Oh the Stupidity: [FOX] Is Bulletstorm the Worst Video Game in the World?
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I shit you the fuck not.
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Parents had better beware: There's a Bulletstorm on the horizon.
In the new video game Bulletstorm due February 22, players are rewarded for shooting enemies in the private parts (such as the buttocks). There’s an excess of profanity, of course, including frequent use of F-words. And [URL="http://www.bulletstorm.com/"]Bulletstorm[/URL] is particularly gruesome, with body parts that explode all over the screen.
But that's not the worst part.
The in-game awards system, called Skill Shots, ties the ugly, graphic violence into explicit sex acts: "topless" means cutting a player in half, while a "gang bang" means killing multiple enemies. And with kids as young as 9 playing such games, the experts FoxNews.com spoke with were nearly universally worried that video game violence may be reaching a fever pitch.
“If a younger kid experiences Bulletstorm's explicit language and violence, the damage could be significant,” Dr. Jerry Weichman, a clinical psychologist at the Hoag Neurosciences Institute in Southern California, told FoxNews.com.
“Violent video games like Bulletstorm have the potential to send the message that violence and insults with sexual innuendos are the way to handle disputes and problems,” Weichman said.
Carol Lieberman, a psychologist and book author, told FoxNews.com that sexual situations and acts in video games -- highlighted so well in Bulletstorm -- have led to real-world sexual violence.
“The increase in rapes can be attributed in large part to the playing out of [sexual] scenes in [URL="http://www.foxnews.com/topics/entertainment/video-games/video-games.htm#r_src=ramp"]video games[/URL],” she said.
The [URL="http://www.esrb.org/ratingsummaries/"]Entertainment Software Rating Board[/URL] (ESRB), rates all video games as a guide for parents; each game carries a letter-label at retail (T for Teen, M for Mature) and an online-only summary. Lieberman and others say it's useless, because it isn't enforced at retail.
Video game advocates say the existing warning system works fine: Parents are responsible for deciding whether their kids can play games, not the government. Epic, the game developer, did not respond to FoxNews.com's requests. But game publisher Electronic Arts released the following statement: "Bulletstorm has been given an "M" rating by the ESRB, and we have adhered to all their guidelines in regards to the marketing and promotion of Bulletstorm."
More important, defenders argue that games with excessive violence and sexual content simply don't sell well.
“Games without sufficient quality of gameplay -- games that include highly objectionable violent or sexual content -- often pump up the level of this kind of content to gain media attention. This tactic typically fails, as can be seen in the poor sales performance of titles such as BMX XXX and Postal,” said Billy Pidgeon, a video game analyst with [URL="http://www.m2research.com/"]M2 Research[/URL].
The most common response is that, in the U.S., game makers have the right to produce violent content. If the government restricts games they would have to further restrict all media.
[B]Penalizing store clerks
[/B]There might be a simple way to address the problem: penalties for selling violent games to kids.
This year, the [URL="http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/supreme-court.htm#r_src=ramp"]Supreme Court [/URL]will make a landmark decision about video-game violence. A California law now makes it illegal for a merchant to sell a Mature-rated game to a minor; the law imposes a $1,000 fine. But the [URL="http://www.theesa.com/"]Entertainment Software Association[/URL] (ESA) has sued to overturn the law.
“Between a great ratings system, parental controls on the consoles and the major retailers inhibiting the
sale of Mature-rated games to minors, the matter is really one for parents and adults to consider, individually,” Hal Halpin, the president of the similar Entertainment Consumers Association, told FoxNews.com. “I respect the creative rights of game developers to make a game like Bulletstorm in the same way that I appreciate Quentin Tarantino's right to make over-the-top movies like Kill Bill."
Melanie Killen, Ph.D., a professor at the University of Maryland who has pushed for laws that govern the sale of video games, disagrees that the ESRB rating system is working. She says 9-year-olds are playing games like Bulletstorm and that there is no real enforcement. The FCC monitors all TV broadcasts and stiffly fines broadcasters for violating decency rules, yet there are no penalties in place for retailers who sell violent games to kids.
