as long as there have been games there
have been some dumbass controversies to
go along with them
welcome to watchmojo.com and you’ll be
looking at our picks for the top ten
dumbest video game controversies the
child at some point becomes capable of
taking these powers and channeling them
through their minds through their arms
or through their power sources
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’re
looking at notable debates that divided
the gaming community whether it be
through some in-game content or cultural
issues that all in retrospect really
didn’t need to be such a big deal choose
your battles my friend or risk like
idiots it features some in some parts of
this you’ll see full a digital nudity
project number 10
Peter’s complaint about rat deaths in
battlefield 3 people for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals or PETA have long
been on a crusade to save animals both
real and virtual be German branch of the
animal rights group got stirred up over
a sequence in the campaign of EA’s
battlefield 3 where players can kill rat
by stabbing them they said that the game
treats animals in a sadistic manner and
that it can have a brutalizing effect on
the young male target audience even
though you could consider that this was
happening in an M rated game where the
objectives includes blowing up other
human beings with rocket launchers a
QuickTime event where you stab virtual
rats was apparently the most
reprehensible act you could perform
number 9
but gate during the overwatch beta a
poster in the beta forms commented about
how tracers over-the-shoulder pose
didn’t quite fit her character as it
reduced her to a quote bland sex symbol
can you see where this is going this
naturally led to heated debates in the
gaming community with one side claiming
the pose unnecessarily diminished an
otherwise amazing character while others
argue that any change was censorship of
blizzards original artistic vision
plight overzealous social justice
warriors naturally this dovetails nicely
into the larger debate about
representation and censorship in gaming
as a whole with both sides picking a
rather silly issue to squabble over
blizzards did eventually change the pose
though so take that as a point for
whatever side you want to root for
number 8 target Australia removed GTA 5
from sale you’re reading this title
right and no it wasn’t
not because of the Australian government
but rather target removed GTA 5 from
their shelves because of a petition on
change.org starting with the very
misleading claim that cooks the game
encourages players to murder women for
entertainment but rather than actually
verifying any of these claims target
gave in and both became from their store
shelves of course the speedy internet
gamers were not going to take this lying
down with some even trying to prove
double standards biologic addition to
have fifty shades of gray removed the
really come on who buys their games from
Target anyway we know Canadian gamers
don’t but actually there’s a good reason
for that
number seven PETA criticizing Mario’s
tanooki suit
mario has been sporting the iconic
tanooki suit since 1990 but nobody
really cared about the ramifications
until 2011 before the release of Super
Mario 3d Land PETA criticized Nintendo
for supposedly supporting the skinning
of actual tanukis because the portly
plumber wears their fur as a powerup
PETA actually didn’t stop there though
releasing a browser game called Mario
kills two new feet which featured a
skins two new key chasing down the
villainous Mario to save its own skin
literally PETA was blasted for this
ridiculous animal cruelty claim but they
later claimed it was all a joke saying
the game was a ton and cheek fun way to
call attention to a serious issue
remember what we said about picking your
battles
you see we’re very thankful that the
watchdogs of a pizza spotted this
incidence of a possible abuse in the
Super Mario World Number six Grand Theft
Auto for vilifies New York
Liberty City grand theft auto’s version
of New York City has been a mainstay of
the series since the first installment
but GTA 4 was the first time it was
rendered in beautiful lifelike HD not
everyone was happy with the city’s
realism though this is GTA we’re talking
about right so Liberty City is depicted
as an even more degenerate crime ridden
version of NYC this prompted outcry from
the government of the Big Apple with a
spokesperson for then Mayor Michael
Bloomberg saying the mayor does not
support any video game where you earn
points for injuring or killing police
officers the industry came to GTA’s
defense asking why it was okay for
violent films and TV shows to be set in
NYC but not for video games checkmate
number 5 Pokemon has a satanic influence
so so Pokemon is a game that teaches
children how to enter into the world of
witchcraft how to cast spells how to use
psychic phenomena output work
supernatural powers against their
enemies is biggie – really an agent of
the devil well that’s what some Pokemon
critics would have you believe
Nintendo’s critter collecting RPGs have
been vilified by of all groups religious
fundamentalists this claim originally
comes from a fake interview with
pokemons creator which says he made the
game for Satanists but this was later
debunked still many Christians have
spoken out against the game saying that
they promote the theory of evolution
which goes against biblical accounts of
creationism this led to some very
strange instances like a TV station in
Vatican City saying the games were
harmless and the introduction of
redemption a trading card game which was
like Pokemon but with biblical figures
it’s just a game to which I respond
Russian Roulette is just again before
the video games as a parts debate
because it seems to me that it’s so
hypnotic and so repetitive that it was
just not good for my mental health famed
an influential film critic Roger Ebert
famously said video games can never be
art it’s hard to believe people still
seem to be grappling with the artistic
merit of games long after masterpieces
like ICO braid journey and life is
strange have been published each with
their own way of proving without the
shadow of a doubt that games are capable
of eliciting powerful emotional
responses and players I mean come on
citing the brutal violence and popular
games as proof of a lack of artistic
quality in the medium too strong an
argument deciding that the brutal
violence in saw is a way of
