Wayyyyy to many video games
 

Oh what the hell. This has been bugging me so I'm going to vent. Some of you know me and you have probably figured out that I don't provoke other posters here or on imfdb. But lately I've noticed that imfdb, you know the movie firearms database, seems to have been taken over by the gamers. Shouldn't they have their own database? Not to mention that it seems many of the contributers who are into the games can be awfully damm rude. Couple have been banned for being little assholes actually.

I don't worry about the animation because that is within the criteria in my opinion. But flipping video games? And now it seems that more than half the time all the new pages are video games. Many of them consist of bizzare made up weapons or really awful artwork of actual weapons being used by computer cartoon characters. Ugh.

Ok I've closed the vent and yes I know that I'm showing my age. But I wanted to get that out there. Yes I know it's only my opinion and opinions are like you know what. Everyone has one. No I don't expect any changes. No I don't spend alot of time on the computer game pages.

And for those you don't know (and actually care) I go by Jcordell on imfdb.

Well, that's what you get when a bunch of stupid kids get on the site. No, I'm not talking about the IMFDB contributors who are younger than 18 who are Smart and good page makers and intelligent. Even our younger IMFDB members know whom I'm talking about. The idiotic fanboy jerks who have no life, no manners, and are ... well ... really young.

I'm working a lot this summer, so I have little time to police the site, but when I get breaks I try to. If their video game page is lame (and believe me, many of them are) and they have not shown improvement over time, I will delete them. I don't care if they whine, bitch and complain (and they have ... directly to ME). IMFDB needs to try at least to uphold a standard and having F*&%KING 12 year olds (yes, I've asked for ages before and one member who wanted to make a BUNCH Of changes was actually TWELVE!) constantly editing the site.

Again, I'm a movie buff. I work in movies as well. I don't play video games. I was never in support of including games because, regardless of what game fans say, THEY'RE NOT REAL GUNS. They will ALWAYS be the product of some artist's imagination. If the Artist does a good and accurate depiction of a real gun, so what? What do we get from tracking that information? What does it tell us?

The real world movies, by their nature, have to have REAL THREE DIMENSIONAL WEAPONS. So it is interesting to know what weapons were in what movie and also, how did they get the guns? (many myths have been answered on IMFDB (fake mockups, C&C HK94s, using Chinese AKs for Russian, fake DShKs from M2s, etc. etc.) those are more pertinent because people really do wonder where they came from. NO ONE wonders where a two dimensional artwork came from. Duh. It came from the fingers of the artist.

But that's MY opinion, of course. Now some members have done some great VG pages, but I still don't like the concept of including VG guns since as you said, so many of them are really bad MUTANT drawings of real guns and the idiotic game makers misidentify them, renamed them and give them fantasy characteristics.

IMDB lists TV shows, video games, even porn. Why shouldn't we. (I think we can forget about porn but you get the idea.) The problem isn't that we list video games, it's that we have no criteria for who is allowed to edit the site. All the more reason to adopt some sort of troll filtering system.

I can't tell you how many times I've deleted the Halo page and listen to some guy bitch about how unfair I am being. No, screw him, the guns in Halo are not based on real guns. The developers even admit in interviews that they are not and any resembles to real guns are coincidental.

Make a Halo page, leave it blank, lock it. Problem solved.

Now that's a good idea. Glad to see that my post hasn't resulted in a flame war. I hesitated about posting, but I finally got tired of all the game pages.

Incidentally I'm 42. I remember when Pac Man and Space Invaders were cutting edge. :D

I'm feeling masochistic...can i do a sweep of the video games and delete all the ones that are just lists of guns without screen caps or in some cases even gun pictures or links to the gun pages?

I'll even provide the steaks for the barbecue...Please.

Are we that low on bandwith? Theres plenty of crappy movie and tv show pages that can go first.

Not even Close K9870. I just want to do a forum sweep of all the lame pages that need to just go to clean up the site. hell some fuckwit is makeing a second Counterstrike page. We allready have a page for the game and the new page is lame.

I can´t find the original Counter-Strike page. Where the hell is it?