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Quake 4

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Para defender a Terra, torne-se um deles

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Quake 4

Game utiliza tecnologia de "Doom 3" para dar seqüência aos eventos de "Quake II"

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Quake 4 Stroggification Process

Quake 4 stroggification process, as requested by cannon 949. *WARNING* contains gameplay spoilers.

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Sex and violence in video games is a potent issue and has been for quite some time. Play Value Episode “Controversy” Josh: Any time any kind of new artistic medium emerges there is always controversy, people thought that radios were rotting kid's minds, then it was comic books, then it was TV, then movies. There are people that thought the jitterbug was going to be the downfall of society. Everything brings controversy with it and videogames are certainly no exception. TJ: There has always been controversy in games and it all starts in the 30s and 40s with pinball. The way that you play pinball was there were no pads like you play now, you put a ball in and shook it around until it went in the right pocket and it paid out. So pinball was essentially a game of chance, gambling. Libi: So in order to other words take a hit at the Mafia, pinball became illegal. And then the New York mayor at the time LaGuardia went so far as to take pinball machines down to the river, slash them within ax and then shove them into the water. Jeff: In 1976 New York decriminalized pinball and almost immediately after, literally months later the first controversial video game comes out. Dan: No sooner was pinball legalized then video games took their place, the torch was passed and they aware now public enemy number one. Parents up in arms, legislators angry as hell, why is that? It is a game called Death Race. TJ: And the object of Death Race was you are driving around and running over Gremlins, well running over Gremlins kind of looks like running over people in the 70s because graphics were really bad. Josh: All you can see is a pixelated head, a pixelated body, pixelated legs, and pixelated arms, which do anyone looks like a person. So parents started to object. Libi: The woman who is at the forefront of emerging protest was Ronnie Lamb, a housewife, PTA member, and she led protest marches, went on Phil Donahue, was really active in getting arcades banned from malls. Dan: It wasn't really the videogames themselves that where the problem most of the time. No parents thought that Frogger was going to corrupt their kids it was the environment they were playing these games in. It was dark sweaty rooms full of machines, and kids standing in front of them. The creepy old guy with the crotch mounted coin changer and the leer in his eye that was the real problem. Josh: Kids would skip school to hang out at arcades; parents just viewed the institution of an arcade as a public menace. Get rid of them. Jeff: What is interesting here is that Nolan Bushnell, who started Atari, sees this and that is what inspires him to open Chuck E. Cheese, a place with safe games where people can bring their kids and they will have a good time. Dan: They are well lit, they are well supervised, you can bring the kids there and the parents can be there. In fact Nolan Bushnell made more money with Chuck E. cheese than he ever did from Atari. Jeff: And if death race is the first videogame controversy than the first controversy at home on the consoles is Custer's Revenge. Where General Custer dodge's arrows to go rape an Indian woman, but apparently some people thought that that was not OK. Josh: This game was retarded, and it was a slap in the face against everybody pretty much, from the people to take it in the game, to women, to people playing a game. You now, it was not even classy porn, they deserved a protest and a protest is what they got. Dan: Now after the big videogame crash of 1983 the issue kind of went away, because they were not a lot video games around. Occasionally one would pop up, like there was Commando Libya, where at the end of the level all the bad guys that you beat you lined them up and shot them against the wall. Josh: And then there was NARC which came out in the late eighties, which you were NARCS killing drug dealers, and you're blowing them up and body parts are being strewn all over the screen. Needles are being injected and thrown into your leg, and other words it was awesome. The way that Midway got around the ultra violence in it was positioning it as an anti-drug game. Jeff: And it's really, really very funny to me that they were preaching an anti-drug message with extreme, extreme amounts of violence. Dan: But for the most part things were nice and calm. Nintendo prided itself on being very family friendly and the industry largely policed itself. TJ: Sega then decides to give consumers the things that Nintendo does not, you know a violent, dirty, gritty type games. Then Mortal Kombat comes out. Dan: Incredibly gory, incredibly violent, and of course incredibly successful, now both Sega and Nintendo wanted to take the game and put it on home systems. Josh: Mortal Kombat looked better on the Super Nintendo I would argue, but it did not have blood. It did not have the decapitating moves. The Genesis had the full thing. Jeff: It is all about the blood, that is the trademark and the fact that everyone knows that it is in the Genesis version makes the Genesis version outsell the super Nintendo one 4 to 1. Dan: So it may seem like a win for Sega, but of course it came back and get them on the ass, because whenever you do something that Mom does not like you end up in front of a congressional committee and that is where the videogame industry ended up, and front out of Joe Lieberman and all these other congressmen. Jeff: Society at this point is still kind of wrapping their head and around the idea that it is not just children playing video games. Today it was pretty accepted that games come out that are clearly for 18 and over but it was not always that way. Libi: Congress called Sega to task for their ultra violence version of Mortal Kombat and another game called Night Trap which is almost really a B-movie it has got vampires chasing co-eds in pyjamas around at a slumber party. Jeff: And it is really no worse than you would see on USA up all night, but just the fact that it was on a Genesis and not a VCR made all the difference. Sen. Byron Dorgan: About two months ago I saw the video game Night Trap for the first time; it is a sick disgusting video game in my judgment. Dan: And the ultimate outcome of all of this is that they created the ESRB a ratings board for video games. Kind of like the MPAA for movies, it is voluntary but all of the games have these ratings. Jeff: One of the genres that probably attracted the most controversy was the first person shooter, a lot of people look at them as almost murder simulators and of course it does not help when Columbine happens and it comes out that the kids were playing Doom and into Doom. TJ: And so now there is a link being developed between these school shootings, which now to start to happen more regularly. It seems like more and more school shootings are happening. Jeff: And then of course Doom is followed by games like Duke Nukem, and Quake and all of these games have to try the top each other in violence. TJ: And that is kind of brings us up to today, they has never really been a resolution. Every few years a study is done that say a games causes kids to kill, games do not cause kids to kill. So I think that that is an ongoing battle that will continue for the history of gaming. Jeff: After Columbine the controversies there, but nothing really comes of it ages kind of spirals around. Until, one of the Grand Theft Auto spin-offs, San Andreas, when it turned out that somewhere deep, deep in a game there was a sex scene that was never completed but left on the final disk. Dan: Some hidden footage somewhere in the game with some fully clothed 3-D characters hopping up against each other in a bed. It was not anything worse than you would see on Adult Swim but parents and congressmen and politicians were outraged. Jeff: Hillary Clinton makes a huge deal out of this, she is threatening to shut the game companies down, she is threatening to do things that she does not even have the right to do but she is making a big stink. Dan: How did the videogame industry solve this problem? Well they held a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton's re-election campaign and mysteriously no further hearings were ever held. Hmm. TJ: And the one constant and all of this is that controversy in games means sales. Jeff: It is the same with films, and books and with music. It is just the best free publicity you can get. Libi: You know all the concerned parents and the governing boards might want to raise a fuss a little less often if they do not want their kids rushing to stores to buy these games. Jeff: The bottom line is that they can regulate and they can market these things all they want, but it is up to the parents to keep track of what their kids are playing. If parents did their job the government would not always have to step in.