Initially I agreed, but it's since come to light that you can get to the content on the PS2 version without making modifications to the game code. So it was unlockable all along, which makes the outrage a little more understandable. I'm getting pretty sick of Rockstar asking for trouble on behalf of the entire gaming industry.
The modification was entitled the "Hot Coffee mod" because it enabled the gamer to unlock sex scenes after successfully getting a girlfriend in San Andreas to have coffee with you.
I think my favorite bit about that comment is the apostrophe in the middle of "anti'christ". I could spend hours contemplating what that could possibly signify.
Tom, doesn't the PS2 unlocking require extra stuff? (I see your point, and I guess I agree, but if my crude understanding of the technology is right, you have to work pretty hard to see the damn thing, as opposed to, say, much more graphic sites available online.)
I (kind of) spoke too soon. You need the AR Max, or a similar Gameshark-like device for manipulating the PS2's RAM. They're easy to come by (Electronics Boutique or Best Buy probably stock them) and are usually used to gain more lives or otherwise cheat at various games. Once you've got it you can use the codes here to unlock the Hot Coffee portion of the game.
So: still no way for the gamer with just a controller, PS2, GTA disc and frustrated libido to get to the content. It's locked off. But the PS2 hack shows that the content was there on the disc, not something that hackers added to the PC version. Those polygons were fornicating all along! It's just that without the code, there's a wall between you and the hot triangle-on-rhombus action.
Screens and screens of raving. There was Israel, there were UFOs, there was the Joint Chiefs of Staff... but all incoherent enough that it wasn't even funny.
I own all the GTAs and I think it was the first that had the van-rocking with a hooker that was pretty sleazy. I suppose polygon sex does go too far for the M rating and they were very stupid to include it on the CD.
My main complaint is that I wish they had a language filter so my kids could choose the level of profanity. That way my kids could at least turn the cuss words off when I am around, or any little kids are around. I know my 14 and 16 year olds have heard all the crap before and we've talked about how I don't like it and think it is stupid but if they want to hear that, fine, just keep it away from me and the younger kids.
Last summer I was big into SOCOM and my complaint there is that there were little kids (as young as 4) playing that game online. I really had no complaint against the crude player language although I thought it was stupid but frigging parents needed to do something to keep the little kids away from that stuff. If I was in a game where a tot was playing I'd mention the fact and ask people to cool it but there was no way to enforce any sort of code. I could only ask the guys to be reasonable.
At all other times?
Posted by Joe Drymala | Link to this comment | 07-21-05 1:10 PM
Why is this modification called "Hot Coffee"?
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-21-05 1:18 PM
Initially I agreed, but it's since come to light that you can get to the content on the PS2 version without making modifications to the game code. So it was unlockable all along, which makes the outrage a little more understandable. I'm getting pretty sick of Rockstar asking for trouble on behalf of the entire gaming industry.
Posted by tom | Link to this comment | 07-21-05 1:22 PM
Here.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 07-21-05 1:44 PM
Thanks.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-21-05 1:52 PM
Sure thing.
Posted by Isle of Toads | Link to this comment | 07-21-05 2:14 PM
I think my favorite bit about that comment is the apostrophe in the middle of "anti'christ". I could spend hours contemplating what that could possibly signify.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 07-21-05 2:23 PM
copulate it degenerative
Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-21-05 2:31 PM
Um, excuse me, um, somebody left the babel faucet on.
Posted by Tripp | Link to this comment | 07-21-05 2:39 PM
What do you think, leave up or delete?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 07-21-05 2:42 PM
Bahlete it.
Posted by tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 07-21-05 2:45 PM
I'd replace the text of each spam comment with the aphorism of your choice.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-21-05 2:47 PM
Did you check out the blog? There's lots more where that came from.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 07-21-05 2:52 PM
If I'm not mistaken, comment 9 is the blog.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-21-05 2:53 PM
Wait, I can unlock this on my PS2? Awesome! Where are the instructions?
Posted by FL | Link to this comment | 07-21-05 2:58 PM
Sorry, that really annoyed me. Apologies if you really wanted it to stay.
Posted by FL | Link to this comment | 07-21-05 3:03 PM
I didn't even know you knew how to do that. Excellent.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 07-21-05 3:08 PM
"Codes" are here, but it sounds like you need some doohickey.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 07-21-05 3:09 PM
Tom, doesn't the PS2 unlocking require extra stuff? (I see your point, and I guess I agree, but if my crude understanding of the technology is right, you have to work pretty hard to see the damn thing, as opposed to, say, much more graphic sites available online.)
Posted by FL | Link to this comment | 07-21-05 3:09 PM
I (kind of) spoke too soon. You need the AR Max, or a similar Gameshark-like device for manipulating the PS2's RAM. They're easy to come by (Electronics Boutique or Best Buy probably stock them) and are usually used to gain more lives or otherwise cheat at various games. Once you've got it you can use the codes here to unlock the Hot Coffee portion of the game.
So: still no way for the gamer with just a controller, PS2, GTA disc and frustrated libido to get to the content. It's locked off. But the PS2 hack shows that the content was there on the disc, not something that hackers added to the PC version. Those polygons were fornicating all along! It's just that without the code, there's a wall between you and the hot triangle-on-rhombus action.
Posted by tom | Link to this comment | 07-21-05 3:18 PM
What did the deleted comment say? The excerpts are hilarious, especially with no context.
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 07-21-05 3:33 PM
Screens and screens of raving. There was Israel, there were UFOs, there was the Joint Chiefs of Staff... but all incoherent enough that it wasn't even funny.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 07-21-05 3:40 PM
(she's in on it!)
Posted by tom | Link to this comment | 07-21-05 3:42 PM
Dammit, Labs, I had just gotten the anti'christ to invite me in for coffee.
Posted by Isle of Toads | Link to this comment | 07-21-05 3:50 PM
If that guy thinks non-standard punctuation will keep the anti'christ from googling his site, he has got another thin(k)(g) coming.
Posted by joe o | Link to this comment | 07-21-05 4:09 PM
I own all the GTAs and I think it was the first that had the van-rocking with a hooker that was pretty sleazy. I suppose polygon sex does go too far for the M rating and they were very stupid to include it on the CD.
My main complaint is that I wish they had a language filter so my kids could choose the level of profanity. That way my kids could at least turn the cuss words off when I am around, or any little kids are around. I know my 14 and 16 year olds have heard all the crap before and we've talked about how I don't like it and think it is stupid but if they want to hear that, fine, just keep it away from me and the younger kids.
Last summer I was big into SOCOM and my complaint there is that there were little kids (as young as 4) playing that game online. I really had no complaint against the crude player language although I thought it was stupid but frigging parents needed to do something to keep the little kids away from that stuff. If I was in a game where a tot was playing I'd mention the fact and ask people to cool it but there was no way to enforce any sort of code. I could only ask the guys to be reasonable.
Posted by Tripp | Link to this comment | 07-22-05 9:14 AM
Are there other bizarro rightwing bloggers as protagonists in GTA SA? I'm only familiar with early work in the ouevre.
Posted by Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 07-22-05 4:00 PM