a bit precious...
Going round a city blowing shit up, killing cops, killing people, robbing them, and doing other criminal activities is all shits and giggles, but heaven forbid you have to torture someone. You are actually mental.
Plus, doesn't Trevor make the point that torture never actually works? And they'll just tell you whatever you want to hear, so he is basically saying torture is useless as a tool to extract info.
Going round a city blowing shit up, killing cops, killing people, robbing them, and doing other criminal activities is all shits and giggles, but heaven forbid you have to torture someone. You are actually mental.
Plus, doesn't Trevor make the point that torture never actually works? And they'll just tell you whatever you want to hear, so he is basically saying torture is useless as a tool to extract info.
Well, there's clearly a difference - again it's the choice aspect - as well as torture being a bit taboo in nature. To be fair to those in this thread, most have said they themselves wren't disturbed/offended by it - but aren't high & mighty enough to dismiss anyone who would be.
As I said, i wasn't a fan largely because it wasn't very clever as a peice of satire and in it's message - something that Rockstar usually excel - like you're second paragraph says, they have Trevor say some throw away lines in the car afterwards, but it's a bit clunky in it's excecution.
I accidentally reversed as she was getting in the car and she died. Not tough enough for my crew.
Needing to replay this game through again just to pick option C. I was a heartless bastard.
Had a good long play on it today having a day off, done about 40% of the story so far. Story is ok, can see that throughout they are trying to build distrust between all characters, will no doubt come to a head towards the end. As for the map, I'm stunned. It's fecking huge, fecking fun and fecking beautiful. There's so many times I find myself stopping just to look at something. It looks and feels like a real, living breathing world - an amazing gaming creation.
In a heist, can you kill other members you hired and take their cut?
Good question, I nearly tried it yesterday on one of the last heists but couldn't be arsed having to go back if it failed me.
Need to remember not to piss off the inhabitants of La Fuenta Blanca. Nearly died and I was only looking at their pool.
The most staggering thing about that Reddit thread is the number of fanboys steadfastly refusing to believe this could be Rockstar's doing, and that it must be the fault of those nasty people at Take Two making them do it.
Somebody, Please! Think of the children!
To be fair, I've been saying this is definitely coming next gen fully. It is largely the publishers, but that doesn't take the blame from Rockstar.
Of course they have to keep servers going and the likes, that's fair enough, but to deliberately let it unbalance the game so that everyone will want to spend money to keep up is a pretty shit thing to do. Get used to it though, when this succeeds it pretty much green lights many more.
I've a weird feeling it'll be out around release for the new consoles, just kept a big secret till then so sales for this gen still happen