The videogame industry has been on the target of mainstream-media/critics for provoking violence, etc, etc from time to time. There are dozens of videogames that have been a moot point with creating lot of controversies.
The games that have been tagged with controversial games are generally Shooter or action/adventure genre that have been held responsible for provoking violence or nurturing aggression in the kids playing these games.
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
Namely:
-Postal (circa '97???), where you're a nut-job in a trench coat who, as the character puts it, "regrets nothing", and who's purpose is nothing more than to wander around and blow away innocent by-standers of all sorts.
-The FIRST GTA (although relatively benign to what's out there today, it's what stirred the pot of controversy for the series in the first place.)
-Mortal Kombat (primarily due to the blood and violent actions/fatalities.)
-Double Dragon (yes, the original arcade one from the '80's)Specifically the part at the beginning where the gang member elbows and kidnaps the twins' shared(!) girlfriend. When the bad guy hauls her over her shoulder, you can get a glimpse of her panties (watch out...pornography alert!)
Wow, times have changed quite a bit since then. 'Desensitization' is an understatement. Controversial or not, some of these titles are amongst my favorite all-time games.
Ah, good times, good times!
The guy can't even write properly and doesn't go into enough detail about each game.
Got the politicians involved...
They list a game with two clothed guys kissing as more controverisal then a game about ethnic cleansing! Seriously ... killing Jews, Black and Mexicans for no good reason is much worse then all of the games. I thought the Christian Comando game was kinda funny though. Those freakin' right wingers.
Left Behind: Eternal Forces is in no way endorsed by the Christian community. They see it as a bias piece of crap. No actual Christian ever forced someone to convert. That's like saying Charles Darwin forced his theories on others. He too was a Christian at one point in his life...but when his wife and children died, he looked for an excuse to hate God <the real story of evolution. God creates man. Man disobeys. God sends son to save man. Man turns back completely. God still loves man.
The Left Behind book series is actually a good read...but the movies suck and obviously so does that game.
BTW...that game was made by Left-Winged Liberals that have no idea what it means to be a Christian...
Of course...some people are dumb enough to believe there's no God because bad things happen in the world. If you have to ask yourself that question, you really haven't researched anything have you? Bad things are a direct result of sin...and we caused that, not him. Honestly, can anyone READ these days???