Schwarzenegger Conan Controversy... Now with Video!
Schwarzenegger Conan Controversy... Now with Video!
December 12, 2007
Yesterday GamePolitics reported that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is distancing himself from THQ's rather bloody, M-rated Conan game.Schwarzenegger, of course, starred in the popular 1982 film Conan the Barbarian.
Sacramento's ABC-7 has a video report, including interviews with Schwarznegger's press secretary, California State Senator Leland Yee and a gamer who said he can't help but link the Guv to his iconic portrayal of the Conan character
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Posted 11/08/09 at 09:02am
DarkSaber: http://tinyurl.com/yez7jyo
DarkSaber: http://tinyurl.com/yez7jyo
Posted 11/08/09 at 09:01am
DarkSaber: Oh for gods sake, the Gearbox pres is gobbing off about Valve again
DarkSaber: Oh for gods sake, the Gearbox pres is gobbing off about Valve again
Posted 11/08/09 at 08:53am
JDKJ: But cheer up, Austin. If the unemployment rate continues to double-digit as predicted for the next few years, your half-dozen stands a better than likely chance of returning to power.
JDKJ: But cheer up, Austin. If the unemployment rate continues to double-digit as predicted for the next few years, your half-dozen stands a better than likely chance of returning to power.
Posted 11/08/09 at 08:46am
JDKJ: @DS: If he had added the line about "or hiring illegals aliens under the table to work as nannies," it would have been a completely perfect descripition. And, yes, it's about the same difference between a six and a half-dozen.
JDKJ: @DS: If he had added the line about "or hiring illegals aliens under the table to work as nannies," it would have been a completely perfect descripition. And, yes, it's about the same difference between a six and a half-dozen.
Posted 11/08/09 at 08:31am
DarkSaber: My god, that description makes them sound almost Republican. Still what did you expect, Obama is only marginally more left than republicans.
DarkSaber: My god, that description makes them sound almost Republican. Still what did you expect, Obama is only marginally more left than republicans.
Posted 11/08/09 at 01:07am
Austin_Lewis: Health insurance, brought to you by the same kind of bureacrats who couldn't, in timely fashion, investigate the comments of any of the men Obama appointed Czars. Or their past. Or their history of not paying taxes.
Austin_Lewis: Health insurance, brought to you by the same kind of bureacrats who couldn't, in timely fashion, investigate the comments of any of the men Obama appointed Czars. Or their past. Or their history of not paying taxes.
Posted 11/08/09 at 01:06am
Austin_Lewis: Yes, and what a piece of crap it was. Arresting and fining people just because they don't make a personal choice to buy healh insurance, creating over a hundred new bureacracies, and worse.
Austin_Lewis: Yes, and what a piece of crap it was. Arresting and fining people just because they don't make a personal choice to buy healh insurance, creating over a hundred new bureacracies, and worse.
Posted 11/08/09 at 12:24am
ZippyDSMlee: JDKJ:the only trouble is a bunch of witless hacks wrote it....its going to be a train wreck....
ZippyDSMlee: JDKJ:the only trouble is a bunch of witless hacks wrote it....its going to be a train wreck....
Posted 11/07/09 at 11:33pm
JDKJ: BREAKING: In a photo-finish at the wire, House passes health care reform bill. Relatedly, in a fit of pique, Austin Lewis kicks innocent dog.
JDKJ: BREAKING: In a photo-finish at the wire, House passes health care reform bill. Relatedly, in a fit of pique, Austin Lewis kicks innocent dog.
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:27pm
ZippyDSMlee: man I got alot of junk and dup files too >< god I need orginization...and no not the knee capping media mafia kind :P
ZippyDSMlee: man I got alot of junk and dup files too >< god I need orginization...and no not the knee capping media mafia kind :P
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:26pm
ZippyDSMlee: replaced :P
ZippyDSMlee: replaced :P
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:23pm
ZippyDSMlee: beemoh:hey its like 60GB porn,400GB anime 100GB games and crap I have took from all my DVDs, I hate waiting on dvds to install stuff..... oh and 40GB of my porn was in the found.000 folder...mostly corrupted.... least I got names of wut needs to be repa
ZippyDSMlee: beemoh:hey its like 60GB porn,400GB anime 100GB games and crap I have took from all my DVDs, I hate waiting on dvds to install stuff..... oh and 40GB of my porn was in the found.000 folder...mostly corrupted.... least I got names of wut needs to be repa
Posted 11/07/09 at 04:18pm
beemoh: @Zip: ...and you'd have to spend all that time re-downloading that porn?
beemoh: @Zip: ...and you'd have to spend all that time re-downloading that porn?
Posted 11/07/09 at 03:34pm
ZippyDSMlee: ggrrrrr......vista lost one of my hard drives and I had a heart attack thinking I lost 1TB of data....
ZippyDSMlee: ggrrrrr......vista lost one of my hard drives and I had a heart attack thinking I lost 1TB of data....
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:58am
JDKJ: Which could be explained by both (a) and (b).
JDKJ: Which could be explained by both (a) and (b).
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:56am
Austin_Lewis: JDKJ: You forgot C) the fact that, for some reason, every time he did something that would suggest he shouldn't be in the military, let alone an officer, higher ups ignored it or let it slide.
Austin_Lewis: JDKJ: You forgot C) the fact that, for some reason, every time he did something that would suggest he shouldn't be in the military, let alone an officer, higher ups ignored it or let it slide.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:51am
JDKJ: Part of the problem is, I believe, that (a) the Army had a lot of time and money already invested in him and which they were unwilling to simply write-off and (b) an increasing need for the type of skills and services he provided.
