Elementary assassins? It's brilliant!

Hey Mr. Journalist. It's called an M Rating. See? It's right there. Can't you read? People these days can't get it through their thick skulls this one simple facts.

NOT ALL VIDEO GAMES = FOR KIDS.

This stupid pegging of all games as a small child's plaything seriously needs to STOP.

Love to see a left-of-centre paper railing on games. No mention of choice and parental responsability?

Before we all become too defensive, let's remember he only talks about GTA and Rockstar Games, not about video games in general, and not EVEN about violent video games. This columnist has objections against GTA... but like many fellow gamers, actually.

So let him rant on GTA because after all it's his right, and let us keep our anger for the people who really deserve it.

i'm getting very sick of the "i support free speech, unless it's speech i don't like" bullshit.

Are people aware of the fact that GTA isn't the only game in existence(besides pacman, mario, and pong)? Sometimes, I wonder...

@cyberskull

I'm pretty sure that it was Agent X. I don't remember seeing anything like that in Deadpool series

Before we all get defensive, what day is it today?

April Fools day.

Take EVERYTHING with a grain of salt.

What would be the day that journalists reported the news, and didn't pepper 'reports' with their own personal prejudices against new media? Show me where GTA "encourages elementary school students to kill ‘hos’ and assassinate grand jury witnesses". I might as well be saying that Saw IV causes infants to stab people and beg for their lives. Just because something is in a movie/game/book doesn't mean everyone will imitate it, let alone the fact that IT'S NOT A KIDS GAME. If an parent left a gun around the house, and the kid got ahold of it, it's no the guns fault. It's the parents' fault. I remember back in the day, my parents actually said the word "NO" once in a while. Generally, it was to let me know that they don't approve. Something that parents are apparently unable to do on their own.

@paul
I always thought it was "hoes" - hang on I'll find a pimp and ask him.


"Excuse me good sir - do you have a moment?"

"Baby I always gots time for a mark - and such a find dressed one as yoself"

"Thanks - listen what is the correct spelling of the word you use to describe your *ahem* 'employees'"

"Whoa slow down baby - that'll cost you"

"What? How much?!"

"twenty george washingtons baby"

"But this is Australia..."

"Don't matter baby - now you wanna know how to spell that sheeet or not playa?"

"ummm...no kthxbye"



Sorry - I wasn't much help, plus the feather in his hat kept tickling me, I suppose it'll just remain a mystery...

That's a hell of a news flash. So you play as an elementary school student in GTA4? I guess the facial hair fooled me into thinking he was older than that.

I agree, it would be nice if people behaved in a manner worthy of the species (it wouldn't take much), but I'd rather worry about the behaviour of the real people instead of the fictional ones.

If this IS an April Fool's Joke, it's not a particularly good one.

Maybe these idiots think [M] stands for "Mild" or something. But, then again, it does Mature 17+ right above the [M] as well, so who knows what the hell is going on in these idiot's heads.

…What if there were one day a year when everyone behaved in a manner worthy of the species? What would they call that day? They would call it April Fools’ Day.

That pretty much says it all about the article. Not the best joke I've seen by far, but not the worst joke either.

You know what else Boston needs to ban to make it a perfect world? LITE BRITE. plz believe.

@Zerodash

LOL

What if there was one day a year when people all over the world decided to behave in a manner worthy of the species?


Does this include those who stage moral panic by delivering outright falsehoods about certain facets of mass media?

A "ho" is a hooker, and a "hoe" is a gardening tool. Stay with me, people.

I love some of the other points on Beam's wishlist, though. In his magical world, every single problem has a single cause that can be reversed in one fell swoop. Hey, as long as we're dreaming, I'd like the Sens to win the cup for the next five years running and the big N to put games on the Virtual Console that people actually want to play. And maybe I'll buy a unicorn.

What part of "Not all video games are made for kids" is it that these people do not comprehend?

Ahh, columnists. They never need to do research. Just like bloggers!

What if there were one day a year when anti-videogame columnists, polititions, soon to be ex-lawyers, and Fox News behaved in a manner worthy of the species? What would they call that day? They would call it April Fools’ Day.

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A manner worthy of the species? History says we're doing ok on that front.

I know what's going through their head when they see the m on the box is :

M must stand for minor. Those fiends are marketing this game to 12 ear olds.

"What if there were one day a year when everyone behaved in a manner worthy of the species? What would they call that day? They would call it April Fools’ Day."


Is anyone noticing the last line? It's an April Fools joke.

GTAIV actually looks worth a play.