Published at March 25, 2008
in Rant.
Oh this ones priceless….
Not so long ago in the hazy past, a little game called Manhunt 2 caused just a tiny bit of controversy - Manhunt Banned
The BBFC banned the game for its depiction of “sustained, casual sadism” deeming it too much for UK gamers. David Cooke, director of the BBFC, said the body had twice rejected the game “for its focus on varied and cumulative killings”.
He said the judgement had to include the “full range of possible harm risks to vulnerable individuals and to any children who may be wrongly exposed to such games.”
How is it then that the (government backed) UK Film Council deems it worthy to award nearly 1 million pounds from National Lottery money to a torture movie in the same vein as Saw and Hostel? A film described as “a nasty, pretentious and sordid little movie”
Now, I have ZERO problems with this movie existing. I don’t care, I’ve seen the Saw movies and enjoyed them to a degree, I watched Hostel and shook my head at the poorly written story.. but not at the violence.
How the HELL can the UK government have the brass balls to claim that video games might be too violent and spend god knows how much of our tax money on a study on violence in games, then help fund a f*cking torture movie is beyond me!
I’m literally boiling with rage at this.. if a game was to come out with the same content as this movie.. torturing people until they either break and kill a loved one, or die.. all the anti-game nuts would be screaming from the rooftops!
Seriously, this sh*t needs to stop. If a game is rated for adults it deserves the same treatment films like this get.
Sooooo, I spent a lot of time in AV on Saturday.. to the tune of about 10k honour so as you can imagine, my "I hate AV" tee-shirt was thrown away for the time being!
Id like to say I enjoyed it cos’ I kicked some ass, or that my feelings towards the map size and being zerged by 40 people at once have changed for the better.. but they haven’t so I wont, however the main thing I’ll sing praises for is the "AV Preform Enabler" addon.
Going into AV with a local 40 man team, with tic-tacs laid out in chat before even entering the BG, and every group sticking to the orders given to them is a sight to be seen.. (well it is if you haven’t seen it anyway 
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I went in multiple’s of these preform groups on Saturday, skipping Bal, taking every tower, not a scratch on Galv due to solid defence, rolling in 500/600 honour every game. One game was taking about 20 min’s or so iirc.. maybe even less at times.
So yeah, grab http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/5418/ and keep an eye out for any premade AV requests and have a go.
I’ll preempt any complaints here and say its a ballache getting an addon just to join a BG (2.4 will let you premade AV without addon though so its not for long), its a ballache waiting for 40 people to actually open the damn thing so the RL can queue everyone up.. but once it gets going and your racking up 500/600 honour a game it seems less of a hassle
EDIT: It seems Tobold has also been experimenting with this addon with success - Alterac Valley premade - Tobold’s MMORPG Blog
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Oh this ones priceless….