Bad for kids Videogame list comes out tomorrow(Nov.23)

Chi-Town

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The list comes out tomorrow. What games do you think are gonna be on it? Oh, and in their pre-press release they mention GTA:SA and Halo 2 so there's only 8 spots left.
 
They'll probably also pick...

Outlaw Golf 2: With the caddy beatings and the sexual shenanigans of Summer and Autumn
Fable: You can be evil and kill people and you can marry a man
Ninja Gaiden: Decapitations
 
Mega Man's Electric Sheep said:
Hell, I agree with warning stupid parents away from San Andreas, but what's so bad about Halo 2? How is it any worse than the countless games in its genre? Because it's popular?
the point is to keep parents aware when buying games and halo2 is real popular right now so why bother mentioning the million of older games no one will buy?
 
Now that I think about it, they'll probably pick on Fable cuz you can be married to multiple people at once, male and female.
 
Joe said:
the point is to keep parents aware, so why not pick one of the most popular games out right now?

The M on the box should be enough for any parent to be aware that it is violent. The point of this list should be to pick the titles least suitable for children and tell parents about the content, not picking the popular ones that have violence. Fantasy violence of humans against aliens that is hardly graphic I might add.
 
Chi-Town said:
Now that I think about it, they'll probably pick on Fable cuz you can be married to multiple people at once, male and female.
That and the fact that you can kill women, beat children, steal, get drunk, get laid, gamble and become a slumlord. Did I leave anything out? :lol
 
From the press release

"The groups -- including World Council of Churches and National Committee
on Women's Organizations -- will issue a joint statement calling upon
retailers to stop selling the most violent games to youths and also urging
videogame makers to offer more than just blood-soaked, anti-social content.
Participants in the live, two-way telenews event on November 23rd will
include:

* Pat Wolf, executive director, ICCR;

* Dr. Martha Burk, president, Center for Advancement of Public Policy and
chair, National Council of Women's Organizations;

* Pamela Eakes, president and founder, Mothers Against Violence in
America; and

* Dr. Beatrice Powell Jackson, president, North American Region of the
World Council of Churches and executive minister and officer, Justice
and Witness Ministries of the United Church of Christ."

Plus, I'm pretty sure last year they picked DOA Volleyball as one of their bad titles.
 
"The groups -- including World Council of Churches and National Committee
on Women's Organizations -- will issue a joint statement calling upon
retailers to stop selling the most violent games to youths and also urging
videogame makers to offer more than just blood-soaked, anti-social content."


Oh barf. The majority of games are not blood soaked, and wtf does anti-social mean? Not on Xbox live?
 
An organization that follows one of the most sexist, and antisocial books ever written is condemning violent video games. "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?"
 
Smackdown Vs. Raw: Wrestling violence, bra and panties and it's only rated T for teen
Killzone: The name alone
DOA Ultimate
 
Ok, the list is a good/bad thing. It's good because lets be honest many parents out there would be hard pressed to hook their new console up to an S-Video set up and then get the TV to the right input channel, let alone understand the games their kids play on it.

The bad part is, the people who will likely care about this list are the supporters of the groups involved. And the whole christian group feminst movement types already dislike anything that doesn't spread the word of God and all that good stuff.

I almost sold a copy of San Andreas to a woman today, when I asked who it was for she mentioned it was for her child. She went on to explain he was seven and one of his older cousins thought the game was cool and thus to her childe the game was cool. The list might've been helpful then. I'm all for being able to buy games you want, but GTA: SA to a seven year old? That's a little much even for me. Maybe the Jak series or the like but not SA.

I know, I know, who am I to tell or suggest how someone raise their kids. But if parents don't want to be involved with what their kids play and view they can't just pin any bad behavior on the gaming industry. They are the ones raising their kids, not the video games they buy.
 
Here's the list of bad games...

Doom 3
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Half Life 2
Halo 2
Resident Evil: Outbreak
Psi Ops: the Mindgate Conspiracy
The Guy Game
Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude
Mortal Kombat Deception
Rumble Roses

and the games they recommend...

ESPN NFL 2 K5
Pikmin 2
Sly 2: Band of Thieves
Karaoke Revolution Volume 3
Madden NFL 2005
Jak 3
Prince of Persia
Myst IV: Revelation
RollerCoaster Tycoon 3
SimCity 4

Prince of Persia? I guess guns are bad but killing with swords is okay.
 
Jak 3? Shooting people with giant guns is okay as long as they're cartoonish, don't bleed and disappear into nothingness after they die?

Hell, even Rumble Roses is less morally ambiguent than that (why is that on the "bad" list anyway? Tight leather and breasts can hurt a kid's eyes?)
 
Chi-Town said:
and the games they recommend...

ESPN NFL 2 K5
Pikmin 2
Sly 2: Band of Thieves
Karaoke Revolution Volume 3
Madden NFL 2005
Jak 3
Prince of Persia
Myst IV: Revelation
RollerCoaster Tycoon 3
SimCity 4

every publisher covered I see :lol
 
What the hell is wrong with Rumble Roses? They want kids to be raised thinkingexual attraction is a bad thing?
 
You know, they're probably referring to maybe a Gameboy version of Prince of Persia but they don't really specify so parents will probably pick up Warrior Within...

Blood and Gore
Intense Violence
Sexual Themes

And why no love for Riddick:Escape from Butcher Bay on the bad list? Stabbing people in the skull with a screwdriver and language that would make these people faint.
 
This list is so funny because they only list 10 bad games, without fail. If they were really concerned w/ protecting kids, and not just getting media coverage, they'd release a list of every game they found objectionable, but top ten lists sell, so usefulness be damned! :lol
 
Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude

It has the word 'cum' in it for Jeebus's sake. If you buy that for your kid, you deserve to have him turn into a misogynistic ax-murderer that pees on prostitutes after propositioning them for sex. :lol
 
and the games they recommend...

ESPN NFL 2 K5
Pikmin 2
Sly 2: Band of Thieves
Karaoke Revolution Volume 3
Madden NFL 2005
Jak 3
Prince of Persia
Myst IV: Revelation
RollerCoaster Tycoon 3
SimCity 4

Well atleast some parents are going to buy good games this year, and in other news; some kid will be very dissapointed this year when he finds myst IV in his stocking.
 
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