I'm glad you find it disgusting. You can now relate to how I feel about games where you can randomly hurt or kill people in spectacular bloody fashion. You still never answered for why you want to do that in a game? These hairs I am splitting are important ones. There is a hair-thin line between how you make decisions in a game and in reality. I know I am extreme in my views but I don't play war games because I am deeply non-violent. I would never under any circumstances go to war and kill another person. Most of you would.Fippmam wrote:At this point, you're just splitting hairs. Also, your fantasy video game is one of the more disgusting things I've read in a while.
Pics or it didn't happen. Also, if any lightcycle game decided to indulge in gore like that I certainly wouldn't play it. Armagetron is no more violent and gruesome than chess. And for the record, all the realism introduced into Tron:Legacy was one of the things that made the movie garbage.Fippmam wrote:Bottom line is it is a game where men and women in light cycles, crash to their death in a rather colorful explosion of cold metal and bloody entrails.
Wat?Fippmam wrote:Difference is that these games actually (more often than not), make the main character the moral one...See in GTA, Trevor (the badass) literally goes on "rampages" and kills hoards of hippies because they call him an old man.
No, never. It didn't happen here or all these other places. Our armed forces also play a totally unrealistic video game called "drone attack." It's a super boring flight simulator. Maybe you've heard of it?Fippmam wrote:Our armed forces play these kinds of games all the time and you don't see them (for the most part at least) going on killing/raping sprees.
On one point we might agree is that video games probably don't contribute to a significant amount of violence in the world. However, I think the popularity of gaming could and should be used to combat violence instead of glorifying or normalizing it.
I know this was not directed toward me but...
When my father came back from Vietnam he brought with him a couple gunshot wounds and horrors unimaginable. I got to experience the war by looking at his eyes as he described it. You can't imagine the terror in his face without seeing it. True, no game can capture the feeling of war, but it does no one any good at all to make war into light-hearted entertainment for you and your friends to enjoy.Fippmam wrote:Right, and you would know that for certain because you've served in the armed forces, or experienced war in any personal way (which I REALLY doubt).