Quote: "They go after the well-to-do teenagers who flip and go killing people, blame killings on computer games and other crap like that, and make a massive deal about it when there are places in those very cities where shootings and murders aren't even considered a big deal. Reality check."
only one gaming country where this is the case, everyone raise your hand if you can guess which.
for an extra 10 points which is the country that has the biggest problem with gaming violence?
oddly the runnerup is Japan, they didn't want GTA3 there ... but that wasn't for the violence, actually thier reason was bloody funny but makes more sense.
They didn't want a game sensationalising criminal activities that are so readily accessable to todays youth. Not for the fear that they make copy what is in the game, but that they start to believe that such things are cool to do.
I heard there was a pretty big advert campaign about it all.
Personally I do like thier approach more, they're not trying to blame the game for what people do ... they're trying to say it glamourises something that doesn't need to have any more of a high profile put on it.
The Brits did the same a few years back for Carmageddon, but in a typical english mannor - lol so the blood was changed from red to green and the vid that came with it was taken off. It was annoyingm but still wasn't a case of "oh i've just run over 40 people after playing you game, and the fact i was drunk behind the wheel has nothing to do with it... it's all that games fault!"
