Fox News Blogger Continues Bulletstorm Attack

[TerribleAssassin]

He's missing the fact that a child can't get their hands on a game like Bulletstorm, surely a normal parent would at least read the blurb for check for sutability, if the child was in the age range of 6-10, by 11 they should have a decent understanding of right and wrong.

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

Oh look, the games coming out in less then 24 hours. We still have time to bash it! HATING POWERS, ACTIVIATE!!!!!!!

Really guys? Really?

 

[Jarcin]

I wish my parents had been ignorant of any bad things that I could of gotten in to, not been part of my social life, and generally nothing but food providers so I could learn all my moral lessons from TV and do every illegal thing I ever wanted because I was never told not to by the most influential people I know.

Stupid parents

 

[Kiba The Wolf]

Video games maybe violent but I haven't seen a game that actually showed how to properly load a magazine and load a gun. I learned that stuff from TV and movies, so even if video games teaches kids how to aim, pull a trigger and shoot, they never show how to load the gun.
As for online buying, kids under a certain age shouldn't be on the internet without parental supervision and shouldn't know their parents' credit card numbers or have the card in their possession. Parents should be watching their kids.

 

[Icarion (aka Stockholm)]

Anyone who has worked in a video game store should know that if a parent want to by a game for their kid that there is nothing you can do about it.

Edit: What ever happened to showing your citations? How can they claim to have "experts" without telling anyone who they are?

Peices of fiction don't need citations.

OT:Yep, I'm not suprised that they decided to carry on with this. I'm of the opinion that Fox News isn't even worthy of attention. So I just ignore it. Its like the worlds biggest troll.

 

[omicron1]

The one claim here that holds merit from where I'm standing is the assertion about online content. Truly, the so-called "age gates" do nothing whatsoever, easily bypassed with a simple lie - but then, there is really no way to keep children from looking at questionable content online in the first place; it is hardly limited to videogames.

Then the question becomes, do all studies agree that exposure to such content causes harm to children? And if so, what is a better way to control it than ineffective stockholder-placating age gate shenanigans?

 

[SenseOfTumour]

I'm just gonna pick him up on one line, tho it sounds like any of us could pick him up on any line after' Hi, I'm Brandon and...' and pick it apart so thoroughly we'd be able to count the atoms.

Brandon warned that kids of any age can view Bulletstorm's content online, and quoted a number of expert psychologists, who said that exposing children to that kind of material can do significant damage.

*I* am an expert in theoretical childcare with a First in 'Making Shit Up' from the University of Whatever, and I state that if you let you child browse google long enough to find a Bulletstorm video, he or she will also have probably seen real beheading videos, 2 girls 1 cup, about 17 hours of double penetration and some footage of Bieber singing.

The Bulletstorm comedy trailer is the worst thing on the internet? I could name at least one thing more damaging to a young mind off the top of my head, Foxnews.com , for a start.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Everyone knows this guy is just making things up. It's not as insulting as the chick that says games cause rape, but it's very pathetic.

Also, why is Germany this hard on video games? I mean, I just watched Funny Games the other day which is a German film and it was one of the most disturbing things I've ever seen... Also, there's the Baader-Meinhoff Complex which was also German and also extremely violent and filled with nudity... so why is that allowed while a game like Bulletstorm isn't? It's Team Fortress 2 silly fun. I would let my children (if I had children) play Bulletstorm, but I wouldn't let them watch either of those films.

 

[emeraldrafael]

So wait. You boil it down, his entire argument is that because its too graphic for Germany, it should be censored here.

Alright. I''ll get this out of the way. I made a personal point and promise to myself that I would never read Fox News, so I'm not touching that article. But I'm going to assume there was some intended parallel to Nazi Germany (not enacting Godwin's Law). Now, he does know that Germany hasnt been that way for a good three generations now. BUt meh, he seems so stuck in a 1950s world, maybe he still thinks Germany has some influence.

As to game industry regulating itsedlf for the chldren's saftey.... isnt that what we have the ESRB for? And again, I'd add this statement as a counter to any conversation. Would you take what you are forcing on games and apply it to movies, books, TV (including Fox News), and other mediums?

