Games taken off shelves after Oslo killings

Turpentine · 30-07-2011 04:09AM

jill_valentine wrote: »

Pff. That's the kind of typical knee jerk reactionary response would have put Optimus Prime in Guantanamo.

He'd have no truck with that type of treatment.

jill_valentine · 30-07-2011 04:10AM

Not to open a giant can of worms or anything but -

I made the point at the time that the game would never be used in SAS training because it didn't demand restraint in the use of force, or mercy

- raised an eyebrow.

wonderfulname · 30-07-2011 04:11AM

Really? Just that?

jill_valentine · 30-07-2011 04:22AM

Well I've ranted about all the other stuff at length before, but that bit, and the way it's stated as if it totally goes without saying that the SAS has restraint and martial mercy up the wazoo kind of caught my eye.

wonderfulname · 30-07-2011 04:26AM

But this man is a veteran, he knows his stuff!

It seems another retailer has followed suit since the story broke;

[UPDATE: Norwegian site ITavisen reports that major Norwegian entertainment retailer Platekompaniet has also decided to pull these titles from shelves (thanks to GamingVault's Herman S. Lilleng for the tip).]

Yeah, we certainly haven't heard the last of this story...

Reamer Fanny · 30-07-2011 04:33AM

No mention of how he armed himself? I don't know if guns are legal in Norway but if they are surely they should have some kind of mental screening to prevent another nutjob going on another killing spree

Buceph · 30-07-2011 04:39AM

Crazy Horse 6 wrote: »

I blame it all on pac-man. Going around eating things and ****. Fecking cannibal.

Best quote;

"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
- Kristin Wilson, Nintendo, Inc., 1989.

wonderfulname · 30-07-2011 04:44AM

justryan wrote: »

No mention of how he armed himself? I don't know if guns are legal in Norway but if they are surely they should have some kind of mental screening to prevent another nutjob going on another killing spree

Given that the same store has also removed all toys that “look or function as weapons” we can only assume he armed himself from toymaster.

jill_valentine · 30-07-2011 04:49AM

To be fair, I've known of at least one store here that had to stop selling black plastic toy guns because so many of them were indeed being used to rob local shops, so that's not completely unreasonable.

wonderfulname · 30-07-2011 04:59AM

But that's not the context of this move, so it isn't particularly reasonable at all.

jill_valentine · 30-07-2011 05:01AM

Certainly, but stuff like this is always going to draw an eye to firearms - even pretendy ones - and their place in the world.

Somebody else mentioned that the games withdrawal seems to have been done in the spirit of sensitivity to the victims, and I think they're probably right. I'd be a lot angrier about the move if I didn't think it was probably temporary, but we'll see.

Amalgam · 30-07-2011 05:03AM

The person is insane. It's quite probable that there's a whole meaty stew of hard wired dysfunction going on, sociopathy, narcissism etc.. throw in the likely use of steroids and he would have got his jollies as much from watching Daytime TV, 24 hour News channels..

A bit daft trying to neuter popular (digital) culture, when the likely cause is probably something much more mundane, a person that fell through the cracks, educational services, mental health services, social services etc.

wonderfulname · 30-07-2011 05:05AM

But is it really in sensitivity to the victims? Because to me it appears they drew attention to something nobody saw as an issue for publicity, I don't see how this is sensitive to the victims, I see it as the exact opposite, being sensitive would be treating the event with respect and not using it for personal gain.

jill_valentine · 30-07-2011 05:10AM

Don't get me wrong, I still think it's brainless.

Kidchameleon · 30-07-2011 08:53AM

Whats Joe Duffy doing in Norway? Surely this has something to do with that little pr**k.

drdeadlift · 30-07-2011 10:56AM

i hate all them shoot em up games always found them uninteresting very little challenge give them the boot.Give me good old flight sim any day of the week

srsly78 · 30-07-2011 11:11AM

drdeadlift wrote: »

i hate all them shoot em up games always found them uninteresting very little challenge give them the boot.Give me good old flight sim any day of the week

Sure so long as it's a combat flight sim. Flying a 747 across the atlantic = zzzzz :pac:

Lord TSC · 30-07-2011 11:14AM

I get how the likes of COD might adversly affect families of the victims, but WoW? Really? How is that justified other than in saying "It was one of his favorite games". Yeah, but WoW has over 11million subscribers so why ban a game cause ONE of them happened to be liked by an idiot psychopath?

Phill Ewinn · 30-07-2011 11:27AM

Since Anders was a mason they should give freemasonry the boot n'all. Wierd cults have no place in the world of 2011.

SuperInfinity · 30-07-2011 06:44PM

Teamshadowclan wrote: »

I get how the likes of COD might adversly affect families of the victims, but WoW? Really? How is that justified other than in saying "It was one of his favorite games". Yeah, but WoW has over 11million subscribers so why ban a game cause ONE of them happened to be liked by an idiot psychopath?

What do you mean you "get how the likes of COD might adversely affect families of the victims". It did not adversely affect anyone.

Your reasons for saying "WoW? Really?" are stupid. The fact that it has 11 million subscribers has nothing to do with it.

Call of Duty is an extremely popular game that has millions of users as well.

pablomakaveli · 30-07-2011 06:50PM

World of Warcraft has also saved lives.

Boy Survives Moose Attack Thanks To World Of Warcraft

Hans Jørgen Olsen, a 12-year-old Norwegian boy, recently survived a moose attack by feigning death, "just like you learn at level 30 in World of Warcraft."
In WoW,
"feign death" is a skill acquired by hunters at level 30 that allows them to take a page from the possum playbook, collapse to the ground, and convince their enemies — who lose all ingrained animosity in the process — that they’ve died.
According to Norwegian site Nettavisen , Hans and his sister apparently enraged one of the local moose (mooses? meese?) during a walk in the forest near their home. After shouting at the gigantic creature to ward it away from his sister, Olsen dropped to the ground, and presumably his lifebar plummeted to zero.
Moose have never been known as the wisest creature in the forest, and the boy’s show of necrosis seems to have worked, as both he and his sister survived intact.
It’s easy to decry video games as a menace to society but in a world where MMOs save adorable, tow-headed Norwegian children from a deadly moose, can they really be that bad?

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2007/12/boy-survives-mo/

Pyr0 · 30-07-2011 06:52PM

It seems to be the modern way of dealing with any problems like this, targeting the mediums that have in actual fact contributed in no way to the persons actions. Instead they over look the quite obvious racist and extreme right winged views of the person but refuse to tackle any of these problems within society because quite frankly they can't.

Solnskaya · 31-07-2011 01:28AM

personally, I have watched my teenagers playing CODBO and I for one would not fcuk with them. Furthermore, on foot of this I have banned all high powered assault rifles from the house, just in case they take a strop when they find out I ate the last of the Hob Nobs and decide to wipe all us parents out. My wife is convinced we live in Beirut, given the permanent soundtrack of gunfire and C4, and is currently taking shelter in the basement. The sooner we ban these games the better, if only so I get my fcuking television back so I can watch "How its made".

Games taken off shelves after Oslo killings

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