Let's face it, video games are demonized all across the board aside from the gaming industry themselves. Usually it's because some idiot either can't tell the difference between reality and virtuality or simply because he wants something to blame his behavior on. It is a sickening action that just makes other forms of media less welcoming to their younger brother.
Let's think for a second about one of the biggest media wars recently: The Medal of Honor debacle. As a game, Medal of Honor was good and the inclusion of the Taliban as the main enemies was a very ballsy move. On the other hand, you had newspapers, news stations, politicians, etc. that were downgrading such a brave game and helped Danger Close to pull out the fact that the Taliban were in multiplayer to replace it with "Opposing Forces". Meanwhile, we're still becoming demonized and heartless people who don't care about the feelings of those in the Middle-East.
As has happened for years. You have pretty much yearly killings in which the murderer blames Grand Theft Auto. You have minigames in-game (Hot Coffee much?) that allows the other media to call us perverts.
But what pisses me off the most is this: action movies have everything. Gratuitous swearing, gore, nudity, sex, alcoholism, smoking, vandalism, massive amounts of killing, and much more yet games are supposed to be "cleaner". Why the hell should we be? Because it's interactive? What does that matter? You're just destroying polygons or f*cking them.
Then you have the people saying "kids shouldn't play M games". While I agree to a certain extent (What's with all the 8 year-olds in Black Ops?), that's the parent's decision, not GameStop's and it sure as hell isn't the US government's. As far as I know, Parliament isn't constantly whining about games in the UK, so WTH?
In the end, everything "gaming" is being shunned and people are trying to push laws to block gaming from certain age groups or states or whatnot. Quite frankly, it's pissing me off.
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