So, here's the story: an american group (mostly mothers that hate violence and blablabla) decided to make a countdown of the most violent video games ever, here's their top 10: 10- Shadow Heart 9- Postal 2 8- Mortal Combat: Deception 7- Manhunt 6- Hitman: Blood Money 5- Halo 2 4- Half Life 2 3- Gunslinger Girls 2 2- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas 1- Doom 3 This top ten mean nothing else than US mothers don't know anything about video games , but they are still bashing it. ... I mean, where's Kirby?
Perhaps its time you sat one of those mothers down to play Dr. Mario and then force them to play doom 3 for 3 hours. Then they can decide if they dont like it they dont have to buy it, but why should others have to suffer and be censored because a mother doesnt like guts? If thats the case, they should'nt partkae in the miracle of birth, its a bloddy gruesome and utterly gross "miracle" Seeing that makes me more sick than Doom 3 will ever make me.
This is HILARIOUS! What about Soldier of Fortune and Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix. Those games were very violent. I think they were banned in Canada, but I am not sure.
SoF is awful What a waste. Making a game for the sake of pissing people off. At least make the damn thing good. UT2004 is much more violent than Halo 2 as well. And Manhunt should be at the top. That game is fucked up. MK has been on those lists so much that its ridiculous. They are pure fantasy. Then we have all the war/smut crap. Rainbow Six is more violent than Halo 2, imo. And hell, its propaganda as well. Just the thing we like to teach our little kiddies. :smt067 These fuckers are just looking for attention from security moms. What a joke. And isn't Gunslinger Girls 2 an import, under a different name (vol. 3 I think). What retards. I bet you they'll make up a list. I can see it now: 10-- Totally Anal: Volume 6 9--Adventures of Knife and Bullet: Cut their Heads Off 8--Ultra Killers 4: The Return of Kill 'Em All 7--Animal Beaters: Attack the SPCA 6--God sucks: Kill Him 5--Attack the US! 4--Airplane Simulator: Alquaeda Edition 3--Taliban Ops 2--Do me in the Butthole Babe: Sex for Pre-teens 1--Da School Boy Killaz 5--Return to the Hallways of Billy Bob High :smt043
The game is not even out yet! I love how they have Hitman: Blood Money on the list, and it is not even out yet. What a bunch of morons :smt042
I like my list. I bet you some dumbass will steal it and say "Look at the smut that exists now-a-days!" :smt083 :smt043
Ha ha ha...That list reminds me of a christian site that reviews games, and they thought Zelda: Wind Waker was inaproppriate because of some of the buddist thems in it. Hell, come to think of it, they hated nearly every RPG, war game, and platformer in some form or another.
Enbebop, that's some funny shit. Fuck these people. They're a bunch of crusted up hags who are such tightasses they have nothing better to do but sit around and bitch about what other people's kids are doing. I say we kill them all. Just like in Halo, in the super secret level where you get to shoot up and old folks home and blow up and orphanage. Then you shoot JFK, Jesus, George Washinton, and Ghandi. It's a secret level, so you may not have found it yet. Bitches.
Haven't played Postal 2, but I'd call it more perverted than violent from what I've seen. San Andreas is more of a comical satire than violent. Doom 3, you're killing monsters, so it's not much different from every other shooting game out there in that sense. It started even before Mario stomping on his enemies! If you name Doom, Half-Life, Halo, shouldn't you list every other FPS game? In the sense of shooting and defeating enemies, virtually every game could be considered violent, even Super Mario Sunshine! Because these games are largely very cartoony, I don't think plain old shooting, big weapons, or even blood game truly make these games violent. It's when they get realistic. GTA is still too comical to be a genuine violent game. One can shoot hundreds of people, but it doesn't focus in on them, or the gore... Manhunt in my opinion would be the most violent game. It was gritty, gorey, and violent, with (although satire), realistic depictions for killing. The gameplay was fantastic, I absolutely loved the stealth, and it was a solid game. However, it would have been just as good without the gore. The gore was very detailed and I definitely would consider it to be truly violent. Why don't these places go after the movies like Texas Chansaw Massacre and such? Because they know they have ratings? Because they know they are targeted to adults? Well, games have ratings too, and Manhunt sure as hell wasn't targeted to kids. The generation of people who run these groups are just above the age of people who realize games are for more than just kids. Stores are supposed to ID people for games just as movies. If they don't, it's them, not the developer's fault. But what it really comes down to is that the parents need to be watching their kids and shouldn't rely on these groups to save their children.
they don't care , really. for them , video games is just a stupid thing without and story and gore for free. they aren't gamers at all, they are just convinced that games are really just what medias say of it. i don't think any media would do a new about how good is the story of mgs , or how cute is the new mario, they just whant things that upset people: bad things, violent things. they won't do any news about tetris, but the new survival horror where you can cut heads of everynody: yes. upseting people is the key to succes. and some video game producters understood it too. they make violent game and their games have free publicity by the medias, and the medias are happy because it chock people. so they are just bashing a subject they don't know, and you can clearly see it in the ''most violent game ever countdown'' they made.
The ESRB doesn't play the games they rate! In terms of the list, I think the people are just looking for free publicity, because they are lamers and have nothing better to do. Games are seen as sort of "bad"--the new TV/electronic miscreant of the 21st century. :smt042
Actually, they do. Go here to learn about their rating process: http://www.esrb.org/esrbratings_faqs.asp Basically, the initial information is submitted by the game makers (I'd assume this is the publisher's duty) in the form of videotaped footage of the game's most 'extreme' content. Raters within the ESRB will then review the footage, assign the ESRB letter grade, and make the appropriate warnings that are found on the back of the game packaging. Then, once the game code has gone gold and the publisher has created the final product to be shipped, copies of the game are sent to the ESRB so that reviewers can play through the final copy of the game to verify that the information submitted by the publisher in the footage was an accurate representation of the game's content.
Technically they don't play the games they rate, if they rate them before they actually play them. I am aware that they also have some sort of review type section, that is more in depth and tells about the game. Which comes from them actually playing the damned thing. That's the reason (oftentimes) games with language etc. will go un noted on the back cover. :smt067
