Polka14 wrote...
Inappropriate in games but perfectly ok in movies like in "enemy at the gates"??? 
why keep that atrocious double standard alive people? who cares if it isn't appropriate to some? there is nothing wrong with this media form portraying the same level of graphic violence towards children as movies. no? 
There can't be a double standard when it comes to moral issues such as this in movies and video games because the standards are different for both mediums, and that's the way it should be.
Concerning movies, violence against children exists, yes, but even so, usually it is only used when the context of the story and setting permit it. "Enemy At the Gates" is a movie centered around historical events during WWII and is meant to make us aware of stuff that actually happened in our history. A lot of the stuff you see in that movie actually happened. Child soldiers, that actually happended back then (and is still a major problem in the world today, just watch "Blood Diamand"). You don't see much violence against children in fictional movies, and if you do, they often have very real-world-like settings so that we understand that crap like this happens in the real world all the time.
When it comes to video games, its a totaly different story. First of all, children PLAY video games, even the worst of the mature rated ones these days. I'd like to think that parents try to keep their children away from mature rated games, but we all know that, for the most part, this isn't really true. I think most of us have been cussed out on Call of Duty of Halo online by some twelve year old at some point in time, I know I have. Video games are interactive media and it makes it that much more personal for the player. Sure, video games such as Mass Effect have tragic things happen in them. It's a fictional story in a fictional universe in the future. It's supposed to be fun and dramatic even involve tragic and even slightly disturbing elements, but there are moral boundaries that shouldn't be crossed, Violence against children being one of them.
Children are precious and innocent, and depictions of violence against them in any medium is somthing that is supposed to be REVOLTING in nature. Something that people are shocked to see, and it should be, because it is morally wrong. It is something that shouldn't happen in our world. but does. It is an ugly real world issue that needs to be dealt with; so don't bring it into video games, the purpose of which is our ENTERTAINMENT: that's the key word, because that's what video games are all about in the end, pure entertainment. I don't want an issue like child violence to be used to satisfy my entertainment. I find that revolting! Anyone who seriously says that they WANT to see this kind of thing in a video game has issues, and should take a deep introspective look at themselves.
That's is my opinion anyway, take it or leave it.
Modifié par krzimmer, 04 juillet 2011 - 09:11 .
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if not i would still approve. it would improve the atmosphere. children are always in war movies. they should be in games with war scenes too in my opinion.
I would have enjoyed that. they should put them in anyway for atmosphere purposes. maybe a video of some evacuating earth or omega or some other planet or colony. 
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