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Fri, 29 June 2007 20:13

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I'll take an unpopular side here but... I wouldn't mind violence being toned back. I mean some games are just so excessive I can't play them or at least don't like to. Fighting games used to be fighting games. I have no fucking interest in seeing or hearing broken bones. I want to fight, empty the health bars and have one of us fall down. Even the old Mortal Kombats were fine by me. Unrealistic violence at such a level it's goofy. FATALITY and the person explodes and you see like 25 skulls all come out of the explosion along with tens of rib cages and enough bones for a small crowd. From one guy.

Anyhow I really feel that most of the violence in games today is just frivolous and excessive. I played GTA:SA and you know what I had to do during the mission on the cargo ship? The one where you only have the knife. I had to turn off the sound and look away whenever I had to kill someone because I just can't handle that. Slitting the throats... Gah just writing it kinda gives me the willies. Anyhow that game was completely functional without that little added bit of violence. Now I'm not saying everyone should be harshly censored but more, saying the game companies should take a hard look at their product and evaluate what really DOES add to their game and what doesn't. Would you guys consider Renegade a better game if when you shot the ramjet it blew peoples limbs off? I certainly wouldn't. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have even really gotten involved in the game if that were the case.

This brings me to something else. Something that's really starting to worry me. The shifting "genre" of horror films. Horror films used to be mostly about psychological fear and mood. There are some scarey black and white horror films out there, they set the right mood and are shot and created in such a way as to elicit fear without using outrageous amounts of gore or violence. You see a shadow and then the screen cuts black and then lightning. You know someone died. You don't see any organs rolling out onto the floor. Nowadays there are a whole slew of these Pseudo-Horror films. The Saw movies, Hostel, Touristas. These movies aren't horror films anymore. They are snuff films. The main focus is on coming up with the most horrible way for everyone to die. The Final Destination movies come to mind too because... I mean the whole premise behind them is pretty weak. Let's just find a way to horribly kill everyone in accidents that people might be able to relate to. I bet that'll be scarey. It really worries me because these aren't like hidden little films in dark corners... These are top box office selling movies.

Anyhow I guess I'm done with my rant here. That's just been simmering away for a while and I finally found a place to put it into words. I'd be interested to see what you guys think about all this though.

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		Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: Viking on Mon, 25 June 2007 22:04
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: cheesesoda on Mon, 25 June 2007 22:11
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: Viking on Mon, 25 June 2007 22:41
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: Ryu on Mon, 25 June 2007 23:16
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: Canadacdn on Tue, 26 June 2007 09:19
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: Zion on Tue, 26 June 2007 00:17
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: Viking on Tue, 26 June 2007 01:18
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: puddle_splasher on Tue, 26 June 2007 00:48
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: sadukar09 on Tue, 26 June 2007 04:25
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: futura83 on Tue, 26 June 2007 04:52
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: Jecht on Tue, 26 June 2007 06:39
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: Crusader on Tue, 26 June 2007 06:57
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: futura83 on Tue, 26 June 2007 07:49
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: puddle_splasher on Tue, 26 June 2007 08:15
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: cheesesoda on Thu, 28 June 2007 05:38
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: Crusader on Thu, 28 June 2007 12:39
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: warranto on Tue, 26 June 2007 08:24
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: R3N3G1DE on Mon, 02 July 2007 06:55
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: sadukar09 on Tue, 26 June 2007 08:52
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: futura83 on Tue, 26 June 2007 09:24
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: sadukar09 on Tue, 26 June 2007 12:00
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: SlikRik on Tue, 26 June 2007 21:00
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: sadukar09 on Wed, 27 June 2007 03:57
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: futura83 on Wed, 27 June 2007 04:10
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: warranto on Wed, 27 June 2007 13:39
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: Renerage on Wed, 27 June 2007 22:20
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: GoArmy44 on Thu, 28 June 2007 02:21
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: Jecht on Thu, 28 June 2007 06:38
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: jonwil on Thu, 28 June 2007 06:39
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: sadukar09 on Thu, 28 June 2007 08:55
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: cheesesoda on Fri, 29 June 2007 07:17
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: cheesesoda on Fri, 29 June 2007 08:00
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: sadukar09 on Thu, 28 June 2007 12:47
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: Crusader on Thu, 28 June 2007 17:39
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: sadukar09 on Fri, 29 June 2007 04:23
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: Doitle on Fri, 29 June 2007 20:13
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: PlayMp1 on Mon, 02 July 2007 04:43
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: prox on Fri, 29 June 2007 20:42
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: Jecht on Fri, 29 June 2007 21:49
		Re: Ok, we need to step up against the ESRB this is ridiculous... By: CarrierII on Sat, 30 June 2007 03:40

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