What is the point? I can't understand why you and all those many many people who know nothing about why did that took place, what happened before the judge banned the games, etc etc. The judge (and me, btw) didn't give a damn for the reality of the games. They really are all violent. Quake 1/2 is violent. Quake 3 probably is/will be violent. But that's NOT the point of this discussion! We cannot rate if that is nice or not! Ok, rate the games 18 years only (like it should have been forever), becuase they are violent, but banning them is stupid, because people can do whatever they want of their lives, as soon as this is legal! And freedom IS legal in Brazil! (at least, thats what they say in our constitution, but, unfortunately, that goes to the pollitical scene, beyond this kind of board). So, I hope you ALL stop posting stupid things about the games themselves.
Excuse me, "Anonymous Coward" (that really made sense now!), but since I don't know where are you from, let me say that we do have laws here, and media whores such as this judge that banned the games (no matter how old they are, I don't give a damn, for I believe this is a case of freedom in all of its ways, not of how elite the game is, or how cool are its graphics,...). There are instances of courts here. Yes, just like in the US. You know what I mean. Your thought is the most common between people that know nothing about foreign affairs. You called Brazil "they", like if it was a common, public and voted decision by the brazilian people. No, it was not. Most of us do not agree with that. We are not against the freedom of speech, acts, and will. We have pollitical parties, ranging from liberals to communists. What I mean, after all, is that the decision was taken by a single person, with its (stupid, btw) thought that the killer was inspirated on duke nukem 3d (it could have been grand theft auto, if it was a car theft, who knows what these kind of people can think). The judge is very uninformed about the case and all he/she got was popularity. We were shocked with such a stupid, and, btw, unconstitucional decision, and will FIGHT these kind of acts. I hope you understood what the situation is.
You may be right about people getting sick of playing 3D games. As a brazilian citizen, I would like to say you're completely wrong to say "Brazil is nuts", just because a judge, a single judge, decided to ban games, based on a crime (the details, you get by yourself). What if I said "America is nuts" because some Texas judge banned games like, say, Blood, because of the Unabomber? Although I know there is a lot of discussion in US about your so called freedom... I am pretty sure we get a lot more of freedom (even if outlawed) here, in the nuts country, than in your rich, civilized country.
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What is the point? I can't understand why you and all those many many people who know nothing about why did that took place, what happened before the judge banned the games, etc etc. The judge (and me, btw) didn't give a damn for the reality of the games. They really are all violent. Quake 1/2 is violent. Quake 3 probably is/will be violent. But that's NOT the point of this discussion! We cannot rate if that is nice or not! Ok, rate the games 18 years only (like it should have been forever), becuase they are violent, but banning them is stupid, because people can do whatever they want of their lives, as soon as this is legal! And freedom IS legal in Brazil! (at least, thats what they say in our constitution, but, unfortunately, that goes to the pollitical scene, beyond this kind of board). So, I hope you ALL stop posting stupid things about the games themselves.
Excuse me, "Anonymous Coward" (that really made sense now!), but since I don't know where are you from, let me say that we do have laws here, and media whores such as this judge that banned the games (no matter how old they are, I don't give a damn, for I believe this is a case of freedom in all of its ways, not of how elite the game is, or how cool are its graphics, ...). There are instances of courts here. Yes, just like in the US. You know what I mean. Your thought is the most common between people that know nothing about foreign affairs. You called Brazil "they", like if it was a common, public and voted decision by the brazilian people. No, it was not. Most of us do not agree with that. We are not against the freedom of speech, acts, and will. We have pollitical parties, ranging from liberals to communists. What I mean, after all, is that the decision was taken by a single person, with its (stupid, btw) thought that the killer was inspirated on duke nukem 3d (it could have been grand theft auto, if it was a car theft, who knows what these kind of people can think). The judge is very uninformed about the case and all he/she got was popularity. We were shocked with such a stupid, and, btw, unconstitucional decision, and will FIGHT these kind of acts. I hope you understood what the situation is.
You may be right about people getting sick of playing 3D games. As a brazilian citizen, I would like to say you're completely wrong to say "Brazil is nuts", just because a judge, a single judge, decided to ban games, based on a crime (the details, you get by yourself). What if I said "America is nuts" because some Texas judge banned games like, say, Blood, because of the Unabomber? Although I know there is a lot of discussion in US about your so called freedom... I am pretty sure we get a lot more of freedom (even if outlawed) here, in the nuts country, than in your rich, civilized country.