The video game maker that sparked uproar over a hidden sex scene in "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas," is courting new controversy with its latest schoolyard title "Bully" -- featuring boys kissing.
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"Bully" stars 15-year-old Jimmy Hopkins, who must navigate cliques, fights and young love at his new boarding school, along the way winning brawls, completing missions and plying girls with candy and flowers in exchange for kisses.
But Jimmy can also use the same approach with boys. When Jimmy approaches a tall, blond boy with some flowers, the boy replies: "I'm hot. You're hot. Let's make out."
The article cites some LGBT people claiming that this is progress--game-makers are allowing for homosexual and/or bisexual romance in a medium that had been dominated by heterosexuality for so long. And it probably is, at that, although I fear those opposed to such a thing could just point to other objectionable content from these game-makers as "proof" that this is some sort of plot to decay society's morals. "This comes from the same people that made a series of games solely devoted to beating people up and stealing their cars! They let you recover hit points by hiring prostitutes! They allowed other people to make a patch for their game that allows players to simulate sex! This is just the latest in their pernicious assault on morals!"
That, however, was not the tactic taken by one person:
"I can't have my kids playing this game. This is morally reprehensible. GTA (Grand Theft Auto) is a real man's game, Bully is a disgrace," wrote a poster using the handle spideRRR on GameSpot.com.
So... letting your kid hire hookers, shoot people, steal cars, blow things up, elude the police... all this is fine, because that's what a "real man" does? Hoo-boy.
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