Am I the only person who plays a GTA game and doesn’t kill hookers?
If you believe mainstream press, then yes. Yes I am. The thing is, and I think people were losing sight of this initially, you can kill anyone in GTA games. I believe the killing of hookers was focused on in early GTA games by the press because of just outlandish it was, but there were MANY games before that where you could do far worse things to people. Pissing on people in the Postal games is just one example. But the press was all over this aspects of GTA III when it first dropped, so much so that if you didn’t know much about gaming, you would think murdering street walkers was an essential step to the actual gameplay, which it was not.
The murdering of hookers in a Grand Theft Auto game is pretty much contingent on how any one person chose to play it. I, personally, HATE the police presence in GTA games, and tend to observe as many laws as I can to make sure I don’t need to shake them. I truly believe if someone did a survey about the gamers who kill hookers in GTA games, you would find they are often people who kill pretty much everyone they encounter in that game, which is not a reflection on them at all. It is just how people play. If you think about it, you can do the EXACT same thing in Fallout 3 and Skyrim, but not one word in the press about that, huh? F**k you, Jack Thompson. May you choke on a bag filled with a thousand virtual dicks.
The press make it sound like GTA games are about “killing hookers” and are, and I quote “murder simulations.” Trust me, from someone who has killed seven hookers in real life, that is JUST not the case. You know how you know? Because there’s no erection when you do it in the game. But man, in real life, killing a hooker is a pants-splitter.
