| Salnax said: I love how ambiguous those terms are. What the hell does ultraviolent mean? |
Think of Grand Theft Auto as the standard for ultraviolent, then take a look back at the console games prior to Grand Theft Auto 3. Sure Goldeneye had you killing soldiers, but there was no blowing off of limbs and the like. Now, there is not blowing off of limbs in any GTA game, but the multitude of ways you can kill pedestrians is ultraviolent.
Ultraviolence is not just your Soldier of Fortune complete limb from body dismemberment. Ultraviolence includes a multitude of real world crimes injected into a pixelated screen with no penalties other than a 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 star wanted level.
This kind of "ultraviolence" desensensitives those without abstract thinking (age 12 to 14 or younger) into possibly believing there are no penalties for the crimes they commit in real life because they can get away with it in a GTA game.
Now, I know there won't be many 12 to 14 year olds thinking they can get away with murder, robbery, and rape, but in order to protect the minority who may due to bad parents or weak sperm making them stupid, you need stricter legal standards that are enforced to make sure GameStop and other retailers are not selling to them.
Well what if the parent is present? Then the parent needs to be fully informed up to the extent of the employee popping the game in, playing it in front of the parent at the counter, and showing the parent the level of violence in the game is if they decide to purchase this game for their minor child.
