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Games People Shouldn't Play

Posted by timothy on from the dumpsters-aren't-really-that-dirty dept.

MBCook writes: "I've been a video game player for years, and I must say that the average game seems to be getting worse. Exihbit 1: Games People Shouldn't Play, an article on MSNBC. This article shows what the author thinks are the worst games on the current crop of systems. You've got to agree with calling a game bad if "...the only way to get in [the minigames] is by buying hats... How do you buy the hats? Why, by picking up garbage." If that doesn't make you want to play a game, what would? I agree with the author when he says: '... who knows what kind of disease your children might get from overexposure to these games.'"

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  1. We're in video game doom right now... by qurob · · Score: 4, Informative

    We just had a HUGE year

    We've got 3 systems out right now

    No really good games....

    Smells like 1983-1984

  2. Re:Too true by dnaumov · · Score: 2, Informative

    DKT was not all that bad, have you actually installed the v.1.2 patch and gotten past the 1st episode (which indeed sucked ass) ? The 2nd and 3rd episodes (ancient Greece and darkage Norway) very very fun. No robotic frogs/flies and with v1.2 you could save your games without those dumb red crystals.

  3. Definitely bad in one aspect by sunhou · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ethnic Cleansing, made by Resistance Records (owned by the National Alliance neo-nazi group) using the Genesis3D open-source rendering software. In the game, you control a white KKK member who runs around beating up on other races. And you thought people were upset about violence in video games after Columbine...

    On the other hand, on this topic someone asked "why is beating up on other races bad, but beating up cops and prostitutes (in Grand Theft Auto 3) OK?"

    1. Re:Definitely bad in one aspect by Treeluvinhippy · · Score: 5, Informative

      Because Video Games like any other medium are subject to what is politicaly correct at the time. Killing cops is politicaly correct at the moment, for those who decide what is politicaly correct today used to get arrested alot during the 60's & 70's. While killing a black person isn't so politicaly correct anymore. ( I say 'anymore' because in the 20's it was perfectly acceptable to be a member of the KKK and a member of congress at the same time) Killing is killing I don't care what skin color or uniform she/he is wearing at the time. Logic dosen't seem to figure into any part of the debate.

      Political Correctness has been applied to quite a few games that a many of you own. For example In Return to Castle Wolfenstein single player, you are allowed to run around and shoot Nazis. Banners depicting swaztikas hang from every precipce and Adolf's portrait hangs wherever convienant, all there ready to be shot-up by whatever weapon the player has handy.

      Now in multiplayer mode, the swaztikas are gone replaced with a deformed W with funky wings and Hitler's portraits are nowhere to be seen.

      You see, it's politicaly correct to kill Nazis, but it isn't to play one in a fantasy game depicting WW2.

      Wtf? Did the meaning of the word fantasy change since the last time I checked.

      Just because someone plays a Nazi in a game dosen't make them one.(People have been doing it for years. I mean those Avalon Hill board games wouldn't have as many cutouts if nobody can be Germans. Anybody remember those? The ones where they had those folding sections of maps that could be aranged in all kinds of ways. Came with a thousand cardboard squares representing various units. Whatever happend to that company? I should consult google) Just as much as playing GTA3 makes one a copkiller or pimp.

      Besides wich, whose to say what's politicaly correct? While the term is moderen the concept has been with us for centuries. Galileo was tortured by the Inquisition for supporting the Copernican Model of the solar system. Why? Because it underminded how the church said the universe functioned. A big no-no at the time. This is an example from the Middle Ages about political correctness was used to suppress unpopular ideas or thoughts, by focusing on the books that Galileo and others like him wrote. Wich was at the time the only mainstream media. The church was the big power and got to decide what was politicaly correct. As the monk Victor Bruno dicovered when he wrote that maybe there could be other worlds around other stars, and got burned at the stake for it. So much for the whole 'thou shall not kill and forgiveness' bit.

      I'm thankful in a way, it has been much worse in times past. Political correctness today is more annoying than dangerous.

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  4. Re:Looks like an ad by nomadic · · Score: 3, Informative

    Uhhh...you seriously believe listing Xbox games on a list of "GAMES YOU SHOULDN'T PLAY" is an ADVERTISEMENT? I mean, geeze, I like MS-bashing as much as the next guy, but that makes very little sense.

  5. Re:Heh.. by gewalker · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's called disclosure. Repsonsible journalists are supposed to reveal commercial ties that may influence their journalistic impartiality.

  6. Re:Airworlf for 2600 by prator · · Score: 2, Informative

    You didn't need a "wanky" gun to get a high score in Duck Hunt. If I remember correctly, all you have to do is turn up the brightness to a certain level, and then any shot will be a hit.

    -prator