judging Citizen Kane in our opinion
games have nothing left to prove
[Music]
and number three the hot coffee incident
I mean you knew you’d get to see a lot
of GTA on this list when you clicked
right in case you’ve never been on the
Internet the long and short of this
controversy was that hidden deep within
the game code for grand theft auto san
andreas was an unfinished minigames that
in featured explicit sexual acts when
data miners discovered this hidden bit
of naughtiness in the PC version and
naturally released a mod that allowed
players to access it the poop is the
proverbial fan for Rockstar the ESRB
changed the games rating from mature to
adults only which in turn prompted
retailers to pull one of the most
successful games of the year right off
the shelves what’s funny about this
whole kerfuffle is that this recall
included the ps2 and Xbox version which
couldn’t use the mod and therefore
couldn’t easily access the offending
content in the first place of course
there’s also the whole is sex really
worse than violence argument that this
whole thing illustrates but hey no one
expected a videogame to solve that now
did they you want to have some coffee
number two
Mass Effect sex scandal may I speak with
you I always have time for you Liara sex
in video games has always been a
controversial topic as the few games
that have to tackle it have all been met
with some degree of negative attention
but by far the most ludicrous instance
of this came when Fox News called out
Bioware’s 2007 hit Mass Effect 4 it’s
now infamous sex scenes which they claim
featured full digital nudity and sex
which simply put was really not true EA
and Bioware question did the people
decrying the game had ever even seen it
and a segment experts author Cooper
Lawrence ultimately retracted her
misinformed criticism where have you
ever played Mass Effect you know right
why think the fact is you talked about
you know another thing that you
mentioned is that how its you know has
full graphic nudity that’s completely
incorrect number one night trap
encourages murdering women 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
it’s an effort to track and kill women
to debate around the effect of violent
video games has existed practically as
long as the medium itself while night
travis probably the most well known full
motion video game it might not have been
if it worked for the 99
three US Senate hearings on violent
games Senator Joe Lieberman was a major
critic of the game’s violent beams and
content thing is Lieberman obviously
admitted that he never played the game
while senator Bryant Dorgan made
frequent erroneous claims throughout the
hearing most notably claiming that the
goal of the game was to murder women was
he even watching the right one also the
game is dumb as shit look at it but I
understand that the first time you rated
it you rated it at the 13 level is that
not correct sorry the rating system went
into effect in June it was rated for the
first time and it was rated ma 17 and it
was produced with that label on it from
that point forward do you agree with our
picks check out these other great clips
from WatchMojo and subscribe for new
videos every day
have been some dumbass controversies to
go along with them
welcome to watchmojo.com and you’ll be
looking at our picks for the top ten
dumbest video game controversies the
child at some point becomes capable of
taking these powers and channeling them
through their minds through their arms
or through their power sources
before we begin we publish new videos
every day so be sure to subscribe for
more great content for this list we’re
looking at notable debates that divided
the gaming community whether it be
through some in-game content or cultural
issues that all in retrospect really
didn’t need to be such a big deal choose
your battles my friend or risk like
idiots it features some in some parts of
this you’ll see full a digital nudity
project number 10
Peter’s complaint about rat deaths in
battlefield 3 people for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals or PETA have long
been on a crusade to save animals both
real and virtual be German branch of the
animal rights group got stirred up over
a sequence in the campaign of EA’s
battlefield 3 where players can kill rat
by stabbing them they said that the game
treats animals in a sadistic manner and
that it can have a brutalizing effect on
the young male target audience even
though you could consider that this was
happening in an M rated game where the
objectives includes blowing up other
human beings with rocket launchers a
QuickTime event where you stab virtual
rats was apparently the most
reprehensible act you could perform
number 9
but gate during the overwatch beta a
poster in the beta forms commented about
how tracers over-the-shoulder pose
didn’t quite fit her character as it
reduced her to a quote bland sex symbol
can you see where this is going this
naturally led to heated debates in the
gaming community with one side claiming
the pose unnecessarily diminished an
otherwise amazing character while others
argue that any change was censorship of
blizzards original artistic vision
plight overzealous social justice
warriors naturally this dovetails nicely
into the larger debate about
representation and censorship in gaming
as a whole with both sides picking a
rather silly issue to squabble over
blizzards did eventually change the pose
though so take that as a point for
whatever side you want to root for
number 8 target Australia removed GTA 5
from sale you’re reading this title
right and no it wasn’t
not because of the Australian government
but rather target removed GTA 5 from
their shelves because of a petition on
change.org starting with the very
misleading claim that cooks the game
encourages players to murder women for
entertainment but rather than actually
verifying any of these claims target
gave in and both became from their store
shelves of course the speedy internet
gamers were not going to take this lying
down with some even trying to prove
double standards biologic addition to
have fifty shades of gray removed the
really come on who buys their games from
Target anyway we know Canadian gamers
don’t but actually there’s a good reason
for that
number seven PETA criticizing Mario’s
tanooki suit
mario has been sporting the iconic
tanooki suit since 1990 but nobody
really cared about the ramifications
until 2011 before the release of Super
