Comments on: Ask GamerDad 4/04/08 http://www.gamesanityblog.com/2008/04/05/ask-gamerdad-40408/ Games from a Parental Perspective Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:32:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mike Anderson http://www.gamesanityblog.com/2008/04/05/ask-gamerdad-40408/comment-page-1/#comment-6173 Mike Anderson Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:28:52 +0000 http://www.gamingwithchildren.com/2008-04-05/ask-gamerdad-40408/#comment-6173 I think you were absolutely right, GamerDad, in terms of spoilers. I am really bad in terms of intolerance to spoilers (it all goes back to my brother's friend ruining the head popping out in Jaws back in '75, but that is a different story ... ). But there is a time when spoilers are inappropriate - like mentioning that you are Reven in KotOR or that Aeris dies. Because there isn't any 'warning factor' involved. Mentioning that completing Postal 2 means that your kid will be running around peeing Napalm and setting the town on fire and having screaming charred corpses around ... somewhat different. I think you were absolutely right, GamerDad, in terms of spoilers. I am really bad in terms of intolerance to spoilers (it all goes back to my brother’s friend ruining the head popping out in Jaws back in ’75, but that is a different story … ).

But there is a time when spoilers are inappropriate – like mentioning that you are Reven in KotOR or that Aeris dies. Because there isn’t any ‘warning factor’ involved. Mentioning that completing Postal 2 means that your kid will be running around peeing Napalm and setting the town on fire and having screaming charred corpses around … somewhat different.

]]> By: Cary Woodham http://www.gamesanityblog.com/2008/04/05/ask-gamerdad-40408/comment-page-1/#comment-5763 Cary Woodham Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:31:13 +0000 http://www.gamingwithchildren.com/2008-04-05/ask-gamerdad-40408/#comment-5763 You know what I say about spoilers? If you don't want a game spoiled for you, don't go on the Internet! Sheesh. Informing parents about the content of a game is more important than getting a game spoiled for you. I get games spoiled for me all the time but I don't blame anyone but myself for reading about it. Oh, and by the way, Aeris dies, Sheik is really Zelda, Samus is a woman, Apollo Justice and Trucy are really... --Cary You know what I say about spoilers? If you don’t want a game spoiled for you, don’t go on the Internet! Sheesh. Informing parents about the content of a game is more important than getting a game spoiled for you. I get games spoiled for me all the time but I don’t blame anyone but myself for reading about it.

Oh, and by the way, Aeris dies, Sheik is really Zelda, Samus is a woman, Apollo Justice and Trucy are really… –Cary

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