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Forums - Gaming - Graphic violence prevalent in HD games *another rant*

oldschoolfool on 26 December 2010
Darth Tigris said:
OoSnap said:

Okay maybe I'm out of the loop because I quit gaming after the SNES era but then got back into it when I bought a Wii several years ago.

I thought about buying a 360 but that was until I downloaded a lot of demos on a relatives' 360 to try out. Call me 'weak sauce' all you want but I couldn't stomach all the vulgarity, violence, morbidity a lot of the games offer. Quite honestly I was disgusted and shocked of what I saw. The realistic graphics made it all the more worse.

Violence was in games was cool when I was a kid when Mortal Kombat came out, which was very controversial, but now I'm a grown man and I would actually feel embarrassed to play like Dante's Inferno or a game where you have a chainsaw as an arm.

Seriously, is this what many kids are playing these days? How can low brow stuff like this pass as entertainment these days? Have people lost their decency, morals and basic sensibilities? Is this the type of garbage teenage boys are feeding themselves with hours a week? Have people become so desensitized that they don't even blink an eye to it anymore? Then I hear stories from friends that most kids online curse you out and talk trash with harsh expletives.

Surely America is declining.

One thing for sure I would never allow my kids to have a 360/PS3. I wouldn't allow them to touch with a 20 foot pole.

The unfortunate reality is that AAA, high profile games have been far more graphically violent and vulgar starting way back last gen.  Some of them aren't made for children, but for man-children.  Some generally are adult without going over the top (Mass Effect series is a good example), but most just want to push the envelope.  

Yeah, it is disappointing overall, because so many of them ARE the AAA titles.  As kids in the 8-16 bit era, those kinds of games you could play as adults or kids.  Not so anymore.  'Kids' games are made for reeeeeally young kids and aren't typically AAA efforts.  And adults like me that find themselves turned off more and more by graphic violence and vulgarity are left wondering how much longer gaming will appeal to me.

You're not alone.

So what,I was a kid in the 8-16 bit era. Remember doom and mortal kombat. those games were only  under a microscope because videogames were considered nothing but kiddy,now Videogames are geared more toward an adult crowd. I fucking love how the videogame industry has evolved and how it's changed. I find if funny that people have a problem with violent videogames,but don't seem to have a problem when they see the same thing on there T.V. After all is just entertainment. I don't think I'm going to lose my dencey and morals,just because I'm playing a graphic FPS. This is'nt the 50's anymore. lol