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Allow me to introduce myself. I am a gamer. That is all. I like to play good games. Whether they be on an 8bit spectrum or 128bit PS2. Why do I like to play games? They allow me to do things that I could never do in real life, be people I could never be. A racing driver, a secret agent, a space hero. I can be them all.
Games are my release from life. I enjoy skating around Tokyo spraying graffiti everywhere. I enjoy killing zombies and aliens. Oh hell, I enjoy sniping russian communist solidiers right between their eyes. That's right. In the gaming world I enjoy killing. It realeases my agression. I watch the soldier slump against a wall and leave a trail of blood as he slips to the ground. Sweet.
So why then do games designers hold off making death i games realistic? To stop people doing acts of evil in real life? In real life I am a shy, quiet sensible person. I achieve top grades at school and aspire to be a researcher in computing. So why my love of killing? Because the whole point of games is to do things you can't in real life.
Does anyone complain that you drive at speeds of over 100mph in central london in MSR? No. But if you were to do that in real life you would enevitably kill someone. Likewise, if I graffitied over Tokyo's walls then I would be arrested. So what is so different in killing people in games. If people believe that it will lead to people repeating these actions in real life, I would point out that books, television and other media all show people killing each other. Sometimes with even more graphic details. In a book you can see your face on that of the killer's. In a TV program you can see through the eyes of the killer and feel their emotions. In games you are playing under a fasade. If you want to kill someone you will do it regardless of whether you play it in a game or not.
So, why hold back on death scenes in games? They don't do this in films of television.
Games are my release from life. I enjoy skating around Tokyo spraying graffiti everywhere. I enjoy killing zombies and aliens. Oh hell, I enjoy sniping russian communist solidiers right between their eyes. That's right. In the gaming world I enjoy killing. It realeases my agression. I watch the soldier slump against a wall and leave a trail of blood as he slips to the ground. Sweet.
So why then do games designers hold off making death i games realistic? To stop people doing acts of evil in real life? In real life I am a shy, quiet sensible person. I achieve top grades at school and aspire to be a researcher in computing. So why my love of killing? Because the whole point of games is to do things you can't in real life.
Does anyone complain that you drive at speeds of over 100mph in central london in MSR? No. But if you were to do that in real life you would enevitably kill someone. Likewise, if I graffitied over Tokyo's walls then I would be arrested. So what is so different in killing people in games. If people believe that it will lead to people repeating these actions in real life, I would point out that books, television and other media all show people killing each other. Sometimes with even more graphic details. In a book you can see your face on that of the killer's. In a TV program you can see through the eyes of the killer and feel their emotions. In games you are playing under a fasade. If you want to kill someone you will do it regardless of whether you play it in a game or not.
So, why hold back on death scenes in games? They don't do this in films of television.
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VenomByte wrote:
> Mortal Kombat death moves not enough for you?
What was that old
> Jaguar game...(or was it 3DO)? The kind of "interactive
> FMV" one where you walked in on a skull, complete with spnial
> column in one scene?
Very gory.
if this was a fighting game, could it have been kasumi ninja?
> Mortal Kombat death moves not enough for you?
What was that old
> Jaguar game...(or was it 3DO)? The kind of "interactive
> FMV" one where you walked in on a skull, complete with spnial
> column in one scene?
Very gory.
if this was a fighting game, could it have been kasumi ninja?
Mortal Kombat death moves not enough for you?
What was that old Jaguar game...(or was it 3DO)? The kind of "interactive FMV" one where you walked in on a skull, complete with spnial column in one scene?
Very gory.
What was that old Jaguar game...(or was it 3DO)? The kind of "interactive FMV" one where you walked in on a skull, complete with spnial column in one scene?
Very gory.
Allow me to introduce myself. I am a gamer. That is all. I like to play good games. Whether they be on an 8bit spectrum or 128bit PS2. Why do I like to play games? They allow me to do things that I could never do in real life, be people I could never be. A racing driver, a secret agent, a space hero. I can be them all.
Games are my release from life. I enjoy skating around Tokyo spraying graffiti everywhere. I enjoy killing zombies and aliens. Oh hell, I enjoy sniping russian communist solidiers right between their eyes. That's right. In the gaming world I enjoy killing. It realeases my agression. I watch the soldier slump against a wall and leave a trail of blood as he slips to the ground. Sweet.
So why then do games designers hold off making death i games realistic? To stop people doing acts of evil in real life? In real life I am a shy, quiet sensible person. I achieve top grades at school and aspire to be a researcher in computing. So why my love of killing? Because the whole point of games is to do things you can't in real life.
Does anyone complain that you drive at speeds of over 100mph in central london in MSR? No. But if you were to do that in real life you would enevitably kill someone. Likewise, if I graffitied over Tokyo's walls then I would be arrested. So what is so different in killing people in games. If people believe that it will lead to people repeating these actions in real life, I would point out that books, television and other media all show people killing each other. Sometimes with even more graphic details. In a book you can see your face on that of the killer's. In a TV program you can see through the eyes of the killer and feel their emotions. In games you are playing under a fasade. If you want to kill someone you will do it regardless of whether you play it in a game or not.
So, why hold back on death scenes in games? They don't do this in films of television.
Games are my release from life. I enjoy skating around Tokyo spraying graffiti everywhere. I enjoy killing zombies and aliens. Oh hell, I enjoy sniping russian communist solidiers right between their eyes. That's right. In the gaming world I enjoy killing. It realeases my agression. I watch the soldier slump against a wall and leave a trail of blood as he slips to the ground. Sweet.
So why then do games designers hold off making death i games realistic? To stop people doing acts of evil in real life? In real life I am a shy, quiet sensible person. I achieve top grades at school and aspire to be a researcher in computing. So why my love of killing? Because the whole point of games is to do things you can't in real life.
Does anyone complain that you drive at speeds of over 100mph in central london in MSR? No. But if you were to do that in real life you would enevitably kill someone. Likewise, if I graffitied over Tokyo's walls then I would be arrested. So what is so different in killing people in games. If people believe that it will lead to people repeating these actions in real life, I would point out that books, television and other media all show people killing each other. Sometimes with even more graphic details. In a book you can see your face on that of the killer's. In a TV program you can see through the eyes of the killer and feel their emotions. In games you are playing under a fasade. If you want to kill someone you will do it regardless of whether you play it in a game or not.
So, why hold back on death scenes in games? They don't do this in films of television.
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