Mario 3d Land PETA criticized Nintendo
for supposedly supporting the skinning
of actual tanukis because the portly
plumber wears their fur as a powerup
PETA actually didn’t stop there though
releasing a browser game called Mario
kills two new feet which featured a
skins two new key chasing down the
villainous Mario to save its own skin
literally PETA was blasted for this
ridiculous animal cruelty claim but they
later claimed it was all a joke saying
the game was a ton and cheek fun way to
call attention to a serious issue
remember what we said about picking your
battles
you see we’re very thankful that the
watchdogs of a pizza spotted this
incidence of a possible abuse in the
Super Mario World Number six Grand Theft
Auto for vilifies New York
Liberty City grand theft auto’s version
of New York City has been a mainstay of
the series since the first installment
but GTA 4 was the first time it was
rendered in beautiful lifelike HD not
everyone was happy with the city’s
realism though this is GTA we’re talking
about right so Liberty City is depicted
as an even more degenerate crime ridden
version of NYC this prompted outcry from
the government of the Big Apple with a
spokesperson for then Mayor Michael
Bloomberg saying the mayor does not
support any video game where you earn
points for injuring or killing police
officers the industry came to GTA’s
defense asking why it was okay for
violent films and TV shows to be set in
NYC but not for video games checkmate
number 5 Pokemon has a satanic influence
so so Pokemon is a game that teaches
children how to enter into the world of
witchcraft how to cast spells how to use
psychic phenomena output work
supernatural powers against their
enemies is biggie – really an agent of
the devil well that’s what some Pokemon
critics would have you believe
Nintendo’s critter collecting RPGs have
been vilified by of all groups religious
fundamentalists this claim originally
comes from a fake interview with
pokemons creator which says he made the
game for Satanists but this was later
debunked still many Christians have
spoken out against the game saying that
they promote the theory of evolution
which goes against biblical accounts of
creationism this led to some very
strange instances like a TV station in
Vatican City saying the games were
harmless and the introduction of
redemption a trading card game which was
like Pokemon but with biblical figures
it’s just a game to which I respond
Russian Roulette is just again before
the video games as a parts debate
because it seems to me that it’s so
hypnotic and so repetitive that it was
just not good for my mental health famed
an influential film critic Roger Ebert
famously said video games can never be
art it’s hard to believe people still
seem to be grappling with the artistic
merit of games long after masterpieces
like ICO braid journey and life is
strange have been published each with
their own way of proving without the
shadow of a doubt that games are capable
of eliciting powerful emotional
responses and players I mean come on
citing the brutal violence and popular
games as proof of a lack of artistic
quality in the medium too strong an
argument deciding that the brutal
violence in saw is a way of
judging Citizen Kane in our opinion
games have nothing left to prove
[Music]
and number three the hot coffee incident
I mean you knew you’d get to see a lot
of GTA on this list when you clicked
right in case you’ve never been on the
Internet the long and short of this
controversy was that hidden deep within
the game code for grand theft auto san
andreas was an unfinished minigames that
in featured explicit sexual acts when
data miners discovered this hidden bit
of naughtiness in the PC version and
naturally released a mod that allowed
players to access it the poop is the
proverbial fan for Rockstar the ESRB
changed the games rating from mature to
adults only which in turn prompted
retailers to pull one of the most
successful games of the year right off
the shelves what’s funny about this
whole kerfuffle is that this recall
included the ps2 and Xbox version which
couldn’t use the mod and therefore
couldn’t easily access the offending
content in the first place of course
there’s also the whole is sex really
worse than violence argument that this
whole thing illustrates but hey no one
expected a videogame to solve that now
did they you want to have some coffee
number two
Mass Effect sex scandal may I speak with
you I always have time for you Liara sex
in video games has always been a
controversial topic as the few games
that have to tackle it have all been met
with some degree of negative attention
but by far the most ludicrous instance
of this came when Fox News called out
Bioware’s 2007 hit Mass Effect 4 it’s
now infamous sex scenes which they claim
featured full digital nudity and sex
which simply put was really not true EA
and Bioware question did the people
decrying the game had ever even seen it
and a segment experts author Cooper
Lawrence ultimately retracted her
misinformed criticism where have you
ever played Mass Effect you know right
why think the fact is you talked about
you know another thing that you
mentioned is that how its you know has
full graphic nudity that’s completely
incorrect number one night trap
encourages murdering women 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
it’s an effort to track and kill women
to debate around the effect of violent
video games has existed practically as
long as the medium itself while night
travis probably the most well known full
motion video game it might not have been
if it worked for the 99
three US Senate hearings on violent
games Senator Joe Lieberman was a major
critic of the game’s violent beams and
content thing is Lieberman obviously
admitted that he never played the game
while senator Bryant Dorgan made
frequent erroneous claims throughout the
hearing most notably claiming that the
goal of the game was to murder women was
he even watching the right one also the
game is dumb as shit look at it but I
understand that the first time you rated
it you rated it at the 13 level is that
not correct sorry the rating system went
into effect in June it was rated for the
first time and it was rated ma 17 and it
was produced with that label on it from
that point forward do you agree with our
picks check out these other great clips
from WatchMojo and subscribe for new
videos every day
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