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Originally Posted by arjue
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Originally Posted by arjue
The National Institute on Media and Family released a similar list. You can read about it here. When you see this picture though, you see the face of those that can't figure out that the bulk of the market these days is over the age of 15. http://www.realcities.com/images/rea...5188827176.jpg
I thought Austrailia bans all violent videogames...and movies, and books, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by arjue
I thought that was Germany?
I don't know if anybody listens to The Michael Medved Show but today he's spending an hour on this very topic from noon-1pm PST (3-4pm EST).
If you want to call in... 800-955-1776.
You can listen live here on LA's KRLA.
M-rated games should not be marketed to kids, but it should be a store policy- NOT a government mandate. Let the IEMA be the one to encourage stores to follow such a system.
If you play M-rated GTA and you don't know that you must not go toting a rifle in public picking people off for real, then you are hopeless. Game developers and publishers are not responsible for you or your kid.
As for the rating system itself, there needs to be a PG classification which would fit right between an E and T. A game like R-Types or R-Type Final should really be PG, since I could imagine these frightening some younger children (some of the aliens you destroy are quite hideous, and these games have a darker atmosphere than the usual shmup). Some T rated games actually should be PG as well. I think the AMOA's system also needs an overhaul. A game can have the "Life-Like Violence Strong" sticker yet not contain any blood- here you have Crisis Zone and Mortal Kombat 4 both falling under this classification. Violence ratings under the AMOA are either mild or strong, with no moderate level (which CZ should have).
Lieberman & Co., please get a clue and realize that games are not just a kid thing anymore. :bs:
I think the most amzing thing is that their's a Gunslingers 1..
after all these years and these fucks still cant spell it right.
Mortal Kombat
How about instead, parents, don't buy games for your kids that you principly object to and don't let them buy them on their own either. List over.Quote:
11. We encourage parents to exercise their power as consumers and hold retailers accountable for the way that violent video games are marketed and sold. Parents can visit retailers and find out how they display the games and how stores enforce the current ratings system. They can urge retailers to stop selling violent games or at the very least separate them from child-friendly ones. They can advocate by writing to companies and letting them know their concerns about the marketing of violent entertainment media. They can find out what their internet service providers are doing to prevent children from purchasing or playing violent video games online.
Problem is this group isn't there for us. Its pretty much "research" material for parents who want to rail against video games as a cause of social ill. There's political groups like this that do "research" on gays, blacks, religion or what have you to "prove" that something or another causes problems society and gives this "research" to other group to trumpet as independant and sound research proving that a law is needed to protect us from ourselves.
Ever read the footnotes in a research paper? No one does, but when a person makes their arguement on footnotes and references those references must be good. In political arguements this is rarely the case and people accept bad research because someone else foot did it, and if its wrong well they're not to blame.