[QUOTE=Bartman]
VGC, I have heard about the controversial games you reviewed Mortal Kombat, Night Trap, Doom, GTA, etc... They have all been seen but never played by the government. The latest game to be controversial was Bully. There is a PS2 version. There was going to be an Xbox version but got cancelled because of an attorney, Jack Thompson, who blames games criticized Microsoft. The attorney never seen it but thought it would be a Columbine simulator but more like Dennis the Menace. I am tired of the government blaming everthing on video games. It all started with Mortal Kombat and Night Trap. The governemt starts thinking they were very violent but it is obvious they never played the game. That is the reason the ESRB is formed. The government people who blame the games are definitly over 40. People like Joe Liberman, Thompson, Hillary Clinton, Herb Kohl, every single person from the government who blames stuff heavily on video games are over 40. Kohl is 71 years and probably never played a Sega CD or a PS2. Liberman probably never played Night Trap and Mortal Kombat, and GTA. Clinton probably never played GTA, or any violent games. Thompson never played Bully, GTA, and Doom. VGC, please make a rant about the governments problems of blaming games.
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That's so true! I remember reading about a GamePro feature centering around a remarkably similar topic. They pose some interesting points like "Why do people who aren't gamers like the government, judge games?" That's just like showing Messiah, a game centering on a baby angel, to someone who is a worshipper.
And I despise how they keep insisting that games cause kids to degenerate into violent and unmoralized monsters. Right... Playing fragging games like Unreal Tournament or GTA, will not cause bloodlust. Furthermore, all of this is speaking from experience. I never felt the need to grab a handgun and start shooting something with an burning passion after diving into Hell for a while.
Doom is highly controversial as it really is a mindless blast fest. It was the one chance ID Software could have involved mind provoking game-play but they just threw everything down the drain by turning the game into a mindless FPS filled with run of the mill weapons and monsters. Strife beats down on Doom so hard it's silly. Basically, Strife is an FPS created with the Doom engine but instead of involving a detour to Hell with a multitude of demons, you get to travel through a living breathing city filled with people you can talk to along with creative weapons, environments, and enemies.
Zombies? Please... No more of that, instead you get these incredibly cool mech robots and floating robots. It's a shame really since the government should focus on more intelligent shooters like Strife instead of Doom. So my point is that the job for judging games shouldn't be made from non-gamers like the government but instead by real gamers.
This makes the most sense since gamers have superior knowledge than those who have barely played any games. Gamers, themselves, have experience what its like to play a game, so what better idea than giving them the job of critiquing games. While GTA may be a tad mindless and violent, I am really contrary to the thought that it will provoke feelings of really performing those malevolent actions in real-life.