Completely agreed. I'm 21 and just playing the demo landed me an over-nighter for domestic violence. I can only imagine the impact it would have on an adolescent
lol @ fox "news", always looking for an easy scapegoat.blue_hazy_basic
no, just looking for easy ratigs. overprotective soccer moms like this kind of stuff, and they get good ratings. they don't actually care about bulletstorm. my multimedia teacher was a sports guy at a sattelite TV station that was a satellite station of fox. news caster and stuff dont care about the news themselves, they just find interesting stories that will bring in good ratings and viewers.
That's why their is a rating system. If it's rated M and kids get it, then the parents need to be more involved. We don't censor dvs because parents don't police their children.
It's rated M for a reason. Mature doesn't mean "Let all your 9 year olds play this game".
lundy86_4
Well said. Why this can't be grasped, I dont know. If you wouldn't take your kids to an R rated movie, why would they buy them M rated games? Gotta own up to our responsibilities, parents.
It's rated M for a reason. Mature doesn't mean "Let all your 9 year olds play this game".
cainetao11
Well said. Why this can't be grasped, I dont know. If you wouldn't take your kids to an R rated movie, why would they buy them M rated games? Gotta own up to our responsibilities, parents.
Thanks 8)
Exactly. I don't see why the onus is placed on the developers, when it's the parents who must be buying these games for the kids. Either that, or every young child has fake I.D's and fake beards/moustaches :P
Correct me if I am wrong but last I saw, Bullestorm is rated M. Meaning, it is not intended for those under the age of seventeen. Any child "damaged" by this only has their lazy parents to blame.
blue_hazy_basic
Whats ironic is that fox news constantly assaults the government for being a "nanny state" when they try and do the exact same thing with all their crusades. True that!
Isn't this why they came up with the rating system? Kinda like rated R movies. I think alot of older people still think of videogames as just for tiny children.
I have to applaud fox news for their epic trolling. They get so much ratings and are the most successful news network because people think that they are being 100% serious when honestly they are just saying stuff for the controversy to pull ratings. I'd think people would get that by now, there's a reason why beck rakes in 32 mil a year and it takes Keith Olbermann 4 years to rake in close to that amount.
Isn't this why they came up with the rating system? Kinda like rated R movies. I think alot of older people still think of videogames as just for tiny children.
i5750at4Ghz
Exactly. The idea that videogames are for kids still floats around. Some still think we live in the super mario age and don't know that there are a lot of games out there with gore, partial nudity or strong language.
Only because a product is a videogame doesn't mean it's for kids. Some are just M rated.
So, I'm confused. Help me out here guys. They say that the ratings system isn't enforced or something along those lines. "Lieberman and others say it's useless, because it isn't enforced at retail." I've heard this before in articles criticizing mature games. But when I go and buy a M rated game, they ask me for my drivers license to make sure I'm 17... What the hell are they talking about?
"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.
loco145
God, I hate how stupid those people always are. Instead of blaming video games that are clearly meant for adults they should start to blame parents who let their kids play those. I don't take the 7 years old daughter of my cousin to the cinema to watch Saw and then complain about the movie industry.
Its so true, every time i play GTA and kill a prostitute i am psychologically urged to go and do it when i turn off my console. Its all so true! We must fight against this obvious brainwashing that videogames have done to us, when i play CoD all i think of at work is hitting the streets with an UZI gunning down everyone i see... (sarcasm) Don't you just hate uneducated idiots who stare at charts all day and determine that it's the games? :roll:
"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.
nethernova
God, I hate how stupid those people always are. Instead of blaming video games that are clearly meant for adults they should start to blame parents who let their kids play those. I don't take the 7 years old daughter of my cousin to the cinema to watch Saw and then complain about the movie industry.;)
Thats exactly it, just hopeless parenting and the mothers who just claim "I didn't know he played it until i found the severed foot in his schoolbag!!!"
*having a good laugh until the link* *notices TC agrees* :| ... ... ...seriously? i mean, a game that says "17+" RIGHT ON THE FRONT COVER will only be played by 9 year olds with stupid parents (to say the least about them).
How is it possible for a 9-year old kid to play Bulletstorm? D: What kind of parent would buy them it. Heck, my parents wouldn't even let me play T-rated games until I was 13.... The world is so messed up. It's not a games fault for potentially causing kids to go insane and commit acts of violence. It's the parents and the kid themselves.
Bulletstorm and every other age-innapropriate game out there. That's why you have a ratings system, and thats why parents need to look into what they're getting for their kids.
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.
loco145
Isn't the whole point of the whole rating system stuff so that kids DON'T play these types of games? Any kind of parent that would let their 9 year old kid play this game is an idiot.
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