# Fox News: Video games are EEEEEVIL **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 22, 2008, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-video-games-are-eeeeevil/434531 "2008-01-22T17:49:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Antisthenes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Antisthenes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antisthenes)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-video-games-are-eeeeevil/434531/21 "2008-01-23T09:41:25Z")
“Full digital nudity and sex”? Alien lesbian babes? I’ll be in my bunk… Seriously, nameless nailed it. There’s more prurience in one Fox News story on [‘Spring Break Serial Killers’](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XNUEINIVFo) than there is in all 30-40 hours of Mass Effect. ---
**Author:** ![Dazzling\_White\_Diamonds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/41988e/32.png) [@Dazzling\_White\_Diamonds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dazzling_White_Diamonds)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-video-games-are-eeeeevil/434531/22 "2008-01-23T13:50:46Z")
[QUOTE=danceswithcats] Sure. How else are you gonna answer questions from the chilluns when they ask how you and grandpa met? [/QUOTE] Good point. My husband, he’s gonna be soooo proud! ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-video-games-are-eeeeevil/434531/23 "2008-01-23T17:04:58Z")
Anybody else see that news story last week about the guy who spent a bunch of time playing “America’s Army” or whatever that game is, and focused on the medical training part of the game, and then, because of what he learned, was able to assist with first aid when he happened across an auto accident on the highway? ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-video-games-are-eeeeevil/434531/24 "2008-01-23T17:44:04Z")
[QUOTE=neutron star] Video games have their own channel on cable, don’t they? Or did that go off the air? [/QUOTE] G4. It’s still on. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-video-games-are-eeeeevil/434531/25 "2008-01-23T17:52:58Z")
[QUOTE=neutron star] Video games have their own channel on cable, don’t they? Or did that go off the air? [/QUOTE] Ah, good point. I’d forgotten about G4. Of course, all I ever watch on that channel is Ninja Warrior. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-video-games-are-eeeeevil/434531/26 "2008-01-23T17:58:36Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] Anybody else see that news story last week about the guy who spent a bunch of time playing “America’s Army” or whatever that game is, and focused on the medical training part of the game, and then, because of what he learned, was able to assist with first aid when he happened across an auto accident on the highway? [/QUOTE] Tom Cruise? I have nothing more to contribute…my video games aren’t violent or sexy enough. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-video-games-are-eeeeevil/434531/27 "2008-01-23T19:09:29Z")
[QUOTE=Lightnin’] Ah, good point. I’d forgotten about G4. Of course, all I ever watch on that channel is Ninja Warrior. [/QUOTE] G4 is a video game channel? We don’t have cable at home, but I see Ninja Warrior when ever I go on vacation. I love that show. ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-video-games-are-eeeeevil/434531/28 "2008-01-23T19:15:32Z")
[QUOTE=Edward The Head] G4 is a video game channel? [/QUOTE] I think it’s a tech channel, but video games kinda fall under that heading, so there are a few shows on the subject. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-video-games-are-eeeeevil/434531/29 "2008-01-23T19:23:46Z")
[QUOTE=Jayn\_Newell] I think it’s a tech channel, but video games kinda fall under that heading, so there are a few shows on the subject. [/QUOTE] G4 used to be its own game channel with lots of original content. But they couldn’t maintain the ratings and ad money to keep producing those shows, so they eventually merged with Tech TV. They still couldn’t make money, so they dropped shows one by one and bought old shows. G4 now shows Ninja Warrior, Cops, Star Trek 2.0 (Star Trek episodes with tickers on all four sides of the screen, hideous), and some other old crap they bought up cheap. I think they have only one original show left. ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-video-games-are-eeeeevil/434531/30 "2008-01-23T19:26:46Z")
G4’s saving grace used to be that they showed Arrested Development reruns all the time. They stopped doing that for reasons that I can’t fathom. Is it on another channel? ---
**Author:** ![Stringer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Stringer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringer)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-video-games-are-eeeeevil/434531/31 "2008-01-23T22:32:30Z")
Lord help us if Fox gets its hands on a copy of _The Witcher_. If I don’t bed a new damsel every time I play I feel like I’m playing it wrong. ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-video-games-are-eeeeevil/434531/32 "2008-01-24T01:30:48Z")
Y’know what gets me about these periodic hissy fits? Not the phony-baloney humbug “debate”; that’s been standard practice for Fox News for years. Not that it’s the same warmed-over story with the same voices, same angles, and same conclusions every single flippin’ time. _They never pick the right targets._ First it was some incredibly obscure zombie-running-over game. Then some ridiculously obscure game on a system maybe 2,000 people got. Then Mortal Kombat (Ooh, blood! Ooh, flying bodies! Ooh!). Then it was Grand Theft Auto 3 (a game about organized crime, and one of dozens to come down the pike). Then…MLB Slugfest, was it? Then Bully or Halo or whatever. Meanwhile, not a word _anywhere_ about: Time Killers/Bloodstorm: Arms and heads flying off. Repeat, _arms_ and _heads_ flying off. Time Killers started it; Bloodstorm took it to a new level by allowing you to completely sever your opponent’s entire lower body. :eek: The House of The Dead 2: By far the goriest mainstream-release arcade game I’ve seen in my whole life. Dismemberment, decapitations, vermin getting blown to chunks, _pools_ of blood, exposed organs…all of it in state of the art crystal-clear 3D. War Final Assault: Blast your foes into bloody chunks with high-powered explosives…just make sure you don’t get ripped in half in a split second. CarnEvil: All the creative ways to the baddies to bite it…deep fried, decapitated, impaled, run over, dissolved by acid, just to name a few. Dynasty Wars: Granted, this is an old and relatively obscure title, but any game which periodically has a big, full-color scene of a general getting slashed with a _massive_ blood spray (with “I’VE KILLED THE GENERAL!” proudly emblazoned on the bottom)…all before in-game warnings or ESRB ratings or garish square stickers…deserves at least some mention. BMX XXX: Breasts. Of course, anything and everything below the waist is strictly forbidden, but for a PS2 game, this pushed the envelope. Playboy The Mansion/Game/Whatever: Do I even need to explain this one? The Bible Game: The sacred, time-transcending truth of gospel of pure holy sacred Testament righteous virtuous righteous holy sacred truth of Word of God God God God being blasphemously blasphemed to blasphemousness. 'Nuff said. (Say, isn’t Hell supposed to have the video games or something?) Mass Effect? What next, Outrun 2006? A half-assed network dealing with a half-assed issue half-assedly. Nothing more. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-video-games-are-eeeeevil/434531/33 "2008-01-24T03:24:56Z")
_Grand Theft Auto: The Rapture_ ---
**Author:** ![SamuelP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SamuelP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SamuelP)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-video-games-are-eeeeevil/434531/34 "2008-01-24T13:49:31Z")
Yeah right, becoming violent from playing video games. I’ll have you know, I’ve been raping and dismembering prostitutes since before GTA: San Andreas thank you very much. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-video-games-are-eeeeevil/434531.md?page=1)