I’ve blogged about the top 5 video game controversies…
Now I’m going to talk about the top 5 games that could have been
controversial but werent. These games had elements to them that would
piss off the most right wing evangelist preacher or video game critic.
But they slipped under the radar thanks to other games that were more
popular or more offensive or both…
5: Fable
Think of a game where you can do the following A) Get Maried b) have
Sex C) Eat harmless little chickens. D) Flip off people in the game
world and scream OY! (ACDC
style). Fable allowed you to do this. All of this. And not one major
complaint about it. I remember my friend playing it and constantly
pissing off his virtual wife in the game to cause a ‘divorce’ to
happen. It was a riot, especially the whole ‘OY!’ flipoff sequence.
Imagine the controversy this could have caused…. Wow…
4: Fallout : New Vegas
A Game with a Sexbot. Ok……… And Prostitutes, complete with uber
gorey detailed sex scenes… And one of the funniest controversial parts
involves recruiting the sex bot and ‘testing’ it. It was so bad. “I
cant feel my knees!” They lambasted Mass Effect
for supposed Rape Scenes and are doing the same thing to bulletstorm
but this…. It’s being swept under the rug. And IMHO, It’s far gorier
than Bulletstorm. This and Fallout 3
have the goriest death sequences, heads popping off with gore flying
out in slowmo. It’s disgusting. It could have been such a huge
controversy but was also swept under the rug.
3: Fallout 3
Like New Vegas above, this could have caused a shitstorm with
the gore factor. Very gorey game and never really caused any major
controversy. I’m shocked. It’s so gory and it’s very dark and post
apocalyptic. Very eerie and has some parts that could have caused a
major backlash, like the ability to kill kids, the ability to blow up a
town with a nuclear bomb and worse.
2: Serious Sam
The quintesential reincarnation of the almighty Duke Nukem 3D
5 years later, Serious Sam is one of my favorite games ever. It’s
gorey, and violent, but that’s not the reason I love it. It has
absolutely hundreds of enemies running at you at once. The sheer amount
of carnage seen on one screen can be rediculas. 500+ enemies per level.
100+ foot tall boss enemies. 300 foot tall final boss. It’s off the
charts. MASSIVE miles across levels. It’s controversial in that
it has really violent gore effects and has the same badass taunts and
bad language duke3d has but isn’t quite as bad because it lacks any
kind of sexual content. But since it’s not popular around here and is
liked mostly by European gamers (It’s made by a Croatian game company –
Cro-Team), it’s not popular to get on the game critic’s radar.
1: Blood
Pretty much the most disgusting game I’ve ever played. You eat
beating bloody hearts for health, the gore is rediculas as enemies die
with very painful tortured screams. It’s so visceral and very
disturbing. Especially the ability to kill shirtless innocents who run
around screaming as you pitchfork them to death in it. This game is
VERY mature and is off the charts in violent content. It’s so bad that
I thought that It’s a miracle no one banned it. Of course it does have
it’s fun side, being very challenging and filled with great horror
elements like references to the shining. It’s really designed to
disturb you like a classic gory horror film. It worked…. But man is it
bad… And not that controversial at all.