 

[carnege4]

Video games maybe violent but I haven't seen a game that actually showed how to properly load a magazine and load a gun. I learned that stuff from TV and movies, so even if video games teaches kids how to aim, pull a trigger and shoot, they never show how to load the gun.
As for online buying, kids under a certain age shouldn't be on the internet without parental supervision and shouldn't know their parents' credit card numbers or have the card in their possession. Parents should be watching their kids.

And video games don't show how to hold a gun among other things.

 

[Frank_Sinatra_]

Meh.

I see books out there much worse.
I read the Ken Follet saga books about the medieval age when i was 13.
My brother have 11 and is reading them.
Never tough about raping some1

Wheres your god now psychologists?

Have him read American Psycho.
In that book there are extremely graphic descriptions of sex, rape, murder and the lot. The book is miles more graphic than A Clockwork Orange.
Yet humanity lets books like these stay why? Because they represent significant value to the human race. Can this not be said tenfold about video games?

 

[Deathfish15]

Bulletstorm comes out for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 on February 22nd. Don't buy it for your kids.

Exactly this. When is society going to stop blaming the companies, the retailers, the system, and instead start pointing fingers exactly where they should be: AT THE PARENTS!

It's the parents who blindingly purchase theses games for their kids, or give their kids their credit card to purchase them online without supervision. It's the parents who don't watch what their kids are doing and just let them go off doing whatever they want. And what happens when something like Columbine happens? The parents start to blame other things, like Mareline Manson, or Doom, or whatever else. How come nobody sits there and says "the parents were to blame for not watching their kids and paying attention as they built bombs and stockpiled guns in their basement right under their noses (literally).

 

[SideSlyGuy]

Call me crazy, but I'm thinking unless this game gets slapped with an 18+ Rating, its going to make some serious bank. All this publicity, although its negative, is still free publicity. People talking about how dangerous these games are is only making consumers curious. Now, we do need to take a few steps to show games in a better light than they're in.

 

[JediMB]

In his new article, Brandon used the fact that the German version of Bulletstorm will have some of its more graphic elements removed [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/107658-German-Gamers-Get-Heavily-Censored-Bulletstorm] by order of the USK - the German equivalent of the ESRB - as a springboard, asking why a game considered too violent for Germany is being released uncensored in the US.

Obviously this means that all references to the Nazis should also be removed in the US.

Because, let's face it, Germany is known for its censorship of Nazi-related imagery and violence, while the US is more known for its censorship of sex and sexuality.

 

[Faladorian]

Anyone who has worked in a video game store should know that if a parent want to by a game for their kid that there is nothing you can do about it.

Edit: What ever happened to showing your citations? How can they claim to have "experts" without telling anyone who they are?

This is FOX News. They're too good for "sources" and "citations" and all that fancy-pants "fact" stuff.

Yeah! And like Carol said, people should just "know!" I don't need to cite my sources if I think it's common knowledge. Studies have shown that video games DO cause rape! But writing a book about blue-balling men left and right will never get you sexually assaulted. No no!

Works Cited
Studies Have Shown! - http://foxnews.com/

 

[kouriichi]

Its the parents job to moderate theyer kid.
Not the company.

If a parent KNOWS its violent, sexual, and could potentially harm theyer child, they shouldent buy it. And if parents dont know that, as the court would say, "Ignorance IS NO EXCUSE GUILTY!"

Theyer entire argument is that this game can hurt children of a young age. But children of a young age cant accually play this game unless an adult buys it for them..... You see where this is going.

Its the same principal as guns. Yes, guns shoot bullets. But its humans that aim them. So should we remove guns from the public, meaning that people using them for home defence cant have them, or should we put it to the police to moderate guns more tightly?

 

[deth2munkies]

Stop. Publicizing. These. Morons.

I don't want to hear what Fox News is saying because I don't care. Do you really think that any sort of meaningful discussion is going to come from a topic like this that's been debated to death and general consensus has already been reached? There's nothing new here, it's just a continuation of the status quo that everyone has already rendered their opinion on.