US Prosecutor names her 10 most violent games |
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Not too long after a British Cabinet Minister encourages video games, we have US Prosecutor Kym Worthy condemning violent video games. She even lists down her 10 most violent games, specifying what she found disturbing about them, adding that parents should avoid buying them, and keep kids from playing them."The last year has convinced me more than ever that children are at risk of becoming desensitized to violence and can exhibit more aggressive behavior if they repeatedly play certain violent video games," Worthy said. The games she cited, however, are rated M by the ESRB, and the appropriate marketing and advisory have been put into effect. Here they are:
- Blitz the League II - Steroid and drug use is encouraged and wins are celebrated with hookers in a hotel room.
- Dead Space - Players must destroy scary creatures; if the creature catches you, it will dismantle your limbs.
- Fallout 3 - Survivors in a post-nuclear world must kill whatever is in their way including giant insects, raiders and super mutants.
- Far Cry 2 - Blowing off people's heads is a regular occurrence.
- Gears of War 2 - This game's main weapon is the Lancer assault rifle, which combines a rifle with a chain saw.
- Left 4 Dead - The player is in a city where a new rabies virus is quickly spreading.
- Legendary - A thief breaks into a New York museum and breaks into Pandora's box, unleashing all the world's evil beasts who destroy all humans.
- Resistance 2 - The Chimera alien race kills civilians by the thousands.
- Saint's Row 2 - The player can choose to beat up strippers, slit rival gang members' throats or shoot cops.
- Silent Hill: Homecoming- It's a spoiler, you can just visit the source if you're really curious.
Here we go again.
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thats like saying they inhaled oxygen
ffs, movies have more detail, and storylines that are now in games have always been in movies during my lifetime, she hitting out against the storyline in some cases
next the news will be totally sensored
ffs
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Way to f*ck it up.
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GTA4, Manhunt...
whatever, those are her opinions anyway
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Yes one day we will have zombies all over the city and we will know what to do.
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It's a pretty good list too, nobody under say 11 or 12 should play these games. L4D might be alright because it's mostly just harmless fun, but Silent Hill, Far Cry, Fallout and Blitz are way too graphic for kids.
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1, Pacman, It makes it ok to pop pills and you see ghosts.
2, Space Invaders, You shoot spaceships with real people in them and they explode and die
3, DigDug, Its ok to dig really deep holes. When you do that in real life you get buried alive.
4, Mario, you jump on people which can cause serious injury and death.
5, I've come to a blank but there has to be more games that fit in my list thats a lot more funnier than her list. :)
Oh, has she actually played those games? I bet NOT!. If not then SHUT UP! You dont have a clue what your going on about. It looks like you've read what the box advertises and seen the pics on the box and taken it all out of context. Games are never what they say and never look like what they advertise. (You can be in the exact same spot it shows in the box and it looks different.)
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Some1s not going to go kill some1 thinking "Hey im going to go kill some1 cuz i saw it on GTA"... people kill because of the person there killing(not saying that the person being killed deserves it even tho it sounds that way...) but anyways people kill because they are angry not because they saw it on Saints Row....i mean cmon ppl, you cant blame inanimate objects for the killers doing
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But Yet I have never been agressive in my life, I don't even feel the need, I have rarely ever raised my voice let alone ever been physically agressive to anyone, without exception.
I have played the complete, banned, uncencored version of Manhunt 2. My uni friends and I sat around and laughed at it, should I now be going round cutting of peoples heads with a spade?
I don't know if its linked to level of education, or when or where people play these games but as far as I see they have no effect at all.
In fact, the games that get me the most agressive are the stupid puzzle ones that i have to reply about 20 times cause i cant get past 1 stupid level. Or sonic on the PS3 where i played through like 3 levels to find that because i suck at it, when i got game over i had to start from the beginning because of not been able to save yet. I threw y controller on the floor and turned it off. Well, turned it off first, and decided to watch Dexter instead. Oh wait, maybe I should be a serial killer too because my favourite TV show is Dexter.
Even as a totally non violent person, that finds real life violence unacceptable, these games are still just games to me, blowing off peoples heads in Farcry 2, taking drugs to increase our strength in Haze, getting prostitutes in GTA, this is entertainment, it makes me laugh, and normally it's something for my friends and i to have a joe about how creatively funny these games are.
Words elude me as to how or why it could be possible for these games to affect people in such a way without them having some other pretty compelling problems in their lives, i mean, that kid in america kills his parents over Halo 3?
When it comes down to it, if games are really a part of the cause, we need to remember that they have age ratings, and they are there for a reason. I'm not sure the rating on Halo 3, but if it's higher than 16, maybe the person that sold the kid the game is at fault. If not, then its the parents fault for raising such a little ***** with no regard for human life. They should put him in the US military, at least he has shown he can kill without remorse.
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Violent (name your medium) DOES NOT promote violence.
Studied it, wrote about it, there simply is no denying it...
Only prolific exposure to ACTUAL violence has an effect on said person. And it is actually the OPPOSITE of acting out violently.
These kind of bleeding hearts aren't saving anyone but their own political careers and forcing their biased opinions down our throat.
Our society needs to stop herding like cattle and call these people out on their BS.
Nuff said...
FTAFTFH...
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