Lorne Lanning on G4 Special
 

Hey, not sure if you guys saw this, but G4 is airing a special about the history of violence in video games and discussing whether or not violent video games promote violence in people. Looks interesting...plus it's got Lorne Lanning in it! He's not hosting it, but he's a featured interviewee (sp?) Anyway, check out this link...

http://www.g4tv.com/specials/episode..._In_Games.html

-oddguy

Wounderful find Oddguy.

I wounder what Lorne Lanning has to say towards this. G4 won't be shown here where I live, but an uploaded video or written inverview would be great!

Indeed, I don't get G4, so if anyone wants to write up the Lorne part, that'd be awesome.

Nice find, Oddguy.

Just saw the commercial a few hours ago. I was thinking of posting this, but I thought it was an old special (confused it with the one about sex in games). I'm really excited about it now.

Don't forget to watch the video in oddguy's link, Lorne is towards the end of it.

It confuses me really because doesen't Lorne has video game violence (Guns,Blood,etc.) in his games? Or are they talking about serious not comedy violence?

Read, silly Flordinian. And watch the video Mojo recommended.

And Lorne has said that he is not against violence in games, merely gratuitous violence. Which is a bit like saying you're fine with genocide as long as there's a good reason behind it.

Ai the video does not work...Sorry.

More like saying you're fine with murder as opposed to genocide.

So Lorne contradicts himself. Lots of people do.

Not really. Gratuitous means Unnecessary or unwarranted; unjustified (thanks dictionary.com) thus your distinction between murder and genocide is irrelevant.

And I'm not accusing him of contradicting himself. Merely saying something unintentionally humourous.

I do agree with lorne...
Look at his games, there's violence in it but much more from the enemy's side then from your side. So I guess the violence Abe's uses is kind of justified, I mean, he has to survive.

I also reported this on OddBLog thanks Oddguy

Ahh, okay. I supposed gratuitous meant over the top or too much of something. My bad. Perhaps that's what he thought as well, though. That seems to be what most people think gratuitous means, at least where I'm from *coughretardvillecough*. Shrug.

Yus.

I don't see the big deal over violence in video games. I mean its a video game for peet sake ya know! But still this is a nice find Oddguy. Maybe he will discuss a little bit about whats in store for Oddworld next. I hope!

It might be the fact that young children are playing all these violent games and think it would be okay in real life. I don't know why they think that but it might be because you are killing things for the good of mankind. So the children think that killing a certain person might help our community but instead it makes it worse. Hope that can explain something.

Sorry but, what is G4?

A video game tv channel. If you have comcast go to channel 164/162.

Lorne Lanning must like G4
 

Cool another G4 special with Lorne Lanning my favorite was the icons episode they don't show it often and I was wondering if that was because at the end they tell you the next oddworld is already in the works, by the way this is my first thread here.

Well to be honest if someone decided to kill someone just because he or she saw it on a video game, then that person is a complete ass licker. Its common sense. And I guess the world has a lot of ass lickers in it.

I think violence in games is okay but to much is not.example:I was at my moms friends house the other day.My moms friend has a son and he was really nice when we got there but then he started playing this really violent ninja game and when his little sister walked in to tell us it was time for lunch he flipped out because she was blocking the screen and hit her on the back. maybe the kid was just bipolar or maybe he played that ninja game every day.
I feel bad for his sister.

^Sounds like the kid is just being an older brother.^

no you should have seen the way he reacted and he hit her really hard.

Are you talking about Ninja Gaiden? Anyway just blocking the screen seems really harsh even for a big brother. This might be a good example actually. That or he either cares to much for the game or his sister got him at a bad time..

how did you know it was ninja gaiden?isnt that game violent.And no I dint think she caught him at a bad time because he was pissed the rest of the day.

Well ninja gaiden is the only extremely violent ninja game out there that rocks. Anyway i'm getting off topic so....Maybe he just dosen't like his sister? Huge grudge maybe? Or maybe just the game like you said....

No offense but I didnt really like ninja gaiden(maybe because I didnt play, I shouldnt judge)And if he did have a grudge against her I dont know why because she was really sweet and wasnt mean to him.

Okay no biggie. The game did not impress me at first too because it was just my brother playing it. Anyway....Um..With the sister thing i'm fresh out sorry...

yeah i never got a chance to play.hey you know how you have that slig picture next to your name? how do you get pictures for your file i need one?

Go to User cp and then click on edit avatar. Choices galore. Anyway aren't we going a bit off topic here?

yeah sorry about that I just really wanted to know.anyways I'm pretty sure It was the game. Do you have any experiences like that or any ones were someone coppied violence in a video game?

No but i'm getting hallucinations from playing to much of one game. *Idea pops up* No duh! I can't believe I didn't see it before! It's probably (and I am talking about people with weak minds) because kids are seeing things that they shouldn't! They get confused between reality and video games so it becomes some kind of sick combination! I feel so stupid not thinking about this before...

sorry for taking so log to reply i was messing around with user cp.your probabley right actually, young kids should not be seeing such gory stuff and they dont know what to do or think if they do.when you hollusinate what do you see?

That means the kid is an asshole. Video games didn't make him punch her.

Let the eye-rolling commence.

And rightfully so. ;)

EDIT: Oh yeah, get on topic, you bastards!

Well I am playing castlevannia DS right now. The fact that it's so darn addictive I think about it way to much. Thus seeing bloody 5 story tall knights walking outside my building. It's wierd yet cool. Like virtual pot :P.

that is totally cool if i could do that i would make myself see abe and the other inhabitants.
And kimon I'm sorry but the moment I read that I started craking up.your correct he was an asshole but i think i was cause of the game.

Well we kind of are on topic. I mean I just pointed out another suggestion on why kids are reanacting video games. Well now this post is kind of off topic but it explains that my post was not off topic. So yea we are on topic.....Did I make any sence in this post?

Don't apologize, laughter is good.

If you mean it was because he couldn't see the game, then you are correct. But if you think it was because the game affected him subconciously after however many HOURS of playing it, you're an idiot.

yes metroixer you made sence.kimon I guess im correct and im an idiot because I ment that he hit her because of playing the game and because she was in the screen.And very violent video games can affect you, ask metroixer. the two of us have been talking about it for quite some time now.

Yeah, turns out I'm not blind.

And if metroixer sees 5-story knights walking around outside his house, there's a lot more in him than a few hours of Castelvania.

Anyway, this thread has turned stupid, so I take my leave.

fine leave metroixer and i will talk about better things.(not really because I kinda ran out of things to talk about unless you didnt metroixer)If you dont have anything to talk about go over to the first thread where im the last reply and could you please answer my question?