Health will recover to the 50% mark on its own if you take cover or are in a vehicle. Maybe some other circumstances I'm not remembering at the moment. To get to 100%, you need to take additional action, such as eating food or visiting a prostitute (again, there may be others I'm forgetting right now). I personally think this system is kind of dumb, but I've rarely been in a situation where it's mattered much. Most of the time, I'm fine running around at half health.the December King said:I'm sorry, but I thought that your health restored after time passing in GTA games, like it does in Saint's Row- am I wrong? If I'm wrong, I'm sorry- I haven't played GTA games in a looong time, just SR2 and 3.
My point on this was more that I do not believe this is an integral part of the game, however. I mean, I'm not even horribly bothered if they keep prostitutes in GTA. I'm not particularly bothered if you can kill them for money. But as people have been talking about the impact of removing them from the game, I'm not sure there is any.
I've personally only used prostitutes twice: once because it's one of the "misc. activities" that leads to 100%, and once because of this controversy and people claiming that it didn't/did restore health. I've done the lap dances in the game for the same reason, and I did them online to get the easy platinum award for that, and that's about the end of it. They don't seem like huge issues in and of themselves from the community, and a lot of people have commented with things like "there are still prostitutes in the games?"
I mean, maybe there's some hardcore community out there that specifically demands prostitutes and the ability to kill them. I'm just having trouble seeing it.
SR has basically phased out prostitutes, unless I've missed some in IV. And people didn't particularly miss it, either.Maybe just remove that mechanic about prostitutes healing the character after paid for services, but to maintain the gritty feel, leave prostitutes in, along with the criminals and whatnot. Personally, I found including prostitutes in the Saint's Row games (specifically SR2) to be awkward- rather, the "mini-games" that involved them.
There is. They're not going to look at other games, however, because this is about putting forth the least effort possible to preserve the most money. GTA V is only a issue because they're concerned about lost sales in other, likely more lucrative areas (especially since games notoriously have a poor markup for retailers).As to the Target petition, if they want to be seen as a more family-oriented store, then it's probably a good move to take it off the shelves, I reckon. And they should probably have a look at some other games and media while they're at it. I mean, there are still places where adults can buy these mature-themed products, right?
I'm not sure contemporary is the right word, since hookers seem to be more a throwback than anything else.ZippyDSMlee said:So there are no hookers in a gritty realistic bent world? Perhaps realism is not right word "contemporary" maybe?
A while back, while people were arguing that the inability to kill children ruined their immersion in Skyrim, Yahtzee did an Extra Punctuation on shock and included lines questioning this in another context:
And I think this is kind of an important thing here. People complain about realism and immersion, but child prostitution and slavery are real issues in this country, and you don't see it happen. Animal abuse is super common, and I think you'd see a lot of people upset if you could buy a dog and then beat the shit out of it (I'm sure there are already some people bothered that you can kill wolves and the like). Does the game feel any less complete because you can't fiddle kids or beat on Fido? Would they complete the game? Why, then, does prostitution? What does it even add to the game?Extra Punctuation said:What if Skyrim had standard controls for making love to people? Say, left click to deploy a bunch of flowers, right click to stick it in. Would you mod the game to allow players to also fuck children? Not because you want to, you understand, but just for the sake of realism. When you set out to seduce every single person in a town you don't feel properly fulfilled unless the neighbourhood kids have also been ticked