What the f-
I don't honestly know what to feel about this. I can't join all the jubilation because...well...it seems to me that even the best game out there equates to a good sci-fi novel. And I hate genre fiction. So good for me is...untouchable.
I mean if I ever have a son, I'd slap him across the head if he was reading the Inferno and say, "That is a pretty damn wicked thing you are doing." If he was playing Dante's Inferno--the distinction being that the author takes prominence before the text--I'd slap him across the head and say, "That's an obligatory slap because--damn that was a breast the game showed me wasn't it." I wouldn't be upset; it would sadden me that he just turned out to be...an ordinary, pubescent kid. I know people interpret media differently, as Scalia said, and I've seen people completely deemphasize the aesthetic work of the Inferno, but the Inferno, however you look at it, is a poem of such immense creativity poets today still have to match its ferocity and deluded prophecy (I'm not aware of any poem preceding it that matches the morbidness of the treatment of the five noble thieves--scary). Dante's Inferno...is a game. I'm not saying games will never match the Inferno in storytelling but right now they don't. I don't understand all of the furor.
Also, when I was 14, I was a stupid kid. As a stupid kid, I made mistakes that I regret; mind you, not life-shattering mistakes, but mistakes we all grimace at when we're older on the premise that we could have done better. Now I'm 17. I think I needed 3 years to collect all of the context that is required to understand the maturity in mature games. I don't think I'm a dumb person. I think I'm pretty unspectacular in how normal I am. Such is my reason that 17 is a good limit.
There just needs to be a restriction; just a small, though clear, barrier minors cannot pass through. Hopefully the rating system holds. And it will hold, as long as concerned parents exist. That's what works for me.
I don't honestly know what to feel about this. I can't join all the jubilation because...well...it seems to me that even the best game out there equates to a good sci-fi novel. And I hate genre fiction. So good for me is...untouchable.
I mean if I ever have a son, I'd slap him across the head if he was reading the Inferno and say, "That is a pretty damn wicked thing you are doing." If he was playing Dante's Inferno--the distinction being that the author takes prominence before the text--I'd slap him across the head and say, "That's an obligatory slap because--damn that was a breast the game showed me wasn't it." I wouldn't be upset; it would sadden me that he just turned out to be...an ordinary, pubescent kid. I know people interpret media differently, as Scalia said, and I've seen people completely deemphasize the aesthetic work of the Inferno, but the Inferno, however you look at it, is a poem of such immense creativity poets today still have to match its ferocity and deluded prophecy (I'm not aware of any poem preceding it that matches the morbidness of the treatment of the five noble thieves--scary). Dante's Inferno...is a game. I'm not saying games will never match the Inferno in storytelling but right now they don't. I don't understand all of the furor.
Also, when I was 14, I was a stupid kid. As a stupid kid, I made mistakes that I regret; mind you, not life-shattering mistakes, but mistakes we all grimace at when we're older on the premise that we could have done better. Now I'm 17. I think I needed 3 years to collect all of the context that is required to understand the maturity in mature games. I don't think I'm a dumb person. I think I'm pretty unspectacular in how normal I am. Such is my reason that 17 is a good limit.
There just needs to be a restriction; just a small, though clear, barrier minors cannot pass through. Hopefully the rating system holds. And it will hold, as long as concerned parents exist. That's what works for me.
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