Einfo Games-Writer’s opinion articles
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Video game violence has always been a confusing concept for me there are some games that have dark gritty violence and some that have cartoony violence and people always complain about the cartoony ones. The game Max Payne 3 embodies this here is two screenshots one cartoony one not (both are kind of cartoony though).
(Cartoony) (Not as cartoony)
The one on the left has a lot of blood exploding out of his face in a very ridiculously portrayal of human beings when they get shot. Where as the one on the right not much blood but a large amount of burns and it is not ridiculous that could be a real injury (apart from the graphics of course but I still think the graphics are good).
Here are some quotes I have found online from famous people (I haven’t heard of all of them though):
I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. ‘Hey, man, what are you playing?’ ‘Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I’m performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!’
Demetri Martin.
So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?
Hugh Mackay.
I don’t play video games.
Clive Owen
I think that people want something to blame on for any given violent so they blame video games. There is no proof that violent games, movies or comics have any effect on the human’s ability to commit a terrible crime.
Think of some games they complain about such as Mortal Kombat which is not even remotely realistic in its violence did anyone ever think of Mortal Kombat as a properly violent game. The other game was Mass Effect series because of sex (really we need that to keep our species going), they also complained because there was a gay option why if you complain then you are a homophobe there is no excuse to dislike it.
To read another take on Video Game Violence from the Einfo Games Writers opinion articles, check out
The war on Video Games by Danny Norris and The Creative laziness of violence in video games by Sarah Doukakos
Thanks for reading.
