Reuters: Video games are for adults, too

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Facepalming...a mixture of hilarity and agreement.

For you, maybe. For people with glasses it's just a pain in the butt to do right. Seriously, why couldn't the facepalm be replaced with a dramatic sigh or an ear-splitting scream of agony. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that it isn't a suitable method of expressing one's disbelief, but having to mangle your glasses every time you do one gets annoying. Speaking of which, does anyone actually facepalm themselves or do they just post asci art and call it good?

Face palming with glasses:
Slowly and purposefully take off your glasses like you're about to tell them that they have cancer. Proceed to, almost despairingly, place your head in your hand like Picard shown above. Hold for no less than 5 seconds and no more than 15 seconds.

This will be on the test.

If you want to leave your glasses on, then you can also use the forehead focused facepalm, where you put the base of your palm just above the ridge of your eyebrows with your fingers pointing up so they span towards the top of your head. This usually requires you to bow your head down more than with the standard facepalm.

It implies an entirely different emotional reaction though. Rather than just being utter despair over the failure of the person prompting the facepalm, it implies more of a "that is so stupid that it is causing physical pain directly to my brain for even contemplating the level of stupidity, and putting pressure on head is the only thing that eases the sickening throb of my head splitting open as my brain attempts to escape by killing itself rather than be infected further by your continued existence."

the day video games are treated as a form of art by the mainstream media, I will rejoice.

really, I can write a full length op-ed on how video games are (or can be because they aren't necessarily there yet) an art form, they have much more outreach and accessibility than movies, they can tell a story, captivate you, suck you in and make you care about your actions and characters (kind of like how mass effect 2 allegedly is, saying that cause I haven't played it obviously) but the mainstream media needs to learn.

This isn't the 60s anymore, Austin!

Since the Playstation? Long before that, kid. Remember that Doom was the game that pretty much invented classifications of games, alongside stuff like Mortal Kombat. Not to mention the "under-the-counter" games for the likes of the Atari that were obviously aimed at the "mature" audiences (I say mature, most of them were comical in nature). Stuff like Custer's Revenge and other adult titles.

I forgot about Doom, but that's because it was a pc game and I never cared for pc shit, specially in the early 90s.

Mortal Kombat is not an adult game though. You're confusing gore with mature, and I never saw anyone but little kids playing that in arcades. I'm talking games along the lines of the first metal gear solid, with a lot of serious tones and political storylines.

Tmac that's when PC gaming was still good.

Well considering the first Metal Gear game originally came out for the MSX2 and the NES...

I know that, and I also know that metal gear 1 and 2 are nothing like the MGS series. They were more like normal games at the time.

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Well it says Doom was on the SNES, so aside from Mortal Kombat that's one other game. Then again Nintendo was known for keeping the games on their system pretty tame at the time. You can also see some of the mature/adult games rated for the Sega CD/32x and the Genesis.

You should keep in mind that games didn't start getting the "Mature" rating until after the SNES had released.

They've been mature for as long as they've been games. It's just that with new technology comes new way of adding mature things into games, like full motion video, 3D rendering, etc.

Man, I thought everyone played Doom on the PC, even the life-long consolites. I guess I was wrong.

Who even had a PC that long ago? I never saw or knew anyone who did.

I played it back starting in 94-95, along with many other PC classics like Commander Keen, Heretic, Hexen, Jazz Jackrabbit, etc. I played many of ID and Epic's older games. I grew up with the PC in my early childhood and then later went to the Playstation and Playstation 2 in my late childhood to young adult years. Before 94', I had an Atari and NES which I hardly remember. I guess that is why I still have this attachment to PC gaming.

Really Tmac? I mean I know tons of people who started gaming on Windows 95. and were even enjoying "mature" games way back when.

I don't think it's that they are particularly more adult oriented now as much as it is that since gaming is much more popular now, more studios are popping up all over the place that are offering mature games.

Let's not forget all the Doom or Duke Nukem games and their clones.

Ski-Free, Asteroids, Windows 3.2 with DOS. I'm glad to be around when Wolfenstein 3D and Doom were considered the Bee's Knees of action.

Yeah, Zork was meant for kids, as was Farmer's Daughter and Custer's Revenge.

@sonicspike41 - troll defense supplies:

M rated games didn't come out until after SNES because there weren't RATINGS until after SNES. Ratings came in '94.

Yeah, and the Almighty Nintendo said they weren't needed. Sega had to take the lead there, just to get the Senate out of the picture.

Cmon guys. You're downvoting him because he didn't use a computer in the early 90's?

I don't remember using one before 98, and then it was only at school.

"Who even had a PC that long ago?"

I remember that my family's first PC had a BIOS copyright 1989 American Megatrends. It was on this machine that I played 1993's X-Wing, which utilized EMM386 memory management (note that it didn't run under that newfangled Windows GUI, though maybe some later release of the game did). I'm not even going to mention the older DOS games I had that ran too quickly on our 20-MHz 386.

Really, tmac, you should realize that some of us here are older than you.

Let me go grab a sock so we can enjoy that hot alien on alien full nudity!

I totally agree with you on this. Violence alone doesn't make a game for adults, depth is a far greater factor.

Counter Strike is not pleased.

Yeah, but it's low grade FMV unless you find the PC or CD32X version. Then it's only mid-grade FMV.

And still corny as hell.