JDKJ: Part of the problem is, I believe, that (a) the Army had a lot of time and money already invested in him and which they were unwilling to simply write-off and (b) an increasing need for the type of skills and services he provided.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:48am
JDKJ: And that even if he was begging not to get cut loose, he was apparently a real good candidate for being cut loose, anyway.
JDKJ: And that even if he was begging not to get cut loose, he was apparently a real good candidate for being cut loose, anyway.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:11am
JDKJ: @chada: And while Kennedy once noted that there's usually more than enough blame for everyone to get a slice, the possibility that the Army was unwilling to cut loose someone who was asking to get cut loose could be a factor.
JDKJ: @chada: And while Kennedy once noted that there's usually more than enough blame for everyone to get a slice, the possibility that the Army was unwilling to cut loose someone who was asking to get cut loose could be a factor.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:07am
ZippyDSMlee: *noms on his feet*..nomnomnomnom*droooll* ...wuuutttttt uuu looking at?
ZippyDSMlee: *noms on his feet*..nomnomnomnom*droooll* ...wuuutttttt uuu looking at?
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However, Conan is iconically his character, no matter how badly they destroyed the original story. It is hard to extrapolate him from the character.
Still doesn't make his idea of picking on games and ignoring movies any less unfair.
THe report really came across as a "dim ebil gamez' report disguised as something else.
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Sorry but that was the first thoughts I had when I saw the article :D
Its great to see them not to even describe the Conan movie as violent but the game is ultra in its violence.
@Scottland89
That should be the should be the shortest rapist search ever.
Yep, that was exactly my first thought as well *laughs*.
It's one of those snappy-phrases the media like to throw around that doesn't mean anything.
Yeah I was thinking the same thing, seriously it's getting to be as bad as my dad calling video games "videoes." Who the hell got everyone in politics and the media to agree to use that dumbass term?
Ultra-violence as a term comes from A Clockwork Orange, meaning random and unjustified violence against someone. Muggers, attacking people for no reason, these would all be "ultraviolence".
So the use of the term, whilst accurate, is being used in sensationalist ways.
It may be accurate to call the GTA games "ultra-violent" by that definition but, as I understand it, Conan is about killing monsters that are trying to kill you, doesn't that mean the player's violence is then justified and hence just violent not ultra-violent?
Then again, my local ABC affiliate also dedicates an unusual amount of time to reading high school sports scores out of the local paper, so I guess they do have trouble filling up all the time.
BTW: I beleive this is from Los Angeles' ABC 7. The ABC affiliate in Sacramento is channel 10.
Just what i was thinking.
May I suggest:
Mega Violent
Super Mega Violent
Mega Ultra Violent
Super Ultra Violent
And this one is reserved for Fox News use already:
Xtreme Super Mega Ultra Violent to the MAX
My question is, what does Arnie have to do with this game? He was hired to play a part twenty five years ago. I doubt he had anything to do with writing the script, coreagraphing the moves, or anything at all to do with the game. All that linking him to the game will do is increase his stance against the game as he tries to differentiate himself from his character.
And Yee acting like everybody's parents? Does he even have kids?
I meant Arnold being in the Conan movie, not the present day game
When I played the demo, I did nothing but kill other humans. There were more than the fair share of blood effects, including copious amounts on the floor.
Obviously I haven't played the whole game as the demo was so abysmally poor, but the demo itself was pretty gratuitous.
Which is a shame since a full-on action Conan game would be more enjoyable to me and have some capacity for some ridiculous deaths (God of War-esque).
Anyway, Schwarzzenagger's association with the Conan movie is just one more thing in the long line of his starring in ultra-violent R-rated action movies and now being hypocritical in wanting M-rated video games federally controlled while not supporting federal control of R-rated movies.
Ah right, I haven't the game so I just presumed that monsters where the main victim of ultra-violence.
I was wondering would RPGs like Final Fantasy count as ultra-violent because you walk about, get into a random battle and if you attack first then the violence was kinda unprovoked...
RPGs are too difficult for newscasters to explain in snappy soundbites that non-gaming alarmists will understand.
This all reminds me of the tv special about gaming and violence shown in the UK around 8 or 9 years ago, where they claimed that Quake 3 allowed players to map real human faces to the ingame characters and 'Stalk' them.
This was genius, as stalking was the big fear in the UK at that time, as everyone from Madonna, to yer Auntie Mary seemed to have a stalker. By mis-contextualising the use of the word they managed to try and make it sound like a completely different type of game.
They also never mentioned that pasting a photo onto a Q3 Model made it looke like a deformed potato-head creature.
On of these "journalists" must have walked into an EB to get something for one of their kids and saw this game and said..."hmmm, it is a slow news day..."
As for the battle with the ratings system...how about we impose fines on the parents for NOT knowing what their kids are playing and using the game systems as babysitters.
Growing up, I had an hour a day (IF I had been a good boy and finished my chores and homework) to play and Mom and Dad always knew what I was playing and explained things to me.
Parents do not say NO to their kids enough, they do not take the time to learn what is going on their life, and they no longer punish them properly when they have done wrong.
Put all this blame of video games and movies and TV on the parents for not knowing what the kids are doing and doing anything about it.
lessthan12parsecs
Tallahassee, Fl
"So they’re all ultra-violent. Including Guitar Hero III and skate."
But think of all the skinned knees and elbows! Skate is supposed to be the ultra-realistic skating game, right? ;)
Guitar Hero III is incredibly violent! It brainwashes the youth into attacking people with jumping scissor kicks!