Post by Steve Farrelly @ 01:43pm 10/02/11 | 18 Comments
When you attack the games industry though, you're attacking a field of intelligent, on-the-pulse people, who are always more than ready to defend their industry.
Rock, Paper, Shotgun looked further into this story; digging to see just how these 'experts' formed their opinions and also found a few experts whose thoughts on the "Bulletstorm expose" were (not so) oddly left out of yesterday's reported piece. One such person was Scott Steinberg, CEO of TechSavvy Global, who responded to a list of questions Fox sent out in a blanket email to various people to help form their narrative. Below is an example of a question from FoxNews.com and Steinberg's response.
Fox: In Bulletstorm, you can shoot people in the privates, wrap them with a spiked chain and pull them in and kill them, and shoot people when drunk — all for extra points. There are also a lot of F-words. Do you think the game goes too far, why or why not?Be sure to check out the full article at Rock, Paper, Shotgun, it's a great read and shows how resourceful and informed our industry can actually be.
Steinberg: No – because it’s an unapologetically and straightforwardly satirical game meant for discerning adults that’s written in the vernacular of the times and speaks in a cultural context that’s the same as that its target audience has long been indoctrinated in by mainstream media and pop culture. From Saw to South Park, look at what passes for modern entertainment at the movies or on basic cable, let alone on the Internet – this isn’t the first blockbuster (or big-budget game, for that matter) to aim below the belt or slather on the salty language. Yes, it’s shameless, but also knowingly so, because it actively aims to parody much of both the gaming field and larger cultural zeitgeist’s more asinine elements. The designers make no secret of their intentions, or to whom the title caters – The Oregon Trail, this isn’t. The giant M for Mature rating on the front of the box says it all: Only discerning adults need apply.
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Posted 01:46pm 10/2/11
Posted 01:52pm 10/2/11
Posted 01:53pm 10/2/11
I still don't get this quote, has there been an increase in rapes? in what country's? in what areas? what the demographic of people doing the rapes?
Is it because 20-30 males play games and I assume are also more likely to commit rape than say 70 year old females.
Was there an actual study done, or was it just some made up bulls***?
Posted 01:58pm 10/2/11
Posted 02:12pm 10/2/11
what's the difference
Posted 03:32pm 10/2/11
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Posted 03:40pm 10/2/11
Posted 03:43pm 10/2/11
Posted 04:09pm 10/2/11
the audience they speak to wouldn't understand 90% of the words in that reply, let alone believe it.
Posted 09:51am 11/2/11
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/02/the-doctor-who-said-video-games-cause-rape-explains-what-she-meant/
Full quote
And then there is:
And of course some gamers who felt hard done by emailed her abusive violent emails. *facepalm*
Posted 11:29am 11/2/11
Posted 12:07pm 11/2/11
http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Girls-Carole-Lieberman/product-reviews/292386512X/ref=cm_cr_pr_link_1?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending
Posted 12:28pm 11/2/11
That audacity's price is the above sentiment; when did we become so accustomed to literally being lied to that we're complacent about it now? This is why it's amazing they attacked games and gamers so personally, because I look at gamers as being like the Honey Badger because as Wiki explains about the Honey Badger, it "has few natural predators due to its thick skin and ferocious defensive abilities".
I've seen a Honey Badger bitten by a Cobra on the face and die, right in front of a doco film crew... 10 minutes later it awoke from seeming 'death' shook its head and continued to hunt and then devour the snake that bit it. I think this whole scenario is very fitting :)
Posted 12:35pm 11/2/11
Sigh...
Posted 01:07pm 11/2/11
Posted 04:56pm 11/2/11
http://www.ceasespin.org/ceasespin_blog/ceasespin_blogger_files/fox_news_gets_okay_to_misinform_public.html
Highlight mine. Telling the truth on the news is a "suggestion"
This is what I think of when I think of Rupert Murdoch
Posted 05:19pm 11/2/11
Not literally, no, because you can't literally bend something that doesn't physically exist.
I wasn't defending them, I was just being picky about the usage of the word "literally."