Warren Spector - Ultra-Violence in games has to stop

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Soleron said:

UnitSmiley said:

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I'd say that's more of a problem with society in general. Literature is filled with mature themes and murder ect. Many movies have violence in them. Music has some obscene lyrics. But society accepts all of those mediums. Video games shouldn't be any different. Just because people refuse to look at them with the same eyes they look at music,books, or movies with doesn't mean video games should be blamed.

The treatment in movies and books tends to be much more mature* (as in, much less graphic, put in a real world context with the consequences fully shown). Videogames /can/ be 4hr stretches of mindless killing, whereas even the lowest action films tend to use the violence as a storytelling device. Similarly few modern films outright dress all females provocatively and have them be nothing but love interests.

*This word has two exact opposite meanings.

Hmm I understand what you mean. At the same time though, if parent's are okay with their child playing that type of game for fun, then they must feel their child is mature enough to handle it. Like I said, it's muuuch easier for a kid to flip on the television or computer and see much much worse things than a character beating people up in a game.

About the female thing, I never thought of that. But again. Thought process : Computer + females = ????. (I'm sure you can figure it out)