Take Two Defeat Jack Thompson In Court

http://www.thelastboss.com/post.phtml?pk=2660

I am so sick of seeing Dr. Phil's face on TV. That guy is poisoning this society. No credentials, no real understanding of what the heck is going on. Please tell me that they will take on him next.

Note: GTA is really a violent game. That's the only game I think should definately not be played by minors.

While I don't necessarily disagree with you, I do question what this has to do with CPU's.

LOL. Where would you post something like this?

http://forumz.tomshardware.com/com [...] rum-4.html

In here!

Ahhhhhhhh, good point.

Played GTA... I personally didnt think it was as bad as the media try's to portray it....hell, it doesnt even look that great.


Good to see ol' jack got his ass kicked in court though.

About that, if your not going to let minor's play GTA3, then you might as well not let them play FEAR, Doom3, Hitman, Stalker and a few other choice selections. those imho are worse than GTA

Hell, some of the servers in CS are horrible; I'm no saint myself, but I dont think I've heard as much profanity in live life at any given point in time.

I think GTA is the worst too. Sure, FEAR and CS:S are violent, but it's less like real-life violence. GTA3 portrays stealing, shooting, killing, etc as an ideal way of life with no real repercussions. If your character is killed or arrested, you just respawn.

And if CS:S servers are the most profanity you've seen, clearly you haven't /b/een exposed a certain /b/ulletin /b/oard.

Dont you think those games are more "fantasy" than real life? Playing Call of Duty 2 takes me back to WWII. Its not real, which a lot of games arent.

GTA - I think a kid who lives and a gang based neighbourhood playing this game, is closer to reality than many people think. Have you heard how they talk in the game, the way they act, the scenes etc. I think it just promotes violence for a certain section of the population, and not necessarily the best idea.

I've played it though (Vice City), and had a blast (now that game was fun). San Andreas is more life like (not as "cartoony" ) so not the best game for minors. I got bored playing that and moved on to others.

Tough call. You'll never stop kids playing games no matter what. Developers should just push content that is MORE fun and more population friendly.

Ditto - I just made the connection too between real life and fantasy games. I mean, how can WoW be bad for one's brain (other than getting no sleep). A huge man eating boss that heals themself - naaaaa, no danger in getting to entwined in that vs. real life.

going from the article currenlty on tgnews

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/2007 [...] lers_dorm/

i just felt that surely if America outright refuse to ban handguns (on the basis of constitutional right to own one) then there is no way they could be allowed to ban video games (as it is my constitutional right to play them)

Forgive my ignorance of the American Constitution, but where does it say you have the RIGHT to play video games?

I wasnt ditinguishing between fantasy games and "real life" games...

just generalizing the violence and that it is indeed worse in other titles.

if we want to be serious....Dr. Mario is horrible for kids!! seriously, that guy has put countless people into medicinal shock from an OD then influenced uncounted masses into being pill heads.

its gotta stop. too much medication in this nation. we gotta stop from just throwing pills at problems....

It's all about education. People have to be more responsible for their kids education. Parents are a child's first and largest influence, so it's a real shame when parents start letting the media start to educate their children for them.
The same thing happened with violence in cartoons, now look at the crappy assed cartoons kids gotta watch these days. They're, non-imaginative, horribly simple, and down right stupid most of the time. It'd be a shame if the same thing were to happen to games just because people are too irresponsible to be proper parents. Just my 2 cents.

Why not ban Dr. Phil while we are at it. Any objections?? wow, a deafening silence .....

The problem is that it is up to the parents to montor what their kids watch/play and a lot of them don't.

Forget violent games. There are a lot of TV shows and music videos young children should not watch. The problem is that people watch TV and see these reality shows and talk shows and think this is how you are supposed to behave and that is how everyone is. If things are not sensationalized in the media then no one would watch it. So they make a huge deal out of every thing.

A lot of parents are not very good parents and do not set good examples. A lot of kids follow in their parents foot steps. If you father is a drug dealer or criminal then you will probably end up the same way.

Some nature so nurtue.

Most things are ok in moderation. Too much of anything can be bad for you. That applies to almost everything.

These are some of the prices that you pay for living in a free society. There are different levels of values in this country. You have the far left, the far right and the middle of the road. A lot of us fall some where in the middle.