This is an odd story from IGN and a couple other sites: August 18, 2004 - According to a report by the Canadian newspaper Windsor Star, transit advertisements for the GameCube version of Prince of Persia have been pulled from the city after a woman complained that they had frightened her child. Collette Clairmont's son Tristan refused to ride any bus that featured the ad, the paper reported. Two different advertisements for the game spotlighted its main character and hero in a menacing pose with a sword in his hand, and the other with a gun. (This, despite the fact that Prince does not actually use a gun in the game.) Transit Windsor removed the ads from buses after Clairmont placed seven different calls of complaint to the operation. "It's about time," Clairmont told the paper. "I am shocked something like that is even on the bus. Tristan has had nightmares about them, saying he sees the man with the gun. It is sending the wrong message to kids," said Clairmont. "I don't even let my kids have a butter knife." Prince of Persia was released last year for GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox. The title earned a Teen rating by the ESRB for violence, suggestive themes and some blood. However, all three elements were considered subdued in comparison to more violent software like Manhunt and Grand Theft Auto 3: Vice City by the majority of critics and gamers. --------------- ..... that's BS
There wer other things about the POP media campaign that were completely unacceptable,far more so than this. CAIR complained numerous times yet they did nothing about their misuse of religious text, but they remove these lame ads when there are movie ads a lot more 'scary' than this around? UbiSoft has serious priority issues, the bastards.
uh, well, my opinion was for ubisoft , not counter! :smt045 well, that's your opinions ,sure , but they are going a bit too far by saying that the prince have a gun in one of his hand.... "I don't even let my kids have a butter knife." and after she's shoked because is kid had nightimares.... :smt083 i don't know why is mother called him Tristan too, never read the book? well, anyway...
hmmm I think this woman needs a reality check. Are they going to get rid of clowns now because some people are afraid of them too? Her son is going to be in for shock when he gets older and realises all the "nasty" stuff his mom kept from him when he was young.
indeed, imagine when he will have is first own house and will be alone with a peantut butter knife ,shocking! :smt043 :smt043 no joking , i must agree with you , metal_4ever. that's just stupidity... i can't belive our prince with a gun in is hand.... where's that uzi?
Kid sounds like a fucking pussy. He's gonna grow up and be a whimp and get his ass kicked on a daily basis. "I don't even let my kids have a butter knife"- what a goofy biatch. She better enroll that kid in Karate school or something becasue if something as harmeless as a POP ad gives him nightmares I think he's going to be in a lot of comprimising situations in the future. Am I the only one who thinks a "man" should be able to take shit without complaining? It's not just this story, seems like it's a changing social dynamic or whatever, that young men today are a bunch of whimps and pussies. Whatever happened to being "Macho?" I don't mean a beer guzzeling, hairy, redneck macho, I mean not being a whiny bitch everytime something doesn't go your way. Here's an example: If you hurt yourself but it's superficial, you don't bring attention to it. That's a perfectly normal "guy" thing to do. But young kids don't do that, they whine and cry. And if they whine and cry about superficial bumps and bruises today they'll be whining and crying about superficial crap thier whole lives. All young males (say like 12 years old or so) should be left on a desert island for a year to fend for themselves, like Lord Of The Flies. When they come back they won't be a bunch of Kansas city Faggots. Sorry for the crazy rant, just get pissed off sometimes.
Hawanja: you are quite right in some ways :smt043 maybe doom 3 scared me shitless but i did not get a nightmare of that it is ok to be afraid but that hysteria hype is fuckedup
I tore the ligaments in my ankle once, and I didn't cry. :smt042 Anyway, I think it is stupid that that woman complained and lied about Prince of Persia. She is just an idiot, and her son is a scrawny little... idiot. I guess it's true, idiots do travel in packs.
Idea How about we get the UN to mandate simple yearly idiot tests to get rid of the overwhelming number of morons and lower the world population to acceptable levels. Not only would that cut down on polution and urban sprawl but the idiots wouldn't be able to pass on thier genes on to the next gen. If you fail you get the pleasure of being launched on an exploratory one way mission into the depths of space or even the sun!. Problem solved. :smt043 :smt023
Re: Idea you say you couldn't make stupid joke anymore? :smt083 what upset me is to say that the prince have a gun, if the kids dreamt about the prince with a gun and it make him scream, its sad , but its not at all the problem of ubisoft because there's no gun at all! Why can't i think about this earlier? i will say that i've made a nightmare whre every MCdonalds Burgers Had Rats heads in them and i will complaint and pursue them in justice! (ey!, where's that red smilley that turned is head a bit like that : :smt009 , but with a more upset face? (the man that scrape is head with is finguer showing showing that he's confuzed should be right here ( :smt043 ) ) ) oh yeah, i love imagination.....
huh? What I said was intended to be taken as sarcasm not as a serious idea. Do we really need to think the feasibility of launching that many people into space? A stupid joke is something that requires little no intelligence or knowledge to grasp like a fart joke. Oh well humor is the spice of life as they say.
