The Media Today
<div class="IPBDescription">is going to !@#$</div> ok, just finished watching cartoons, and god, this crap is horrable, this has got to be the dumbest iqlowering crap i have ever seen today, whatever happned to the GOOD tv shows and rules like transformers, nowadays all you see is sex blood and insults being thrown around like shakespear plays.
another thing, games have gone too, i rember a while back, hearing on the news about some game where your a serial killer where you rape and kill defenseless targets, tru crime: streets of la is another crappy one, i mean, what cop would throw a chopstick in someones ear.
what happned to all the good stuff, startropics, phantasy star 4, secret of mana!
discuss.
another thing, games have gone too, i rember a while back, hearing on the news about some game where your a serial killer where you rape and kill defenseless targets, tru crime: streets of la is another crappy one, i mean, what cop would throw a chopstick in someones ear.
what happned to all the good stuff, startropics, phantasy star 4, secret of mana!
discuss.
Comments
About the game, is that postal?
How far back are "the old days"? I remember the original Postal on the Amiga (I think it was). That must have been around 1990, maybe earlier. That was...gory, too. A rubbish game, but gory. Cannon Fodder was a bit shocking, too, although not to the same extent, and that would be earlier, probably.
As for cartoons - try going back and watching He-Man, Thundercats or (especially) M.A.S.K. with a straight face. Go on. I <i>dare</i> you. You'll be surprised at the naffness.
i really really MISS those OOOOOOOOOLD power rangers, and that show ummm MR BOGUS! that was awsome... i think the world has put the words "violence" "sex" "theft" into their everyday lives now. this is just sickening.
oh well.
/me pulls out a shotgun and blasts some kharra. <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif' /><!--endemo-->
It doesn't make sense. They cost more money, the show sucks now, the audiences are in for the mecha anyway.
Too bad they dont air that stuff in the downunderverse. All we get is Pokemon clones <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<span style='color:white'>***Moved.***</span>
The thing that pisses me off are the viagra comercials..."This is Bob!..." or however they go...
but actually, I think censorship is what makes entertainment -- even violent entertainment -- bad... if you give people freedom to choose what they watch and play with, there will be a market for violence and sex but also one for more "wholesome" entertainment... instead, with excessive censorship, everyone is either a slave to the rules, watering down what they produce, or trying desperately to get around the rules for the sheer purpose of slipping an extra boob or decapitation into a movie or game...
the 70's were a golden age in filmmaking, and also a pretty violent era... taxi driver, the godfather, etc... if only we didn't get so conservative...
anyway, I miss Pee-Wee's Playhouse <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
OOOH startropics ftw, i beat that game, i almost beat zoras (or whatever his name is) revenge too.... till i got bored...
he used a yo yo! genius...
the game, the one i saw on the news, unless postal 1 has amazing graphics, better than hl's, i dont think so.
you were i serial killer and you got jobs breaking and killing/raping ppl, not neccassarly my kind or a "normal game"
if the media can be normal, like the way it used to be, i wont pirate software anymore, i hope that can get in the heads of thos **** wipe companys up there.
P.S.:
<span style='font-size:6pt;line-height:100%'>"YOU WANT A GIANT GONZO ****"</span>
You're probably thinking of Night Trap, a game that came out around 1993'ish and was distorted more by the media than DOOM was during the whole Columbine thing.
You did not play as a rapist, you played as like a security officer or something watching some college sorority girls on survillance cameras and the object of the game is to keep them from getting raped/killed. However the media just started making things up and the game was almost made completely illegal. There wasn't even any nudity in it. People just freaked out because it was one of the first games to use Full Motion Video (FMV), which was supposed to be the wave of the future at that point in time.
Ever stop to consider that maybe you're all just emotionally attached to these cartoons and video games of your childhood and nothing else can compare to them because they were your first?
Edit: Also, in one ep of Rocko, they're all sitting around a table playing a game called Spank the Monkey.
They need to come out with a Ren & Stimpy DVD. Pronto.
On the question on Games, I do find they are slowly deteriorating in quality. They always hand out copies of the same game but different character names and the actualy Game Name. For example, and this is in my own opinion, I thought Dynasty Warriors Series was a good game to buy, but then they came out with Samurai Warriors? Am I missing something or did this game just turn nationality and present the same objective in the game?
What I go for now is Racing games and probably Grand Theft Auto, none of that "Oh look, they released this cool game, let's be retards and just change the name of it and sell it to some idiot looking for a cool game."
If you want to make a good game, have some thought not some time on the toilet.
That being established, Games are getting better, in my opinion. I'm lokoing forward to Halo 2, HL2, The Sims 2(Don't mock me, Starving/burning/drowning the little bastards is fun.), The Movies, and Evil Genius. Sure, most are rehashes of the same genre, but the thing is, they're getting better. Each will showcase improved (At least I hope so) gameplay, graphics, replayability...and so on.
The media is going downhill. No doubt about it. Objectivity? No such thing. In america, you get liberal news or conservative news. Or you can be like me and watch "The Daily Show", and get cynical parodies of news.
INCORRECT!
It's should be
OPTIMUS PRIME OWNS US ALL!
and alternatively
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO OPTIMUS!
<span style='font-size:4pt;line-height:100%'>Sorry, had to slip that one in there somewhere</span>
Has anyone seen the Energon series of Transformers though? Is it any good? Whats it about? Is it a rehash of G1 or is it a continuation of it?
Ever stop to consider that maybe you're all just emotionally attached to these cartoons and video games of your childhood and nothing else can compare to them because they were your first? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
*Gasp* How dare you say that! Of course we are not emotionally attached to these cartoons...
But really we just love them becasue we did grow up with them, yes, but they are also good cartoons. They don't involve 3 little girls saving the world from he likes of an evil monkey and a she-male devil.
EDIT: And I agree with rob. I know an idiot who likes the original Transformers and Thundercats, and I look at them and go "God, those are horrible shows."
Those were just great shows, and they were enjoyable on many levels (heck even my dad still missed Animaniacs), but they aren't shown anymore. It's sad.
Unless they go and change the damn way it works thought this whitepaper government crap.
LEAVE THE BBC ALONE, its fine as it is dammit.
You're probably thinking of Night Trap, a game that came out around 1993'ish and was distorted more by the media than DOOM was during the whole Columbine thing.
You did not play as a rapist, you played as like a security officer or something watching some college sorority girls on survillance cameras and the object of the game is to keep them from getting raped/killed. However the media just started making things up and the game was almost made completely illegal. There wasn't even any nudity in it. People just freaked out because it was one of the first games to use Full Motion Video (FMV), which was supposed to be the wave of the future at that point in time. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Awww, for a second there I acctually thought there was a game about raping things (cause we all know that would sell good in places besides japan)
I think the Powerpuff Girls rock. (:] They're certainly better than most of the tripe around. Beyblade? Ed, Edd and Eddy? Uuuuuugh.
I miss Reboot too, Tequila. ): We never did find out if Enzo finds Bob...
\o/
But yeah, I watched all the cartoons of the past, being a child of the 80's - Thundercats, Transformers, Dangermouse, Trapdoor and all the other kids shows that were out at the time. The with the coming of the 90's I like AYH turned to WB's newly found insanity in the form of Tiny Toons, Animaniacs and Freakazoid and miss them as much as I miss the early stuff.
These days I'm a lapsed Powerpuff Girls fan but due to work don't have time to watch much of anything. Roll on the winter and shorter shifts.