I applaud ITV for once
Tonight ITV made a report of Violent Videogames, on "Tonight with Trevor McDonald". They could've went all biased like a certain British Newspaper *Cough* Daily Mail *Cough*, but they didn't. They addressed the issue perfectly.
Now every gamer has a view on this, which I won't bore you with here. The Arguement is so old. I'm merely saying Well Done ITV. The mentioned the fact that the same age certificate rules apply to games as they do to movies, they showed how easy it was for kids as young as 12 to get violent games, and they showed basically that parents don't monitor their content like they would movies.
ITV did not say it was the fault of the developers, although a couple of people said it was. Like the mother of the 14 year old that was murdered, although she said it pushed the killer over the edge when he had tendancies to begin with (completely different from what the Daily Mail said). One more person asked why a "game maker would put this violent content into the game". OK this isn't the same as calling them evil but then people make violent films and no-one questions why.
There is something I would like to say. I have the Grand theft auto double pack and Pokemon Leafgreen, I even have Puyo Pop fever (which I would consider the most childish mainstream game of our time). The content of a game does not make it better or worse, what matters is the gameplay. (You understand by Content I mean whether it's violent or not right). Grand theft auto happens to be one of the most free open aired games that has a main plot that you can choose to follow. Pokemon too is like this. On the surface they seem to be aimed at a certain demographic but dig deeper and you find out there's so much more the games offer. Just look at the Advanced Trainer guide at GameFAQ's Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire section to see what I mean.
Violent games are not necessarily better but I wouldn't want them to be banned entirely because of a few nutters. They have a place in today's world.
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Fanfic Progress: The Virus has convinced me that using Exterminatus now characters would be a bad idea. Not just because I'll have to deal with Lothar and Eastwood but because the Grim Darkness universe and the Exterminatus Now setting still needs to be properly explained. I can see why it would be a problem, but it doesn't matter. Without the EN crew I still have two fics, one for 3 Shadows and one for Sonic's time in the works. I will start "The 3 Shadows Episode 5 - Chaos Theory" shortly.
Now every gamer has a view on this, which I won't bore you with here. The Arguement is so old. I'm merely saying Well Done ITV. The mentioned the fact that the same age certificate rules apply to games as they do to movies, they showed how easy it was for kids as young as 12 to get violent games, and they showed basically that parents don't monitor their content like they would movies.
ITV did not say it was the fault of the developers, although a couple of people said it was. Like the mother of the 14 year old that was murdered, although she said it pushed the killer over the edge when he had tendancies to begin with (completely different from what the Daily Mail said). One more person asked why a "game maker would put this violent content into the game". OK this isn't the same as calling them evil but then people make violent films and no-one questions why.
There is something I would like to say. I have the Grand theft auto double pack and Pokemon Leafgreen, I even have Puyo Pop fever (which I would consider the most childish mainstream game of our time). The content of a game does not make it better or worse, what matters is the gameplay. (You understand by Content I mean whether it's violent or not right). Grand theft auto happens to be one of the most free open aired games that has a main plot that you can choose to follow. Pokemon too is like this. On the surface they seem to be aimed at a certain demographic but dig deeper and you find out there's so much more the games offer. Just look at the Advanced Trainer guide at GameFAQ's Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire section to see what I mean.
Violent games are not necessarily better but I wouldn't want them to be banned entirely because of a few nutters. They have a place in today's world.
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Fanfic Progress: The Virus has convinced me that using Exterminatus now characters would be a bad idea. Not just because I'll have to deal with Lothar and Eastwood but because the Grim Darkness universe and the Exterminatus Now setting still needs to be properly explained. I can see why it would be a problem, but it doesn't matter. Without the EN crew I still have two fics, one for 3 Shadows and one for Sonic's time in the works. I will start "The 3 Shadows Episode 5 - Chaos Theory" shortly.
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