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Law and Order Game Too Real&Recalled
Sharp10r
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An interesting story broke today about a poor mother of a slain boy. Appearantly someone at Legacy Interactive thought it was appropriate to use real footage from this boys murder investigation rather than hire actors.
So, I think this was probably the only way a Law and Order game could get "on the map," but now it's also being recalled. The entire thing is just creepy to me. What could the developer possibly have been thinking to make such a decision? Wow, just, wow.
Also, have there been any other games which have "blurred the lines" in a similar way?
So, I think this was probably the only way a Law and Order game could get "on the map," but now it's also being recalled. The entire thing is just creepy to me. What could the developer possibly have been thinking to make such a decision? Wow, just, wow.
Also, have there been any other games which have "blurred the lines" in a similar way?
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Yeah, that's just wrong.
edit: Majestic tried to.
so they only served 8 years for torturing and killing this kid?
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Good, since Rockstar hasn't done anything wrong.
It was a tiny little photo of surveillance footage that had nothing to do with the game, it was in the upper corner of a background in one office scene.
The irony of course it that newspapers used this image and footage of it to sell countless papers to feed the public's voyeuristic appetite, it is amusing how self-righteous they are getting.
IF THERE ARE ANY CHILDREN IN THE ROOM THEY MUST LEAVE NOW BEFORE SEEING THIS TERRIBLE MIND-SCARRING PICTURE
Oh my god I just threw up in my mouth how vile
Wait, what?
Huh?
granted, that's not the sort of picture you should be using in a game
but it's about the size of my thumb. the only people who would even notice were actively looking for it. in a 4 year old game. disgusting.
Listen, the Internet is raping the newspapers and video games are raping TV. Of course the news will do everything they can to shit on videogaming. They (rightfully so) fear it.
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If there were no people personally connected to the footage of the victim, again, I can't say I would have a huge problem with it. It's a picture of three kids in a mall.
Do they post the picture of the person actually getting killed?
No, neither did this game. There is a tiny still image of the three boys, all very much alive and well.
Did the Law & Order game?
Those people did some fucking disgraceful things to that child.
Did the game? No.
Edit: Haha, damn it. I'm too late.
And? I've seen that image so many times in the papers and on the news.
The developers have come out and said an artist just used the first google surveillance footage still he found. If this was the first one that came up on google I wonder how many sites were making money, generating hits off of this picture.
You operate under the assumption that anyone enjoys or plays the Law & Order games.
I agree, it was lazy and they've since apoligized and released a patch to remove the image. I understand why the family is upset about it, I just find it amusing when newspapers and other media outlets get high and mighty about these issues. They parade trajedies like this in such a lurid and disgusting fashion so they can make money, they're far worse in my view.
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I knew it.
Still, I can understand why people would be upset. I do think there comes a point when images like this have to be considered part of the public record, though. The developers should probably have just used something else, given that the Bulger case isn't in any way a focus of the game.
EDIT: There should be a CSI: Miami game in the style of Phoenix Wright, except instead of shouting "Objection!", you should get to do that bit where Horatio takes off his sunglasses.
That being said, you'd really have to be looking for it, and even though the developers should have asked for permission, it's being blown up out of proportion. I mean, lots of WW2 games use stock footage depicting soldiers who are now dead, but you don't see anyone making a fuss about it.
Oh wait, war is GOOD death, crime is bad death. Silly me.
There's a ton more than that if you throw in SVU episodes... every other one or so.
And Mariska Hargitay is really hot.
This man speaks the truth.