So last night i was playing GTA4 for the 3 time and i was just driving around looking for a hooker. Now this is weird because if you playing the game, if you haven’t found a hooker, had your way with her, then killed her… (maybe later i will talk about the gender issues in the game) well i was thinking about the whole hot coffee issue.
During the course of the main plot of the game, the player (as main character Carl “CJ” Johnson) may date up to six girlfriends, carrying out various “date missions” in order to improve his relationship with a particular girl. Once Carl has become particularly close to a girlfriend, she may end a successful date by inviting him into her house for “coffee,” from which Carl may choose to accept or decline. Improving relationships with girlfriends through successful dates and other related activities will eventually reward CJ with new items (vehicles and special wardrobes), along with pre-existing gameplay benefits (e.g. dating a nurse grants the character free visits to the hospital, without losing his weapons, after dying).
In the unmodified version of San Andreas, the player sees an exterior view of the girlfriend’s house while hearing the muffled voices of Carl and his girlfriend as they engage in sexual intercourse. However, the Hot Coffee modification replaces this with a minigame which allows the player to actually enter the girlfriend’s bedroom and control Carl’s actions during sex. None of the six possible sex scenes involve any nudity (except when using the unrelated “Nude Girlfriends” mod), and there are animation problems with the girlfriends’ partly clothed textures and bedrooms.
Rockstar Games, the publisher of the Grand Theft Auto series, initially denied allegations that the minigame was “hidden” in the video game, stating that the Hot Coffee modification (which they claim violated the game’s End User Licence Agreement) is the result of “hackers” making “significant technical modifications to and reverse engineering” the game’s code.[3] However, this claim was undermined when a hacker known as N.A.V.A.I.D G, on July 12, 2005, released an “Action Replay Power Save” for the Xbox console, and codes for the PlayStation 2 Action Replay game enhancer that allowed the scenes to be accessed in each of the console versions. These new methods of accessing “Hot Coffee” demonstrated that the controversial content was, indeed, built into the console versions as well.
The creator of the original PC mod, Patrick Wildenborg (under the Internet alias “PatrickW”), a 38-year-old modder from the Netherlands, rejects Rockstar’s claim that the mod required significant technical effort, pointing out that he only changed a single bit in the installed game’s “main.scm” file, and that there is absolutely no new content that he actually created—every piece of the required code was already in-game, just not available to the player.[4] The PC mod itself is actually just an edited copy of the game script files with the bit changed. The mod was also made possible on the console versions, by changing the bit inside a user’s savegame or by using a third-party modding device. Mods for the Grand Theft Auto series are nothing new. The mod community has flourished for years creating additions to the map, new cars, and even a mod for multi-player gameplay. All of this is possible because Rockstar left the scripts open for mod makers to edit in order to have user created content. Take-Two has stated that the mod constitutes a violation of the End User License Agreement,[5] even though modification of the main.scm file is common within the mod community.
The possibility of enabling the minigame by changing a single bit of code shows that the sexual intercourse content is part of the game’s original data, and not new content inserted into the game by the mod. However, it is not possible to access the sexual content simply by playing the game as intended by the developers, because it was fully disabled and the bit cannot be changed by normal gameplay.[6] The oral sex animations are however clearly visible in the background of an early mission, “Cleaning the Hood”, even in the re-released game.[7] This may explain why the mini-game was not simply removed when the decision was made to cut it from the game: its assets were in use elsewhere.
At the time i thought this was pretty cool and pretty adult. Will i guess this wasn’t scratched but was too expensive to take out of the game so they just left the code in it. Now while i was playing I started thinking about America’s views towards sex and why we view it with such negitivity. Its sex. It is a natural thing. I don’t think people have noticed because it hasn’t gotten any media attention but in the video game Dragon Age, is pretty graffic sex! how ever its not a game. its a video. I think that’s the real issue here. And our issue with violence in video games. I guess people feel that if you can do it in a game its like doing it in real life… Sex is better in real life. And if im going to go on a killing spree, then I don’t think playing video games had anything to do with that. I really don’t understand our issue with violence and sex her in America. Especially drugs. I think its the parents JOB to be involved in the raising of that child. It does take a village to raise a child but the parents are the important factors!
So what do you think blog-gist sphere… IE… Melissa?
