I Cant Believe The Garbage Video Games Have Become!

Dragon Age Origins is amazing. I don't think the cut scenes are that much. Now Skyward Sword... That's another story. Seriously couldn't do shit without having a 15 minute cut scene for every minute of play. Ridiculous.

 

I don't think video games cause violence. But I think we subconsciously accept violent people, psychopaths and sociopaths, and their way of life when we indulge in the same kind of senseless violence that makes them tick. We see violence in a game and then when we see it in real life it becomes that much more acceptable. AT least for many people. But we accept these many people, and gradually the behavior becomes more and more acceptable. We can understand that kind of mentality that kills indiscriminately, with no empathy or remorse. We can understand what it's like to feel that power, to want to be that powerful.

You may claim to be outraged by violent psychopaths, but really you are endorsing an attitude they strongly approve of. Our society becomes increasingly sociopathic. We joke about murder. We watch it on the television while stuffing popcorn in our mouths. We aren't really shocked by it, and we don't want to be. Because we fear death, and it takes the sting out of death not to care one iota when someone gets shot or bludgeoned to death with an axe. Murder has become a sick form of escapism. A new philosophy for a godless society.

 

exactly when were they innocent fun? pong maybe?

if anything, i think they may have finally started to diversify. the most popular ones do still seem to be about armed robbery and grind pounding on 'bosses' to 'level up'.
but in diversity i'm also starting to see some hopeful trends.

consider for example second life, an mmo basically about capitolism,
or under tale,
or rojin.

(i do agree that romantacizing aggressiveness is most of what the industry seems to be about, and that that is crap, that is popular and makes lots of money. but maybe and hopefully, seeing so much of that in the real world, just maybe people will eventually, and are starting to, tire of that.)

 

I like shooting people in games. and torturing them, like, I'll blow the knees and elbows out first causing them to sink to their haunches before I execute them. I use to love playing with scientists this way on Syphon Filter.

 

i've seen people i knew, doing this in game pvp to each other, while at the same time, carrying on a friendly conversation about it on skype. so yah, i know it ain't that simple.

its not what someone sees once or occasionally that desensitizes them,
its when they don't see anything else.

like when parents won't let their kids see anything other then war movies,
because they think everything else has too much sex in it.

 

I was desensitized from watching tv long before video games ever were realistic enough to see people getting killed.

 

My mom didn't let me watch Tour of duty as a 10 year old kid (I was the only one of my friends who wasn't allowed to watch it ). It didn't change shit. I still played soldier boy with toy guns and loved shooting people in games and took notice of violence in other tv programs and everywhere else. I'm really not a violent person.
It's not entertainment that is the main culprit of how bad (aspects of) societies are. It may be a symptom of such a society (although as been pointed out violence is an age old element in stories, probably because it always has been an intrincit part of the world).