Kaylee ,'Shindig'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Hec, I'm neutral on the subject of Mr. vs. Ms. Pac-Man, just as long as I get to play Pac-Man. The glowing dots are addictive, I tell ya.
We are as one.
These new ones have the games loaded on the joystick. I love technology.
Will wonders never cease!
I continue to spend many hours playing BreakIt. No sex OR violence!
I'm seeing very little Ms. Pac Man love.
Any god-like strategy game means hours of computer time for me.
Played Age of Empires enough to know that Civ would have eaten my brain. One of my buddies, not a computer game guy at all, disappeared for about a year and a half into Civ 2 or 3.
I'd have to leave the room and go look at the boxes, but I'm pretty sure they already are rated.
Yerp. GTA (which I unashamedly lurve) is rated for Mature Audiences. Anyone whose kid has it in the first place really has no business bitching about a hack.
Video games have been rated for a while now. Grand Theft Auto has been rated M for Mature for ages. I know that just from seeing ads. I don't see the need to make it Adults Only, or whatever, especially not by tying up the legislature.
That's a waste of time.
Do they rate as to content the way TV shows do, that is do they say "some violence" or "graphic violence" or "depictions of sex" or "nudity" or whatever?
You know what my favorite video game is, though? (Other than Caesar, Sims, or Civ III, because girl needs her vegging time) Any and all forms of Dance Dance Revolution. SO. FUNNY., especially at GameWorks or any other 21+ arcade where you can drink and dance. Or at a friend's house party, where you can heckle and be heckled by friends.
Yeah. Seriously not into the shoot-em-ups, I guess.
I think they have the rating and then little bits of description as to why it gets the rating.
Civ is dangerous stuff.
I'd have to leave the room and go look at the boxes, but I'm pretty sure they already are rated. There's plenty of information out there with which to make an informed decision.
The games are rated. And all the ads mention what rating the game has.
If you're (hypothetical you) buying GTA for your kid, and are miffed at the content or possible available downloadable extras, I'm not even gonna bother with the World's Smallest Violin, I'll just go straight to the pointing and laughing and mockity mock mocking.
Yep. Long ago, when I was working in Retail Hell, a Concerned Mother stormed into the store and started shrieking at me because I sold her baby (a surly-looking 13 y.o. boy) a Nine Inch Nails CD. Wasn't I aware that it was inappropriate for young children (cue boy looking embarrassed and uncomfortable)? Didn't I see the "Parental Advisory" sticker on it?! HOW could I be so irresponsible and evil to do such a thing?!
I looked at her calmly and said "If you're so concerned about what he might buy, then you should go shopping with him. It's not my job to tell kids what they can and can't buy; my job is to sell CDs."
I played Ms Pac-Man a year ago at a bar. I really sucked at it. I don't think I was ever good at it, as I rarely had quarters and access to an arcade. I don't think we had it on the Atari.