| Mummelmann said: There are plenty of non violent HD games and there are violent games on the Wii (as mentioned earlier in the thread), so there's no reason to deny someone the ownership of one or two great consoles. Especially since kids aren't supposed to be playing games Gears of War and Dante's Inferno to begin with. Saying that violence is prevalent in HD games, period, is just plain wrong. Sports games, GT, Forza, some of the biggest franchises are non violent. I don't think I'd call the overall population desentized to violence compared to the olden days when people attended executions as entertainment. They had puppet shows before hangings, beheadings and public drownings and you could be locked into a stockade to be humiliated and beaten up by random strangers for days on end. Public executions were a great attraction and people even brought their kids to these, they tormented the victims (of execution) with harsh words and threw things at them, they even kicked and punched them if they could and it was all legal. Then they cheered at someone's death. And let us not forget about Gladiator bouts etc. Indeed, we are not desentized compared to mankind in the past and I think we're okay. If your kids growing up can't tell fact from fiction, that is an entirely different matter. Parents have an obligation to keep an eye on what their kids are doing but many fail to do so and blame society (videogames, music and movies) instead of taking measures and getting involved. Is there a lot of violence in certain games today? No doubt. Are those games reason enough to boycot a console alltogether? No, that seems like a rather childish stance to take imo. Own a DVD player? Better get rid of it, there are all kinds of sick and violent movies available for it. |
Highest selling HD games have lots of violence, highest selling Wii games do not
