what's your thought on video game censorship?

[Thumbalina2k]

i'm doing a school report on censorship of video games. Lemme kno what you think about it

[raiden999]

well, so happens that im doin my research paper in english comp II on violence in music and games. but anyways, they're just to lazy to go try to find who is really to blame for violence, so they use music, movies, and games as a scapegoat.

btw, this is just my opinion

[northStar]

I think game ratings are necessary. Twelve year olds shouldn't be able to buy games like Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the same manner as they aren't allowed access to porn. But, lobbyists shouldn't try to stop games like GTA:VC from coming to the market altogether for mature audiences.

[Fanatic72802]

Not cool. It's censorship that kept great games like Tales of Phantasia SNES from coming stateside!

[Ness]

On 2003-03-17 10:31, raiden999 wrote:
well, so happens that im doin my research paper in english comp II on violence in music and games. but anyways, they're just to lazy to go try to find who is really to blame for violence, so they use music, movies, and games as a scapegoat.

btw, this is just my opinion



I agree 100%.

I also think that there should still be ratings so it will be up to the parent whether or not kids can get M rated games.

[Nidarrock]

I agree with what's been said already. Why should we have a rating system if we still censor the content. I do feel that a game should not be based soley on "offensive" material(BMX XXX). When the f-word fits then use it. Nudity can usually be avoided, but if it is absolutely necessary then use it. Make it fit at least.

I hope that made sense.

[Gestiv]

Perfect sense. I think.

[Auracom]

It's all already been seen... I know 8 year olds that have bigger "potty mouths" than me. Its just retarded. If parents would just teach the kids in the first place then censorship wouldn't be needed at all. Censorship doesn't do it's job correctly, and it blows, it deprives mature audiences from important messages.

Ex. "Papa Roach-Last Resort" the entire video is pretty much blanked out. The point of the video is to spread the message that suicide is not the only way out. Censorship just said... bleep bleep bleep.



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[BlackRose]

Don't censor, inform. Telling people what they should and shouldn't look at is much better than simply trying to hide them from everything they shouldn't see.

[Elentari]

Ex. "Papa Roach-Last Resort" the entire video is pretty much blanked out. The point of the video is to spread the message that suicide is not the only way out. Censorship just said... bleep bleep bleep.



Like the Jeremy(pearl jam) video. Except they didnt censor the audio, only the visual becuase people construed the message wrong... http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_bunny.gif

[RuneLateralus]

On 2003-03-17 10:31, raiden999 wrote:
well, so happens that im doin my research paper in english comp II on violence in music and games.

The irony...I thought I was the only who ever wrote that for a topic in English Comp II.

I do not think it is the fault of the video game's content. They, themselves, are not the cause. However, it is an easy answer to blame games. But the only reason why some of it even effects children is that parents are not watching or paying attention to what their kids are viewing and playing. If I was a father, I would never let my 12 year old play games like GTA.


But I do think the rating system should stay. It is needed to inform what content that is objectible in the game.


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[Phobos-X]

its funny how a game with imposed nudity will get a "M" rating. while a movie with full frontal nudity will get PG-13. even more stupid the game is 50 bucks, while the movie can be seen on cable for free.

[Captain_Dude]

I'm completely against censorship(not just because MTV'll never play my song The Most Offensive Song in the World).
I think that if something is made, it should be distributed the way it came into the world. Hell, if we started exposing young kids to things like sex and violence at a young age, they won't grow up to be so uptight about such things in the media. To those who say "Oh, but violence in Video Games causes people to COMMIT acts of violence!" I respond "Sure, and the guy beating the shit out of his son for no reason had no affect on the young lad's mind."
I feel that the Offspring song Way Down The Line coveys how I feel with the lyric "An angry man get's drunk and beats his kids, the same old way his drunker father did..." I mean, censorship is like trying to stop child/spousal abuse, except it's getting rid of something that many people want.
Somewhere around, I've an essay I wrote on sex & violence being censored in the media that I wrote before I dropped out(so, from about... six or so months ago). I haven't the faintest idea in which stack of papers it's in. But if I can get my hands on it before much longer I'll post the bugger.

[raiden999]

On 2003-03-17 21:35, RuneLateralus wrote:


On 2003-03-17 10:31, raiden999 wrote:
well, so happens that im doin my research paper in english comp II on violence in music and games.

The irony...I thought I was the only who ever wrote that for a topic in English Comp II.

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I've written on these kind of topics since i've been writing term papers or research papers. Here's an interesting little quote I came across while doing my paper this year

"It is sad to think that the first few people on earth needed no books, movies, games or music to inspire cold blooded murder." -Marilyn Manson

Well, just thought that was an interesting quote.

[Abaddon]

Like anything, censorship is only good in moderation.
I.E. many posters have said that censorship is good to prevent 12 year olds and under from buying games such as GTA, but mature gamers and adults should have the priveledge to buy the kind of games that they like.

I remmeber reading an article in a local paper regarding "mandatory filtering" of australian ISP's. How fucked up would that be? I should be entitled to view what i want. and while a majority of people don't search the net for porn and nothing else, a lot of subtle things can fall under the ban list.
My website, titled "Abaddon's realm" woudl fall under the filtering list, purely for the word Abaddon. (It has a negative connotation in many european religions) so yeah

to sum it up, censorship in moderation is fine, but should nto be relied upon, and the govt can get fucked if they mandate filtering of all ISP's

[Bloodberry]

Censorship bad.

Parenting good.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2001/20010423l.jpg

[Ness]

On 2003-03-18 06:38, Bloodberry wrote:
Censorship bad.

Parenting good.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2001/20010423l.jpg




That is so true. The media is just a huge scapegoat and censorship is just a simple solution to a complex problem.

[Phobos-X]

Hell, if we started exposing young kids to things like sex and violence at a young age, they won't grow up to be so uptight about such things in the media.

even some foreign commercials have nudity in them. shit we cant even get that in prime time. Hell, if anyone seen the new add for Puma tennis shoes, you know they take it a lot further

[Thumbalina2k]

hey everyone, thanks for posting on this, tryin to keep it up top BUMP!

[Yoda86]

In ways it can be bad but in other ways it can be good.

[AidaKensuke]

Waaaiiitt! Wait! Doesn't all this remind you of the late 80's or something when religious people and liberal-Leftist parents got Congress to pass the 'Parent Advisory Warning" label? It seems they're looking for newer, fresher meat to get they chubby-grubby paws on.

One of the lyrics that was used in a courtroom in attempt to ban "distasteful music:

"Your face...is my toiletpaper!"

[Orange_Coconut]

Unfortunately I've seen kindergarteners who have commented on one of my classmates "behind" if you will, and when I was a kid I had a friend who knew it all... Censorship only gets people even more curious.

[Zeebo]

Eh, doesn't really matter

[rena-ko]

censorship is useless and annoying...
it will always have reverse effect...

[RedFox]

im 18 so i dont care!

In the UK that pretty much means i can do pretty much whatever i like http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif

[Thumbalina2k]

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