Schwarzenegger Distances Himself from THQ's Conan Game

I can imagine why.

Whatever, we all know that Arnold is in control of the Conan NPC, whenever he is gonna spawn. They are just saying that he isn't connected with the game so that when people start camping him, they can't laugh at him in public about the major ownage he suffered at the hands of 10 year olds who's parents bought them the game without knowing what it was about, or even dared to look at the rating.

@ Paul Kerton

Just about every "family-friendly" movie he ever did had a lot of violence, even "Kindergarten Cop", making Arnold an even bigger hypocrite.

Not only that, but the Terminator movies spawned several games, and there were also games based on the movies True Lies(a movie you forgot to post on your list) and Total Recall.

This is the type of shit that disgusts me. Arnold has no problems playing in one of the most violent and masculine roles of the 1980's, but this sick industry's focus on the childhood gaming demographic has caused much of the media to retain the old stereotype of games=kids.

When will they understand that about 50% of all video games are not for children, and that most gamers could give a damn less about the welfare of children when it comes to games? Seriously. I'm getting sick and fing tired of all of these appeals to the children.

I hope Conan redefines physical violence and sexual content in video games. I hope it is so fing gory, sexual, and tasteful that it completely destroys the disgusting stereotype that is policing and destroying this industry.

Wasn't Conan like... a series of books before it was a movie? So... I don't think yon Governator can say much of anything. I mean... all he did was play the guy in the movie, but Conan has been around much longer, since the 30s at least.

i think we're getting to the point where the public are thinking "Games = for kids"
and the gamers who go around and discuss things are thinking "Games = for teens to adults".

imo :
Games can be for anyone.
no game should be censored absolutely.
Rating systems and retail controls need to be re-thought.

Well I didn't put True Lies on because, well, I couldn't remember it being that violent. In fact, the only things I remember from that film are the Harrier jump jet scene and Tom Arnold.

The man is a hypocrite, there is no denying it. Almost as hypocritical as being a Republican in the Kennedy family... oh wait...

It sucks to say it but legal enforcement of the ratings (OFLC/ESRB or whatever version is relevant to the country you're in) is the only viable way to even try to stop kids getting stuff they shouldn't. I mean there's parents being involved in their children's lives as well but seriously, is that ever going to happen??

Voluntary ratings are an essential and enlightened step but give a shopkeeper the choice between selling GTA4 to a 12 year old or retaining an ethical code of conduct and they'll choose the cash every time. This goes at least double for a struggling independant competing against a Walmart/BigW/Kmart/EvilBigStoreInc megacorp. The same is probably true of the people working at the megacorps who probably depend on commission to supplement their minimum wage job.

Basically I've always thought that without some kind of threat, asking people to be nice will never work. You might as well leave a pile of money in the street with a sign saying "Please don't take any of this". Within 90 seconds the money will be gone and the sign will probably have been nicked too.

Things should never be banned, restricted is fine but banning is just not cool. Censorship is always a moment of outrage thing anyway. I mean in parts of Australia, the film "Silent Night, Deadly Night" was banned for violence and the frightning portrayal of a killer santa. You watch it now and it's just piss funny.

Setting aside the basic hypocrisy of it, I'm not sure what I think. On one hand - I'm annoyed at the double standard, but what would I expect him to say? I suppose it could be worse if he somehow tried to have the conan game exempted. That would be REALLY hypocritical. Plus, Conan was 20 years ago. It's somewhat possible he regrets making those films. I wouldn't know why, the Conans' were classics, all I'm saying is I'm less likely to hold Conan against him, then say, End of Days. That one just sucked.

Hopefully, video game companies will never solicit Schwarzenegger again for things like voice acting, now that he's changed and not for the better.

Oh and once again, I played the demo. It was terrible, with far more gore than was needed really.. I'm 25 and I still thought it was overkill.

Its pretty obvious that some developers realise the flaws in their gameplay and think "pack it with gore"

just shut the hell up schwarzenegger

I'd distance myself from the game too: it's *terrible*. It's like a cut-rate knockoff of God of War, and doesn't even manage to look as good as that last-gen title.

I guess the term "ultra-violent", as ridiculous as it sounds, as made it's way into the media when referring to certain videogames today. I don't remember the game Smash T.V. being ultra-violent.

Tis is a sad thing, seeing a fair to good actor turned into a political talking head.

Tell me does he still make royalities off his (violent) movies? If so then to be true to his stance against violent games he should refuse or cut off those funds and divert them to help his state (they need it). If he is okay with accepting that money then he is a hypocrite and is worthy of, and subject to disgust and disdain.

@ HandofCrom

I applaud you for your logic, and for bringing up Lovecraft :D

[...] Arnold Schwarzenegger has problems with the video game Conan The Barbarian because of its violence. Arnold played Conan in the violent film version back in 1982.Read More at Game PoliticsYour thoughts?  Published Dec 11 2007, 12:24 PM by lhester Filed under: california, videogames, manhunt2, violence, govenor, conan, esrb, lelandyee, arnoldschwarzenegger [...]

But he's not going to distance himself off the violent movies from which the game was based? And he can't see through this tracing paper think hypocrisy?

Who cares?!

Most Conan fans are familiar (at least, if not completely saturated with...) Robert E. Howard's original short stories written between 1932 and 1936 and consider the movies to be horrific bastardizations of the character and the property. To be honest, I'm just as GLAD that the Governator is distancing himself.

Ignore the idiot. Arnie doesn't even warrant the attention he gets.

...which is drawing criticism from [State Sen. Leland Yee] and warnings from [the National Institute on Media and the Family] to scratch the game off Christmas lists for children and teenagers.

Always with the "games are for kids" message.

Sorry, wanted to add, it's sort of like a Porn Star sitting in a mansion, paid for by their porn career, sipping on champagne, paid for by their porn career and running for governor based on publicity from their porn career, and then trying to pass anti-porn laws once they are elected, it's kind of like saying...

'I got rich and famous from working in this genre, so I'm going to make sure that I alone benefit from it.'