Weebull said:
But by the same token, why don't actual boxers go around punching the crap out of everybody? I mean, they're not just doing it in a game, they're doing it for real.
I honestly can't tell if you're defending my argument or not!
To clarify, I'm saying the ban is a bad thing because Wii:Sports has a boxing game in it, a sport which is 'classed' as dangeous/lethal.
Anyway...
What about Resident Evil and the Chain Saw attachment! That was allowed. A chainsaw attachment with splashes of blood, noise effects, vibrating, was MADE to LOOK and FEEL and SOUND like a real chain saw.
I said this on another forum: What about flight sims? Will we see a ban of those shortly in case some lunatic practices a flight on a 737 into a famous landmark. The details of these sims of late are astonishing. People will be able to time a flight from abudakashan to the houses of parliment, calculating time, distance, fuel, etc, etc.
What about Trauma Centre? Why hasn't that been banned then? Surely the 'baffoons' that think computers games are like real life (or a influenced) will be attempting their friends heart by pass after "getting a feel for it" on the game.
There's countless games that even offer you a bonus for a head shot! I mean come on, it's one thing playing Call of Battlefield 3 that reinacts famous battles of the last wars. But a bonus, an achievement, and pat on the back for allowing a bullet to penetrate the skull of johnny foreigner and turning his grimace into tomatoe juice is surely the same thing.
Us gamers can't win, or at least the more adult ones. We complain that we're bored of pretty pink princesses bouncing around with freddie the frog, get bored with ickle baby dinosaur trying to get home to mummykins and avoiding nasty wasty mr toad that goes "gwibbet" (he's got a lisp from the wicked witch). And when we get something a bit more meaty, something that has a tongue in cheek adult theme to it, it's taken away!
We're in a game that we can't win!
