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Nancy Pelosi Defends Video Games

Jarmel said:
Nope. Manhunt pretty much tops everything. I mean the West has games where you can see a sniper bullet going through the skull of a person via X-Ray vision and the shooter market in mass such as Gears of War.
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This is true, American games are far more physically violent, but as has been mentioned, Japanese games (visual novels in particular) can be EXTREMELY sexually violent, and most people would surely say that sexual violence is worse than physical violence.

dragonlife said:
They have the most sexually violent games.
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Right.
 
The thing about Japan having the violent games is probably a result of Microsoft being the only major console manufacturer in the last 30 years (when did Atari fall off?). Thought process goes "Playstation, Wii, Sega etc. all come from Japan -> most video games come from Japan." Michael Moore made a similar comment in Bowling for Columbine.

Still, Japan does get most of the big games we get, even if they don't have the same mass appeal.
 
This was a false interview just because it was on FoxNews. Come on, violent game isn't the problem about the killing in the US. Its the poverty, the availbility of gun and maybe my poor ortograph.
 
richiek said:
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Caption: $5 cash or $7 trade in? Fuck off!
 
KalBalboa said:
There are plenty of popular examples though. Metal Gear Solid and Resident Evil alone are two incredibly successful Japanese franchises with droves of gun use.
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That's true. I realize that this is divergent from my initial point, but going a bit deeper, I think it's interesting to note that gunplay doesn't really seem to be the focus of those particular series, by which I mean they aren't a driving component of their popularity. Correct me if I'm wrong, but MGS is mostly known for its heavy dramatic elements and seems to encourage stealth over killing with guns. Guns are certainly an integral part of the RE series, but I also feel like people play them more for the tension present in a survival horror atmosphere rather than to just shoot stuff up (although the direction of the more recent games makes me question that assumption).

I realize you haven't said anything to the contrary of this; just musing about it.

God's Beard said:
They use tentacles?
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Yeah, uh, among other things.

ii Stryker said:
Gun violence pre dates videogames by a couple centuries soo uhh this argument is pretty dumb.
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I don't agree with it, but the argument is more that games promote violence rather than being the sole cause of it. So in terms of this argument, it doesn't really matter if gun violence has been around for longer than games have.
 
Gun violence pre dates videogames by a couple centuries soo uhh this argument is pretty dumb.

We are at the dawn of the idiocracy... Fuck you mike judge for being the prophet that you are. :'(
 
Axelstream said:
That's true. I realize that this is divergent from my initial point, but going a bit deeper, I think it's interesting to note that gunplay doesn't really seem to be the focus of those particular series, by which I mean they aren't a driving component of their popularity. Correct me if I'm wrong, but MGS is mostly known for its heavy dramatic elements and seems to encourage stealth over killing with guns. Guns are certainly an integral part of the RE series, but I also feel like people play them more for the tension present in a survival horror atmosphere rather than to just shoot stuff up (although the direction of the more recent games makes me question that assumption).

I realize you haven't said anything to the contrary of this; just musing about it.



Yeah, uh, among other things.
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Well, I can tell you this much, those games would be much less interesting to me if I was running around trying to sweet talk enemies in to giving up for the entirety of them.
 
It doesn't matter if Japan has the most violent games or not, the idiots she was speaking to are clueless as shit about video games so they won't investigate her claim. This is good for us.
 
tehrik-e-insaaf said:
plus the minute she trashes video games - her entertainment industry donors are going to start screaming because it isn't difficult to extend that argument to movies and television
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Well that's it.

Lots of game companies in her district. Not many gun companies or gun owners.

It's flipped in, say, Texas outside of Austin maybe. Really is that simple.
 
haikira said:
Like i said before. I played the PS3 version myself and found it perfectly fine. But for me, it's the much more frequent drop in frames over the 360 version which is the annoyance, since i can feel it in the controls. Cut down vegetation didn't bother me much.
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I was mostly joking when I posted that. :p

Apologies for it sounding so literal.
 
I get the impression that bit was just Pelosi was just parroting something (inaccurate) Michael Moore said in Bowling For Columbine.
 
I'm playing Corpse Party: Book of Shadows right now. Everyone saying Japan doesn't have physically violent games needs to do so as well :P
 
Durante said:
I'm playing Corpse Party: Book of Shadows right now. Everyone saying Japan doesn't have physically violent games needs to do so as well :P
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I'm too chicken.

Pelosi bringing up Japan was a bit unfortunate considering she could have mentioned any other Western country (UK, Ireland, Australia, France, Spain, New Zealand, etc.) which get the same games and movies as America, but have much lower rate of gun violence.
 
tehrik-e-insaaf said:
plus the minute she trashes video games - her entertainment industry donors are going to start screaming because it isn't difficult to extend that argument to movies and television
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Yet hardly anyone seems to be doing it.
 
Durante said:
I'm playing Corpse Party: Book of Shadows right now. Everyone saying Japan doesn't have physically violent games needs to do so as well :P
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They have an arcade game where you sneak up behind people and stick your finger in their ass. With peripheral. 'nuff said.

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RedSwirl said:
Pretty much any country in Europe would probably make for a better example than Japan, which I understand has unusually strict gun laws and probably less violent games than most western countries.
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They shouldn't be trying to find examples at all.
Serbia is 5th in gun per capita by countries worldwide, has low crime/homicide rate and people play the same kinds of games.
In Brazil people love violent games(most people has no access to them, though), gun law is very strict and the total homicide count in 2010 was roughly the same as Iraq War's total casualties.
 
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