What happened to global warming, the war in Iraq, second-hand smoke, sunspots, etc. Clearly, a lack of immagination on the part of this prosecutor.
hey Kym thanks for the holiday shopping list.
It’s obvious which lobby spends the most money on politicians. If the game industry spent as much on politicians (particularly Democrats) as Hollywood spent, there’d be no problem here. Dem’s just want their extortion money... “Nice little video game industry you’ve got here, be a shame if something were to happen to it.”
He’s a demagogue. Criminologists looking at crime demographics noted large decreases in violent crime perpetrated by youths (esp. youth-on-youth crime) with the release of Mortal Kombat (the first really popular one-on-one fighting video game) and one of the early first-person-shooters (Doom sticks in my mind as a title, was Doom a first-person-shooter). If anything violent video games provide a catharsis for the violent and thrill-seeking tendencies in youth.
Why is that all the crap made in hollywood is protected by the first amendment as ‘art’ and ‘entertainment’ but video games are not?
I played Duke Nukem and Wolfenstein since I was at least 9. From what I’ve heard, I’ve come out OK. Playing videogames are no more harmful than readin violent books like “The Red Badge of Courage”, “Seawolf”, or “The Four Feathers”.
Keep your hands off my shooter games.
Correction: make that ‘She’s a demagogue.’
It’s a fact. After I started playing Frogger ,I went out and started throwing frogs out on the highway.
Oh yeah, that’s it. It must be the games.
Because it’s certainly not 3rd generation welfare, drug addicted dysfunctionals raising kids to be proper convicts from the cradle.
After all, violent criminal gangs are really just another form of extended family villages... or is that village raising enhanced sentences? Or, maybe it went, “it takes a village to raise a gang”?
2007 TOP TEN VIOLENT VIDEOGAMES
1. GRAND THEFT AUTO Allows players to act out crimes and rewards them for doing so.
2. MANHUNT Revolves around the making of a snuff film.
3. SCARFACE Involves buying and selling drugs and killing hundreds of people.
4. 50 CENT BULLETPROOF Rapper 50 Cent is involved in a web of corruption, double-crosses and shady deals that lead him on a bloody path through New Yorks drug underworld.
5. 300 THE VIDEOGAME Invites game room gladiators to slice their way through the Persian army as King Leonidas or as the leader of the phalanx unit in the Spartan army.
6. THE GODFATHER Opens with a child version of the player witnessing the murder of his father.
7. KILLER-7 Experienced adult gamers call this the most violent and twisted game ever played.
8. RESIDENT EVIL 4 Shootouts involving massive crowds of enemies in large open areas. A typical play-through can result in the killing of up to 900 enemies.
9. GOD OF WAR A sea of unrelenting violence, featuring Kratos, one of the most vicious characters the video game world has ever seen. Impales bodies, severs heads and even rips enemies in half with his bare hands.
10. HITMAN BLOOD MONEY Self-proclaimed most violent game of a series, this game glamorizes killing.
Those durn kids and their rock n’ roll music alert.
Thank goodness she isn’t boycotting “Super Mario Galaxy”, because I’m really looking forward to playing that one.
Aw, c'mon. Detroit only ranks 9th
Amazing how liberals resent Christianity, Christmas and the holidays but somehow always want to wage their PR wars in conjunction with the season.
When I was a kid we all played army. We ran around shooting, bayoneting, and blowing each other up. For hours on end. Hmm. Can’t recall ANYONE going to school and blowing people away or otherwise engaging in violent behavior.
They can take my Halo 3 Legendary from my cold dead hands. Also looking forward to GTA 4.
So who’s giving a similar report about movies?
Tops this week (IMDB):
2 Beowulf (2007) $8.21M $68.9M
4 Hitman (2007) $6.02M $30.4M
5 Awake (2007) $5.86M $5.86M
8 The Mist (2007) $4.55M $19.6M
10 No Country for Old Men (2007) $4.39M $22.9M
Majority of top 10 movies just this week are subject to the same complaints - exactly like the other 51 weeks this year, and every year. What does she have to say about them?
Well I am in trouble!!!
My current rotation:
1. Call of Duty 4
2. Gears of War
3. Crysis
4. WarHammer Dawn of War
5. Bioshock