08.02.07
Video Games and Movies-Same Stuff-Different Reactions?
 
If you’re big into the world of gaming, you probably heard a month or two ago when a little game called Manhunt 2 got banned with an AO rating because it had intense, gory violence that went over the edge. But, that also got some people rasing the comment, if movies do the same thing, how come games are treated differently? Well, one part is that children play video games. And no, it’s not that people just think that only kids play video games. Any person with a TV that watches any TV channel would eventually draw that conslusion. The reason is that they think only kids play video games, it’s because teenagers and adults aren’t the only one playing video games. It’s one thing to watch somebody get shot, stabbed, or beaten, it’s another to do it in a game. To be controlling that, causing the character YOUR controlling to do that. In a movie you can close your eyes and plug your ears, sometimes in a game, you have to do it and watch as you do it and know you did it. Video Games and movies are two completely different forms of entertainment and should be accounted as so. That’s why we have the MPAA to rate movies and the ESRB to rate games.  Â
James said,
August 3, 2007 at 1:52 pm
That is a good point. I never thought of it that way but you are right. I think that video games can be big trouble and that they shold not put stuff like that in the games. But then again…I think that about movies too.
The thing I hate, though, is the fact that some people seem to think that if one video game is bad they all are. I mean what is wrong with Mario?(Jumpman!!!) In fact there is even a book I saw today called playstation nation that says “Most video games trigger physiological reactions in the brain similar to those associated with substance abuse.” The book says that playing games are as bad as meth. ALL GAMES???!!!!! Not just GTA and Manhunt, but all video games. ARRRRG! It is like saying because saw 3 has bad stuff all movies are bad. Why are people so stupid earl? why?
August 5, 2007 at 7:52 am
Thank you. One point I didn’t put in was why you would want to do something horrible like that in Manhunt 2? I mean, my kinda games are games like Burnout, Warioware, Metroid, Mario, Smash Brothers, games that actually do new, excitting things beside going on a killing spree. I play war games, but if you’re playing a game where a dude just kills for the sake of killing, that’s wrong.
August 5, 2007 at 12:43 pm
yeah. Also violence does not seem as bad in games as long as it is for the greater good. for example, spider-man/venom. hmmm…..mabey that is why I always play as the rebels when playing empire at war