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Video Games and Facing Controversy

kirithem: "Episode Seven in my series of video "lectures," made in association with James Portnow, game designer and founder of Divide By Zero Games. I can be reached at floydo_animation at yahoo dot com. You can reach James at jportnow at gmail dot com."

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  • Date 11/8/2009 8:35:00 PM
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AnthonyAcc : LVL 37: VP 4.5: said:

AnthonyAcc

43 votes NegativePositive

12 days 3 hours ago...

I think it`s funny. I remember playing Turok: Dinosaur Hunter when I was 8 or 9 and thinking that when you shot someone in the neck and seeing blood squirt out until they died was hilarious. I played GoldenEye and used to love using throwing knives. I played an incredible amount of violent games before I was a teenager and never in my life have I ever felt like hurting anyone that way. Sure I got mad and maybe pushed someone once or twice, but I never came close to turning into what I played on N64.

I think I`m very well adjusted. I have no clue what I want to do with my life and am thinking about switching my major for the nth time, but I would really like to know why I turned out not to be so violent when really I should have if video games do so much harm.

I love video games and I will play them for the rest of my life. However, I do wish there were more historically accurate games out there and that there was a way to use video games to realistically teach subjects to kids.

This guy makes a solid point.

5/5

Vhorthex : LVL 14: VP 2.3: said:

Vhorthex

23 votes NegativePositive

12 days 3 hours ago...

I think that video sums up my opinion.

:)

5/5

AnthonyAcc : LVL 37: VP 4.5: said:

AnthonyAcc

17 votes NegativePositive

12 days 2 hours ago...

^ Why have I been voted down?

Chuckus : LVL 37: VP 4.5: said:

Chuckus

5 votes NegativePositive

12 days 2 hours ago...

Interactive media.

Tada : LVL 45: VP 5: said:

Tada

6 votes NegativePositive

12 days ago...

^yeah because that just rolls of your tongue and the term also sort of includes any kind of media which is interactive, like pick-your-own-adventure-books.

Glitchen : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

Glitchen

3 votes NegativePositive

12 days ago...

^^^I`m glad this video didn`t get crippled again by the typical assholes how 1 star every new video but their own. you got a +1 vote from me

Dionysus187 : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

Dionysus187

Hidden (Show Comment) -16 votes

11 days 22 hours ago...

WTF is with the artificial high pitching of the voice, its fucking annoying.

scsuh : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

scsuh

2 votes NegativePositive

11 days 20 hours ago...

I voted anthony down because his post missed the point of the video entirely. The point is not that Video games may have a positive or negative effect on its audience. I can easily provide justification for either argument. The point is that if in Video games, what is being produced is at all meaningful to the creators and the consumers, then the fact that the games are controversial should be completely irrelevent. If you fold in at the first sign of naysayers, then you lose whatever credibility you may have had, and then some. Yet, if you want video games to be taken seriously as an art form, then you have to acknowledge that they WILL have both positive and negative emotional effects on people. There`s little to no benefit of trying to argue otherwise.

UNDCFII : LVL 1: VP 1: said:

UNDCFII

32 votes NegativePositive

11 days 18 hours ago...

I think its ridiculous that people care so much about what a MOTHER of a soldier who was killed in Fallujah thinks, when the people that were actually there and FOUGHT in Fallujah are helping make the game. The people that fought this battle, who had their friends die right next to them, want this game to be made. Not just to make a game out of killing middle easterners, but to give people a sense of what it was like... and instead of talking to these people you have some mother, of someone that was killed in the battle saying how SHE thinks its terrible... Who cares what she thinks when the important people, the people who were actually there, support it???? I just don`t get it

TheTamster : LVL 38: VP 4.6: said:

TheTamster

2 votes NegativePositive

11 days 17 hours ago...

he does have a good point, but he`s a few years too late.

Even companies like Infinity Ward have sold out and started out on the generic shooter band wagon. (just look at COD6 Generic Warfare (Aka Modern Warfare 2))

Games ONLY get made if they garantee profit and can become a "brand", if you thought the last few years of generic shooters was bad, with companies like valve & infinity ward moving to the "only for profit" business model ,just wait until you see whats coming!!

darkmarko : LVL 41: VP 4.9: said:

darkmarko

4 votes NegativePositive

11 days 11 hours ago...

I would like someone to rationalize to me, why Man Hunt(the video game) should exist.

phreakrider : LVL 18: VP 2.7: said:

phreakrider

2 votes NegativePositive

11 days 10 hours ago...

Well, is it me or FOX is still going stupid with their arogant interview and biazed point over some subject! They don`t deserve to be listned . The value of their opinion is worthless because their not the sum of our opinion! And by the way, the only reason that people attack video games is because it reache`s the mass! So many books are violent and so does many movie.

ryanjm : LVL 31: VP 4: said:

ryanjm

1 votes NegativePositive

11 days 9 hours ago...

I think it`s crappy that the game was shit-canned because of a little controversy, but I also think the maker of this video is missing a key difference between movies, art, and games: A movie is an experience that entertains through the use of an interesting story (usually). It can be funny, sad, action-packed, etc... Art can be appreciated for its beauty, message, or any other number of things.

But the key difference between those two forms of art and games, is this: Games are supposed to be FUN. If you take war, and make it fun, it`s difficult to be taken as seriously as those other two forms of art. Some moments in gaming can transcend pure entertainment and become something close to art, like in COD4 when your helicopter gets nuked and you crawl around and die. That`s pretty friggin awesome. But for the most part, the quality of games and the way they are perceived by the public means they are a long long way from being considered on the same level as movies and art.

ShinyG : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

ShinyG

2 votes NegativePositive

11 days 9 hours ago...

Changing the name would be just avoiding the ignorance of people! I think standing up to the name and what it means would be better!

Tolerance : LVL 27: VP 3.6: said:

Tolerance

1 votes NegativePositive

11 days 9 hours ago...

Faux news is unfair and biased and that is why they are asking the opinion of a slain soldiers mother. The real question is when are we going to be rid of these bible thumping morons that want to protect the world from evil when they are too stupid to realize that they are being manipulated by evil themselves. Their opinion is invalid, in my opinion.

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