everyone should be able to shoot everything.

[WitchdoctorDan]

Originally Posted by Captain Del

Yes... but that's a separate game from POTCO, even though it's on the same subject.

Disney has prevented this from happening, for two main reasons, in my opinion. Firstly, if we could shoot everything in sight, virtually every pirate would be unstoppable. If I could load my Blunderbuss with rank 5 steel shot, run up to Neban the Silent and defeat him in three shots, heck yes I would. But that ruins the challenge, doesn't it?

Secondly, shooting in video games is already a very, very, VERY controversial thing. If you don't think that game companies have to deal with dozens of complaints that their kids have become "more violent than usual" because of a game, oh how wrong you are. In some cases, things may escalate to local... then regional.. and sooner or later, NATIONAL attention. Then here come the lawsuits, lawsuits backed up by other lawsuits, and continuous amounts of money being lost by that game company.

I don't know if any of you remember the incident that went on with the Grand Theft Auto games a while back, but rest assured, Disney will take no chances in letting anything relatively close to that happening in their realm of ultra happiness. If, forbid it, that anything occurs with a gun involved, and that kid just so happens to play a game that now allows you to shoot everything, made by Disney... the media will have a field day.

I guess you're right, but I only really "agree" with the very last part. One thing I do CONSTANTLY tell people when they complain about violence in video games is this: DON'T BUY YOUR KID A GAME RATED "M"! Especially if it is called something like Grand Theft Auto, or has armed men on the cover. GTA in particular, event though kids don't play it THAT much (At least multiplayer...) and the Call of Duty series especially. Every time I play a match on CoD, I hear young voices. I can usually "guesstimate" them between 10-13. That's not to say that older, more mature players DON'T play, because the majority of them are mature. I constantly hear adults complaining about violence on TV and movies and games, but a solution is to stop sitting around and watching them play it and DO something about it if it bothers someone enough. Catch my drift?

EDIT: Sorry if it seems hostile, I was just bringing up a point.