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We live in a depressing time, I tell you all. Everytime you turn on/recieve/buy/steal the TV/Radio/Internet/Newspaper there will always be some sort of announcment about some conflict in somefar-away country, and it seems that games developers are now getting a buzz out of creating games that involve you playing in the cold, depressing, ramdon wars this world has had/may have.
Everywhere you look there's a game with bloody war in it. Medal of Honor, Ghost Recon 2, Call of Duty, Conflict, Full Spectrum are just a minority of the titles on offer. It's quite scary to think that games developers feel the need to swamp the market with depressing, harsh crap only our grandads understand.
Don't get me wrong, some of these games are good. I enjoyed Full Spectrum and Call of Duty, but is there really a need to highlight what a brutal past this world has had?
If developers do want to create a game about shooting and death, I feel they should lay of the history and follow the likes of Halo 2 and it's Covenant, which 'hopefully' will never happern. And developers should also start creating games that challenge the mind and not the finger.
There really isn't a need for all these harsh and brutal reminders of the cold past that haunts this world, and I would really like to see a decrease in the amount of war-related games that are created for our own and our childrens' sake.
Everywhere you look there's a game with bloody war in it. Medal of Honor, Ghost Recon 2, Call of Duty, Conflict, Full Spectrum are just a minority of the titles on offer. It's quite scary to think that games developers feel the need to swamp the market with depressing, harsh crap only our grandads understand.
Don't get me wrong, some of these games are good. I enjoyed Full Spectrum and Call of Duty, but is there really a need to highlight what a brutal past this world has had?
If developers do want to create a game about shooting and death, I feel they should lay of the history and follow the likes of Halo 2 and it's Covenant, which 'hopefully' will never happern. And developers should also start creating games that challenge the mind and not the finger.
There really isn't a need for all these harsh and brutal reminders of the cold past that haunts this world, and I would really like to see a decrease in the amount of war-related games that are created for our own and our childrens' sake.
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We live in a depressing time, I tell you all. Everytime you turn on/recieve/buy/steal the TV/Radio/Internet/Newspaper there will always be some sort of announcment about some conflict in somefar-away country, and it seems that games developers are now getting a buzz out of creating games that involve you playing in the cold, depressing, ramdon wars this world has had/may have.
Everywhere you look there's a game with bloody war in it. Medal of Honor, Ghost Recon 2, Call of Duty, Conflict, Full Spectrum are just a minority of the titles on offer. It's quite scary to think that games developers feel the need to swamp the market with depressing, harsh crap only our grandads understand.
Don't get me wrong, some of these games are good. I enjoyed Full Spectrum and Call of Duty, but is there really a need to highlight what a brutal past this world has had?
If developers do want to create a game about shooting and death, I feel they should lay of the history and follow the likes of Halo 2 and it's Covenant, which 'hopefully' will never happern. And developers should also start creating games that challenge the mind and not the finger.
There really isn't a need for all these harsh and brutal reminders of the cold past that haunts this world, and I would really like to see a decrease in the amount of war-related games that are created for our own and our childrens' sake.
Everywhere you look there's a game with bloody war in it. Medal of Honor, Ghost Recon 2, Call of Duty, Conflict, Full Spectrum are just a minority of the titles on offer. It's quite scary to think that games developers feel the need to swamp the market with depressing, harsh crap only our grandads understand.
Don't get me wrong, some of these games are good. I enjoyed Full Spectrum and Call of Duty, but is there really a need to highlight what a brutal past this world has had?
If developers do want to create a game about shooting and death, I feel they should lay of the history and follow the likes of Halo 2 and it's Covenant, which 'hopefully' will never happern. And developers should also start creating games that challenge the mind and not the finger.
There really isn't a need for all these harsh and brutal reminders of the cold past that haunts this world, and I would really like to see a decrease in the amount of war-related games that are created for our own and our childrens' sake.
'Tis a good point, Crumble.
It's strange though, they all sell well. It concerns me that people find war so much fun.
Maybe people buy war games because they can experinece it but without the horrific sides of war, who knows.
As it is, I only have MoH:Frontline in the war genre, and it's good, though I don't know why I find killing people enjoyable.
It's strange though, they all sell well. It concerns me that people find war so much fun.
Maybe people buy war games because they can experinece it but without the horrific sides of war, who knows.
As it is, I only have MoH:Frontline in the war genre, and it's good, though I don't know why I find killing people enjoyable.
It links in with this issue of 'violent video games'.
It's everywhere, and for some sad reason, we enjoy it.
Society needs to sort itself out before we all walk the streets carrying weapons looking for fights.
It's everywhere, and for some sad reason, we enjoy it.
Society needs to sort itself out before we all walk the streets carrying weapons looking for fights.
Online Gaming + War Game = Great Game
Its simple, shooting a bunch of 'real' people online is great fun!
Call of Duty...mmmmmmmm...
Its simple, shooting a bunch of 'real' people online is great fun!
Call of Duty...mmmmmmmm...
Mode is a good example of my point.
He enjoys killing people.
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He enjoys killing people.
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*Highly Excitable* wrote:
> Mode is a good example of my point.
>
> He enjoys killing people.
>
> ...
No, no far from it. I don't enjoy it on such a level that it becomes sickening, I just enjoy the atmosphere - bullets whizzing past you, people dying around you and bullets hitting walls and making great sounds.
> Mode is a good example of my point.
>
> He enjoys killing people.
>
> ...
No, no far from it. I don't enjoy it on such a level that it becomes sickening, I just enjoy the atmosphere - bullets whizzing past you, people dying around you and bullets hitting walls and making great sounds.
So, you don't like War to a point where it gets sickening, but you enjoy bullets whizzing past with people dying around you.
Hmmmm...
Hmmmm...
Crumble wrote:
> So, you don't like War to a point where it gets sickening, but you
> enjoy bullets whizzing past with people dying around you.
>
> Hmmmm...
Atmosphere , not enjoyment from killing a person.
> So, you don't like War to a point where it gets sickening, but you
> enjoy bullets whizzing past with people dying around you.
>
> Hmmmm...
Atmosphere , not enjoyment from killing a person.
Liking the atmosphere of people dying is just as bad as killing people.
You violent child, you.
You violent child, you.
Crumble wrote:
> Liking the atmosphere of people dying is just as bad as killing
> people.
>
> You violent child, you.
Apart from I would soil myself in such a situation in real life.
> Liking the atmosphere of people dying is just as bad as killing
> people.
>
> You violent child, you.
Apart from I would soil myself in such a situation in real life.
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