apparently, the person who wrote this terrible piece about controversial video games thinks "little big planet" is more controversial than "night trap" and "thrill kill."
for non-video game players, that means "night trap," which was pulled from the shelves due to misguided hysteria over its content, and "thrill kill," a game so absurdly violent for its time that EA refused to release it mere weeks before its launch date, were somehow less controversial than "little big planet," a puzzle game about a smiling rag doll whose "controversy" was that a song in the game happened to contain verses from the quran... which was pulled and it made its scheduled release.
granted, this is probably just some horseshit fluff piece designed to give "resident evil 5" more attnetion... but shame on you either way, yahoo! games.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
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Hah, Bonestorm. I love that episode.
ReplyDeleteI think the reason for Little Big Planet's "controversy" is even worse than the fact it was controversial to begin. The Qur'an? Yes, that's what happens when you line up a purposely vague religious text (all of them) next to a stupid song from a video game.
i wouldn't even call what happened with "little bit planet" controversy. to me, controversy is strong, significantly varied opinions clashing on a public stage... like when everyone started freaking out about "mortal kombat."
ReplyDeletethe thing with "little big planet," on the other hand, was a fairly low-key protest from one sub-group and no one else really cared.
Agreed. Hence the quotation marks.
ReplyDeletei know, i just like the sight of my own text.
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