Microsoft is loving this. This is a ridiculous amount of free publicity. And it's sexy publicity to boot. And the best part is these assholes at Fox are 100% incorrect. So they won't have a Hot Coffee-esque situation on their hands.

hmm... I've never killed a hooker with a golf club in real life, but I'm fairly sure I could tell the difference between GTA and reality at any age.

I love the hypocrisy. What is it about nipples, breasts, asses, penises and vaginas that freaks these people out? Had it been guns and explosives blowing up people, nobody would have blinked an eyelash.

Well yeah, there's the whole "violence is okay, sex will melt our children's brains" attitude, which just doesn't make sense. But that's not to mention the fact that this game isn't even close to the porno simulator they make it out to be. There's not even enough nudity there for a late night movie on Cinemax, let alone full-blown porn. It's ridiculous.

hilarious *lies

I love how they quickly silence anybody on there that disagrees with the spin they're trying to put on their "story."

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These people are so irrelevant. Anybody who is afraid their kids will be tainted more by 15 seconds of sideboob than by the 30+ hours of killing aliens should be sterilized. That's not to say I believe for a second that animated violence leads to real violence. I played cops and robbers when I was a kid, shooting all my friends repeatedly with my finger gun. Does that lead to "desensitization"? And if you didn't play doctor with the girls in the neighborhood, you really missed out. I'm perfectly capable of respecting a woman's mind at the same moment I'm objectifying her body. No half-assed study will ever convince me that's not simply the way men are wired.

Just more technophobia from people who have no purpose on this planet.

"well you have to pick up the box and look at the box for the rating ... and then ... well you have to be involved in what your kids are looking at"

Oh dear god, you actually have to use your hands to grab something, turn it over AND look at it?! That's ridiculous, parents should never have to be so overburdened to filter their child's experiences.

The last guy is the only one who made any sense at all.

Wow, out of all that, only one reasonable comment from the Fox side . . . making parents be parents . . . what a CONSERVATIVE thought. Who would have thought that! Stupid liberals, always telling parents they need to be parents. Telling Fox real facts is like telling facts to a brick wall.

Anybody else watching this with a mega-zoom-in crop?

Condescending bitch "Darlin' I'm going to have to go with the research" Well, quite frankly that research is a steaming pile of crap. What kid who plays a game thinks that it is real life? What age are they testing? What situations are they testing. What complete and utter tripe.

I am a very anti violence kinda guy, hate it, hate guns etc. BUT I love FPS games, and I really enjoy adult themed violent ones... it has no real baring on real life, they need to stop creating scapegoats for bad parenting, simple.

All they keep coming back to is 'Well parent's just can't watch everything their kids are doing any more, the kids are going to play their dad's game'. Ok, let's break this down:
* Parent's should be actively involved in what their kids watch and play. No TVs in their bedroom, any watching/playing is done in a communal area, such that they can't hide it away. Same goes for a computer.
* By saying that the kids are going to play their dad's game, are you suggesting that it shouldn't be able to be purchased at all? Are you saying NOTHING should be available that kids shouldn't have access to? What about alcohol? No, you won't ban that because a) that's stupid and has been tried before, and b) you lot all love a drink and wouldn't want that deprived of you. So what do you do? You keep your liquor under lock and key. Parent's can do that with any M/AO games too you know.
* Then they swing back to "Well it's all available on the internet"... a game of that size? Yeah, won't notice that on your internet usage... Where did that 4.5Gig go Billy?

I love Jeff, I think he did a great job.

Holy crap these guys love spouting crap 'Luke Skywalker vs Debbie Does Dallas' argh, it is painful.

STOP TRYING TO BLAME EVERYONE ELSE BECAUSE YOU CAN'T BE BOTHERED DOING YOUR F*CKING JOB AS A PARENT.

END OF STORY.

And Anybody else watching this with a mega-zoom-in crop? Yup... go fullscreen (and then back if you want) fixes it.

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And Anybody else watching this with a mega-zoom-in crop? Yup... go fullscreen (and then back if you want) fixes it.


Thanks.

These people are detestable human beings. Everyone but the guy on remote was a total moron.

Stupid people need news too!

Ugggggh, casualties of public schools, children without any skills beyond providing food and shelter for their copulatory additions to the population, and everyone sitting at the edge of the vortice, waiting to jump in head-first-
"FOX BAD" (duh), Video games gooood!" (meh!) Read a fucking chemistry textbook, or memorize the countries of the world, kiddies!! Oh, better yet, get off yer ass and burn some calories, and get some sun fer crissakes, ya pasty little monkeys!

What a circlejerk of Horror here on this thread....carry on!!

note to self: spend less time on the computer-

As a gamer of nearly all my years this type of thing leaves me speechless. If their objective was to fling so much inane, mind-numbing babble at the viewer so as to cow them into not even having a coherent response in the face of it then mission fucking accomplished. Fox has gotten the game of "pushing my buttons" down to an art form. Thing is I fully well know I shouldn't let it get to me like it does...

"It makes being a parent a much tougher job."

Cry me a river, you chose to have the snotty-nosed brat in the first place, so shut up and let me play my Bioware.

Geeze Choggie, even more venom...

