Poll: Do you cringe when a Video Game name is in the News?
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Actually, Jack doesn't bother me anymore. He's a complete joke. A poor lawyer with a messiah complex, and he really is a poor lawyer. Like, remember when he said he'd give 10k to anyone making a video game where you kill programmers? Or how about when he sent gay porn to a judge? He's so bad that he faces disbarment.
Jack Thompson is the one good thing about video game controversy, because he makes everyone who want to ban video games look stupid. And he gives us a failure of a man who we can laugh at without feeling guilty.
Jack Thompson is the one good thing about video game controversy, because he makes everyone who want to ban video games look stupid. And he gives us a failure of a man who we can laugh at without feeling guilty.
IF (!) theoretically, all games have potential to influence children's behaviour, why is it always the "bad" games that do so.
If it were the case, when there are some kids robbing cars or knifing each other from seeing it on GTA and Manhunt then there should be kids collecting coins and saving princesses shouldn't there?
Where are the kids who collect rings and rescue animals from the inside of robots? Where are the kids that go and find a haunted mansion and try and clear it out using a vacuum cleaner?
I know my statement may seem like a bit of a push, but I think the WHOLE link is a bit of a push.
Parent's shouldn't stick their kids in front of the TV/Playstation, use it as a baby sitter and then complain because their child picked up a naughty word or two from GTA.
Negative influences are EVERYWHERE and it's up to the parents to control what their children are exposed to.
Sorry if this echoes anything anyone else has said, just thought I'd share!
If it were the case, when there are some kids robbing cars or knifing each other from seeing it on GTA and Manhunt then there should be kids collecting coins and saving princesses shouldn't there?
Where are the kids who collect rings and rescue animals from the inside of robots? Where are the kids that go and find a haunted mansion and try and clear it out using a vacuum cleaner?
I know my statement may seem like a bit of a push, but I think the WHOLE link is a bit of a push.
Parent's shouldn't stick their kids in front of the TV/Playstation, use it as a baby sitter and then complain because their child picked up a naughty word or two from GTA.
Negative influences are EVERYWHERE and it's up to the parents to control what their children are exposed to.
Sorry if this echoes anything anyone else has said, just thought I'd share!
I love how the media hypes up that the games will turn children into killing machines after 1 little dipshit gets "emotional" and does something that leads to somebody's death. The part that really kicks it is they often fail to grasp the idea that its not like only 30 copies of the game were sold, but as in the case of GTA or HALO hundreds of thousands are sold. If people were to trust these hollow skulled morons we'd need to be in a Children of Men type world to save ourselves.
Well if a video game is on the news then you can bet your house it's condemming it for a promoting illegal activities.
It seems that the current media views the video games industry as the punching bag of humanity and that it's the sole cause of everything bad in the world; drugs, crime, cancer, world hunger, you name it, there's a media station that thinks it.
Ok I'll admit, if a four year old was completely shut off from society, played GTA until he was 16 and then let loose on the world, I might just believe these nuts but until then if parents have no idea how an age rating works and will give that little four year old GTA I blame it on the parents and the parents only.
An example, say a child is infected with some virus, his parents take him to the docters, docter perscribes a medication. This medication can be dangerous in large doses, The parents give the child too much and the child has to go into hospital. Who there is at fault? Going by the media's view on video games then the medication is at fault because it caused the child to go to hospital, whereas common sense tells you that it's the parents fault for overdosing the medication.
Right, now I'm just steering way off course so I'll just say yes, I do cringe whenever I hear of a video game on the news.
It seems that the current media views the video games industry as the punching bag of humanity and that it's the sole cause of everything bad in the world; drugs, crime, cancer, world hunger, you name it, there's a media station that thinks it.
Ok I'll admit, if a four year old was completely shut off from society, played GTA until he was 16 and then let loose on the world, I might just believe these nuts but until then if parents have no idea how an age rating works and will give that little four year old GTA I blame it on the parents and the parents only.
An example, say a child is infected with some virus, his parents take him to the docters, docter perscribes a medication. This medication can be dangerous in large doses, The parents give the child too much and the child has to go into hospital. Who there is at fault? Going by the media's view on video games then the medication is at fault because it caused the child to go to hospital, whereas common sense tells you that it's the parents fault for overdosing the medication.
Right, now I'm just steering way off course so I'll just say yes, I do cringe whenever I hear of a video game on the news.
Oh here it goes again [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv5zWaTEVkI].Reaperman Wompa post=9.70726.701849 said:
I hate when we get a big controversy over hacks or mods. Anyone rememeber the Oblivion mod that made nude characters? You know, the one that used PLAYER MADE code? That the ESRB decided meant that the original game, without mods, needed to have an M rating? I just get sick and tired that the only games that make it to mainstream media are bad, uber-violent games, and not the ones that are true works of art like Shadow of the Colossus.
