Jeremy Clarkson on GTA IV: 'Game's not to blame'

Everything he said was true.Jermey clarkson is awsome. he does good shows. I used to torrent every episode of top gear. The Stig is the shit. All those guys are great.

Jeremy Clarckson absolutely rocks :-)

even though he got his ass handed to him by a chick when driving on the nurburgring with a Jaguar ( she was driving a Ford Transit Van ) :-)

"He probably didn't even get to the more deplorable parts of the game."

To be fair, nor have the others that have blamed it for the evils of the world. :-D

I'm sure he knows what the game's about though. And I think he's put more effort into trying it it than most of his peers.

On a related note to this. A lot of people have recently been getting it somewhat right. That "aggressive behavior"... Or more accurately, the ability to react faster to what one would call "bad" - the news calls this desensitization.. But that's another topic...

That "aggressive behavior" is not caused by video games, but rather all of the society we live in. Face it, I usually hear of somebody that got murdered on TV every morning. I've come to unfortunately expect it... Usually it's accompanied by a picture that would cause some very weak stomached people to perhaps toss their breakfast if they feel so wishing at the sight of a blood spattered sidewalk complete with chalk outline or the occasional half covered corpse.

This led me to wonder if perhaps something is wrong with me. But then I think of the violence and people that act on that violence that live in our world. People who never played a video game, yet are far more violent than myself or the next. Why the school bully around 2003 felt video games were still a "nerdy" thing to do, yet continued to be the most violent person in school.

Or why it's acceptable to allow a child to learn martial arts *I was one of these* yet it's the will of parents to blame a video game put in the childs hands when they are being rough children.

I wonder why the level of parents hitting their children for discipline has declined steadily with the rate of which violence and sex has increased on TV. (Don't get me wrong, I loathe parents who beat their children for practically any reason under the sun.. But damnit, if little jimmy calls his mother a whore in Wal-mart - the first thing that goes through my mind is "Somebody's gonna get his ass kicked, or at least spanked".. Instead I hear "That's not a very nice thing to say to mommy!".. It boggles me.)

Anyhow, on to my point - before I end up rambling again.

What I wonder is, is there anyone that can imagine a world without the violence, sex and pain we see? Can anyone imagine a world where there are no school bullies, violent films and games are extremely restricted, and the world is generally peaceful?... I certainly cannot. The world at large is this way, I think. Maybe music did make peoples sexual orientations, monogamistic practices and "proper sexual age" looser than they were 20 years ago. But even if things like Rock N Roll, Dry Humping to Rap Music, Videogames, Movies and the advertisments preying on sexuality never happened. I honestly don't think the world would be any better off. I think it'd be worse.

To people like Jack Thompson. I say it's fine to try to pass a law. But as always, kids will find a way around it. Regardless of what we ban, violence will still be in our lives. Regardless of how we are raised, we will be desensitized. The children are our futures. Laws will not stop them from getting worse. As it was in the old day, as it is in our day, the parents are the number one key factor in deciding the next step in humanity's fate. Why do the media and individuals with outspoken media voices continue to focus targets on the next big hit movie and it's ratings, or the next big video game to be the center of some "scandal". Why instead do they never take the time out to properly research? Why instead do they never take the time to educate the parents on something they likely did not grow up with. The best way to understand the youth is to expose yourself to what is the newest fad. Most of the time it's harmless. But it can be restricted. It can be controlled. All people have to do is care.

And if few people care about raising their children rather than letting their children raise themselves, we can't blame Electronics for the future.

!Dennen++

good job picking up your co-worker's paper Jim. Without you doing so, I would have just completely written off the print media as it is. </sarcasm>

It's from IRC Dennen. When someone goes !something++ that means your karma went up, thus meaning people like it.

You should hop into IRC one day. Always a party in IRC

/end plug

All hail Clarkson.

All hail Clarkson.

That game was Gran Turismo 4 I think? (or 3)

It was a tribute to the ending of the production of Honda NSXs. He couldn't beat his videogame run of Laguna Seca in real life however. Videogames lack gravity, consequences and fear, obviously.

Some say that ...

Some say that, he's wanted by the CIA, and that he sleeps upside down like a bat... all we know is, he's called the Stig!

I'm not a fan of the gameplay elements of GTA's. Of course it is not the source of society's problems but I believe it does simplify violence and the results of violence, for anyone under their 12's or 13's, and morons at any age, and the difference with movies is that it puts you right in the driving seat of this violence.

GTA has a "gameover"?

Anyway Clarkson says some frankly stupid things (mostly in defence of cars), so do not get too excited about his defence of GTA.

Im glad he's not a dick because I like Top Gear and would have hated for him to be a GTA blamer. Now i can love him even more.

Awesome, I guess he's had enough good experiences with games to overcome the fears that render most politicians and media figures into babbling narrow minded wimps.

Anyone see the episode where he plays Gran Tourismo, that was a great episode.

PSlq0ut

I'm not sure if you're serious or not, but just in case-

Fuck you. Jeremy Clarkson is the only hope for foul toothed brits around the world, and if I was unfortunate enough to live in the post-1984 dystopia that we now call United Kningdomland, I would spend every day of my life making sure he was put into some sort of power.

So fuck you.

DrXym
Same to you. If you think he says stupid things, watch fifth gear. Otherwise, GTFO.

Reaprar
A /b/ reference AND completely neglecting to see the purpose of his inpolitical corectness. Why do you bother breathing?



I love Destructoid except for the blatant idiocy that the site is explicitly veneered in when it comes to comments. If you assholes don't like JC, then you need to take a reading comprehension course at your nearest community college. Chances are you either buy the environmentalist bullshit, or you don't know the difference between the word "Affect" and "Effect". If that's the case, stop watching Al Gore fill your head full of shit, and pick up a fucking book.

Goddamn.

good for him and us.

Well I'm shocked, a paper that has both Trevor Kavanagh and kelvin mackenzie is able to give a half assed opinion on GTA 4 that vaguely comes down on the side of it's not going to kill us all.

Seeing as how clarkson spends a lot of his real life straping bombs to cars, speeding and crashing i can understand why he wasnt overwhelmed by the game, but didnt see it as shockingly bad.

It still seems that he's following the mantra of "I don't understand these crazy video games," he's just reaching the opposite viewpoint with equal disregard for understanding.

nopk:

"Fuck you. Jeremy Clarkson is the only hope for foul toothed brits around the world"

I stopped reading past there.