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Responsibility lies more with the parents than the makers of COD
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sidewaydriver
2010 SLF Tag Champ
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Joined: May 11 2008
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Airports, hospitals, McDonald's Playland, I don't care where it's taking place. If I'm having a good time, they will die.
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HAHAHA
If I can get on a computer ima sig that
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Asmodeous667
Title: Keeper of the briefcase
Joined: Nov 13 2007
Location: The Alaska tundra
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You don't even have to play through that level. You're told before you start playing that some levels may be offensive and gives the option to skip over them.
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Good....... Bad......... I'm the guy with the gun
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ODS
Title: Pretty Sweet Guy
Joined: Oct 21 2009
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I liked how they wussed out at the last second by allowing you to skip. The game industry needs to grow up. This goes for the "concerned parents" as well. the worl isn't a happy place, but I think they don't believe that.
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Greg the White
Joined: Apr 09 2008
Location: Pennsylvania
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I'm kind of troubled by this. Being an avid FPS player since we got a copy of Doom 2 with our first PC, I get angered when games where you fight demons with plasma rifles are called "murder simulators"... but... this game literally has a murder simulator level. You play a man with a gun shooting civilians in a game that prides itself upon its realistic depictions of warfare. It is a murder simulator, which leaves the discussion of defending it to one point... context.
Why did the developers put the level in the game/what is the level's purpose? Did they really think of a legitimate, though-provoking reason, or did they just throw it in there because it's cool? I could support it as a tool for understanding your enemy, but portraying them as a bunch of men in fashionable suits and watches murdering people for fun instead of fighting for a deep belief, graying the area between the good, lovable allies, and despicable, hairy terrorists would not be something I'd support.
Then there's how it will be received by gamers. You know there's going to be the little cretin that finds the level to be awesome, playing it over and over again, maybe a young kid who insists on showing his parents the level, which makes all intent moot. Still, It's supposed to arrive at my door tomorrow, so we'll see if the developers were mature enough.
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So here's to you Mrs. Robinson. People love you more- oh, nevermind. |
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FNJ
2010 SLF Tag Champ
Joined: Jun 07 2006
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I worked the preorder of this tonight at gamestop. It was madness!
ironically enough, we have to tell every parent with a kid that the game is M rated, and they always say "I know, lemme get it anyway." so if a parent complains about it, they're usually full of shit.
It was hilarious though, when we stole all the preorder shirts and were wearing them when we told people that we didn't have any more. I also got four cases of those monster hitman shots out of the night because nobody else wanted them.
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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| It was hilarious though, when we stole all the preorder shirts and were wearing them when we told people that we didn't have any more. I also got four cases of those monster hitman shots out of the night because nobody else wanted them. |
man, i wish i worked with you.
nothing but old people who talk too much or complain too much at work.
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| I'll eat a turkey sandwich while blowing my load |
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Ice2SeeYou
Title: Sexual Tyrannosaurus
Joined: Sep 28 2008
Location: South of Heaven
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Meh. In King of the Monsters you could level an entire city, and no one gave a shit.
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Sydlexia.com - Where miserable bastards meet to call each other retards. |
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Ba'al
Title: Zerg Zergling
Joined: Mar 02 2008
Location: Uranus
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Smoke blew up the world in MK3 as well, yet most of the controversy was around the blood.
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Knyte
2010 SLF Tag Champ*
Title: Curator Of The VGM
Joined: Nov 01 2006
Location: Here I am.
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| Asmodeous667 wrote: |
| You don't even have to play through that level. You're told before you start playing that some levels may be offensive and gives the option to skip over them. |
Can you imagine how stupid it would be if you popped in your blu-ray copy of Saving Private Ryan, and right before you get to D-Day invasion scene, the movie paused and warned you that the next scene is disturbing and asked if you wanted to skip over it?
An R-Rated film that made a shocking and horrifying scene to make an emotional point to the viewer.
Now, you have a M-Rated game that made a shocking and horrifying scene to make an emotional point to the player.
But, as long as there is the stigma of Videogames being "Childish" things, this bullshit will continue to happen.
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FNJ
2010 SLF Tag Champ
Joined: Jun 07 2006
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another fun day at gamestop today with COD4MW2:Turbo.
"You know this game is M rated, right?"
"Yeah whatever my kid plays Grand Theft Auto."
"Can you massacre an airport full of innocents in Grand Theft Auto?"
"What?"
"That'll be 64.87... aaaannnd here's your murder simulator. Have a wonderful night!"
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Greg the White
Joined: Apr 09 2008
Location: Pennsylvania
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Well, I have to say it fit in well with the story, and they did handle it in a mature manner.
If anyone's up for some multiplayer, my 360 tag is Pennsylvanian. I'll probably be on a good amount in the evening this week.
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So here's to you Mrs. Robinson. People love you more- oh, nevermind. |
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pineapple
Joined: Nov 11 2009
Location: Cajun Country
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I thought this was gonna be about Mechwarrior 2.  |
I love the Mechwarrior series, especially the second one.
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