NYT’s “Top 10 games to avoid for the holidays” same exact 10 games everyone wants.

  • December 11, 2009 8:10 am

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Go figure, the “Top 10 games to avoid” according to the NYT’s are the exact same games everyone wants are are talking about. The usual “playing violent games leads to lower test scores, aggressions, world hunger, and food shortages” persists. Overall, I’m not surprising. Though any true gadget geek already discounts such lists as nonsense. In the end, it comes down to common sense and not being an idiot. Would you let your toddler play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2? No. But to say the tweeners and teens shouldn’t be exposed to violent games as justification for banning them while not mentioning as so much a peep about videos, books, magazines that are more readily and easily attainable is just the work of extremist safety proofer groups. /rant. So what exactly made the list as the “worst games of 2009″?

  • Assassin’s Creed II
  • Borderlands
  • Brutal Legend
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  • Dead Space: Extraction
  • Dragon Age: Origins
  • Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony
  • Demon’s Souls
  • Left 4 Dead 2
  • Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars

Again, some of the best games of the year are (shocker) not so popular with the global safety proofer organizations trying to sterilize the world from any enjoyment and recreational activities. Once again: They’re games. They’re not supposed to be real or held accountable to laws. They’re tools to escape the non-sense that we call reality. Banning stuff simply because already mentally unstable people freak out is hardly the way to punish the rest of society. But I digress.

How many of the ten games do you and your kids already own? I can see not giving GTA to a 5 year old. But kids that are old enough to know how to use a computer have seen far worse by the time they’re playing these games anyway. It’s just the out of touch and technologically retarded individuals who make the rules who seem to be finding a problem where none exist. Thoughts?

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