Schadenfreude

A friend sent me a link to this today. ** Update: As of right now, the game descriptions have been removed for some reason, and only the basic ratings remain so you won't see some of the items that I'm referring to. **

Look it over, enjoy, I'll wait...

While groups like this may have a small point about some of this (that's why all of the games but one are rated M, after all) I love the double standards that are so prevalent in these kinds of guides. Apparently any mention of sex, drugs, smoking and alcohol are bad, even when these activates are portrayed negatively. (Smoking reduces health, drinking makes you uncoordinated, Niko in GTA calls you and idiot for driving drunk, sex with random partners results in STDs or unwanted pregnancies, smoking/drug/alcohol use leads to addiction, etc.) I'd think that these would be good lesions teach the kiddies, but I guess it's just better to greenhouse them and keep them ignorant...

Healing medicines and first aid are also listed as "Drugs".

Army of Two has "homosexual themes"? Huh? Where? I played that stinker all the way through and I never got the slightest whiff of these guys being overly friendly with each other. Apparently sharing a parachute makes them gay. I can guarantee you that when I did my tandem jump at 14,00 feet about 10 years ago, the very last thing that was going through my mind was amorous advances toward the guy I was strapped to. I was much more concerned with the ground that was heading towards me at 125mph. The other funny stretch that they mention in Army of Two is when one player is using an object as a bullet shield and the other one "...cuddles up close behind and dispenses 'lead' from his 'iron'." The 'quotes' are theirs. Give me a break. Read their description, it's a hoot.

I eventually stopped reading because it all started to sound the same. There was a boobie, they said "gosh darn" and "heck", there was a picture of a cigarette, someone died, etc... Blah, blah, blah...

But the biggest thing that gets me is that according to this guy's site, he's judging these games based on "Biblical Principals". Now if we apply the same "principals" to the Bible itself, it would be right at the top of his naughty list. After all, it has references to nudity, sex, masturbation, incest, prostitution and, according to some, abortions (though that's a stretch). It’s filled with unimaginable violence that includes, war, genital mutilation, rape, the murder of children, slavery, curses, and outright genocide. There are plenty of references to alcohol and drunkenness. Etc. So according to this guy's "logic", "moral" parents shouldn't let their kids go anywhere near the collection of books that he used to judge all of these games. Go figure.