Verge: "Debates over gaming violence have been particularly active in the past year: a blood-soaked set of E3 2012 presentations left even fans of shooters uncomfortable, and the killings in Newtown, Connecticut led the NRA to blame Mortal Kombat and Bulletstorm while gamers discussed the implications of fictional violence. Last month, auteur David Cage told the industry to "grow up" and wean itself off shooting and platforming: "If the character doesn't hold a gun, designers don't even know what to do." "
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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"If the character doesn't hold a gun, designers don't even know what to do."
Well that's one way of saying it, i think it's because guns are so versatile in games, wether it's an a shotgun or rocket launcher or a portal gun, there are endless options for game designers to come up with crazy guns, look at games like: bioshock, unreal tournament, fallout, halo, i could go on.
And the whole concept of crosshair in the middle of the screen just works.
Somewhere in the article it said how games now a days let you kill hundreds of enemies while a real live soldier might only kill a dozen and remember everyone they kill.
I thought about that too, but more in the sence of: how can the one guy im playing as or with a small group kill ALL these guys, i just played trough a campaign where i killed over 200 guys, and only one team mate died.
But of course these are video games. playing a shooter where you only get to shoot 1 guy every few hours wouldn't be much fun would it.
Violence in a game is a weird thing, it let's you do the stuff you would never (want) do in real life.
Im never gonna sign up for the army, but i still wanna play a game as a soldier.
For some reason i love it when in mortal kombat you see a fatality that cuts of the limbs and blood spurts out in HD :p
But seeing that in real life would make me sick to the stomach.. Not something i would wanna see..
Blaming the whole games and movies thing is BS, what do those people think? there has been no gun violence in the 300 years before games? Bitch please..
People gotto understand that some people are just sick in the head, and with communities as big as movies and gaming, your gonna have a few bad apples..