Pac-Man assaulted the ghosts.
Frogger made crossing a busy highway on foot, fun again.
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Quote by: Praxius I still just see this as over reaction over a game, much as what happened with Mortal Kombat. |
Well, you're right. Much of it is overreaction. It makes me sick to see people lobby to have games like this boycotted, banned and even illegalized. Its way overreacting.
My message in all this is simple. Everybody be honest about it. Yes, the game is terribly violent. No, adults shouldn't approve of their kids playing it.
Ya don't want your kids to play it, don't let them. Tell them the content is wrong.
No, they aren't going to be X% amount more likely to shoot their class mates because they are desensitized to violence. Watching pixels get shot is a helluva lot less impacting than watching a real persons viscera splatter onto the wall. Any studies available are funded by lobbyist groups and are far to biased to be trusted.