CVG reports that some of the game's content had to be pulled because the companies were unhappy with the way their licenses were being tweaked. The only company called out by name is Rockstar, which reportedly asked during Leipzig that a poster featuring Grand Theft Scratchy be removed. The article does mention that the Harmonix staff got a kick out of posters for Sitar Hero, though why they'd be OK with others making fun of Guitar Hero at this point in their careers is beyond us.
CVG reports that some of the game's content had to be pulled because the companies were unhappy with the way their licenses were being tweaked. The only company called out by name is Rockstar, which reportedly asked during Leipzig that a poster featuring Grand Theft Scratchy be removed. The article does mention that the Harmonix staff got a kick out of posters for Sitar Hero, though why they'd be OK with others making fun of Guitar Hero at this point in their careers is beyond us.
Reader Comments (54)
Posted: Oct 4th 2007 2:37PM (Unverified) said
R* needs a sense of humor. They are not exactly in a position in the world to have a right to be offended by anything, haha.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 3:08PM (Unverified) said
One of his attacks is headbutt or is it Butthead? :P
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Oh The sweet Irony.
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Oh The sweet Irony.
Posted: Oct 4th 2007 4:14PM (Unverified) said
Gotta remember... It's a company, not people. I'm sure most of the staff behind it would love it. When the company's name is on something though, it's usually just the money pushers that get pissed. Anything that might downplay their title or lose control of the image to tends to be a no-no... Even for the nearly two decade old Simpsons.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 2:38PM (Unverified) said
Oh brother. If I wasn't before, im sold on this game for sure now. The neverquest level looked so damn funny. Sleeper hit for the end of the year!
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 2:38PM (Unverified) said
Did anyone see the kratos reference in the game yet?
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 2:39PM Vegeta has a ps3 said
wait this doesn't make any sense. Rockstar is known for mocking everything from today's culture, and yet they start bitching when the Simpsons do it. Come on Rockstar, that is so lame.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 2:40PM (Unverified) said
I hear non-bunching panties are all the rage these days.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 2:41PM FredFredrickson said
Why would they have to pull satirical content? Isn't that protected free speech in the US?
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 3:01PM Crono141 said
yes, it is. However, that doesn't stop the company from filing a lawsuit that has to be fought in court in order for a judge to come to the inevitable conclusion that its protected speech. So rather than jump through all the legal crap, they'll just cut it now and save a bunch of time and money.
Legal bullying FTL. You can thank the RIAA for popularizing that tactic.
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Legal bullying FTL. You can thank the RIAA for popularizing that tactic.
Posted: Oct 4th 2007 2:46PM (Unverified) said
In some place an attorney of let's say Florida is laughing his ass off about this.
Seriously after all the stuff Rockstar has said about videogames and pull out they want the content of a single E game pulled? Seriously Rockstar for being a company that talks so openly about sex, violence and drugs in all your videogames one would think you can handle a little joke
Wow the people from Rockstar are p*ssies.
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Seriously after all the stuff Rockstar has said about videogames and pull out they want the content of a single E game pulled? Seriously Rockstar for being a company that talks so openly about sex, violence and drugs in all your videogames one would think you can handle a little joke
Wow the people from Rockstar are p*ssies.
Posted: Oct 4th 2007 2:54PM (Unverified) said
I think these guys aren't used to being lampooned. Movies have had mainstream spoofs forever but no one has really don't what the Simpsons game is doing. They need to remember spoofing doesn't mean you hate or want to insult something. It's to celebrate something we love. Like the movie Spaceballs spoofing Star Wars or Blazing Saddles spoofing westerns. It's a labor of love. And fart jokes.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 3:12PM (Unverified) said
No, being parodied by Al weird yankovic now that is an honor being parodied by the Simpson’s is more like a "Hey good news you are popular" notice.
Also didn’t the Simpson already do a parody about GTA? Once again the Simpson’s did it first.
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Also didn’t the Simpson already do a parody about GTA? Once again the Simpson’s did it first.
Posted: Oct 4th 2007 2:56PM (Unverified) said
Grand Theft Auto has already been parodied in countless other places, including by Dave Chapelle.
This is a Chewbacca. It doesn't make any sense!
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This is a Chewbacca. It doesn't make any sense!
Posted: Oct 4th 2007 3:21PM (Unverified) said
Its a South Park reference. The chewbacca defense according to Johnny Cochron.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 3:45PM In A World said
He knows it's a South Park reference, duh that's why his exploded!
Anyways, Rockstar reeks of hypocrisy!
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Anyways, Rockstar reeks of hypocrisy!
Posted: Oct 4th 2007 2:57PM (Unverified) said
This looks funny but I still don't understand what the "game" element is. It just seems to me to be a crapload of funny game parodies, but what do you "do" in this "game", and how, if at all, are the levels related?
