Fairly amusing. I like that rather than close up gaming on such a controversial topic as GTAIV we're letting the older members of the community in...

Your link points to the other article, not the source

Hilarious. I'll have to bookmark 236.com.

Here Is The Actual Article If Any One Wants To Read It While The Link Gets Fixed

[www.236.com]

"You want to rub my feet?

I should definitely go."

Best Line Ive Read All Day

You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.

-Mark Twain

Tubes?

HA!
very funny, right until the depression that comes with how unfortunate & ture it is

HA!
very funny, right until the depression that comes with how unfortunate & true it is

Perfectly fitting for most moral watchdogs.

@hk458: Yea too hilarious....eerily it reminds me of a equally similiar question my grandpa would ask.

*shivers*

...yeah, I kinda just visit "when I can" ever since. <_<

That article just pissed me off because the old man didn't just seem old, he seemed... retarded.

Guess it depends if you say FAQ like 'Quack' or as three letters independent of each other...

@InsolenceAndHeresy: Exactly.

"So funny I forgot to laugh" as we used to say when our age was in single digits -- appropriate for this "humor" piece.

Yay stereotyping.

@Mikatro:

The best way to say 'FAQ' is like 'Faaa-Que'

Sounds eerily like you're swearing at the person if done right.

@InsolenceAndHeresy: Omg thanks for that.You made me laugh soo hard, but yeah with some people it doesnt matter if they are 70 or if they were 17.They would still not have a clue or even want to have a clue.They just cant be bothered with some stuff and thats just the way they are.
My mrs who is in her mid 30s doesnt have a clue about electrical things like tvs computers,dvd players etc.Its not that she`s stupid, just that she doesnt think its important enought to spend time learning about them.Especially when its easier just to get me to do whatever for her.She just has no interest in that kind of thing.

NO! Grand Theft Auto is not a sandbox game. People need to stop mislabeling it. Grand Theft Auto is more of an open world game. Garry's Mod is a sandbox game, or at least the closest thing I can think of.

"Hey Grandpa! Give the hooker $50. Yeah, dats what I'm tawkin bout!"

Funny. After a few hours of playing GTAIV, I saved my game and went out. I kept looking in the rearview mirror as I thought I heard cop car sirens!

@PatMan33:

"In a game with a sandbox mode, a player may turn off or ignore game objectives.[8] This term is used to describe a mode or option in otherwise goal oriented games, and should be distinguished from open-ended games with no objectives such as Sim City"

GTA IV clearly has objectives that need to be completed to beat the game. Hence it is a sandbox game.

@NeoAkira: That is an interesting point; however, I feel that the terms "sandbox" and "open-ended" have been confused with each other. I'd call Sim City a sandbox game and I'd call GTA an open-ended game.

Although I can see the other side of the argument too, but I associate sandbox with more construction-oriented things.

Are you trying to corrupt your father?

WTF is wrong with you? =)

@PatMan33: Good point.

@PatMan33:
"That is an interesting point. I think that Ive confused the terms "sandbox" and "open-ended" with each other."

Present for you; correction :)
(dont be mad!)

@Evil Tortie's Mom: Pretty much. Between this article and yesterday's dig at non-gaming females...

...perhaps it would be a whole bunch easier to get gaming accepted as a past-time if we weren't so derogatory to anyone who doesn't get it?

'You don't get it because you're old!' 'You don't get it because you're female!'

No, they don't get it because it's just not something they're interested in, and it's this stupid kind of finger-pointing that really stops gaming from going forward at all.

The funniest thing I've heard about GTA4's "sandbox" gameplay was from a co-worker who's girlfriend was watching him play:

her: "Play the game right!"
him: "This IS how you play the game!" *kills hooker, takes back money, then proceeds to shoot up bystanders and cars driving by*

@Achenar: I forwarded this article to a relative that fits the description of "old person", and she loved it. I really don't think it was written to be mean-spirited or to propagate stereotypes.

I feel old

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That is the only part of the article I found funny. The amount of redundant tags they have to file it under.

@Achenar: ...perhaps it would be a whole bunch easier to get gaming accepted as a past-time if we weren't so derogatory to anyone who doesn't get it?

Now that's just crazy talk. You're using logic on the internet! And appealing to reason!

Was this supposed to be funny?
Kotaku, your level has just been downed a notch.
Keep up the mediocre fanboy worship of this kind of drivel.

@ShaggE: I can't see this as doing anything but that, myself... it's totally all about a stereo type of "old people don't like games, because they're stupid/senile/whatever".

I liked the article about Brian's Dad, and this basically just removes all the goodness from that, to me. =/

@Aprocalypse: Maybe I'm missing a subtext to it that everyone else is seeing, then. (Then again, I chuckled at the "old lady breaking her hip" ringtone in GTAIV, so maybe I'm just evil :p)

This wasn't funny :-/

Making fun of the elderly is awesome.

Oh wow, very interesting article.

NOT !

Dude, seriously... Kotaku is supposed to be a filter for all the game-related junk out there. Tighten up the floodgates.

@Komrade_Kayce: It does! I said it out loud! Maybe too loud! People heard me! Thanks a lot, jerk!

At the part where the old man said "What else is on this on this thing? I don't have all day. I have an appointment." it should have looped around to the earlier joke "Why are you so busy? Who are you, the president?".

I like it when comedy routines loop around to an earlier joke.

That's actually pretty insulting. I'm certainly not the age they're mocking, but I know a hell of a lot of very sharp people at that age or older. Hell, my father was excited because he got a christmas hat in WoW.

Just another stupid "us vs. them" gag, once again striving to set gamers apart from everyone else.

I am with you Fnor, because they don't like GTA IV that is a reason to mock them? How many gamers attack the WII and they are championed. It only proves the idea that games like these can only bridge that gap to non upper market people if you get somebody who has a bond and patience towards that person.

Otherwise gamers on a whole tend to be condescending about our pass time, as if it is nuclear science and we are saving the world.

Why are upper market gamers, so insulted, when people outside of their niche aren't into "their" games. I would like to see a story on that, I seen thousands insulting gamers calling them Men Children and such. I would actually like to see a study that wasn't insulting to upper market gamers on why we act like this if people don't like our new toys.

I'd say "a faq" and "an FAQ". If you pronounce it [fack], it's not technically an acronym and as such should not be capitolized. (Yes, "NATO" is wrong, it should be "Nato".)
I think I would have just taken the chicken route and gone for "look at this 'ere FAQ". :P

Hmph. I am certainly not "old" (I'm only 46 years old. I was 45, now I'm 46 ^_^)
and even I thought that was lame. And I walked only about a half a mile to school or rode a bike. Uphill. Both ways. And I LIKED it (the hell I did ^_<).

Old people are funny! I want one!