I have no problem with any of these, as long as the content is tasteful.

As in, I don't want to see two naked dudes hopped up on something going at it like a pair of rabbits.

I voted no on all of them because I have not seen anything that would make believe that game companies could prevent children from playing their mature products. I mean from playing popular first person shooters for the last 12 years I've seen very young kids flooding these games. And talking from ages 8 to 13 playing them. Would we want kids to be playing games with six, drugs and whatever else that's innapropriate for them?

I myself dont care to see those kind of things in games. Some of the best movies and games ever made have none of those things in them.

Agreed. Violence was there, sure, but it was at the level of Okami and Zelda, which isn't really graphic and about as violent as two 5 year olds pretending to be knights.

None of those are taboos for the Entertainment industry. All those things are in various hollywood movies.

All these things are already in games, and it's silly to say "No" to any of them: Don't like that matter in your games, don't play the games that have it.

They have movies that contain all of that crap, I don't need it in my video games. <_<

Blame the parents who have no idea what they are getting thinking games are for kids..


I love your sig.

I blame parents and I blame the companies for not making it tougher for kids to get their paws on them.

Yes/Yes/Yes/Hell no.

Deal with it.

You must be a very repressed individual.


Fixed.


Too late. YOU have to deal with it now.

Well I lernt something new today. Along time ago, Homosixuality was just male on male. I guess in time, the defination has changed. I never herd of lisbians, called homosixual, and never herd them ever use that term to describe thier sixual orientation that way.

As for drugs, as long as they are fake drugs, unless the game is realistic, I say ok in a game. Say for a TES or fantasy game, I don't want to see cocain or heroin in games. I don't think we need to see people snorting it up or shooting themselves up with it. Alot of these drugs, while having alot of physical effects, there is alos, emotional effects as well, that a video game can't convey.

While a game like Fallout 3 (not sure about New Vegas because I never used drugs,) try to give physical side effects, blurred vision every once in a while, it can't convey the emotinal side effects. This is one of those, if you can't do it right, you shouldn't be doing it at all. Fallout 3 can get away with it, because the drugs being used are make believe. Someone said in one game smoking gives you a buff. WTF? this is stupid, and this is why drugs shouldn't be in a game. Stuff like cocain, herion, marijuna, escatsy shouldn't be in games. It just can't be done properly.

Just like a good movie or TV show, if it can be done properly then use it. There are a few good movies, (I can't recall the names now sadly) that protrayed drug users, but it protrayed the emotional aspect as well, and the actors who did it, protrayed it very well, it brought out the story even better. Sadly this can't be done in games, so should be kept out.

But since most games are played by young kids, do we really need to have smoking, and drinking, and sixual things going on in video games? Yes we do alot of killing, but then again, who hasn't played Cowboys and Indians, or Cops and Robbers in thier younger days as kids? Who didn't pretend they were at war. When we watch movies, we watch movies to escape. We watch these action movies on TV or Cinema for the escape, and we play video games to pretend we are these people. Who plays video games to do drugs? It just sounds silly and is silly.

So depending on the story of the game, I will in most cases say, No, we don't need drugs in games.

What do you want them to do ?
They make games, the games arent sold to under 18s, parents buy it instead.

The only way to stop kids getting it is not make it.

You made the post. You deal with it :stare:

It's the fault of the parents and the fault of the parents alone. Companies shouldn't be responsible for people's children.

Also, about the post Capital made, what do you guys mean exactly? I know what he said, and disagree with it, but the posts after his I don't understand. :unsure:

It can be considered offensive to homosixuals and I don't think the mods really like those statements.

Sorry I have to disagree with you here. Lots of parents don't let thier underage kids drink. They still do it anyways. They don't go to the store and buy it, they get it through other ways. Just like how alot of kids get these games. Lots of parents don't buy these games for kids, they get them through other means, so how can you blame the parents then?

So no, it's not the fualt of the parents alone. While alot of parents don't care, there are alot of parents who do care. All it means is if the parents say NO, kids sneak around and find other ways to do it. This is one of the reasons why, Bethesda has it's TES games pretty tame, because they know, younger kids will be playing these games even though it's rate M+. While I wish it wasn't so tame, I can understand why Bethesda does what it does. They actually care what they put out.

Totally agree. Even if parents try kids will almost always know how to get the things their parents forbid them of getting (did that make sense? )...

That's why you beat them.

Not every game is about immersing yourself in that role. Games like The Elder Scrolls and Fallout make up a very small portion of games released. Many games make use of similar methods of storytelling as film and can quite easily incorporate realistic drug use. Besides, not only do different people play games for different reasons, but there are also rating systems for a reason. Not all games are developed with children in mind, and it's the parent's job to enforce those ratings.

If I'm playing a game with a real world setting where drug use is involved, I'd prefer it to be real drugs, rather than a character in a gritty crime game be addicted to Blow Pops or some such thing.

(Cigarettes in BioShock did restore EVE, but they also drained Health.)

Edit- Holy smokes, do I type slow or what?

Well that's just the way kids are. Nothing you can do about it really. Unless they actually buy the games for their kids, i don't think it's reasonable to blame the parents. When you are young, everything which is forbiden is interesting. They are gonna find a way to play those games if they really want to. Just like they are gonna find porm on the web and watch horror movies. Obviously this dosn't mean we should stop making horror movies and porm, just like game developers shouldn't stop making games for advlts just because some children is gonna play it.

From what I have seen he dosent post seriously, so no need to get worked up.

Ya know, this just seems like a bad idea for a poll on this forum, since many of the video game taboos are things that we don't discuss, I have posts I have to edit or delete, etc etc., and it's too late and I am too cranky to do the clean up this needs.