Repeat, but good headline.

Also FTA: "As the trailer shows, the game features combat, decapitations and swords plunged into the chests of both people and dragons."

And dragons? Man, this violence against innocent dragons must stop! People for the Ethical Treatment Of Dragons (PETOD) Demands it!

* Love Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer
* Loved Dragon Age Origins (first game to incorporate underwear sex)
* Demon's Souls was a pleasant suprise and very challenging
* Fell out of love with the Grand Theft Auto Games when it became all about the missions

/Wont buy it if it isnt extremely graphic.
//Grew up with Nintendo... how bad have we gotten as a society... meh

Incidentally, I'll just take a gamestop gift certificat that can wait 'til spring when the avalanche of good games originally scheduled for '09 finally gets released (ffxiii, gt-5, splinter cell conviction, bioshock 2, god of war 3, etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.... It's like march-april 2010 is "hey, let's all release all our anticipated games at the same time!"

That description of Dead Space: Extraction makes me want to go buy that game for myself. I wonder how much money it usually costs for product placement advertising like this?

Seems familiar...

"10 Video Games to Cross Off Your Child's Gift List." Just in case you were thinking "Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony" would be the perfect thing for 8-year-old Susie

Crackers Are a Family Food: Dead Space: Extraction: Blood spurting out of victims' bodies, human carcasses littering the floor, blood-stained walls and floors, and copious screams of torture put it over the top.

Aren't they trying to discourage people from buying these games?

And this is the problem: the people who can least handle this kind of content are the ones who crave it the most. Game makers know this, which is why their so-called "mature content" is presented in a way pitched squarely at adolescents.

defiancecp: Incidentally, I'll just take a gamestop gift certificat that can wait 'til spring when the avalanche of good games originally scheduled for '09 finally gets released (ffxiii, gt-5, splinter cell conviction, bioshock 2, god of war 3, etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.... It's like march-april 2010 is "hey, let's all release all our anticipated games at the same time!"

Because games like Uncharted 2, Assassin's Creed 2, and a little one called Modern Warfare 2 were NOT highly anticipated games?

/That was a fun couple of weeks

Crackers Are a Family Food: Aren't they trying to discourage people from buying these games?

I got more of a, buy these games, but keep them to yourself sort of vibe.

pc_gator: "Blood spurting out of victims' bodies, human carcasses littering the floor, blood-stained walls and floors, and copious screams of torture put it over the top." What Kingdom Hearts SHOULD have been.

Are you kidding? This is what UNO should have!

Why even bother with a list? Just don't buy the ones with an M rating. A list makes it seem like some kind of insider knowledge. What they all have in common is the rating.

So the big question since I am not a parent is what age would you get your kid a M rating game if at all?

1nsanilicious: * Love Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer
* Loved Dragon Age Origins (first game to incorporate underwear sex)
* Demon's Souls was a pleasant suprise and very challenging
* Fell out of love with the Grand Theft Auto Games when it became all about the missions

/Wont buy it if it isnt extremely graphic.
//Grew up with Nintendo... how bad have we gotten as a society... meh

I would argue with the multiplayer giving a new aspect to the game and the ability to save cheat codes in your cell phone GTAIV is the least "all about the missions" GTA yet.

My ex-wife's sister has three kids, ages 4 to 9(then). Every Christmas we would give them the noisiest, most obnoxious crap we could find. We would just smile, wish them a Merry Christmas and wave bye.

/the look on her face - priceless!

pc_gator: What Kingdom Hearts SHOULD have been.

MC Chris agrees (new window NSFW language)

Video games have come a long way since Doom 2, haven't they?

/last FPS I played reg'lerly was BF1942.

Borderlands: Strong language, human enemies used as target practice, mature humor and lots of blood and gore.

I strongly doubt it.

I for one am tired of all the perfectly normal suburban teenagers playing these games and becoming violent mass murderers. The streets of surburbia are running red with blood and only 'TARA PARKER-POPE' seems concerned.

Only by respecting the ratings on video games can we stem the tide of violence perpetuated by gangs of rampaging video game nerds.

heaven forbid, if i have a kid, and he's behaving well enough to deserve a video game for christmas, i'll buy him whatever game he wants. Let him be the cool kid who has the game some parents won't allow, instead of the dweeby overprotected kid that's just going to a) rebel in the teen years or b) be lame.

"oh no those animated pixels have blood coming out! and i heard a naughty word"

/kids used to come to my house to watch Beavis & Butthead.

mjgrazi23: defiancecp: Incidentally, I'll just take a gamestop gift certificat that can wait 'til spring when the avalanche of good games originally scheduled for '09 finally gets released (ffxiii, gt-5, splinter cell conviction, bioshock 2, god of war 3, etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.... It's like march-april 2010 is "hey, let's all release all our anticipated games at the same time!"

Because games like Uncharted 2, Assassin's Creed 2, and a little one called Modern Warfare 2 were NOT highly anticipated games?

/That was a fun couple of weeks

For whatever reason, none of those really interested me. It just seems like for the past year, every time I find another game I'm intersted in it ends up on the mar-apr '10 timeframe. I had a list scribbled down somewhere, and I think I was up to 15 or so last I checked. Can't remember them all now, but the list above, plus alan wake, max payne 3, that chicago earthquake game (I am alive, I think is the name?)... I'm sure I'm still forgetting a bunch.

