Daily Star Gets Nailed for Made-Up GTA Story
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Hmmm well I looked briefly at the page and put the name into their search engine and it looks like they took it down. Truthfully though, the cover of the game shown here seems to be an obvious shop. I do tend to wonder about why they reported on this though as it isn't their usual kind of thing, not to mention the fact that to cover themselves tabloids like this that deal with celebrities and companies endeavor to have some grain of truth they can use to defend themselves even if they are wrong overall.
If I had to make a guess I'd think that Rockstar might have mentioned that they were looking into the case as inspiration for the game at some point, and then the shop appeared somewhere, and someone decided to get creative with it.
Honestly the most telling bit here is simply the source material. If Rockstar gets their classic groove back and decides to fight censors, their attitude has always been one where I could very much believe they would use things from real crimes in their games. The whole point is for people to be playing them and thinking to themselves "this is just wrong" as they are ironically having fun at the same time. HOWEVER they would not be able to base an entire game around that one criminal because he wasn't around long enough to create much of an impact in the big picture. He shot and killed a handfull of people, and sure he was a bad guy, but there just isnt enough material there to build a game out for a series that is famous for involving people for dozens of hours with each installment. I would however (as mentioned above) not put it past them to build a single mission loosely based around those events and perhaps taking place in equivilents to the same locations if they were to set another game in Europe.
Honestly we'll probably never know the entire truth of this, especially if The Star is not successfully sued (which will probably mean they had enough to defend themselves, as odd as it sounds, that does sort of make a backhanded statement when it comes to tabloids).
Also on another somewhat more ironic bent, it's not like connecting Grand Theft Auto to crime actually hurts it's reputation any. This story got Grand Theft Auto mentioned again (and being circulated to sites like this one). Given how marketing can work, I wouldn't put it past Rockstar to have paid The Star to run this simply to generate attention and keep their balls in the air so to speak (ie make sure people are talking about GTA and it remains contreversial for whatever reason).
If I had to make a guess I'd think that Rockstar might have mentioned that they were looking into the case as inspiration for the game at some point, and then the shop appeared somewhere, and someone decided to get creative with it.
Honestly the most telling bit here is simply the source material. If Rockstar gets their classic groove back and decides to fight censors, their attitude has always been one where I could very much believe they would use things from real crimes in their games. The whole point is for people to be playing them and thinking to themselves "this is just wrong" as they are ironically having fun at the same time. HOWEVER they would not be able to base an entire game around that one criminal because he wasn't around long enough to create much of an impact in the big picture. He shot and killed a handfull of people, and sure he was a bad guy, but there just isnt enough material there to build a game out for a series that is famous for involving people for dozens of hours with each installment. I would however (as mentioned above) not put it past them to build a single mission loosely based around those events and perhaps taking place in equivilents to the same locations if they were to set another game in Europe.
Honestly we'll probably never know the entire truth of this, especially if The Star is not successfully sued (which will probably mean they had enough to defend themselves, as odd as it sounds, that does sort of make a backhanded statement when it comes to tabloids).
Also on another somewhat more ironic bent, it's not like connecting Grand Theft Auto to crime actually hurts it's reputation any. This story got Grand Theft Auto mentioned again (and being circulated to sites like this one). Given how marketing can work, I wouldn't put it past Rockstar to have paid The Star to run this simply to generate attention and keep their balls in the air so to speak (ie make sure people are talking about GTA and it remains contreversial for whatever reason).
My previous post on the subject aside aside, I'd point out that there has been some truely terrible box art in the past. Perhaps the worst of all time from a successful game was the box art for the first "Mega Man" game.Kalezian said:XJ-0461 said:
had journalistic integrety and covered a vast majority of world events without a hint of sensationalism.
The world needs more Cronkite's.
OT: chances are the 'reporter' was viewing /v/ on a *chan and saw it, thats the only thing I can think of anyone believing that this piece of shit could be considered box-art.
