Total Bullsh!t

[Sybarite Paladin AxL]

Another bullsh*t statement bleah!!

http://www.iccr.org/news/press_releases/pr...ement112304.htm

Sure blame it on the game companies

Edited December 22, 2004 by alexis

[Gryph]

This is old, I think it might have already been posted. But it's quite a funny list since I don't know if anyone would actually buy Postal 2 since it's a year old, Hitman Blood Money isn't even out yet, and I don't think anyone is going to import Gunslinger Girls 2.

[alexis]

yeah that's really funny i never get tired of that crap, and not only in videogames, AC/DC and OzzY Osborne too were accused of similar cr*p AC/DC with the nigthcrawler incident, and Ozzy was acused of having a song inviting you to suicide yourself

[Ghosty]

That Is Total Bull, I Mean Who Plays "Karaoke Revolution Vol. 3"?!

[Sturmvogel]

Generally speaking, I disagree with these anti-violence advocates. One could go into greater detail about this but I think they make the error of comparing visual media with interactive media like videogames. They obvioulsy are alike in many ways, but you can't equate them...

 

However, after seeing some trailers for GTA: San Andreas, I tend to agree with some of what the advocates are saying. I understand its just a game, btu looking at the characters, environment etc.....its really stereotypical. Sure, the ghetto, gangbaning type of atmosphere in the game reflects part of reality, however the game glorifies it in ways that I think it shouldn't be. I think the creators could have easily made a great game and not have it been so saturated the way it is with their representation of a sub-culture of African Americans....meh....this will turn into a rant so I'll say nothing more....

[Sybarite Paladin AxL]

I agree

[Lucandrake]

Dude, I got only 3 words to say against this statement. "Get over it"

[OverlordMondo]

Oh NOES!!1! Our children are all going to kill each other with weapons of mass destruction!

 

Y'know, maybe they wouldn't if you let them get some practice in you losers. Violence is part of life, deal with it.

 

But, I think the whole stereotyping thing is one of the things that turns me away from GTA. Except Vice City, cause all the dudes in that game are white anyway.

[Bluestinger X]

http://www.progressiveboink.com/archive/drted.htm

[alexis]

oh come on these are just games, if you can´t distinguish between reality and a game, your head is pretty f*cked up and oyu do not belong to society, games are just games, there are some games that aren´t meant to kids, but i had too much with Nintendo, adults need to have their own games too, because i would reallly hate if all games were based on Disney chars

 

If your son is is playing a really violent game, don{t balme the creator´s it is your f*cking fault, after all you were the one that bought the freakin thin,

[Chaotica]

Bluestinger, I couldn't stop laughing at that web page!

[Cominus]

So what exactly is the thing saying? Are they asking companys to tone it down or what?

[alexis]

i think they are asking to prohibit the games

[Daeval]

I agree with those who've said that parents need to be responsible for what their kids play. However, as a former games-retail employee, I know that it's important to take some measures at the retail level as well. Parents are often too clueless to realize that the big "M" means it aint for their grade schooler.

 

I always made sure to ask the buyer's age if the game was M-rated, and even for ID if the response was questionable. No one under 17/18 got away with M-Rated titles without an adult. And when a clueless parent set GTAIII on the counter at the behest of their giddy 8 year old, I always made sure to point out the rating and explain what it meant.

 

Disturbingly, there were many parents who just didn't care, or who even thought it was "cool" that their kid's game would be as violent and risque as the r-rated stuff the adults enjoyed. There were many that appreciated the warnings though.

 

 

I don't mind violence and "mature-themes" in games, but there are titles, especially Rockstar's titles, that use them as the primary draw. That I do have a problem with. The old GTAs were fun, and GTAIII was fun, but the gameplay has barely been updated at all since then, and most of the attention the series gets isn't for it's free-form play, but for it's controversial nature. Manhunt is another good example - a mediocre sneaker with enough violence to draw crowds. At that point, the title has sunk to "shock rock" levels, and no longer really contributes to gaming as a whole.

[taratata]

If such a thing as a VIRTUAL game can make kids violent, what do they think about the glorification of REAL war on FoxNews?