Warren Spector - Ultra-Violence in games has to stop

[oldschoolfool]

hsrob said:

Those suggesting that Warren is proposing censorship for so-called ultraviolence may have misconstrued his point, at least as I interpreted it. If he meant it as a challenge because he feels feels violence is over-represented in gaming, compared with other media, then I would have to agree with him.

As a device in a game e.g.demonstrating how the will to survive can push one to extreme acts, I have no problem with it, The Last of Us strikes me as this sort of game. For the violence to be the reason d'etre i think is pretty juvenile.

Games should by all means cover the full range of subject matter as in any other media but it does seem to me that there is an excess of violence-for-the-sake-of-violence type games around in the past few years. As Mr Khan alluded to above it is the almost unspoken belief these days that games must be violent to be considered 'mature' or AAA quality which leaves me vaguely unsettled,  as ultimately I don't think this attitude is healthy for the industry.

who cares,it's what sells. There only giving the people what they want. What game would you want them to make? They have non-violent tame games,but nobody buys those.