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No kidding. The implication seems to be that boys play video games with zombies is because the biggest thing boys are afraid of is zombies. Or wild pokemon. Or
by sliverstorm 12y ago
No kidding. The implication seems to be that boys play video games with zombies is because the biggest thing boys are afraid of is zombies. Or wild pokemon. Or what have you.
- SkyMarshal 12y agoMaybe zombies are a proxy for sociopathic, unfeeling bully automatons.
- Liesmith 12y agoThey aren't, though. Zombies are vastly inferior in all ways (including destructive potential) to their videogame-playing foes. You shoot them down in their thousands.
- mturmon 12y agoPerhaps (in line with the opening comment) having a formidable foe that activates real fears and buried pain would no longer be amusing. Indeed, perhaps it is concealment and forgetting that we long for by playing video games where thousands of zombies are slain.
- megablast 12y agoIf you compare one zombie to one bully. But if you think that one bully = all the zombies in the game, then it is not so easy to overcome all the zombies.
- slurry 12y agoI think zombies are a proxy for other teenagers. They travel in packs.
- vacri 12y agoNothing of the sort. As already said by Liesmith, you shoot them down in the thousands. In the vast majority of personal combat games, a huge amount of enemies come at you, in an endless procession. Zombies are an easy plot point to explain why so many, and there's no moral question about killing lots of them - no-one is seriously going to write an article complaining about zombie feelings in light of such a game. They're implacable foes that just keep coming, and people don't care as much if the AI is very simple. Why would a human foe just come at me without considering cover? Oh, hang on, it's a zombie, no need to ask the question.
- saraid216 12y agoZombie games build self-esteem. Because the zombies are all the other people in the world, who aren't you. It's a judgement on how we look at others.