Poll: Do you cringe when a Video Game name is in the News?
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Yes cause its usually some paranoid person whos never touched a video game in their life (usually over 40) spewing nonsensical bull about how games are evil and corrupting those who play them.
I also say "Yes" because I've become so used to hearing video games in general being labelled, prosecuted, then attacked with invalid arguments and irrational closed-mindedness.
I also say "Yes" because I've become so used to hearing video games in general being labelled, prosecuted, then attacked with invalid arguments and irrational closed-mindedness.
God this annoyed the hell out of me. That so called expert on psychology seems more like a lazy undergrad student at uni barely scraping through with passes. She clearly has not done much reading on the subject if she can only cite the existence of a single study to back her up. And a good argument must look at things from all angles and critically assess all points made regarding a given topic. If i tried a "I read a study that supports my argument so I am right and your argument is wrong" line, I would have been failed. And she is supposed to be a professional academicShiuz91 post=9.70726.700829 said:
Yeah... the last positive news I heard was during the Olympics when a Chinese medal winner (i forget exactly who) put his success down to Mario and Sonic at the Olmpics on the Wii. Predictably this didn't get much coverage, so usually it's just the usual "GAEMS MURDAIR MAI KIDS!!11" crap printed in the Sun.
Usually. The 'video games are making kids violent!' is exactly the same as when they were calling out rock and metal for doing the same thing. In 30 years we'll probably be whining about how virtual reality is brainwashing our children. *sigh*
The crowning moment for me, however, is that one person that called out Mass Effect for being a game about sex. Seriously? There was ONE scene, and they didn't show any "parts" that would have made it inappropriate. Maybe a split-second of ass, but that's it. If you're going to make such a big fuss about it, DO SOME RESEARCH BEFORE YOU GO PUBLIC. Isn't that like, the first thing we learn about writing or reporting? Research the subject from several different sources before you start writing. And that's not even getting into how many FPSs are out at that point, and a game gets so much attention for one little sex scene. Why is sex considered to be so much more damning than violence?
ARGH
The crowning moment for me, however, is that one person that called out Mass Effect for being a game about sex. Seriously? There was ONE scene, and they didn't show any "parts" that would have made it inappropriate. Maybe a split-second of ass, but that's it. If you're going to make such a big fuss about it, DO SOME RESEARCH BEFORE YOU GO PUBLIC. Isn't that like, the first thing we learn about writing or reporting? Research the subject from several different sources before you start writing. And that's not even getting into how many FPSs are out at that point, and a game gets so much attention for one little sex scene. Why is sex considered to be so much more damning than violence?
ARGH
Any one. Who ever. Utters the word. Cyber. makes me want to punch them in the face rather quickly. So when I turn on CNN, hoping to hear about the 2008 presidental campaing, the war in iraq, healthcare, or any of the hundreds of other topics that are more important than 3D boobs, And Instead, i get a load of "GTA was Banned in X country, as the cyber-space slaughter simulator-" "The Cyber Safety comitt-" "Is your Identity lost in Cyber spa-" AGGHGHGHG!!!!!
I HATE THAT WORD SO MUCH!It has almost no real meaning. And it sounds annoying. Sy-GH-BUR. and every time a game is in the news. That's all you'll hear. The commitee for Cyber safety, our senior cyber corresponent, the cybernetic killing game.....
Oh well, I figure in about 20 years, we'll run out of things/ people to discriminate against, and we'll be forced to be an open minded happy society. Imagine that.
I HATE THAT WORD SO MUCH!It has almost no real meaning. And it sounds annoying. Sy-GH-BUR. and every time a game is in the news. That's all you'll hear. The commitee for Cyber safety, our senior cyber corresponent, the cybernetic killing game.....
Oh well, I figure in about 20 years, we'll run out of things/ people to discriminate against, and we'll be forced to be an open minded happy society. Imagine that.
I can't understand the beef over sex scenes in games. Even compared to stuuf like the Simpsons games are laughably, embarrasingly prudish when it comes to sex. I can only think of a handful with any kind of nudity in, and most games with sex scenes are merely implied sex (god of war, gta) so why on earth is there such a fuss over sex in games?
Surely its' just as easy for a kid to get hold of Last Tango in Paris or something as it is to get a copy of these "murder/rape sims" that we all apparently play.
Surely its' just as easy for a kid to get hold of Last Tango in Paris or something as it is to get a copy of these "murder/rape sims" that we all apparently play.
I don't understand the sex issue either. When I was at primary school we all knew what sex was before they showed us the sex ed videos, and very few of us had played video games.
As for the gun shootings... How the hell do these people get guns. Oh, yeah! Because parents don't bother locking these things up out of reach of their children in gun cabinets, with the ammunition in a separate cabinet. If we throw in gun sellers who'll sell weapons to anyone with money we may start to see a clearer picture.
