(seriously i woke up drove to work and typed this so the english is probably terrible, bare with it please - and feel free to laugh at me, i take no offence)

this also could have been given the title gamers unite but then i couldnt use a "+" :/

OK!

so i finally got to play GTA 4 on Monday.  First impression...SICK!  Second impression...I'm never taking my seatbelt off again...

yea weired but true...

so heres the skinny.  I know MADD has issues with GTA 4 cause you can go drunk driving and blah blah blah wah wah wah :P  but what I want to know is why are people only hoping on the bad publicity wagon?  I mean AAA should be a major sponser if you ask me.  I see commercials all the time about needing to wear my seat belt and none of them have ever had the gravity that GTA 4 does.  I mean if you hit a wall while ur flooring it and ur not wearing your seat belt in that game...U GET F'D!  the first time it happened i let out a huge "O SH^T!" as my little pixilated pal when from cruising the street to wall pancake in about 0.5sec.  I mean sure it can be fun and useful in game but holy hell there is no way im hoping in a car without a seatbelt after seeing Niko go all rag doll into on coming traffic.

dont get me wrong i know its funny and fun but seriously...NO1 is gona go out and hit a wall at 60 without a belt on just to see if their body will make as good a projectile as Niko's.

this has brought me to a new question...

we have groups like MADD slaming games for what they do that people don't like but what about all the people that will see Niko as a crash test dummy?  people that COULD label him a teacher to the youth of america.  we made an entire childrens tv series on crash test dummys but when a contraversial game come out fully equiped with a better example every1 stays away like the game has the clap or something.

so my point...

look we all know no1's going near GTA 4 if they want to keep their reputation (*cough* AAA, yea i seriously e-mailed them about it but they havent responeded...obviously) so that where we the gaming community comes into play.  maybe no1 noticed but i sure have, were getting to be one hell of a major voice in media nowadays and if we as a collective start a stink about something people notice.  so why dont we use this to our advantage?  i mean seriously...we could just have mass e-mails go out and make a difference we wouldnt even have to leave our homes.  but i think at the same time we got a voice we all got real lazy, and though we care about the issues we only care on our own time.  so i wonder how we should approach the idea itself of actually trying to rally the troops to fight back for games that get an unjustified bad rap.

DISCUSS!