Fable 2 is wildly inappropriate, according to a guy on Cracked

[Walker]

http://www.cracked.com/article_18819_the-4-most-important-things-to-know-as-gamer-parent.html

This was... interesting.

I don't actually agree with him on all of it-- I mean, he got worked up over a skull in a crib in a cave full of cannibals who like to store their skulls wherever's convenient-- but still.

It was interesting, and Fable-related, and mildly entertaining. Also, I considered putting this in F2 Discussion, but didn't really think it fit.

 

[Quistrix]

I hate it when people have a bitching session about games. It's like get over it and yourself.

Especially that guy. Don't like it, don't play it.

 

[Angel]

Ah, but didn't you know? A hated game within a much-loved franchise is comparable to a much-loved dog being taken from you and replaced based on the assumption you won't mind as it's "just a dog". That's the new analogy for the rage over a disc of metal these days. Apparently...

I'm personally of the opinion that if a game gets to you that much, you need to get a new hobby or something because it really is JUST A GAME. Good grief...

 

[Gikoku]

I left it laying out in a household with three children because, well, it was a pink game with the word "Fable" on the cover and a guy dressed like Link. It didn't seem like a game that would contain a lot of murder and bonin'.

... How could he not notice the "Rated M for Mature" on the front cover? What a dumbass.

 

[Angel]

:lol: Just wait - if they don't exist already some local authority will come up with a new Adult Learning course which teaches them all about ratings, game content and how to know if something is suitable for your child. The course will cover detailed analysis, complex genre differentiation and an in-depth overview of the psychological and sociological implications of playing certain games. Study is essential and the course lasts five years. Final exam counts as 100% of the overall mark and will involve one paper on which the students must decipher a series of difficult and highly annotated diagrams pertaining to the gaming industry. An example has been provided:

 

[Daemon300]

Kids should play what they want.

End of story.

 

[Firis]

Cracked is a funny site, but sometimes they make the most wildly ignorant articles ever passed off as comedy.

 

[DarkONI]

Kids shouldn't play what they want. Just throw Mortal Kombat for the NES and let them play.

 

[SelfAppointedGunslinger]

Kids shouldn't play what they want. Just throw Mortal Kombat for the NES and let them play.

Me and My best friend spent many of our childhood days playing that brutally entertaining game together, impaling lizard men, beating sexy women into a bloody pulp. Ahhh...sweet nostalgia.

 

[El Mosqueton]

I won't document the talk we had because we didn't have one. Instead, I had him turn off the Xbox and take a shower to wash away the stink of his sin.

Am I the only one that finds these hilarious?http://www.cracked.com/article_1881...gs-to-know-as-gamer-parent.html#ixzz164UI74Kq​

 

[Walker]

Am I the only one that finds these hilarious?http://www.cracked.com/article_1881...gs-to-know-as-gamer-parent.html#ixzz164UI74Kq​

I snickered some.

Also, I didn't have quite as much nerd rage as my fellow forumgoers here. He had a point. Ratings are more guidelines than anything else. I mean, hell, there's a reason my parents used to watch movies before they let us see them (and not just because it gave them an excuse to dump us at our grandparents and go on a date).

Same thing with books. They don't-- you CAN'T-- rate books. Whether something is appropriate or inappropriate is in the eye of the beholder. And some things are too complex to slap a letter on and be done with it.

 

[Angel]

*shrug* I watch/play everything before my daughter gets her mitts on it and if I deem it appropriate, she can have it. The problem is, people don't do their homework first and then bitch and moan because precious little Johnny is having nightmares after playing Amnesia.

And if they ever censor books, I might have to go on a murderous rampage in protest.

 

[Walker]

Yeah, whenever I mention that little fact in connection to ratings on videogames and movies I get worried. I could so see someone pushing for big red warning labels slapped on books they deemed inappropriate.

 

[Angel]

I mean, unless you live under a literary rock you know without having to check first that Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh is not about the railway system and is also not a companion book to the Thomas The Tank Engine series...no need for parental advisory stamps all over them...

 

[Skotekal]

*shrug* I watch/play everything before my daughter gets her mitts on it and if I deem it appropriate, she can have it. The problem is, people don't do their homework first and then bitch and moan because precious little Johnny is having nightmares after playing Amnesia.

And if they ever censor books, I might have to go on a murderous rampage in protest.

I have freakin' nightmares after playing Amnesia, goddamnit!

 

[Arseface]

I heard stories about kids just suddenly dropping dead when they heard about sex.

 

[Noctus]

...Alternatively, PETA loved Fable 2 because you got corruption points for eating meat. There will always be ridiculous reasons to hate or love something.

 

[ScareCrowReturn]

I heard stories about kids just suddenly dropping dead when they heard about sex.

Whats sex?

 

[Arseface]

Whats sex?

It's a kind of dance.

 

[Skotekal]

Romance dance.