“The marketing is clearly aimed at children and young adolescents,” Killen said. “Politicians were organizing efforts to address violent video games prior to the presidential election but got distracted by the election. It is time for senators and representatives to come back to the issue.”
[B]Are the warnings enough?
[/B]To be fair, [URL="http://www.esrb.org/ratings/search.jsp?titleOrPublisher=bulletstorm&rating=&ratingsCriteria=&platforms=&platformsCriteria=&searchVersion=compact&content=&searchType=title&contentCriteria=&newSearch.x=0&newSearch.y=0#"]the online-only ESRB warning for Bulletstorm[/URL] does spell out the objectionable content -- and even [I]that[/I] is too graphic to reproduce entirely. Here's an excerpt:[INDENT]The dialogue contains numerous jokes and comments that reference sexual acts, venereal diseases, and having sex with one's mother (e.g., "Guess I know where the ol' gal got that limp."). The names of some Skillshots are infused with sexual innuendo (e.g., Gag Reflex, Rear Entry, Drilldo, Mile High Club); one Skillshot (i.e., Fire in the Hole) allows players to shoot at enemies' exposed buttocks.”[/INDENT]Video game publishers traditionally stay glib about the issue of violence. [URL="http://www.foxnews.com/topics/microsoft.htm#r_src=ramp"]Microsoft[/URL], maker of the Xbox 360 console, declined to comment. Epic Games did not respond to requests, and the developer did not respond. Remi Sklar, the vice president of Public Relations at Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment, which makes numerous video games (though is unconnected to Bulletstorm), offered the following statement: “We don’t have a comment for that story.”
In the end, those who don’t see a problem with Bulletstorm praise the game for being innovative.
“One thing that tends to be ignored is that if Bulletstorm consisted solely of beating people up, it wouldn't be fun to play,” said Hal Levy with the [URL="http://www.youthrights.org/"]National Youth Rights Association[/URL].
“It's been praised for encouraging innovative thinking. Bulletstorm involves developing new moves and dispatching of enemies creatively. Plenty of emotionally unstable adults will play the game and they’ll be fine,” he said.[/quote]:foxnews:WE AREN'T STUPID, REALLY:foxnews:
Sausage: [URL]http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/02/08/bulletstorm-worst-game-kids/[/URL]
[editline]8th February 2011[/editline]
I'd like to point out this passage:
[quote]Carol Lieberman, a psychologist and book author, told FoxNews.com that sexual situations and acts in video games -- highlighted so well in Bulletstorm -- have led to real-world sexual violence.
“The increase in rapes can be attributed in large part to the playing out of [sexual] scenes in [URL="http://www.foxnews.com/topics/entertainment/video-games/video-games.htm#r_src=ramp"]video games[/URL],” she said. [/quote]:wtc:
HHAHAHAHHA, no.
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That is what this is for
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That is what this is for[/QUOTE]
Apparently that's not enough for these fucks.
Another media hype article about a video game and the rating system they don't understand how to use.
(Why are we not using movie ratings again?)
When are News outlets, and Parents going to learn that M rated games are not for kids? When they're rated R?
WHEN I GET BULLETSTORM I'M GOING TO RAPE EVERYONE
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Where is the evidence that an increase of rape is attributed to games?
I'm not even American and I hate Fox News. Stupid fucks.
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That is what this is for[/QUOTE]
But IT DOES NOT CONFORM TO MY BELIEFS THEREFORE IT SHOULD BE BANNED
I was expecting this for Deadspace 2, since you get to kill alien zombie babies and children but Fox news didn't have shit to say. Although an over violent arcade game a.k.a. Bulletstorm gets this much attention. My verdict is this is advertising if anything.
[QUOTE=Aleister;27939223]Where is the evidence that an increase of rape is attributed to games?[/QUOTE]
Well if you take two unrelated statistics and put them together on a line graph you can say whatever you want about that data.
Someone alert the news, I just found out that mature rated games have got mature content in it!
[QUOTE=Aleister;27939223]Where is the evidence that an increase of rape is attributed to games?[/QUOTE]
Right next to the evidence that Doom was responsible for Columbine shooting.
