Gaming and Consoles Forum - RE: Oh good grief, the latest ill informed video game ban call thread - Page 2

It's a game. No one actually gets killed.

Would I feel different if I had lost someone in that war?
To be honest, I hope not but you never really know until it happens.

Interestingly, in this case, it is only the online bit that lets you play the "baddies". There was little fuss about playing drug gangsters in COD6:MW2 online although there was a big stink about being an undercover chappie who helps (or doesn't help) shoot civilians in the airport in the solo campaign.

Maybe they should've done US v UK to simulate all the friendly fire casualties there have been over the years?

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Remove these cutleries
From my knees...

Red Dead Redemption promotes shooting poor defenceless animals (except for them bears... hard bastards!).

Seriously though, if I don't play a game, I'd like to think it was my choice not to, not some guy who probably hasn't even seen the game...

I'm not convinced anybody really cares at all, the politicians mention it for cheap publicity, the media stir it up for a cheap story, and then suddenly it goes from something that is harming nobody to something somebody cares about and is offended by.

Maybe newspapers are in terminal decline not solely because of the medium they are distributed on, but because those that are responsible for the output are so out of touch with next generation of newspaper buyers.

Politicians still seem to have absolutely no clue about technology, computer games, and the internet. They still only care about one thing, their own personal power.

RANT RANT RANT!!!


I wonder if youtube has old clips of politicians and media getting terrified of Renegade on the old 8-bits... The graphics were so realistic!


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"Can you 100% guarantee we get Christmas No1?"

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reminds me of that "debate" on daytime TV not long ago where the C+VG guy was invited to give his side, probably about Modern Warfare 2, but couldn't get a word in edgeways.

I remember seeing Newsnight (it was on before Jools Holland, I don't normally watch it), and they were discussing the Modern Warfare 2, and even that turned into a bit of an argument of

 "I don't play computer games, they're for kids" Vs "yes, but if you played it, and it's an 18"

We'll get the same again when GTA V comes out, how it's promoting kids to kill police etc

sort of related, I remember this "controversy"

Capcom: We're Never Going To Have Another RE5 Controversy

gamasutra also have a story on the bbc story

UK Defense Secretary Fox Calls For Ban On 'Tasteless' Medal Of Honor


at least

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The UK's Department for Culture, Media and Sport distanced itselfQuote:
from Fox's call for a ban on the game, in a Eurogamer report. A spokesperson said that there is a ratings system for video games in place (Medal of HonorQuote:
is rated for ages 18 and up in the UK) and consumers can make the choice for themselves at retail.

the way some-one at work was talking, our government was going to become like the Chinese government (or maybe Australia and Germany) and start baning games, rather than it being 1 man.

and coincidentally

Games With The Power To Offend: Surviving And Stoking Controversy

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A controversy is something that happens when one group of people gather together to tell another group that they shouldn't have done something.

The recorded controversies in the video game world have, to now, been relatively mild. Mortal KombatQuote:
was drawn out before a congressional hearing in the mid-Nineties; Jack Thompson systematically dismantled his career in the effort to protect children from Grand Theft AutoQuote:
; and, most recently, some have objected to games that use real-life tragedies as source material, such as Super Columbine MassacreQuote:
and the unreleased Six Days in FallujahQuote:
.

and I just remembered something funny about Renegade (or maybe the sequal target Renegade) that on the computer version (at least the Amstrad one) the blood was blue, unles you held down I think asd jkl, then it turned red

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They should ban me from all shoot em ups as I invariably kill more innocent bystanders than actual bad guys Sorry mum

The multiplayer game has now had the enemy renamed from Taliban to Opposing Force. I think they should have taken a leaf out of CSI:Miami's book and called them the Tellyban or Balitan or something as ridiculous.
 
No mention on the BBC News site that the player models have been changed at all, just the name of the team. I'm half expecting some sort of hack to appear within minutes of release to change it back.

Just wait for someone to re-name them Ragheads and wait for the new sh*t storm.

Try signing up for Gamers Voice on Facebook which I think was actually started by an MP when the previous row started.

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Hot coffee mod, s'all I'm saying

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