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 3:10PM Vegeta has a ps3 said
That's basically what the game is, a game parody. I believe that each level is a parody of a certain genre of video game. It's defiantly a much more interesting idea than just making the movie in to a game.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 3:01PM (Unverified) said
im so disappointed that rockstar wanted things pulled.
out of all companies i thought rockstar would be on board for this.if it just just the lawyer rockstar needs to fire said lawyer.
also isnt parody protected in the us,so im no where near a law student, but wouldnt the simpsons game be protected from a lawsuit because of it?
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out of all companies i thought rockstar would be on board for this.if it just just the lawyer rockstar needs to fire said lawyer.
also isnt parody protected in the us,so im no where near a law student, but wouldnt the simpsons game be protected from a lawsuit because of it?
Posted: Oct 4th 2007 3:06PM (Unverified) said
I was ignoring this game... I didn't even want to buy it, but this trailer clicked. Oh hell did it click.
Is it possible the game won't suck as much as the older Simpsons game? Wow.
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Is it possible the game won't suck as much as the older Simpsons game? Wow.
Posted: Oct 4th 2007 3:27PM (Unverified) said
Actually except for the Simpsons arcade game made by Konami all Simpsons games sucked because they were made by Fox interactive a division that never did anything worth playing in all its existance in fact all their games go from dreadful to POS.
Now we are talking about EA which develop games that go from Meh to Great,I think this is a little bit better than meh.It can't be worst than the family guy game.
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Now we are talking about EA which develop games that go from Meh to Great,I think this is a little bit better than meh.It can't be worst than the family guy game.
Posted: Oct 4th 2007 3:53PM (Unverified) said
Word: My comments were also meant to be in regards to the Acclaim games. *shudders*
And trust me, I KNOW about the arcade game. I'm surprised nobody's released it on XBox Live yet.
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And trust me, I KNOW about the arcade game. I'm surprised nobody's released it on XBox Live yet.
Posted: Oct 4th 2007 3:09PM Fullmetal Salchemist said
The Simpsons have already spoofed Grand Theft Auto.
In the movie, Homer plays a Grand Theft Walrus arcade game. They didn't get their knickers in a knot over that one...
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In the movie, Homer plays a Grand Theft Walrus arcade game. They didn't get their knickers in a knot over that one...
Posted: Oct 4th 2007 3:20PM (Unverified) said
The simpsons did a parody about GTA even before that,remember the episode when Bart goes to therapy?
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 3:24PM (Unverified) said
Or the actual game Simpsons: Hit and Run, which was pretty much a GTA game.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 3:30PM (Unverified) said
Wow Simpsons did it even before the simpsons did it,Now you have a paradox here.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 3:53PM prime8 said
let's not forget the episode where Bart was playing Death Kill City II : Death Kill Stories
from kotaku: http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2007/03/deathkillstories.jpg
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from kotaku: http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2007/03/deathkillstories.jpg
Posted: Oct 4th 2007 6:37PM (Unverified) said
Robert I beat ya also that linking to You-know-what site only ads failure to your post.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 3:10PM CountNoobula said
This will be Jack Thompson's weapon of choice in his holy crusade against GTA.
In all seriousness this game looks like it could be pretty fun, but probably not at full price. I'll wait until boxing day to get it.
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In all seriousness this game looks like it could be pretty fun, but probably not at full price. I'll wait until boxing day to get it.
Posted: Oct 4th 2007 3:25PM (Unverified) said
Count just for the record, Boxing Day is not a real holiday. Because no US Americans believe in it such as you know.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 3:46PM (Unverified) said
Meh. "Grand Theft Scratchy" Isn't very clever anyway, wrong character. I can't believe they passed up the opportunity to make "Grand Theft Otto".
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 3:54PM (Unverified) said
'Grand Theft Otto'.
That would have been brilliant.
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That would have been brilliant.
Posted: Oct 4th 2007 4:23PM DonaldMick said
I smell one of the aforementioned Youtube parodies...
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 5:28PM Fullmetal Salchemist said
Ooh, major plus points for "Grand Theft Otto."
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 3:48PM (Unverified) said
So R* can dish it out but can't take it?
Puscitious to the max, the most ignorant thing I have seen them do.
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Puscitious to the max, the most ignorant thing I have seen them do.
Posted: Oct 4th 2007 4:35PM (Unverified) said
/me prays they have a Metal Gear spoof with Snake in it.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 4:40PM (Unverified) said
Doesn't this fall under a parodie fair use kind of thing. Really kinda silly.
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Posted: Oct 4th 2007 4:49PM PoisonedAl said
Dear Rockstar.
Stop being a bunch of knobs.
Love - Al
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Stop being a bunch of knobs.
Love - Al
Posted: Oct 4th 2007 10:44PM ThornedVenom said
My general rule for not wanting TV-license games is weakening...
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