It's funny now you mention mk. ESRB ratings came about due in part to Mortal
Kombat. lol
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From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Q9 action game, my opinion.
Hi Dark,
Yeah, the original Mortal Kombat was very cartoonish when it came to gore.
Nevertheless there are those people out there that flip out over any kind
of violence in games, blood and gore, and think that we should not give
such games to our kids.
Consider, for example, the article Nicol posted to this list that
basically said that playing such games was ungodly behavior, that games
like that lead young children away from Christ, etc. The entire article
was poorly researched, and I found the so-called evidence in that article
unconvincing.
Still it is a reminder that some games will always cross some boundries
and will be socially unacceptable to some people for one reason or
another. It isn't possible to create a game like Double Dragon or Mortal
Kombat without getting some kind of negative feedback from the public.
Some parents, psychologists, and religious people are very concerned over
the amount of violence in video games. They feel the violent nature of
games have gone too far, but there just as many people who don't care or
worry about it.
When it comes to a game like Q9, eh, don't worry about it. The violence is
pretty tame all things considdered. It is no where as violent or gory as
say Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, and plenty
of other games I can think of. In fact, you don't even have to think about
killing the creatures in the game. It is designed in such a way that a
person can think of knocking them out with the club or rocks instead of
outright killing them if they have a thing about killing animals.
dark wrote:
Ah Tom, funny you mention double dragon.
now i think about it i was playing double dragon and International Karate
pluss at the age of 5 on our old amstrad computer, ---- before I lost the
sight of my right eye, I only mention mortal combat because I remember
the huge controversy when it was released and the removal of all the
blood from the Snes version (well, it actually stil has blood, the blood
is merely coloured grey), which I found confusing at the time sinse the
violence in the original Mk is more cartoon gore than anything else anbd
not worse than you'd see in Tom and Gerry.
of course, depending upon how much of a twisted evil psycho people think
i am now, that might influence what they think of children playing so
called violent games. grin!
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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