More telling is simply that Rockstar has maintained a consistant art style for the series through the year, and I'd question whether they would actually use photos even if covering real events.
The media has it in for games and I have no idea why. Films and Music feature sex, violence, gore and other "Undesirable" content.
See:
Saw
Rap Music
Yet any crime is always linked back to GTA for some reason.
See:
Saw
Rap Music
Yet any crime is always linked back to GTA for some reason.
Someone should lock these idiots in a room with nothing but the nintendo 64 version of Daikatana. How long will they live?FargoDog said:
Or just send Sam Fisher after them.
Also, On topic, that's pathetic. Just to get attention, they make some fake story about some serial killer in hopes of having a few new readers. Sick.
Oh cmon, this is ridiculous...
Sure, getting facts completely wrong about a game (the whole Mass Effect "Sexbox" scandal, for example) happens - people make mistakes, what can you say?
But completely fabricating facts with no basis of truth whatsoever?!
I didn't expect such bullshit, even from a piece of crap like the Daily Star.
Sure, getting facts completely wrong about a game (the whole Mass Effect "Sexbox" scandal, for example) happens - people make mistakes, what can you say?
But completely fabricating facts with no basis of truth whatsoever?!
I didn't expect such bullshit, even from a piece of crap like the Daily Star.
Really? Somebody really thought that this would be mistaken for something real? A couple of photos and a google maps image?Andy Chalk said:Daily Star Gets Nailed for Made-Up GTA Story
Come on, Spoony has done a better fake of Grand Theft Auto with TGWTG.com people.
I wouldn't bother being so sure about the war coverage either, remember a certain c*** by the name of Piers Morgan? He who had pictures of iraqi prisoners being humiliated and tortured faked just to get a nice front page for the Daily Mirror?KaiRai said:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3716151.stm
'Oh yes, our soldiers are out in the desert in a war, how can I help? that's it, enrage their enemy by faking photos of how our soldiers abuse the other side. That'll help...sell a few more copies of my paper.'
On top of that he was pulling dodgy financial crap too, and now somehow he's a judge on America's got Talent, which is like Stevie Wonder judging America's got 20/20 vision.
It seems if you want to be a successful newspaper editor you've gotta have zero morals whatsoever, and a twisted mind for headlines so wrong Frankie Boyle would go 'steady on, that's a bit harsh'.
I don't think I've ever posted so often in one thread, but usually there's some tiny grain of truth in the articles in newspapers, often twisted out of all recognition to fit the paper's own agenda, but it's just about still there. I'm thoroughly pissed to see them discard it utterly in favour of printing pure fiction.
Their tagline should be 'the news, the goss,the pics, the sport...and many other short stories'.
I, um... you've got to be kidding me. You can't just make up some shit about a company as big as Rockstar, especially when they (and their fans, and avid gamers in general) have a means of mass-communication called the internet. If Rockstar was working on a new GTA game, I don't think The Daily Star would be the first to know.
I know Rockstar makes controversial games, but they're not dumb enough to base a game around a real murderer, especially as a protagonist.
I know Rockstar makes controversial games, but they're not dumb enough to base a game around a real murderer, especially as a protagonist.
uhum, i don't care, it's no real big news unlike the 3 Big U.S. fleets coordinating around North Korea, Iran, and Venezuela...
CkretAznMan said:
Even Fox News has more journalistic integrity and common sense then the Sun, Daily Star, Mirror and their ilk. To compare Fox News to these... things is an insult to the journalistic world as a whole.soapyshooter said:
Far as I know, the media is generally biased, not many people will look at this and believe it anyway, especiallly if Rockstar comes by to prove it false.
Sorta reminds me of that controversity stand with Fox News on Mass Effect.
Sorta reminds me of that controversity stand with Fox News on Mass Effect.
When news companies make up stories it is usually to make people laugh. News companies and journalists that make up stories like this Moat one infuriate me. The people at the Daily Star who gave the go ahead to come up with that story should all be fired.
