A few evenings ago,
David Houghton and myself, representing Destructoid and
Gamers For Gaming, sat down with Mike Jaret of
Running With Scissors, a man currently working as product manager for the upcoming
Postal 3. The guys behind the notorious
Postal series are no strangers to controversy, with their series the subject of lawsuits and bans across the world. Jaret had some things to say about the recent controversies and gaming's place in the modern world of media, and we were here to gladly listen.
Not only do we discuss the Manhunt 2 and Dark Sector situations, we talk about the need for more solid standards in the ESRB, the comparison between movies and games, and the effect of videogames on children. You might be interested to know that the people responsible for Postal aren't all "F*ck yeah let's traumatize a nation, baby!" Now, if only Mr. Jaret could be more convinced of the GFG campaign, things would have been perfect.
You can download the interview from Destructoid:
http://www.destructoid.com/podtoid/Destructoid-interview-Postal-guys.mp3
Additional mirrors HERE and HERE.
[Editor's Note: For our first interview, I think David and I did okay. Forgive the audio quality, blame it on us being British and Skype being unable to handle the tea-drinking imperial greatness. The interview was recorded by my good friend, Jeremy Wesler-Buck, and edited together by my Morphine Nation compadre, Danman.]
Contest:
3:57 PM on 07.02.2007
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Bleh. Go away evil.
I still love yah ;)
BTW, UK wants to ban smoking in OUTDOOR public places now? Along with cameras everywhere you walk and censorship? George Orwell would come back to life only to hang himself.
Worst part is that we're only a few years behind the UK.....
It really doesn't matter what you think of Postal: Jaret dealt with the subject of games ratings very well - he knows that ratings boards have to exist, he just wants them to work with the industry they are effectively regulating, and he wants gaming to command the same kind of respect as an artform that music and film do. The statistic about games becoming a bigger industry than music was pretty revealing, when you think of the level of influence the music industry has in terms of the way it is regulated. Fantastic stuff.