FoxNews bashes Bulletstorm (LOL)

[deonte9109]

Its stuff like this that makes it hard to be Republican in public. And another thing since when are 9 year olds interested in M-rated games. I mean if you just throw them a Mario clone they play that out till their eyes bleed. Now if they was oh idk like 13+ then yes they would prolly try to get this game.

 

[KaiRai]

If I had kids and one of them got hold of bullstorm, I'd probably be as surprised as if my kid walked in with a .357 magnum saying "Look what they sold me today dad!"

The idea (in theory) of making games for adults is that you're mature enough to know the difference between game and reality.

Same goes for a 9 year old going street racing. Fox is just trolling as per.

 

[Wintermoot]

strangley enough I never saw it comming,
I wonder what Fox News has to say about Duke Nukem forver, probaly some bullshit like "turning child brains into pudding"(that would be awesome)
also what SANE or GOOD parent would allow their kid to play something like bullet storm?

 

[hannan4mitch]

Who woulda thunk?
Fox News creating game contoversy?

Spoiler: These were bound to happen

 

[Booze Zombie]

Oh wait, I'm not a sensationalist moron, this doesn't effect me.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Kids learn worse things at school, there, I said it.

Very true as I learned my major swear-words by 3rd grade. I was even suspended for dropping an F-Bomb in 2nd. This was back in the early 90's, the time before video games were allowed to swear.

I think Bulletstorms point gimmick is pretty cool. I probably won't pick up my copy for a few months: I want to wait for it's price to go down a bit. Also, I'm more interested in the sexy space adventure of Shepard in Mass Effect 3 and, Skyrim too.

As for the ESRB, it may help to add another rating between T and M. Fable doesn't feel like an M rated game, nor does the Halo series. Bulletstorm is definitely an M rated game.

It's great how much free publicity Bulletstorm is getting by this story! Quick! Someone tell Fox News about Duke Nukem Forever being demoed at Las Vegas Strip Clubs!

 

[supagama]

OK, lets see whats wrong here1:
1. 9 year olds, really Fox? You cant find a more appropriate age to use?
2. Its Fox...
3. THERE'S A FREAKING PROFANITY FILTER!
4. Rape? So your saying that saying anything sexual is rape? Go to any middle school and arrest every student there.
5. While on the subject of rape, Fox, go report on ACTUAL NEWS. A FPS being violent? I have never heard of such a thing!
6. The game isn't even out.
7. And most importantly, before discussing it, Fox should actually RESEARCH the game.

 

[Irridium]

The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), rates all video games as a guide for parents; each game carries a letter-label at retail (T for Teen, M for Mature) and an online-only summary. Lieberman and others say it's useless, because it isn't enforced at retail.

Wrong.

Penalizing store clerks
There might be a simple way to address the problem: penalties for selling violent games to kids.

They already do that. Usually it results in that employee getting fired. At least where I worked.

Oh FOX, you purveyor of lies you...

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

"The increase in rapes can be attributed in large part to the playing out of [sexual] scenes in video games," she said.

Is there proof to this accusation? No? well then shut up an go find cures to life-threatening diseases.

 

[RatRace123]

Do they know that Bulletstorm is basically a huge referential throwbacky to the 90s joke amongst the gaming industry?

At any rate, FOX news is once again doing what they do best, getting things wrong.
Personally I hope this doesn't change, FOX is always a great target for us gamers to gang up on, rather than turn on eachother.

I'm sure anything I could say has been said:
FOX is overreacting to something they don't know about
Parents who willingly allow their 9 year olds to play Bulletstorm shouldn't have a right to complain about it.
The game isn't forcing your child to buy it (though that'd be great as an ad campaign)
Read the freakin' ESRB rating, as it says very clearly it's an M rated title
FOX is evil
Bill O'Reilly shows as much scientific knowledge as the Insane Clown Posse
Etc...

 

[Veteran]

Only on Fox News eh?

I can't see where they're getting the impression that the majority of the player base of Bulletstorm will be nine year olds, in the US nearly every store that sells videogames won't sell games like Bulletstorm to minors for moral reasons.
In the UK you can't buy a game like bulletstorm unless you're 18 by law, the store i work even goes so far as to say that if i believe that a parent is buying for a child (similar case for alcohol), even if it is their own, i should advise them on the content before completing the sale.

What my overly long post is trying to convey is that a) Fox News are gullible, biased idiots and b) it's all down to the parents who buy little timmy gears of dutystorm 4: kill harder, thinking it's all rainbows and unicorns.

 

[Iwana Humpalot]

"The increase in rapes can be attributed in large part to the playing out of [sexual] scenes in video games," she said.

I stopped reading there.

Same here
I have a theory that FOX news are not a real news

 

[ozium]

I'm not suprised at all. They did the same thing with Six days in Fallujah. Atomic studios had to stop developing the game but that would not happen with BulletStorm. I'm sure Epic Games would not stand down. But more importantly, "The increase in rapes can be attributed in large part to the playing out of [sexual] scenes in video games" How stupid are these people. You have to be a moron to say such a thing. The PEGI rating is there for a reason.


Just remember guys, If it's not Christian, Fox News will hate it. You probably hear that allot but it's actually true. If bullet storm was a movie that article would not even be there.

 

[megs1120]

They were right about Mass Effect, you know. I played it for five minutes and now I can't stop seducing blue women!

 

[TheNewDemoman]

F**** Fox News, they make every conservative look stupid!!

 

[Delock]

I'm not even going to get into Fox News' stupidity here, but rather, I'm going to look at some of their points individually.

1st guy: I can almost guarantee the context (or the rest of the conversation clarifying the point so that it means something different) is completely cut off, given how his quote is thrown in awkwardly and never mentioned again.

2nd person: clearly a political psychologist (translation: an unreliable hack who goes about research and result presentation the wrong way)

California law: wasn't that it refused VIOLENT not M games? The problem with it wasn't that it laid out clear rules about this, which made it easy to manipulate against games.

The professor: has never fucking stepped foot in any store selling games. There is a constant amount of enforcement, just none in legal format. Store fire clerks that break rules the second they hear about them selling games. Also, where the fuck are the parents of these kids supposedly working around the rating system. They have authority until the kid is of proper age, so if they really want to stop this, they have the power.

The constant use of the age 9: this works in part with the next point I'm about to say, but otherwise it's just Faux getting hung up on the idea that kids will get around everything and that IT'S PROBABLY YOUR KID AND THEY ARE DOING IT RIGHT NOW!!! GO PROTECT THEM!!!

The writing style: I shouldn't have to point this out, but this is so one sided, it shouldn't be able to exist in a three dimensional plane. All the quotes and explainations for games are made to make out the defenders as insane or violent themselves, whereas those against are made out to be more intelligent (especially with job titles) and rational, yet all quotes are cut short. I'm reminded of the Daily Show segment which pointed out that Faux cut off half of a statement Obama said to make it sound like he was raising taxes, rather than talking about plans laid out by his predecessor (and of course Jon returned the favor).


To wrap all this up, the televised version of the Sun with a larger audience is doing what they always do, and I'm now thinking about buying the game more because of it.

 

[therandombear]

Lol or rofl should suffice as reply to this, but I won't dignify foxnews with just that.
Where do they pull these statistics from? Especially the rape thingy. I'm more suspicious to Bob the Builder and his talking machines then blowing off someones body parts to mess up someones head xD

Now, I'm gonna get Bulletstorm just to annoy Foxnews....oh wait, I can't, I preordered it a few weeks ago..

 

[honkyjesus]

If this keeps kids away from bad games that are game engine tech demos... I am all for it.