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If FOX News saw PAIN on Playstation, they'd have a fucking heart attack.
enforce ESRB ratings in stores
problem solved give me a peace prize
Article is rated R for Retarded by ESRB.
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Fox is always so quick to think of children and blame the game, when this game is rated M and it is entirely up to the parents if they play it.
why doesn't media treat violent video games like violent movies
or violent tv shows
or violent books
everything is video games' fault
[quote=Fox News]And with kids as young as 9 playing such games, the experts FoxNews.com spoke with were nearly universally worried that video game violence may be reaching a fever pitch.[/quote]
These were experts in question:
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It's funny you guys don't understand anything about Fox News.
It's not Fox News itself; it's the fucking moronic writers they hire to write up stories.
I bet the writer hasn't seen Duke Nukem yet.
He has a point you know. When children are exposed to particularly harrowing depictions of violence, it can damage them on a psycological level. To all of you reading this, you've probably been desensitised to this sort of stuff - be it from playing these games yourselves or whatever else - so what wouldn't faze you, could impact on small children.
The same principle goes for child abuse (the abusers and the abusees). At a young age, if a child is beaten by their parents, they will probably grow up to do the same to their kids. This is because children are so susceptible to outer influences; so if they're playing these violent games at such a young age, it'll affect them some way or another. In fact that's the whole reason that age certificates exist, to protect childrens' innocence.
That's not to say I agree with the article as a whole, though. Just the first paragraph.
(rate me dumb to reinforce my scientifically proven views)
[quote]“If a younger kid experiences Bulletstorm's explicit language and violence, the damage could be significant,”
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well duhhh thats why you dont buy it for your kid asshat
Last I checked, 17+ was enforced and AO wasn't sold in stores...
[quote]“The increase in rapes can be attributed in large part to the playing out of [sexual] scenes in video games,” she said. [/quote]
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[QUOTE=Zethiwag;27939474]He has a point you know. When children are exposed to particularly harrowing depictions of violence, it can damage them on a psycological level. To all of you reading this, you've probably been desensitised to this sort of stuff - be it from playing these games yourselves or whatever else - so what wouldn't faze you, could impact on small children.
The same principle goes for child abuse (the abusers and the abusees). At a young age, if a child is beaten by their parents, they will probably grow up to do the same to their kids. This is because children are so susceptible to outer influences; so if they're playing these violent games at such a young age, it'll affect them some way or another. In fact that's the whole reason that age certificates exist, to protect childrens' innocence.
That's not to say I agree with the article as a whole, though. Just the first paragraph.[/QUOTE]
comparing child abuse to violent video games is silly
but your right, violent media is bad psychologically for small children
im definitely not going to let my kid play violent games until they are older
[QUOTE=Zethiwag;27939474]He has a point you know. When children are exposed to particularly harrowing depictions of violence, it can damage them on a psycological level. To all of you reading this, you've probably been desensitised to this sort of stuff - be it from playing these games yourselves or whatever else - so what wouldn't faze you, could impact on small children.
The same principle goes for child abuse (the abusers and the abusees). At a young age, if a child is beaten by their parents, they will probably grow up to do the same to their kids. This is because children are so susceptible to outer influences; so if they're playing these violent games at such a young age, it'll affect them some way or another. In fact that's the whole reason that age certificates exist, to protect childrens' innocence.
That's not to say I agree with the article as a whole, though. Just the first paragraph.[/QUOTE]
if a parent is shit enough to let their small child play games like bulletstorm, it doesn't matter if they play it or not, they'll have a shit childhood
[QUOTE=imadaman;27939507]Last I checked, 17+ was enforced and AO wasn't sold in stores...[/QUOTE]
for the most part it is. these guys are gettin all scared over nothing
[editline]8th February 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=cccritical;27939532]if a parent is shit enough to let their small child play games like bulletstorm, it doesn't matter if they play it or not, they'll have a shit childhood[/QUOTE]
so your saying the act of playing bulletstorm isnt harmful, but the fact that the parent is willing to let them play is harmful?
[quote]Plenty of emotionally unstable adults will play the game and they’ll be fine[/quote]
oh come on...
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