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Take 2 Wins Another Boobie Prize

Jan 26, 2006 11:50

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hot coffee, eibeler, take two, dunce cap, boobie prize, business 2.0, 2005

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silver_derstin January 26 2006, 17:30:54 UTC

Dunno why, but Take-Two might need to pull some familly friendly games soon if they want to save their company.

markusdragon January 26 2006, 17:33:24 UTC

They can't be doing that badly, what with owning Firraxis now. Mmmmm, Civ...

And Pirates! Gotta love Pirates! (didn't it end up on a couple of 'good games that aren't offensive' lists last year?)

Indeed. pyrrhus9588 January 26 2006, 18:05:53 UTC

They also own 2K Games(/2K Sports) and Global Star Software.

markusdragon January 26 2006, 17:31:43 UTC

On the plus side, at least they deserve it. Seriously bad blunder that will go down in the ages.

Thankfully in 20 years time, it'll be laughed at as being stupidly minor.

jabrwock January 26 2006, 17:58:50 UTC

Funny stuff. My fave was #40: "Just google him. We hear it really ticks him off."

"F***ing Eric Schmidt is a f***ing pussy. I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill Google."
-- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, in response to the departure of Mark Lucovsky, a former Microsoft "distinguished engineer" who left last year to work at Google. The alleged aria, punctuated by the tossing of a chair, was cited in a sworn statement by Lucovsky that became public during court hearings over another Microsoft-to-Google defection in September. Microsoft denies Lucovsky's version of the incident.

silver_derstin January 26 2006, 19:08:14 UTC

It's sad that when you're reading that you can actually picture the people saying that. Those blunders are just reminder to anyone that even the best fail sometime.

ashsaber January 26 2006, 18:02:13 UTC

I'm still split over the Hot Coffee thing. I'm not sure it was judged fairly. While I think Take Two should have owned up to the code being on the disk, the code that was there wasn't THAT bad. Certainly, it wasn't any worse than some of the stuff on Sex and the City. If the ESRB had seen it, I doubt it would have changed the M rating at all.

andrew_eisen January 26 2006, 19:16:58 UTC

You’re right. Describing the Hot Coffee scenes as “sexually explicit” is a frightful misuse of the term’s definition. Had the scenes been included in the game proper, I am convinced that the ESRB would have assigned the same rating and content descriptors that it did initially.

Andrew Eisen

You know... kingnintendoid January 26 2006, 18:05:08 UTC

Personally... I don't give a crap about Take Two OR Rockstar. GTA3 was great, Vice City was masterful, but San Andreas...... it just feels different. It gets boring far sooner. And then they had to release LCS. And then another one.

I'd wish they stopped making those. Would save them a few scandals too.

Re: You know... ashsaber January 26 2006, 18:20:37 UTC

I have to agree with you on that one. San Andreas has way too many mini-games. Who wants to spend hours collecting seashells and horseshoes? Not to mention the photo-ops, graffiti and gang wars. I can't believe Rockstar actually thought these activities would be fun.

Re: You know... pyrrhus9588 January 26 2006, 18:40:34 UTC

Then there's the girlfriends and the other useless crap they added.

Re: You know... jaykaos January 26 2006, 18:52:33 UTC

I prolly woulda finished the game if I hadn't needed a girlfriend for the casino heist...I wanted to do that heist, too, but never got around to it cause of that.

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