As for the gun shootings... How the hell do these people get guns. Oh, yeah! Because parents don't bother locking these things up out of reach of their children in gun cabinets, with the ammunition in a separate cabinet. If we throw in gun sellers who'll sell weapons to anyone with money we may start to see a clearer picture.
annoys the hell outta me how video games are blamed for so much violence by the media when wars (real death and violence) are openly reported on before the watershed every day... And we get shown that exciting footage of a C-130 gunship blowing up some small town half way across the world
The worst thing is when video games are on television. Like, there was an episode of CSI, and one of NCIS which both focused on murders that had some tie to MMORPGs (you know that story about the kid who got mad at another kid because he stole his loot and then he went to his house and beat him to death? I think both shows were based on that incident, only I didn't watch long enough to be certain, too painful). The problem with the episodes is the horrible inaccuracy. If anyone on the show has tried to play a video game ever they would see how horribly off their portrayal is. Like in NCIS, some girl is playing, walking alone through a dungeon (like that would ever happen in an MMORPG), and she controls her character by frickin' typing on the keyboard. What the hell? This isn't an old DOS adventure game, use the damned mouse.
Beyond that, I, like most gamers, is obviously upset of the unfair portayal of our culture as pathetic and sad, and of the games portrayal as psychopath brainwashing software. I know most people are pretty level headed, but in the media, the extremist always get the most attention.
Beyond that, I, like most gamers, is obviously upset of the unfair portayal of our culture as pathetic and sad, and of the games portrayal as psychopath brainwashing software. I know most people are pretty level headed, but in the media, the extremist always get the most attention.
Personally I can't wait to get out on the streets and frag some n00bs - I've been working on my l337 headshot skillz on COD4, so I'll be clicking on peoples' heads faster than they can say 'Why the hell are you walking around with a mouse? Ow, stop poking it in my eye!'. Seriously.
To be honest, I rather enjoy it when people complain about games. I reckon that there's enough gamers around now that in a generation or two things will be flipped on their heads and the non-gamer minority will be getting criticised for not being able to distinguish between virtual and real environments and interactions. This will, of course, be at a time when plug-in virtual reality is prevalent and wars are fought by elite, hand-picked teams, or 'clans', that battle across a series of virtual arenas in an endless series of team deathmatch games for their county's honour.
Or, you know, not.
To be honest, I rather enjoy it when people complain about games. I reckon that there's enough gamers around now that in a generation or two things will be flipped on their heads and the non-gamer minority will be getting criticised for not being able to distinguish between virtual and real environments and interactions. This will, of course, be at a time when plug-in virtual reality is prevalent and wars are fought by elite, hand-picked teams, or 'clans', that battle across a series of virtual arenas in an endless series of team deathmatch games for their county's honour.
Or, you know, not.
Goddamn that bugs me, I was mainly gonna ***** about the way news portrays us, but then varulfic has to remind me of the pure idiocy shown in TV dramas and the like, where there's two kids having a pitched button mashing session, must be Tekken, right?
No, its a cut scene from Final Fantasy 7, and they both have Atari 2600 rubber joysticks.
No, its a cut scene from Final Fantasy 7, and they both have Atari 2600 rubber joysticks.
I only cringe if it's misinformed and/or badly researched. You don't see people sparking up debates over the latest film/book without reading/watching it do you? Yet people seem all too ready to look at the blurb of a game box, sometimes not reading it properly, and extrapolate the entire content of the game without even placing it into a console/PC.
"Teen kills friend, ARE VIDEO GAMES TO BLAME?" No. No they're not. If a kid kills another kid, there was something wrong in his head before he killed his friend. As soon as journalists start blaming video games as for violence, they open themselves up to critique concerning violent messages from all other forms of media, including, amusingly, the news institutions that the journalist works for.
"Teen kills friend, ARE VIDEO GAMES TO BLAME?" No. No they're not. If a kid kills another kid, there was something wrong in his head before he killed his friend. As soon as journalists start blaming video games as for violence, they open themselves up to critique concerning violent messages from all other forms of media, including, amusingly, the news institutions that the journalist works for.
...I can't remember the last time I actually watched the news on TV. I hate every news station for one reason or another. I read the newspaper, read internet news, etc. TV is for videogames and movies.
hmm i agree with you about the tv.
the fox news report on mass effect made me a little angry. i dont like when people say stuff and they are so stupid/uninformed that they get it toally wrong.
the only thing in mass effect was a pg-13 rated love making scene. thats it.
im 15, and when my parents see news about a video game, they ask me about it "do you have that game?" and in the mass effect case i went "yes i do, you want to see it?" they said yes, and i just happened to be at that part, and they laughed at it.
also, have you ever noticed how they only bash big sellers? you never hear anything about saints row, or other small selling games.
toally off topic, but unholykrumpet, do you belong to the double fine action forums and is your name bosch on there?
the fox news report on mass effect made me a little angry. i dont like when people say stuff and they are so stupid/uninformed that they get it toally wrong.
the only thing in mass effect was a pg-13 rated love making scene. thats it.
im 15, and when my parents see news about a video game, they ask me about it "do you have that game?" and in the mass effect case i went "yes i do, you want to see it?" they said yes, and i just happened to be at that part, and they laughed at it.
also, have you ever noticed how they only bash big sellers? you never hear anything about saints row, or other small selling games.
toally off topic, but unholykrumpet, do you belong to the double fine action forums and is your name bosch on there?
i just cringe at the idea that people want to perma irl ban m rated games. srsly, they're like the only ones i want anymore.