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> it's not just FPSes Quite right. Violence is the simplest form of human conflict, the one we can most easily adapt to games. Even chess is an abstraction of
by TillE 14y ago
> it's not just FPSes
Quite right. Violence is the simplest form of human conflict, the one we can most easily adapt to games. Even chess is an abstraction of war strategy.
But personally, I'm much more OK with fairly abstract strategy games than I am with games that shove a gun in your hands and shower you with blood. It's exhausting. I have no problem with those games existing on the market, I'm just so very tired of the fact that nearly every big-budget game centers on shooting people in the face. Or stabbing them.
If nothing else, I've been doing that in videogames for the past 20 years now (since Wolf3d and Doom), and it's getting boring.
- pms 14y agoWell, it is damn boring.
- anigbrowl 14y agoIf nothing else, I've been doing that in videogames for the past 20 years now (since Wolf3d and Doom), and it's getting boring. I've had this problem too for the last several years. I like 3d, and I like hyper-realistic game environments, and I like science fiction. But I am sick to the back teeth of gore, and of being confronted by hideous mutants/ zombies/ creatures that I'm supposed to splatter all over the walls. I play games far less than I used to because I'm tired of this horror element. What gets me is that even within these genre conventions, there seem to be very few new ideas. How come I don't see survival-horror games based around super-powered alien insects that can walk on the ceiling? Why isn't there a Terminator game that involves fighting giant robots in Shadow-of-the-colossus style as well as FPS? Why not a game set in an abandoned but heavily trapped environment where destructibility is a key game mechanic?
- TeMPOraL 14y agoThere was Portal. And then Portal 2. And also Mirror's Edge. And... that's about it? sigh
- mynameishere 14y agoYou want boring? http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81JSMr%2BIR6L._SL1500_.jpg http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81JSMr%2BIR6L._SL1500_... But seriously, there's almost an absurd variety of games out there. No one has to play violent games. One problem is that multiplayer doesn't work well in most other genres.