Alien Swarm

[Coupon]

All right. Did you read the review?

[Ad Bot]

[Coupon]

What are you, 8? Tell her you're mature enough to play games now.  That's not common sense, that's fanaticism. "OH MY GOSH MY CHILD MIGHT BECOME A MURDERER IF HE PLAYS HALF LIFE"!
Even though you don't start developing a sense of morality until you're around 16 years old. I played Perfect Dark, Goldeneye, and DOOM when I was a child and I'm no serial killer, I understand that it's wrong to kill. Common sense distinguishes reality from game, and any good parent would know that it's not the media that shapes their children, it's what they teach them.
In summary your mother is a crazy person
Your mother is one of those idiots that thinks if her child sees so much as a bullet that is just sitting on a table you'll instantly turn into a psychopath murderer and will kill everyone around you or take her car for a joy ride.

The only games that don't feature violence these days are games that only little children play. Tell her you're actually mature enough for the games and you are aware of the very clear and huge line between video games and reality.

Most games like Half Life 2 or Alien Swarm don't even focus on player versus player gameplay. Just about every Valve game aside from Counter Strike and Team Fortress 2 pits you against what is generally stereotyped as "evil". The Combine for instance can be related to the national socialists, and killing national socialists isn't exactly bad now is it?

There we go.

[Eryehk]

Coupon since you cant lie, if you watched someone kill someone else, he told you if you told anyone about it, he would kill you. What would you do, lie to people saying you saw nothing, or tell the truth and get killed.

[Coupon]

Tell the truth and hire a guard.

[General Nick]

Consider this: If your mother is afraid of you playing violent video games you must be totally blinded from the news and every day life considering most of normal life is violent.

You could learn more about violence from a car crash than a video game probably.

[Talent74]

My mom doesn't care if I play bloody-as-stuff games. She even let me play F.E.A.R., CoD 4, CoD: MW2, etc.

[yuki]

This is why I can't play Half Life (I don't support this review).

HAHAHAHA
That's so over brown townyzed it's absolutely ridiculous. A child wouldn't even understand those ideas, nor how they're horrifying or graphic, unless your child has read 1984.
Also Half-Life 2 doesn't actually have legitimate gore aside from the zombies, and even then that's laughable.

Consider this: If your mother is afraid of you playing violent video games you must be totally blinded from the news and every day life considering most of normal life is violent.

You could learn more about violence from a car crash than a video game probably.

He's right. Real life is far more violent. In video games you run around killing things in ways that in no way represent real life acts, even CoD is highly unrealistic.
In real life, people are murdered, tortured, stabbed, robbed, raped and their remains hidden under a house.

What

The part of your brain that makes ethical or moral judgement and decisions isn't fully developed until you're 16 or 17. i.e. a child knows not to go into a cookie jar because they will get in trouble, NOT because they think it is WRONG.

[Harm94]

....and some of the violence if over exaggerated media and games than in relife.

[yuki]

....and some of the violence if over exaggeratedin media and games than in relife.

wat

[naturemon]

I played violent video games since I first started playing video games, which was around 2/3 o.0.

[Amade]

The part of your brain that makes ethical or moral judgement and decisions isn't fully developed until you're 16 or 17. i.e. a child knows not to go into a cookie jar because they will get in trouble, NOT because they think it is WRONG.

I am here on behalf of people under the age of 17 to inform you that we do indeed understand why murder, theft, and such are wrong and that you are full of stuff.

[yuki]

I am here on behalf of people under the age of 17 to inform you that we do indeed understand why murder, theft, and such are wrong and that you are full of stuff.

I said fully developed, you begin developing it when you're around 13 or 14, we studied this phenomenon in psychology after talking about imprisoning a child that killed his stepdad or something. I'm 17, also.

[Alphadin]

We need a better looking OP or something.

[ase]

So I finally upgraded my comp to run alien swarm :P

high detail 1280x960 looks great

[shafin25]

Anyone online?
Add me on Steam since I'm bored and got nothing to do.