Update yer spellcheckers:new video game word

[YoshiM]

Killographic

Yes, fellow friends and gamers, there is a new word that describes video games (or perhaps any sort of media) with graphic violence. We should give thanks to the National Institute on Media and Family who created this word as "graphic violence" or the ESRB rating isn't enough.

Personally, I don't think it's enough. They should have a meter on the rating label that measures the amount of gore, bullets, and sex a game has by units of gallons (for gore), shells (for bullets) and gallons (for sex).

What are some of your views on this? Is this new word truly a rufus thing or is it just plain baddong?

[MarioAllStar2600]

I tihnk its completly ridiculos.
Why can't teh people just say yea you ahve to be 18 to buy this cause of drugs, sex, violence. No we need to make a freaking word over it.

[Oobgarm]

"The message is that parents in many cases aren't doing their job," Lowenstein said.

No further comment needed, taken straight from the linked article.

[FABombjoy]

As long as it paves the way for megographic games, I'm all set.

[Cmosfm]

"The message is that parents in many cases aren't doing their job," Lowenstein said.

No further comment needed, taken straight from the linked article.

Hot damn, bout time someone said it how it is.

Actually I think the bigger problem with this new word is when all the game magazines pick up on the fact that "killographic" sounds an awful lot like "killer graphics" and start using horribly crafted puns.

[maxlords]

That's such a stupid word. I can't imagine it catching on at all...except with lame ass parent's groups that do nothing but use meaningless buzzwords.

[Sotenga]

*sigh* You know, I have another term describing killographic, funtastic, assblastic games! I call them M-RATED.

Besides, the ratings mean nothing to me. Been playing Doom since I was five, hasn't affected me in any way.

Reach for the berserk pack... there, that's a good boy. Now, kill them all... don't be afraid, you don't need weapons.

Hey, STFU in there! Excuse me.

*THWACK*

Yay for 2x4's! x_x

You'll have to ignore that. But I really have been playing violent games when I was really young. Have I ever reached for the sharpest knife in the drawer and went on a rampage, slicing everything living that I could grab? No, sir. I played Doom because I liked the game, regardless of the hanging corpses and random eaten carcasses. Back in my day, we didn't even know what 'killographic' meant. Confounded newfangled techno-jargon...

[1bigmig]

gallons (for sex)

Now Johnny, Im not buying you a game with three buckets of cum rating.

But Moooom!

[pango]

WTF? I've never even heard this word.

[djbeatmongrel]

Have I ever reached for the sharpest knife in the drawer and went on a rampage, slicing everything living that I could grab?

the answer IS no because the sharpest knife would hurt as much as the dull ones...

[GameGuru]

Instead of reinventing the rating system they should have just used the established movie rating system.

G - For the kiddies
PG - A parent needs to decide if it is ok for you
PG-13 - Must be at least 13 and a parent ok it for you
R - Kids need not apply, this game is for us adults
NC-17 - Oh yeah, naked patch for DOA Xtreme V-Ball!

Everyone knows these and understand them. Why create something new?

[Ze_ro]

I have an idea... someone program a game that is thoroughly and completely distasteful... something with a scene where you control Hitler while you rape a woman, strangle a baby, and also crash planes into the world trace centers all at the same time. The game would have to have unheard of levels of violence, blood and sex. Also, make sure that the game gets tons and tons of hype, despite having crap gameplay (Think "Thrill Kill", except even worse).

When parental groups find out about it, they'll go apeshit and try to ban it.... since the game actually does suck, we'll gladly allow the ban, and everyone will go on with their lives. The parental groups will be happy because they'll believe they've sheltered their children from life for at least another week, and hopefully it'll throw them off the scent of games like Grand Theft Auto. Plus, when the next batch of violent games come out and they complain again, we can say things like "Oh come on, this was nowhere near as bad as 'SimHitler: Baby Strangler' was!"

--Zero

[Ed Oscuro]

"Clever phrase," Doug Lowenstein, head of the Entertainment Software Association, which represents computer and video game software publishers, replied when asked about "killographic."

I like this guy. o_O