You know, a lot of us who enjoy our computer games are exceedingly productive members of the community, who exercise, who raise families, who help others in need, and my god no... actually went to university and have a degree.

But then I guess you were just trying to elicit a response, no?

what's that, Fox?

i couldn't hear you, over the Judas Priest blaring on my headphones.

moving on.

If they are marketing a book with a full cover of themselves you can disregard them...

i love that fox thinks this is going to retard the sales of this game... let me break it down for you... Good Game + violence + Sex = Perfect ad campaign. i wonder if some guy at Bioware is thinking to himself "man! i wish we'd have put a nipple in there somewhere now!"

followup: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/26/arts/television/26mass.htm?_r=1&oref=slogin

^Good. I hope those fuckers lose money on those books.

I just wish that Mass Effect came out for PC. I played the first couple of hours and want more.

Not saying I have never played video games, or jacked around on the puter wasting time in that fashion either....you have to understand, the pleasure to be derived through escape is a fucking mind-killer imo, and if upon waking tomorrow, by some blessed solar event or some artificial EMP, all gaming systems on the planet and every computer were rendered unusable, I would be one of the happier souls on the planet-

I have heard all the arguments for and against games with graphic stylized violence and sexual innuendo, etc., and have my opinions-I have watched families of 4, 5, 7, become so robotically detached from healthy interaction and interpersonal relations, who give hours and hours to their mind-numbing efforts on the latest and greatest consoles and software, who rate very high on the hand/eye/thumb coordination scale with nothing but hours clocked and levels completed for all their efforts. I know the psyche of some of the folks that have some pretty unhealthy ideas about their fellow man who have spent countless hours dedicated to the wholesale annihilation of imaginary enemies or fer crissakes, Tetris and mine sweeper......Met some pretty detached, unsocialized monkeys in my day.....

Gaming bores me to fucking tears-in some cases it provides an outlet for some retrograde aspects of the human psyche to create tunnels in the minds of meatbots.

Go outside and play for fucks sake.....get a life, better yet, make a life-

"Luke Skywalker meets Debbie Does Dallas?" What sad, sad windbags. I know it's inconvenient to actually do any investigation into the thing on which you're reporting, but that was just hilarious. I think Seinfeld has more sexual references than Mass Effect.

Choggie, if you argue that video games are a waste of time because they aren't productive then you have to follow that argument to its logical conclusion--all leisure activities are a waste of time. That would include sports, art, music--anything we do when not engaged in survival or propagating the species is basically non-productive.

You don't enjoy games. That's fine. Some people don't enjoy sports. You don't see them running around wishing that sports would suddenly disappear off the face of the earth. Not understanding the hostility.

Your examples of "meatbots" and dysfunctional families are not very compelling. Correlation does not equal causation. It seems much more likely that these people you describe were dysfunctional to begin with and were attracted to games as a way to deal with their dysfunction. I liken it to any addiction--not everyone who gambles or smokes or drinks is an addict. In the same way, not everyone who plays a video game is social misfit, although you will most certainly find social misfits who are gamers. The point is, for these people, even if games evaporated overnight they won't be cured. In all likelihood they'd just move along to some other hobby to support their dysfunction.

"Choggie, if you argue that video games are a waste of time because they aren't productive" -dinna say that, I said it can create folks who become "detached from healthy interaction and interpersonal relations"
No hostility, that's your process not mine-I expressed frustration, perhaps, my real beef is with people creating tunnels whereby they indulge a path of least resistance as opposed to a healthy, dynamic, multi-faceted experience as a human.

No one seems to speak of the long-term effects of the detachment from healthy human interaction, poor diet, repetitive motor and synaptic disorders no doubt happening but unstudied, etc-this is not an indictment wholesale or some unilateral condemnation of video games-My points are as valid as anyone else's on the subject-social dysfunction is a goddamn epidemic in most western cultures, video games suit the detached of society like hand in glove.

No SDGundamx, never is it the case for everyone-agreed that there would be other outlets for dysfunctionals.

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These people are idiots. In Most states you have to prove that you are over 17 in order to by games that are MA.

I have a degree in a game design, and I think that these fools would laughed out of the industry. After all these are fox news ass hats. These idiots make me very, very angry.

I don't care if it makes your job as a parent hard, adapt overcome or don't.

The moonbats are always happy to defend the free market for "adult" games and porn.

Everything else under the sun, tho, must be heavily regulated under a microscope by huge "efficient" federal bureaucracies, especially the shaping of young minds in government schools.

Hypocrite, thy symbol is the jackass.

OMFG, we need an "absolute idiots yammering on and on" classification system. Crazy "*news" joke.

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HOW CAN SOMEONE WITH GLASSES THAT THICK BE SO STUPID???

It's up to parents... "unfortunately" - she says? Did their mothers (for all except reasonable Mr. Last Guy) smoke crack and cocaine when they were with child?

Wow, some weapons grade ignorace there. Wonder if we could bottle it and sell it to middle-east...

How would they react and what would they do if someone send them a package consisting of screencaps, gameplay videos and a full list of "facts" about some japanese game that could rightfully be called a porn-simulator, like something from Illusion? I'd think they'd like to get their hands on their very own copy of Rapelay. Just think about what they could with the title alone...

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