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'If you despise word walls, or semi-disjointed pondering of ideas in which I've got no professional grounding, then close this page now. This isn't an expert opinion into violence in video games, I'm one of 'you guys', as this article is very, very unlikely to ever fall into the hands of 'non-gamers' in reference to those who don't know their Call of Duty from their smoked salmon. I've grown up with video games, but in a different manner to most mainstream gaming journalists. Obviously I'm younger and from my experience, other journalists seem to be around the early to mid twenties with the occasional elder of the group. This means that one of the first games I played was Driver, in relative terms a fairly 'advanced' game in the grand-scheme of gaming. The beauty of this game is that I and many people saw it as being relatively harmless, although I can imagine there may have been slight concerns given the heightened public awareness of Joyriding, certainly in the UK, at the time this game was released. Given my age, I never really played the game 'properly', I just liked to see how long I could last, being chased by the police, in San Francisco because it was quite a novelty to be able to take off and occasionally completely screw over the game's physics engine.'
Skewed and Reviewed have written an Opinion Piece covering issues in the gaming industry, how current issues were issues years ago, and what can be done to help restore consumer trust.
Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.
But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.
They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.
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Nice read.
Good article. Love these editorials.
I do see the point of your view on No Russian, and I simply think it should have been a non-playable feature. Sort of just show it in a news reel. However since Allen was there I see why it was playable.
However the Americans aren't all that bad in it. I mean a certain British SAS captain nuked a innocent astronaut. Fair?