dustygraves. Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 i didnt think this real till i saw for my self! what are your thoughts? thepetitionsite/708/952/914/activision-blizzard-please-remove-guns-from-your-game-/ i think this is regarding the game called overwatch. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schizophretard Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 If we can cleanse Overwatch of all of it's problematic guns and sexuality, we will finally have a first person shooter that we can play with our entire family. Cleanse? A first person shooter without guns? Sexuality is problematic? I don't understand such things. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyHW Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Maybe they can replace the guns with a Care Bear stare? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dustygraves. Posted April 5, 2016 Author Share Posted April 5, 2016 personally i never seen much less played a family friendly first-person-shooter! is there such a thing? if so throw me a link cause i want that in my collection along with the family friendly playboy mansion game). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeeperofLindblum Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Technically, THIS is a family friendly FPS. ---> Super 3D Noah's Ark 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leods Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Lovely Planet is "family friendly" in aesthetics. It's brutal though. Towers of guns is not as good, but is decent, and is pure guns, but there's nothing alive to kill, so might be considered family friendly? I'd have no issues with my daughter playing that at any age. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPA5 Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 Was it posted on April 1st? I have to believe it's some kind of troll/joke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhd Posted April 5, 2016 Share Posted April 5, 2016 personally i never seen much less played a family friendly first-person-shooter! is there such a thing? if so throw me a link cause i want that in my collection along with the family friendly playboy mansion game). There is a (heavily modified) version of Doom called Chex Quest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chex_Quest It is about as non-violent as one can get and still be considered a FPS. Enemies are not killed, but rather just teleported back to their homes. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WispFollower Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 I am impressed and entertained by how well you guys are addressing the challenge of finding family friendly fps. I admire the collective knowledge of this community, and I feel your powers should be tested further. Can you come up with any non-family friendly games like Mario Party? I'd like to find some games which don't necessarily require all people playing to have the thumb agility required by fps games so I can interest my girlfriend in playing more video games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhd Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 Well, there is Dokapon Kingdom -- it is a hybrid board game/RPG for up-to four players. http://www.atlus.com/dokapon/ It can be played by a single player, but the computer cheats fiercely, so that is not too much fun. There is some strategy and much luck involved in playing, but not so much fast reaction time. Personally, I do not care much for games requiring "thumb agility" either. Actually finding a copy may present a challenge, however, since Atlus games tend to have low print runs. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WispFollower Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 (edited) Wow, thanks for the response! That game looks pretty fun. The way you describe a conniving, cheating AI opponent actually makes me want it even more. The satisfaction when you beat the cheating bastard computer is truly sweet. Edited April 6, 2016 by WispFollower Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlaysWithWolves Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 The petition is a joke in response to Blizzard's changing a female pose because some parent's eight year old girl idolized a character that had a mildly-sexual pose, or something. Because eight YOs should always be playing Teen-rated games. http://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/2016/04/overwatch-petition-jokingly-asks-blizzard-to-remove-guns-gets-13600-signatures/ For the record, when I was a young pup our family-friendly FPSes were "Cowboys and Indians" and "Army Men". 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPA5 Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 The petition is a joke in response to Blizzard's changing a female pose because some parent's eight year old girl idolized a character that had a mildly-sexual pose, or something. Because eight YOs should always be playing Teen-rated games. http://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/2016/04/overwatch-petition-jokingly-asks-blizzard-to-remove-guns-gets-13600-signatures/ For the record, when I was a young pup our family-friendly FPSes were "Cowboys and Indians" and "Army Men". Ah, people never seem to understand that ratings exist for a reason. I remember playing with army men, I had a huge bucket of tans and greens, along with tanks, planes, jeeps, etc. Many, many hours were spent in the backyard placing rocks, building little fortresses, and stressing my mother out by digging around in the garden to create trenches! When I got older I was going to give them to a friend as he had a little guy that was old enough to play with them, but his wife wouldn't let me because she didn't want their kid playing with "violent" toys. I just don't get the world we live in anymore. Thanks for the link though, I hadn't heard about this at all (I don't keep up with any kind of news for anything these days). What a gong-show, I can't believe how pervasive out "outrage culture" is getting. Yikes. Pretty soon I won't be able to take a dump in my own home without someone being "offended" by it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMaddog Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 Why not just move to China where the goverrnment protects citizens from "immoral" media? That's what most of America wants to be like... