First, people who watch Fox and believe that what they are watching is an unbiased view that investigates the information they’re given are morons.

Second, all these ‘interviews’ are doing is proving gamers right and anybody with half a brain can see that…the Fox panelists don’t count because, as i stated already, if they truly believe what Fox is saying then there dumb as shit, Fox has been caught in enough bullshit to last a lifetime and has destroyed what little credibility they had to begin with.

In closing, it’ll blow over just like Hot Coffee did and Fox will find somehing else to look stupid with.

However, they did bring up one valid point (though they did a bad job of discussing and presenting it). Are we as a culture getting desensitized to violence and sex and all that good stuff (pun intended)? It’s worth thinking about.

You could do a lot worse than video games though. Hell, video games tend to be more censored than, oh say, television, music, movies, to name a few.

/rant

1. It’s rated M so parents have to buy it for their minors.
2. The whole romance plot is OPTIONAL
3. It doesn’t even show nipples or genital areas or the actual secual intercourse, just more or less the sensuality of the situation, which is no different from what you see in many shows now a day.
4. It’s a video game pornographic movie. It has a very in depth story line, very good AI for non player characters (NPCs).
5. If the parents complain so much about it why did they buy it for their kids?

Now to talk,

The game is rated M yes, which means if you’re a minor like I am you must have a parent or someone over age 17 to buy it for you. Now I’m not saying that happens all the time, but that’s what is supposed to happen. Another thing, if parents want their child not to be able to access the games, they have simple features on many gaming consoles (Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, PS2, PS3) that lets the master account of that console (for the Xbox 360 anyways.) that can limit the time a child can play, limit the rating on the games played, and even set passwords so the child can not get onto the profile with saved games on it.

You [b]CANNOT[/b] let one thing make a game. This game has very good graphics, and no offense to you Cooper, but statistics mean bologna. In case you haven’t noticed, people of ALL ages play video games. Maybe more so in the 13-29 year old age group, but plenty of adults play them too. Mass effect as a great story line, and if just a very good game in general.

Also Cooper, you have yet to even play the game, it is more of an experience you have to fulfill by yourself, and can’t go with statistics. Everyone has their own opinion, and you can’t argue the fact that no one in todays world can give a completely unbiased opinion. You have to analyze and play a game for yourself in order to understand what’s going on, sure you can look at reviews, read your statistics but thats only half of the equation.

It’s funny because I think of the Dr. that was making these statements, and I have to ask. How can you say that something is FACT when you have not even played the game or watched the cut scene yourself. That’s like diagnosing a disease without running any tests. As a Dr. she sucks, and as far as the poll talk about unbalanced entirely.

Microsoft should sue the Dr. for slander, as should Bioware. That’s why the ESRB exists, but if parents actually did something with their kids instead of blaming the media, games, and music for destroying the innocent kids minds maybe it would not be an issue.

But seriously, FOX I never really liked your station, but please tell me what “prime-time” TV show has not shown as much if not more nudity than Mass Effect?? I watched Nip Tuck and that show contains far more nudity, and that also in my opinion objectifies women as well as it portrays a lot of women getting “PLASTIC SURGERY” HELLO??

Where did that Dr. get her degree a cracker jacks box?

Presumably this was meant to be a “spotlight” on the important issue of the negative influences of gaming on teenagers. There was a single person there, out of the 7 involved in the debate, who had even seen what they were all talking about. Does that not sound completely ridiclous? I think the treatment of Geoff Keighley was an apalling, but completely systematic, display of anti-gaming prejudice born out of this semi-lucid preconception that gamers are a bunch of lazy, ambitionless, masterbation-obsessed kids with nothing to do.

Heaven forbid they could have allowed a second person on there who had actually played the game, who could have actually allowed a fair debate about desensitisation in gaming. There are plenty of gamers out there who are quite capable of recognising the potential for games (like all media) to desensitise people to things such as violence or sexuality, however that would then turn the regular “gamers vs non-gamers” argument (which is clearly incapable of producing any real progress on the issues) into the, supposedly desired, correct argument of “informed opinion vs informed counter-opinion”. But then, why do that? How many people will be bothered to sit down and watch two gamers arguing about the “merits of the ethereal beauty of ICO show-casing gaming as an art-form” vs the “merits of all GTA4 prostitutes being Hillary-Clinton lookalikes”? Certainly no-one that watches Fox News. So, if the audience doesn’t want to actually watch the genuine argument, why bother even attempting to show one? Why not leave the whole subject alone and just stick to what you’re good at, like showing endless footage of Britney’s Latest Nipple-Slip….ooh, was that a bit of side-boob?!?

I don’t know how many gaming stores I’ve been in where I’ve heard the clerk at the counter tell a parent with their kid what’s in the M or T rated game they are about to buy. Without fail, the answer I hear every time is “It’s ok”. Then they bitch about the content. I’m just glad it was Geoff Keighley up there and not your average gamer. Most of us may have lost our temper at the ignorance of these people’s statements.

Just my two cents

~Death Dream~

Lets face it ME’s copulation was hardly worth the effort to earn it and is not even as entertaining as watching 1/2 an hour of Fox & Friends. Most adolescent boys will spend their time killing Mercs and Geth and won;t bother with all the boring talking in Mass Effect.