Miyamoto: Violent games may damage “the potential of what games can do”

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CGI-Quality said:

elticker said:
waw this guy is really cocky. he never created a violent game and probably never played any and he is dissing it and you people actually agree with him. wtf. I never started dissing baby games like wii fit so he better stfu before i knock him out and show what the world is truely about not some shitty cartoon game. Last i heard there was a war in afganistan and iraq i would love to see him go into a fight and win cuase to me he sounds like a pussy.

Are you serious? He "dissed" them? Did you fully read the OP?

And since when is Wii Fit a "baby" game? The game was actually garnered towards adults and it obviously worked. And calling Miyamoto's work "shitty cartoon games" makes me scratch my head. Mario, Zelda, Metroid etc, etc.....are "shitty cartoon games"?

  They are not at all shitty cartoon games, but they are anything but non-violent.  Unless you go way out of your way to not kill anything you will destroy literally hundreds of creatures if you play through any Mario, Zelda or Metroid game through incineration, sword slices, missile explosions, blunt trauma and more.  This idea that if you make the violence cartoony it is somehow not violence is just silly.  He is not holding himself or his company to the same standard, I've been playing violent video games for over 2 decades, most of them in the first 10 years were made pretty exclusively by Nintendo even if their version of violence is rated "E" for Everyone.

  In GTA IV you use a Katana to cut someone, they die in blood and drop money which you can pick up.  In Zelda you slash an enemy, it dies in a puff of smoke and drops money which you can pick up.  In both games you can use that money to buy more weapons to kill more enemies which gives you yet more rewards that let you continue to kill until you kill your final adversary and win.

  Why does he get to be on a high horse again?  The puff of smoke replacing the blood doesn't make it not violent in nature.