Sunday Funnies

[GunnyMo]

Who doesn't enjoy reading the Funny Pages on Sunday? Thanks to Game Politics (http://www.gamepolitics.com/), we have some unintentionally funny video game editorials and a review.


Video games are violent says a 1995 study!

According to the Associate Editor for Online Operations at The Appalachian Online (http://theapp.appstate.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1685&Itemid=41) the horror video game Phantasmagoria (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantasmagoria_(computer_game)) has violence in it!

One Sierra Entertainment game, “Phantasmagoria,” uses interactive sequences to tell a violent story about a female character trapped in a house.

Third Century theologian against video game violence!

According to Saint Hesycios the Priest (http://news.communitypress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061102/NEWS05/611020414/1076/Local) , a Third Century opponent of video games (apparently):

But we and the demons combine in committing sins.

The Left Behind video game is much like Ned Flanders (http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2006/11/11/moral_choices_are_in_play_in_faith_based_left_behi nd/).

Like Ned Flanders, the absurdly pious neighbor on "The Simpsons," the game is odd and sometimes annoying, but with a good heart.


Btw, I'm not trying to be a slam religion here. Sunday publications tend to have a religious tone to them and video game opponents often use religion against us.

[Rifter]

Phantasmagoria is one of the few games I think, that took violence a bit too far. There is one scene, that if you mess up, the character you are playing, a woman, gets raped. That was a bit over the top, for me.

[NonSoft]

Phantasmagoria is one of the few games I think, that took violence a bit too far. There is one scene, that if you mess up, the character you are playing, a woman, gets raped. That was a bit over the top, for me.

I never played that game, it definitely sounds pretty harsh though...

for example, in one of the most controversial film sequences the chubby Regina is force fed animal entrails through a funnel until she suffocates

[markster3000]

I feel like mentioning A Clockwork Orange here, but since I haven't played Phantasmagoria, I don't know if the reference is appropriate.

[VTMarik]

Doesn't exactly sound like news to me, it's a horror game. Sure it's harsh but you'll damn well never do that again won't you?

:eek:

It's the most unpleasant sort of negative reinforcement possible.

[Nim]

I've also heard that video games from 1995 depict pixellated people getting killed.
If rape is too horrible to include in a game - even when it's presented as horrible and violent; something to be avoided - then surely actual killing is too horrible to include?

"Games should be used as a means of entertainment or fun- there is nothing amusing about rape."

"...but killing, you know, sometimes that's amusing."