Why all the Sony hate?

[ElRhodeo]

rocketpig said:

Well, I'm 30. So I guess I have you beat. *sigh*

If you were that "into gaming history", you would have known that Bungie was originally a Macinotosh developer and that they were hyping Halo as a Mac platform based off their Marathon game.You would also have realized that Halo at the time was breaking boundaries of distance, open space, and general open gameplay. It was also a computer game at the time.

Then Microsoft bought them and turned Halo into an Xbox game right before the original game was to be released.

But I guess somehow Bungie just made a "general shooter funded by Microsoft" and called it a day despite the fact that they had been working on the game for two years before MS even bought out the company.

And BTW, your comment about war games and US citizens only reeks of ignorance. How about actually making an argument? I'll play, bitch. If you make generalizations about an entire country of 300 million people, I'll be more than happy to argue, you ignorant bastard.

Ok, let's calm down a little. I wasn't gonna start a fight. Sorry if that sounded like a generalization, I hate those, too. I'm just a little bitter, because I've tried to discuss the issue of violent entertainment before; and there was NO tolerance for my point of view. To me, violence is not just another form of entertainment. And my impression was (from recent discussions over at Gonintendo and elsewhere) that especially some of the U.S. gamers were extremely pissed when I said I'd vote in favor of a ban for certain games, for example.

One guy went: "A ban is useless, I'm 15 and my mom will buy any game for me anyway, she says as long as there's not too much verbal abuse and no nudity she doesn't care if it's ultra violent." I'm not making that up. And there were several others saying similar stuff.

Other thing that irritated me: Did you see the "Army strong" ads on IGN? I thought they were absolutely awful, but that's one thing. What really bothered me is that they show them to kids on a gaming website. 

Now, I don't wanna generalize, and I do know that among 300 millions of citizens, there's a HUGE variety in views and beliefs. But war / army / weapons DO seem to be viewed more positively in the U.S. than they are over here.