Posted on 05/02/2008 2:37:45 PM PDT by Kaslin
Meanwhile, cable news reports on this stuff 24/7.
Heck, even "The Sims 2" has sex. Even same-sex sex!
awesome response
That darn Freedom of Speech thingy...
With all the intense video games available now, kids are probably just too fat and lazy to commit crime. That’s why we have to bring in illegal aliens - to commit the crimes that...
But retailers, too, must be pressed to check ID before selling the game to children who most assuredly will seek to purchase it.
I’ve never seen a retailer sell one of the GTA games, or any other M rated game, to children. I have, however, watched tons of clueless and/or downright uncaring parents buy them for their children, some who looked as young as eight.
The fact of the matter is, these games are rated. For parents to think “ooooooooooooh, it’s just a ‘game’” ruins everything.
It’s sad that games rated AO (adults only) aren’t sold at any big box stores, yet, you can go buy UNRATED DVDs full of more sex and violence than any game.
It’s amazing, isn’t it?
I haven’t played IV yet, but I do love San Andreas. I have to overlook the game’s relentlessly far-left viewpoint, however. Like the TV show you linked to (making an assumption, as I didn’t watch the video), the virulent leftism in SA came to play mainly in the radio ads and talk shows—referring to drill instructors as “sexually confused skinheads,” for one thing. That’s one part of the game I stayed away from.
Grossman takes the hard line, but there’s something to what he says.
Oh, goody, here we go again.
I suspect the anti-video game crusaders suffer from the inability to distinguish fantasy from reality that they falsely impute to gamers.
The release of Doom and Mortal Kombat was followed by a steep decline in youth violence. Could be coincidence, but it tends to falsify the ‘OMG kids who see [fantasy] violence commit [real] violence’ hysteria. Hell, there are even studies that show a correlation between delinquency and favoring non-violent video games (and contrarywise between favoring violent video games and well-socialized non-behavior in real life).
Somewhat amusingly, from my son’s reports (he played GTA IV at the home of the choreographer for a community theatre production of The Fantasticks he’s performing in even as I write), GTA IV includes the charming feature that the controls go haywire if the controler’s character has been drinking.
I’m guessing the zealots won’t be praising the designers for incorporating a simulation of the dangers of DUI.
everything is Aokay........./sarcasm/
Spent some time around Christmas looking for a somewhat obscure wii baseball game (MLB Power Pros) and saw the same scenario several times in game shops — mom rolls eyes while buying a murder and mayhem game for son who is too young to buy without her — “he’ll only play these types of games.”
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