Bzzt! Wrong. The ESRB re-rated the game because most of the quests in the Dark Brotherhood storyline, when shown to them, were intentionally left in darkened rooms, so they couldn't tell just how gruesome it looked. However, when they later saw well-lit videos, they re-rated it due to the gore that was shown.xitel post=9.70726.735798 said:
See? [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/op-ed/797-Boobies-Did-Not-Break-the-Game-The-ESRB-Clears-the-Air-On-Oblivi]
When I turn up to the cinema and there's nothing good on and we've nothing better to do, our general mentality is "This movie is 18, then there must be something in there worth seeing." So we go and see that. The same goes with game to a lesser extent, "This game is M rated, then there must be something in there worth playing." Except the games ratings are so absurdly unrealistic it's just not informative in the same way the movie rating are. There are plenty of shooters with 100+ body counts with a 12 or 15 rating, while Mass Effect, an open ended RPG gets a M, because you get to see a few seconds of nudity in a 50 hour game.
I remember that Mass Effect 'se'Xbox crap, they shut up pretty fast when someone spoke up and said it wasn't bad, never said they were wrong though...
I hate it when people blame games for the stupid crap that happens. If a kid stabs a man in the street, then it seems to me that games are the last thing to blame, since if the kid had been a gamer he would be sat in his bedroom on whatever console his mum bought him for his birthday. PS3 is getting more of it now. First the Resistance arguement about fighting in the Cathedral, now the racist song in Little Big Planet. It's not like we're all going to get a lazer gun and hunt aliens in our local church! Or hum abusive songs while we're jumping around in our miniature, user-created world. It has all gone way too far!
I didn't mean to offend anyone, and I do agree that racism is wrong in every way, but that was the most recent one I could think of
I didn't mean to offend anyone, and I do agree that racism is wrong in every way, but that was the most recent one I could think of
People who murder others, in which ever way possible, are doing it because there's a screw loose. Or they have a motive. Or both.
Either way, a game alone will not be the reason said murderer goes into a Bar/School/Church/*Insert-Random-Place-Here* and goes on a killing spree. It may influence him or her on the way in which they carry out the murder, but the game itself can NOT be blamed for it, it's quite simply retarded.
It's been said many many times before in this thread, and many others that I've read, but if a child get's their hands on a weapon, the responsibility is the parent's, and not Nintendo's or Valve's.
I too cringe when I see or read about games being blamed, or generally mentioned in the news, because of the sheer ignorance that is shown. I don't feel anger, just pity at how out-of-loop some of these people truly are.
Either way, a game alone will not be the reason said murderer goes into a Bar/School/Church/*Insert-Random-Place-Here* and goes on a killing spree. It may influence him or her on the way in which they carry out the murder, but the game itself can NOT be blamed for it, it's quite simply retarded.
It's been said many many times before in this thread, and many others that I've read, but if a child get's their hands on a weapon, the responsibility is the parent's, and not Nintendo's or Valve's.
I too cringe when I see or read about games being blamed, or generally mentioned in the news, because of the sheer ignorance that is shown. I don't feel anger, just pity at how out-of-loop some of these people truly are.
It's sad but the anime community is often labeled in the same way gamers are - through ignorance and a profound lack of common sense (which as most people will note, is not all that common). Anime has long been lambasted as pornography simply because ONE Japanese rapist had a collection of anime (in the '80s, no less) and the stereotype filtered over to North American shores.
So the "games make kids killers" and "anime turns kids into rapists" arguments are essentially the same - biased, uninformed discrimination on a non-mainstream interest that make little or no sense yet are widely accepted by the sheep-masses. It's only in recent years that this has changed but some groups (read: Fox News (read: Ignorant Assholes)) refuse to concede that they're wrong and shut up.
To solve this plague of ignorance, I suggest that the next time Ignorant Assholes News bashes videogames, every videogame fan should head to Ignorant Assholes News Station and burn it to the ground. That'll give 'em something to talk about.
"Enraged Videogame Fans Assault Ignorant Assholes News Station Over Ignorant Comments: Grand Theft Auto to Blame. Tonight at 11."
So the "games make kids killers" and "anime turns kids into rapists" arguments are essentially the same - biased, uninformed discrimination on a non-mainstream interest that make little or no sense yet are widely accepted by the sheep-masses. It's only in recent years that this has changed but some groups (read: Fox News (read: Ignorant Assholes)) refuse to concede that they're wrong and shut up.
To solve this plague of ignorance, I suggest that the next time Ignorant Assholes News bashes videogames, every videogame fan should head to Ignorant Assholes News Station and burn it to the ground. That'll give 'em something to talk about.
"Enraged Videogame Fans Assault Ignorant Assholes News Station Over Ignorant Comments: Grand Theft Auto to Blame. Tonight at 11."
I cringe, except when it's Fox News....well, pretty much all media outlets. It's always talking about how a game encouraged someone to kill someone, and then they did it.
But I still do cringe, since the news do seem to ignore video games abit, it's always awesome to hear a game's name in the news.
But I still do cringe, since the news do seem to ignore video games abit, it's always awesome to hear a game's name in the news.
Add a little to heal gamers, I caught some big name title game announcement done by the Announcers/Whatever there name on the news. Nothing bad, Hell they even read stuff almost praise to it.