10 DUMBEST Video Game Controversies NOBODY ASKED FOR

I always have one thing I've always said about "Games making kids violent": GAMES THAT ARE VIOLENT have an ESRB rating for a reason!! If YOUR KID is playing a VIOLENT VIDEOGAME it's because the PARENT is at fault for buying their children VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES. That 12 year old didn't walk into the store and say "Yeah I'd like the new playboy Murderthon Game with the Uncensored DLC and Triple Blood Bonus Item" and then purchase it. Or at least shouldn't have.

slow internet and lags caused more violent tendencies than actual violent games 🤣

Super agree. If video games cause crimes I guess we gotta get rid of tv shows and movies too. 🙄

I remember when I thought oblivion looked realistic

I will say with that GTA 6 leak it was really nice for other developers to disprove the haters by showing their critically acclaimed games in development footage to prove that the gta 6 leak is nowhere near a final product. Really nice to see something wholesome out of it

I very specifically remember loving how Wind Waker was presented. My only issue I had was fixed in the HD Remaster which was waaaay to much sailing and having to constantly change wind direction. The new sail was a huge game changer.

My very first therapist told me, totally seriously, that there were numerous studies that prove that violence in video games causes violence IRL. I didn't believe him at the time, which was about 2002. Years later I learned that not only are there no studies that prove that, but there are studies that suggest that there's no link. Suffice it to say, but I never really liked that therapist

"They called him 'Winnie the Pooh' and a moron so they banned 'Winnie the Pooh'." 🤣

One of the silly things about Plague Inc is how when your virus evolves, it's a universal mutation. You'll have people already infected in America and Asia, and then when you give the virus a new feature, everyone already infected around the world simultaneously gets the new symptoms. In the real world, a new variant has to start all over, and in fact the people who were previously infected by the old version have a higher resistance to the new one. That alone makes the game a cartoonish take on viral spread and the apocalyptic end scenarios.

Number One: Since they like to use ridiculous accusations about GTA glamorizing car theft, I'd like to use my own ridiculous counter argument. In GTA, you get penalized through the police star system if spotted stealing a car. So if the game actively punishes you for carjacking, it isn't glamorizing car theft but depicting it as a crime in an attempt to educate the youth.

I remember the wind waker backlash i was 12 when it came out and i remember fans gettin big mad at the graphics while i was like, im really lovin this art style cartoony feel. Wind waker was an amazing game.

I lived in Chicago for two years and saw what goes on. Gangsters and jackers don't have time to sit around playing GTA and this is true for other major cities as well. To ban GTA would make a lot of people that don't do those things angry. Everyone always wants to blame someone or something else for something bad happening and it sounds a lot like those people think gamers are stupid.

It's ridiculous that censorship is still such a huge problem in the gaming industry. If a game is banned because of Chinese censorship, I'm probably more inclined on playing it. That's just me though.

With number 6 I would say, when you talk about how we saw games on any new console, every new console, and we thought they looked so realistic. They looked MORE realistic than the previous gen’s tech AND the jump from previous to next gen was significant. Think about the jump from SNES to N64 then to GameCube. The jump from sega genesis to sega Dreamcast. The tech was evolving so rapidly that those improvements were shocking. We thought the water in that wave runner game looked so realistic because it was the closest to realistic that a game had ever achieved and it was amazing at the time.

That comment about nostalgia and remembering the games as looking realistic is sooooo true. I can remember doing The Silent Cartographer on the original Halo and being blown away by the opening.

Number 8: Konami was also going ham on the pachinko market. They decided to devote their resources to pachinko and mobile games, to be exact.

I was initially put off by Wind Waker, but as soon as I saw the gameplay and got my hands on it I realized just how wrong I was. It's a fantastic game, and I played countless hours of that, Pikmin, and Paper Mario, and Metroid Prime games. With Pikmin 3 (and soon 4) for the Switch, I'm really hoping we get a remaster of the first two games and that we get Metroid Prime 2 and 3.

#9 : the biggest influence comes from the media, not the games

I was in Chicago with my parents back in 1997 or 98 to see Sue the T-Rex Skeleton on exhibit when I was little. My mom owned a truck with a spare tire under the bed and she had it parked against a small hill at the hotel where the truck bed and spare tire were basically kissing the grass and thus cannot be reached. SOMEHOW… SOME FREAKING HOW during the night someone managed to steal the spare tire from under the truck parked against a hill! Yeah no Chicago has had a carjacking or something close to it problem WAY BEFORE grand theft auto was even a real big thing.

Great point about WindWaker aging better. It still looks modern due to cell shading art.