I am getting so sick and tired of reading this stuff. I don't understand why not approving of the airport scene in MW2 is such a terrible thing.

@John B More like at about 30-60 times per second

Can it be stop talking about this fucking game tiems now plz?

To her credit, MW2 is a giant pile of wank in the context of which such a scene as the infamous airport one turned out to indeed be quite tasteless.

"I am getting so sick and tired of reading this stuff. I don't understand why not approving of the airport scene in MW2 is such a terrible thing."

Telling your readers that videogames are immature and should be rejected without having the good grace to try them is wrong and pathetic.

@GamesAreArt:

Don't confuse frames per second with CALCULATIONS per second. There are millions calculations per second just to display those 30-60 frames.

@Mueti:

Did you ply the level? I did, even though I originally was going to skip it.

It's LAME. It COMPLETELY redefines "much ado about nothing". Hell, I didn't even do anything until the police showed up, which is when I switched in to GTA4/Saints Row mode. Now that I've played it, I just can't believe that people are so offended by that level.

I agree that its awful, but I don't see it kill all the men and reveling in the laments of their women. Also, there are no loincloths or flagons of mead.

@jim
She is just a columnist writing her opinion, I think it's very easy to see how video games and their surrounding culture would seem very immature to an outsider.

fuck that bitch. where was she when the texas chainsaw massacre came out? or saw? its okay to turn a blind eye when the movie companies contribute money to them for good reviews but not okay when a video game company doesn't doesn't fork the money over to bribe their silence.

i love freedom but these people don't. fuck the media. fuck the government. but most importantly, fuck me.

If her idea of maturity is denying the validity of anything we don't personally like, then I'll gladly consider myself immature. I'd rather be immature and open-minded than mature and willingly ignorant.

I completely agree. Great response to an idiotic demonstration of the conservative's lack of culture and acceptance.

Go to the link black dove showed because it's fucking hilarious. It's not hard to believe her last name is Hicks.

The media will continue to attack videogames until the illuminati are able to get their hands in on the industry. They'll start shutting down things like this when games have subliminal messages in them. And yes Im totally insane.

She's attacking the game but in absolutely no way should she be doing so. It's rated M, meaning people under 17 cannot buy the game themselves. Blame the parents and anyone else irresponsible enough to put the game in their hands.

"I WILL TELL YOU WHAT YOUR CHILDREN CAN AND CANNOT DO!!!"

That's basically what I got from the article. Another "author" looking for their 5 minutes of fame, going after the "oh my god, think of the children" angle.

Moving on...

these so called studies are always hiding some sort of political agenda

The Washington Times is a horrible conservative newspaper

"Marybeth Hicks offers marvelous advice about how to protect and preserve the innocence of childhood in today’s fast-paced, high-pressure world."

Won't someone think of the children?

She cites the game as awful and barbaric but doesn't give a good explanation as to why. If she had even cited the airport section I might find her argument slightly legitimate. But she offers nothing but the same rhetoric we've all seen a lot of. I agree Jim she needs some originality with this instead of throwing the same not very well thought out garbage. It does beg one question though

Does this mean if that if spit out the same rhetoric about video games I can be a paid columnist.

I wish that people like her would at least watch the scene. It's easy enough to hear someone say "violent videogame" and go on a rant saying it's causing children to become violent.

Whats this "us" talk Jim? Do you consider yourself an american now? Lose the accent and we'll talk.

Well, he got it right - it's barbaric in its premise and awful in its gameplay. I've been waiting 2 years for this game, thinking that people who made MW1 just CAN'T fuck up with this one, but they did. It has ridiculous plot, boring and sometimes straight trial-and-error gameplay, only MP saves the day. Graphics and scenery are beautiful though.

But what gets me most is that why so much genuine anger and disrespect to Russia in this game? What have we done wrong to USA recently? They claim they won Cold War - ok, they won, we don't give a shit now, it's past, time to live in a new world. But they insist on making enemies of us. Every part of this game is a direct insult. First, they portray Russian as terrorists, then they make the terrorist an icon of the country, then the plot THICKENS and we see Russians landing on the East coast of USA. How the fuck they got there? Like you know Europe doesn't exist anymore, or EU and UK just let us use their military bases to transport all these expensive troops? And the most prominent question - how come that Russia is still not lying in radioactive ruins by the time the first russian soldier lands on american soil?

I can't understand why you need to cultivate hatred when you make the game? Aren't there not enough real enemies in the world other then former superpowers with decaying economy? Like drug cartels in Columbia for example or may be some of the Middle East terrorist groups, which actually openly threat USA every day? No! It's better to make completely out-of-this world situation, offend the whole nation by suggestion to burn its capital down (the soldies says it in Washington mission) and make young kids shoot unarmed people in the airport. And don't tell me it's M-game, it's audience consists mainly of teens and even kids sometimes - and 8-year old often can't make the difference if it is a terrorist or not, he just shoots unarmed civilians and the game doesn't punish him for that. And then ten years later Michael Moore have a plenty of material for award-bound films.

I usually pro-american but this shit is ridiculous. I can't understand why this country is constantly trying to make more enemies, like it's not enough hate for USA already. But I guess some people think it's cool to hate, cool to kill, unless the war is for real and it's your ass on the frontlines. And I guess USA deserved this economy fuck-up of lately. The only problem if it is not USA then someone else would act like shit.

You can flame me, don't really care, just had to say this.

I wouldn't worry about this too much. She a columnist for the Washington Times who writes about common sense (right up there with "god told me so" as a way to add legitimacy to crazy ideas). Her readers are most likely suburban soccer moms, which make up around 0% of the target demographic for COD. That being said, getting in a tizzy over what she's saying is like having suburban soccer moms getting mad at someone here for hating a particular minivan (suburban moms love minivans right?).