Details of Hot Coffee settlement revealed.

[RoleTroll]

I'm very happy Hot Coffee was in there. It was pretty darn cool. The only people who claimed to be upset are people who make their money pretending to get upset over this sort of thing.

[Granderoho]

Why did you buy the same fucking game twice?

Weren't you like twelve when the game came out?

I own the PS2, Xbox, and PC version, because I loved the game, and I was actually 14 when the game first came out.

[Josh]

I remember thinking like that. I saved it for games actually worth it though. Like Rez.
I still have every version, for every region.

[James]

This whole thing is obviously asinine, and shouldn't have come about to begin with. Why must the soccer moms always have to be placated? It's interesting that wanton violence is ok, but any sort of sexual act will destroy the Universe.

My question is this: Rockstar/Take-Two obviously was cognizant of the current climate of present-day America where everyone is looking for a scapegoat to blame for the ills of society Videogames are a typically easy target to blame as the catalyst of the decline of western civilization. Why put the content in the game at all? It's almost like someone there put the code in place hoping for some enterprising hacker to gain access to the scene as to revitalize interest in the game once all the hype waned...the "no publicity is bad publicity" belief. (/conspiracy)

I hope this is all just some sort of elaborate hoax, and anyone who tries to file a claim is really putting their names into a database to be launched into the Sun.

I think they were going to put it in because, during development, it seemed like it might be fun. Then it turned out to be tedious, and made the dates take way too long, so it got cut. Every game has lots of stuff during development that doesn't work out, and it's easier to just ignore the unfinished code than go through erasing it line by line. There were those extra dungeons you could use a GameShark to access in Zelda: Wind Waker, for example.

Basically, Rockstar got royally fucked over with Hot Coffee. They did nothing wrong other than lie about the content being created by a hacker (which was amazingly stupid, by the way) and got crucified for it. Here's the thing nobody seems to be mentioning- GTA is actually pretty tame. It's not offensive, shocking, degenerate, or anything else. There has never been anything in there to get worked up over.

James

[YellerDog]

I hear you can steal cars, though.

[Josh]

The game encourages you to have sex with women and then kill them. Its morally reprehensible and you guys are a bunch of future criminals.

The game should be taken off the shelves forever.

[Othello Harrington]

Hence the need for tort reform.

[Granderoho]

The game encourages you to have sex with women and then kill them. Its morally reprehensible and you guys are a bunch of future criminals.

The game should be taken off the shelves forever.

Shut up.

[Josh]

Anyone who plays this game is obviously acting out on some twisted inner desires. I think it says a lot about you as a person that this is your favorite game.

[YellerDog]

Sociopath, IMO.