Comments on: Video Games and Kids

By: Chronische

Chronische — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:51:04 +0000

I must say that I agree with you. And the ‘concerned citizens’ aren;t even all in the same party! They’d disagree on many other things, but video games have many things that both sides hate. And since it’s a combination of the crazies of BOTH groups, that makes things a little harder. However, the closest they have EVER come to banning a game completely was, as far as I know, the aftermath of the Columbine shootings when they blamed it all on Doom. But really, in the words of Seanbaby (http://www.seanbaby.com/news/col-lawsuit.htm)

Crazy Child 1: “Look! A classroom! In a school! What’s happened? Where… where are we!!!???”

Crazy Child 2: “There’s only one explanation. We’ve been transported directly to hell. Machine guns ready.”

Crazy Child 1: “They wouldn’t let me bring my machine gun to school anymore, so I only have this bazooka and several grenades. Oh, and this dead cat I was trying to have sex with.”

Indeed, Crazy Child 1, indeed. Classrooms are really the most cruel and effective torture chambers in Hell, don’t you know.

Age has nothing to do with it. It’s the craziness residing in your brain. If you’re crazy, any excuse to go and shoot up a school is a good one. Why blame the games? For money, really. People get greedy and reach for anything that will fill their damn pockets. Bah, that’s all I have to say for now.

By: Senji

Senji — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:44:22 +0000

Heh…god…that ending…^_^;;

I really did love Assassin’s Cread but to find that the ending…**SPOILER**…was just a giant precursor to the later installments?! God, that was the first time I so desired to get my money back on a game.

By: MangaPunkSai

MangaPunkSai — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:11:43 +0000

It’s more about the ramifications of religious beliefs from a historical standpoint, but it does get a bit melodramatic toward the end **SPOILER** (oh em gee teh templars and teh assassins are still battling out to this day!!1)

By: Candied

Candied — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:31:11 +0000

This reminded me of an incident when I was a kid- my mother went ballistic because I was watching my brother play, and was playing, an FPS, I think it was called Spawn or something? And she said that if I played it again we’d get in trouble, and I remember not giving a damn because I couldn’t play it anyway. Kids only like these games because they think it makes them adult- they don’t /enjoy/ them. I mean, GTA is hella hard sometimes, like you said a kid won’t get it and won’t enjoy it so what’s the point?

…Hell, that transfers to some ‘kid’ games, too. Parts of Sonic 2 come to mind. Oh god, the pain, that game is so hard it would be torture to give it to a kid no matter if it was aimed at them or not D:

By: Senji

Senji — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:17:49 +0000

True, it is far from most M-Rated games, but I’ve still seen people complain about it since it is about assassinating people.

By: MangaPunkSai

MangaPunkSai — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:18:23 +0000

Well I don’t think Assassin’s is so bad as far as M-rated games go, and since the cities are fairly historically accurate it’s good for that.

By: Senji

Senji — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:06:42 +0000

I agree one hundred percent, Lady Sai. Your logic is rather sound. I know when all my younger cousins come over to my place that they expect to play Deadrising, Halo, or Gears of War…mostly because they always hear me talking to my friends about how cool those games are and have seen me play them. I put them away when they are around and leave out Katamari, Burnout, Guitar Hero, and the like. Those are the kinds of games they can truly appreciate.

Though I will admit that my youngest cousin loved me letting him play Assassin’s Creed cause they were studying that time period in school.