What if Mario was M? Parents probably wouldn't even notice, because itsa ME Mario!To all the parents out there who say video games are getting worse and worse. To all news organizations that say video games are too violent and contain to much sex. To all the politicians who are trying to ban games. Tell me why, in the middle of your, "games are going to bring about the birth of the antichrist" talk you never mentioned that only 6% of games released last year were rated M. For all of you that don't understand that, it's as if only 6% of the movies that came out last year were rated R (that's not the case, it's just a comparison). Here's a quote from 1UP.com about the research.
"The Electronic Software Ratings Board...[found that] out of the 1,563 games the ESRB assigned a rating to last year, only 6% were given the M rating. That works out to roughly 8.5 out of every 10 games in 2007 being deemed appropriate for player of at least 13 years."
Amazing. Actually, no it's not amazing. Because of the whacked out people who always crush video games and say they are ruining our youth, you'd think someone would notice that when they go to a game store that they see more E's and T's than M's. But the problem is, the M's are all they want to see.
It's like a person who refuses to see the positive and choose to look at the minute percentage, in this case 6%, of negative, well in their view. And while I'm at it, why do so many people judge games they do not even play. Unlike a lot of rated R movies I have seen, most rated M games I have played are not rated M so that they can be over the top, it's just that the game and story line and action call for it to be rated M. Some rated R movies I've seen go out of their way to insert a sex scene or the say the F word 200 times, just because they can. I'm not saying their are games that don't do that, but I haven't seen many of them.
So before all you crazed "back in my day" people start going insane over how bad games are, look at the facts first.
-Jeremy aka Adridius
1 comment:
i guess we are right about too much violence at the theatres....but we do have a choice and it is up to us to make the choices for ourselves. thanks for the research.
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