Actually, I probably will pick up assassin's creed 2 sometime, but that's about it for last half of '09 I think.

scarmig: pc_gator: "Blood spurting out of victims' bodies, human carcasses littering the floor, blood-stained walls and floors, and copious screams of torture put it over the top." What Kingdom Hearts SHOULD have been.

Are you kidding? This is what UNO should have!

Sounds alot like playing monopoly with Eddy At Work...(iirc from the monopoly thread a couple of days ago)

Just beat Brutal Legend two days ago and loved every second of that game. A must for any Jack Black fan. Even with the gore and language turned off I didn't play it around the kids (3 & 5) though. Bottom line: good parents know what the kids are into and what they can or cannot handle.

The only problem I would have with getting Dragon Age for someone is that you get addicted to it and have to play it for hours. This entails reloading and saving it over and over again to get the dialogues to work in your favor. Other than that, I don't see what the problem would be with it (besides the gay sex, which I doubt the NYT would cite as an issue).

What do you expect from an author named "Pope"

What? No "Hello Kitty's Island Adventure"?

Wait Assassin's Creed contains violence and a main character that is an assassin? Thanks NYT!

/"Brutal Legend" is neither brutal nor a legend...discuss

kevron: That description of Dead Space: Extraction makes me want to go buy that game for myself. I wonder how much money it usually costs for product placement advertising like this?

I kinda doubt they did, and the description is fairly accurate. Apparently there was very little advertising for this game and it sold very poorly. Too bad, it's a good game, and one of the few good games on the Wii that isn't made by Nintendo.

GalFriday: Pair-o-Dice: My ex-wife's sister has three kids, ages 4 to 9(then). Every Christmas we would give them the noisiest, most obnoxious crap we could find. We would just smile, wish them a Merry Christmas and wave bye.

/the look on her face - priceless!

Bought my cousin's kid a drum set for Christmas when she was three. That was the absolute best Christmas ever. My cousin was beside herself over that one!

I did that with my two older sisters. Chemistry sets, drums, BB guns...I ran the gambit of loud, messy ,or just downright irresponsible toys. It was fun.

Now I have three kids under the age of 4. I expect that biatch Payback visiting my house often.

Norman Greenbaum: What? No "Hello Kitty's Island Adventure"?

grumblegrumble I LIKE Hello Kitty's Island Adventure grumble grumble

they should make a liter an admin, who can vet some of the crap that gets four greenlights like this

they should pretty much just say "any first person shooter" because they are all EPICZ.

anyone get 'The Saboteur' yet? mega epicz.

The NYT links to some list with alternative choices.

I notice Mirror's Edge was on there. That game sucks. Also Infamous, which I loved but wasn't that pretty farking violent in and of itself?

I don't understand... shouldn't we be pushing our children to play L4D2 so they're prepared when the zombie invasion occurs?

/TAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANK!

FTA: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2: Contains an optional level where the player can go undercover as an enemy terrorist.

oh noes!

I gotta imagine that parents who are stupid enough to think that game titles containing words such as "Brutal" "Dead" "Warfare" and "Grand Theft Auto" would be appropriate for their 8 year old child .... probably aren't going to be doing the 'extra parenting' required to read an article such as this that would instruct them as to specifically what games might be inappropriate for their children.

Best game ever fark you if you think different!

where's the old news is so exciting guy?

howdyyall9999: GalFriday: Pair-o-Dice: My ex-wife's sister has three kids, ages 4 to 9(then). Every Christmas we would give them the noisiest, most obnoxious crap we could find. We would just smile, wish them a Merry Christmas and wave bye.

/the look on her face - priceless!

Bought my cousin's kid a drum set for Christmas when she was three. That was the absolute best Christmas ever. My cousin was beside herself over that one!

I did that with my two older sisters. Chemistry sets, drums, BB guns...I ran the gambit of loud, messy ,or just downright irresponsible toys. It was fun.

Now I have three kids under the age of 4. I expect that biatch Payback visiting my house often.

I see a bull-horn in your future...

/or an air-raid siren

Koalaesq: I don't understand... shouldn't we be pushing our children to play L4D2 so they're prepared when the zombie invasion occurs?

/TAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANK!

You know, no. They're too young. You start them on Left 4 Dead now, when the real zombie apocalypse happens they'll be dependent on having three other people with them and ammo caches halfway through each town.

rev. dave: Why even bother with a list? Just don't buy the ones with an M rating. A list makes it seem like some kind of insider knowledge. What they all have in common is the rating.

So the big question since I am not a parent is what age would you get your kid a M rating game if at all?

Not a parent either but as a gamer I'd want to try playing the myself first or else how can I determine if it's suitable of _my_ kid? Otherwise I'd ask some younger relative or friend that knows my kid about their opinion on the game. Why trust some sensationalist reporter or rating when we know how out of touch the media and these rating councils are?

hitlersbrain: I for one am tired of all the perfectly normal suburban teenagers playing these games and becoming violent mass murderers. The streets of surburbia are running red with blood and only 'TARA PARKER-POPE' seems concerned.

Only by respecting the ratings on video games can we stem the tide of violence perpetuated by gangs of rampaging video game nerds.

You're funny.

KingKauff: Remember, son, if you kill that hooker you get your money back.

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