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Originally Posted by Itse
I've recently ran into several articles, mostly in game media but in other places too, where people talk about their discomfort towards some of the things that goes on in video games.
Since I know there are gamers on this forum (I consider myself one), I'm curious as to other people feel about this. Personally I don't play these modern warfare games, although I haven't really thought much about why. I have picked up quite a few games where I'm a lone supersoldier destroying hordes of hideous monsters. I've started to think that maybe this is not a coincidence, that for me it matters what the enemy is.
How about you? Violence or otherwise, does it matter to you what happens in games, or are they just games for you?
Here's some of the stuff I've read on this. Note that all of the people talking here are gamers, most of them you could propably call hard-core gamers.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/arti...eld-3-Is-Scary
http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/propaganda-games
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...dern-warfare-3 http://kotaku.com/5857878/the-proble...ar-video-games |
I actually found these articles really interesting (at least 3 of them, as I didn't watch the episode). They aren't really as anti-video game or as anti-violence as the pulled quotes make them seem, and it seems like some posters in this thread are simply responding to some 'violent video games are inherently bad' argument that they assume the authors are making.
I haven't played a lot of modern-warfare style games, so I really can't comment on those, but agree with at least some arguments in the three articles: that underdog heroes are the most fun to play and that set-piece-heavy gameplay sucks; that NPC-heavy games need to have well-written and complex characters; and that video-games are overall an art-form that deserve to be looked at with the same sorts of critical questions that we ask when looking at movies or books.