“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’ than there is in all 30-40 hours of Mass Effect.
Good point. My husband, he’s gonna be soooo proud!
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?
G4. It’s still on.
Ah, good point. I’d forgotten about G4. Of course, all I ever watch on that channel is Ninja Warrior.
Tom Cruise?
I have nothing more to contribute…my video games aren’t violent or sexy enough. 
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.
I think it’s a tech channel, but video games kinda fall under that heading, so there are a few shows on the subject.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Grand Theft Auto: The Rapture
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.