The Elder Scrolls community alone most must have produced more weird stuff in the past few years than the whole of the games industry in all of its history. Some of the things I've come across are absolutely insane and fascinating at the same time.
yep. agree with tis. If you want to boycott a game, just don't buy it. simple as that. use your dollars to state your opinion. Reminds me of the whole, big size cola thing in new york, where they wanted to ban big size drinks. I mean, jeez, let them make their own choices.
Very good point. And I believe if a society is "healthy" no violent video game would make much difference, but again that's my personal opinion only and only based on what I know of behavioural studies. But it seems very tied to the state of the whole as long as we have the freedom to make individual choices (thinking…
no no, the whole point is to not be art. the developers said it themselves, really the difference in other forms of simiple killin entertainment is that in other games, you kill combatants, usually as a means of getting rewarded with progression. what this game controversially states is that killing civilians/noncombatants…
To be honest, are these types of games actually selling that well? I remember people talking all the time about Manhunt, Postal and so on, but I don't actually recall seeing anyone play them. Frankly, I won't be surprised if despite the whole controversy it ends up underselling. Games like that have a pretty niche appeal…
Maybe ... but the opposite could also happen. Since the game in question is so direct and so heavy-handed in its portrayal of violence, any Fox News journalist using it as an excuse to scream "Viddyagames are evil ! Think of the children !" would look absolutely stupid, making a fool of him/herself in the process. It is…
That's a bit pushing it isn't it? Personally, I don't see the big deal. We've had stuff like this for years and we will have more of it. What worries me more is the fact that people have this attitude, that games like this are somehow representative of the whole medium. This is not representative of games any more than…
I'm not sure where the controversy is. Violent movies don't cause violent behavior, Violent video games don't cause violent behavior. It's been shown time and time again. And this "controversy" happens time and time again. There's tons of games seen a tasteless violence simulators, and if you want to prove this game is any…
Everyone saying the devs are scum or need mental help, or saying the people who might like or play this are manbabies or need help or are disgusting need to get off their high fucking horse and stop wit the ad hominem attacks and thinking their opinions on morality make them better than others. It's a work of art, it's…