[QUOTE="Darth_Tigris"][QUOTE="LoG-Sacrament"]

another case of something which is not and was never intended to be racist that gets turned into something racist by an overly pc media. adam sessler needs to remove his head from his ass.

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So if someone takes artful nudes of prepubescent children with no intention of it being child pornography, does it make wrong that such images would make people uncomfortable because they could be perceived as child pornography just because vocal fans of photography say it is?

You're talking about two completely different subjects. Nude images of children are never acceptable, its illegal, and those people will be uncomfortable seeing any children naked. Its not a case where they just have a problem with naked black kids.

If Adam were saying that he is uncomfortable killing people in videogames, I could respect that opinion much more. Instead he's trying to make exceptions and force something into an issue of racism when it isn't. That type of thinking and false whistle blowing is incredibly destructive to race relations.

I'm starting to wonder, as a black man, should I feel like I'm committing a hate crime everytime I kill a white person in a videogame?

Yes, two completely different subjects. I won't deny that. But they are analogous. In what way?

Sessler, along with Croal and others, have said the IMAGES IN THE TRAILER made them uncomfortable because of how it reminded them of some horrible racial history. Myself, as well as others, feel uncomfortable looking at images of nude kids because it reminds us of child pornography. Does that make it wrong for us to say it makes us uncomfortable?

I'm a black man too. I've played nearly all of the RE games. Had a blast. When I first saw the trailer to this one, I thought it had great graphics, an atmospheric setting and a continuation of the RE4 gameplay. That's pretty much it. But once I started hearing things about racist imagery, I revisited it. I listened to their points. And, especially after what Croal articulated, I UNDERSTAND where they are coming from. It makes them uncomfortable.

What consistently disturbs me about us as gamers is how often we refuse to accept that someone may react differently or have a different view of something that we do. Maybe this is a side effect of internet communication versus dealing with real people and seeing the pain, anguish, excitement and passion in their faces or voices. Sessler did a good job of saying how he felt without saying anyone that doesn't feel the same is WRONG.

[QUOTE="Darth_Tigris"][QUOTE="LoG-Sacrament"]

another case of something which is not and was never intended to be racist that gets turned into something racist by an overly pc media. adam sessler needs to remove his head from his ass.

LoG-Sacrament

So if someone takes artful nudes of prepubescent children with no intention of it being child pornography, does it make wrong that such images would make people uncomfortable because they could be perceived as child pornography just because vocal fans of photography say it is?

theres a large leap between digital images of the killing a person who happens to be black and digital images of the killing a person because they are black in terms of racism.

and besides, wacking myself in the nuts makes me feel uncomfortable too but i dont shout it for the world to hear. i just dont do it.

But you never answered my question.

another case of something which is not and was never intended to be racist that gets turned into something racist by an overly pc media. adam sessler needs to remove his head from his ass.

LoG-Sacrament

So if someone takes artful nudes of prepubescent children with no intention of it being child pornography, does it make wrong that such images would make people uncomfortable because they could be perceived as child pornography just because vocal fans of photography say it is?

They're not bitter, they're pointing out it's insanely difficult to the point of being unfair. I'd say that would be quite a good thing to focus on when reviewing a game, considering not everyone (indeed, hardly anyone) played the first game. If the diffculty is subtracting from the fun then they are right to point it out.SpigleyMcCheese

Really? I've read that combined sales of NG and NG Black were over 1.5 million. If that's "hardly anyone", then how about handing me a million of hardly in dollars.

The game is suffering from sequelitis with reviewers. The first one was shockingly good, and those types of games will always do better the first time around (I'm expecting lower GeoW2 scores as well). I'm sure this game is very difficult, but so was the first game. It had plenty of "I'm done with this game" moments, but you invariably got BETTER if you stuck with it to the point where at the end you are simply GREAT at it. That was fine for reviewers with the fresh, new original version. Not so much this time around. So its doubtful that the game is inferior, but that reviewers are (understandably) harsher.

I'm not a GTA player, but a friend of mine who is big on it said that he and others are a tad disappointed this time that they don't have the incredible freedome to just screw around like they did in previous games. Based on what's been stated by SR2 devs, this is what they are doing in spades with it.

That being said, could SR2 possibly fill in the gaps that GTA IV was missing?

Not confirmed. Technically, this thread should be locked due to the factually wrong thread title, but I'm not the reporting type ...

My opinion is that this story is pretty ridiculous. There is no benefit to MS having an internal Blu Ray drive in the 360. Since it couldn't be used for games AND would be quite a bit more expensive than the regular SKU, it would look particularly bad in comparison to the PS3. It makes no sense and MS has denied this repeatedly, just like they did with the built in HD-DVD player.

Ok, yes this is happening, its real and it should be BIG. Here is Major Nelson's most recent podcast where he and guest Geoff Keighley (maybe most famous for defending Mass Effect on Fox News) discuss varous things INCLUDING this show coming in less than 2 weeks.

http://centracomm.cachefly.net/majornelson/2008/mnr-042708-276-GeoffKeighley-preGTAIV-mp3.mp3

Again, why are people soooooo sleeping on this????