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mord Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 Maybe they can replace the guns with a Care Bear stare? ... well, at least that'd be new! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoundGammon Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 (edited) The petition is a joke in response to Blizzard's changing a female pose because some parent's eight year old girl idolized a character that had a mildly-sexual pose, or something. Because eight YOs should always be playing Teen-rated games. http://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/2016/04/overwatch-petition-jokingly-asks-blizzard-to-remove-guns-gets-13600-signatures/ For the record, when I was a young pup our family-friendly FPSes were "Cowboys and Indians" and "Army Men". Cap-Gun1.jpg Should't the parents be put in jail and the 8 YEAR OLD kid go to a foster home because the parents LET her play a TEEN RATED game??? Neglect for sure! Aren't parents the ones SCREAMING for ratings and then don't follow them? Heads up 8 year-olds kids...ask your parents if they can read ratings! Edited April 7, 2016 by SoundGammon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schizophretard Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 I think the phase "Family Friendly" should be changed to "Strict Ass Parent Friendly" because kids have no issues enjoying violent video games. My parents didn't censor much of anything when I was growing up and I turned out fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leods Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 Should't the parents be put in jail and the 8 YEAR OLD kid go to a foster home because the parents LET her play a TEEN RATED game??? Neglect for sure! Aren't parents the ones SCREAMING for ratings and then don't follow them? Heads up 8 year-olds kids...ask your parents if they can read ratings! A rating doesn't mean kids under that age shouldn't play the games. It means they can't buy the games and a gerenal indicative for lazy parents who don't look into the stuff they buy so they kinda know it's safe. Does anyone really think you should absolutely be 18 yo to play CoD? We were all playing doom as 8 or 10yo (heck, many even younger), and Duke Nukem right after that. Wen do people start telling kid's stories of witches trying to eat children and then being murdered for that? At 16yo? Some people just can't separate fiction from reality, don't understand basic psychology or education and also have no idea what freedom of speech and artistic expression mean and their importance to a healthy society and for the individual human beings. That's not to say companies don't exploit sexuality and violence in ridiculous ways, and that some things don't need to rely on that as much as they tend to. But there's a healthy balance between allowing everyhting and forbidding everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlaysWithWolves Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 Here's the "victory pose" that started the whole brouhaha: SJWs have it wrong: She's not "presenting herself"; she's being flirty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+slx Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 As for the offensive post, the fabric covering the derriere doesn't make that much of a difference. To think that those of us lacking poker skills had to fiddle with filenames to reveal less detail ... When I was young my parents obviously considered my computer affliction a good thing for my future as they never questioned what I did with the computer and how much time I spent in front of the screen. Gesendet von meinem iPhone mit Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoundGammon Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 A rating doesn't mean kids under that age shouldn't play the games. It means they can't buy the games and a gerenal indicative for lazy parents who don't look into the stuff they buy so they kinda know it's safe. Does anyone really think you should absolutely be 18 yo to play CoD? We were all playing doom as 8 or 10yo (heck, many even younger), and Duke Nukem right after that. Wen do people start telling kid's stories of witches trying to eat children and then being murdered for that? At 16yo? Some people just can't separate fiction from reality, don't understand basic psychology or education and also have no idea what freedom of speech and artistic expression mean and their importance to a healthy society and for the individual human beings. That's not to say companies don't exploit sexuality and violence in ridiculous ways, and that some things don't need to rely on that as much as they tend to. But there's a healthy balance between allowing everyhting and forbidding everything. Be the same for taking a 8 year old to a R rated movie. You couldn't expect the theater to "tone it down" for the kid! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cimerians Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 Here's the "victory pose" that started the whole brouhaha: Seriously that's "offensive"? Really? I beg to differ: I honestly admit I'm a perverted old male. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bakasama Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 Here's the "victory pose" that started the whole brouhaha: So that this nonsense is all about? A skintight suit show some buttcrack? I can kind of see that so "problematic", from a certain point of view. Personally I think the design is a bit on the stupid side and just for titillation. Moral outrage is even more stupid. It reminds of those OUTRAGE! comic book covers featuring Spider Gwen by Frank Cho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlaysWithWolves Posted April 7, 2016 Share Posted April 7, 2016 Strangely, it's not the suit that bugged them. It's completely that pose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bakasama Posted April 8, 2016 Share Posted April 8, 2016 Seriously? They're harping about the pose but not the butt hugging suit? Man, this sounds like a first world problem for misguided activists crusade over for. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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