Do actual NONviolent videogames exist?

[Phishfood]

Really? No one's mentioned Bejeweled yet? Huh.

Everyone who plays bejeweled is too busy playing bejeweled to read/answer forums.

Loads of non-violent games out there.
Sim
farmville
Whole arrays of puzzle games

There are plenty of games that encourage a minimum of violence rather than run and gun too. Take splinter cell - if you sneak through its a lot easier than if you kill everyone you see since then you have to hide the body all while staying hidden from anyone left alive. Not to mention the numerous "kill = fail" levels.

Games like civilization can have a non-violent option, really - you don't HAVE to invade everyone else to win.

 

[Sarahcidal]

my personal favourites lately are these 2;
The Impossible Game. (fantastic XBL Indie game)
Showtime Carnival (another XBL Indie)

 

[mocruz1200]

Tetris.

Unless you consider it blockicide.

have you seen the alternate ending to this game? not very non violent, lol
not sure if this is exactly it, but i think its the one
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB1tfO169x8[/youtube]

 

[JEBWrench]

Loads of non-violent games out there.
Sim

SimAnt had you fighting off the Reds.

(Nitpicking, whee!)

 

[Zacharine]

But isn't the idea of a competition like pong, where you're grinding your opponent into ping pong related dust and Tetris, which awards you for making blocks simply disappear still a form of violence?

And Machinarium has instances of violence in it. The player just doesn't necessarily perpetrate them...

with a definition of violence that broad, you can't even get to breakfast without violence. Hell you couldn't even brush your teeth

That was pretty much my point...
which leads me to wonder (and I know it's true for me) that we all play games for that rush we get from the 'violence' whether it be in competition or in suffocating people with plastic bags. And for the lols.

No, you have simply redefined 'victory' to mean 'violence'.

Any conclusion following from this, must also use such a broadened form of the original definition.

For example, I redefine the slice of cheese on the sandwhich to be Moon.

Therefore, the Moon is made from cheese, and we can gain nourishment by eating it. Also, we do not require spaceships to travel to it, nor do we need spacesuits to comfortably live on it.

See what I did there?

Redefining existing words to facilitate a chain of logic that somehow produces an unexpected result is useless and not smart and/or cunning at all. Because everyone can do that and make any everyday statement sound profound, unexpected, fanatical or inciting. Because when you make up your own meanings that differ significantly from established definitions, you are laying a groundwork for deliberate misunderstanding.

EDIT:; in essence, you've constructed a valid sentence using a new definition for a word. Then you take that statement, revert the meanings to original, and make logical step to a conclusion:
"we all play games for that rush we get from the 'violence' whether it be in competition or in suffocating people with plastic bags. And for the lols."

This is not valid however, because the meaning of 'Violent' has changed in between the original premise, and the final logical step.

Using this kind of logic, it is possible to prove that moon is made of cheese, sun literally fits the palm of my hand or that nothing, including me, exists.

EDITed for more political correctedness.

 

[Petromir]

Really? No one's mentioned Bejeweled yet? Huh.

Everyone who plays bejeweled is too busy playing bejeweled to read/answer forums.

Loads of non-violent games out there.
Sim
farmville
Whole arrays of puzzle games

There are plenty of games that encourage a minimum of violence rather than run and gun too. Take splinter cell - if you sneak through its a lot easier than if you kill everyone you see since then you have to hide the body all while staying hidden from anyone left alive. Not to mention the numerous "kill = fail" levels.

Games like civilization can have a non-violent option, really - you don't HAVE to invade everyone else to win.

Simcitys mostly include violence, often that you can perpetrate yourself.

 

[rokkolpo]

Most racing games ever made. Proper racing games that is, like World Rally Championship or Gran Turismo. "Racing" games like Road Rash don't count.

riding into people can be considered violence.

 

[GloatingSwine]

Deal or No Deal, is both non-violent and a game.
You know what it is on TV? A gameshow.
You know what it is when you buy it in a cardboard box in a toystore? A boardgame.
So what is it when its on a computer? A computer/videogame.

Although it will engender an irresistible desire to punch Noel Edmonds.

But then that's the natural reaction to Noel Edmonds.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

Most racing games ever made. Proper racing games that is, like World Rally Championship or Gran Turismo. "Racing" games like Road Rash don't count.

riding into people can be considered violence.

Which is why I specified 'proper' racing games, as opposed to the likes of Demolition Derby and Carmageddon. The WRC series, and indeed every rally game, follows the format of real rallying - one car driving the stage at a time, therefore nothing to collide with.

Besides, most motorsports have strict rules (and penalties) regarding intentional contact and so such contacts are considered cheating. Therefore in a game of said motorsport contact cannot be considered to be a part of the game.

 

[joshthor]

And before anyone comes up with something like "Deal or no deal (now on PC)" I'd like to point out that I'm talking violence in quite a broad sense... And besides, that's not a game.

Deal or No Deal, is both non-violent and a game.
You know what it is on TV? A gameshow.
You know what it is when you buy it in a cardboard box in a toystore? A boardgame.
So what is it when its on a computer? A computer/videogame.

I'm sorry if I seem like I'm being mean here, but I'm getting quite irritated by the constant denouncing of things that people don't like.

Farmville's not a game.
Wii Sports is not a game.
There's only three Star Wars movies.
Escape From Monkey Island doesn't exist.

So don't take it personally its more of a whole heap of frustration let out at an inconvenient moment.

Back on topic. Most Harvest Moon games are entirely non-violent... Well you can accidentally (I hope) hit your animals with tools, and there is a chicken competition that's like a sumo wrestling match...
Damn I guess it doesn't count.

someone said there is only 3 star wars movies!? Where! ill kill em! everyone knows there are 5!!!! (phantom menace doesnt exist homes...)

 

[Feste the Jester]

Animal Crossing. Unless you count fishing and bug catching as violent.

 

[JokerCrowe]

Flower?
Unless you call your petals being elecricuted "violent". I mean, it looks violent, but...

...

I'll just shut up now.

 

[reg42]

Pong
Bejeweled
I'm a bit into Beneath a Steel Sky, and there's no violence so far.

hmmmmmmmm, no evry games pretty much has some thing that can relate to intense violence

Violence? No, but I can see why you'd say that.
Intense violence? No, that's just false

 

[Legion]

But isn't the idea of a competition like pong, where you're grinding your opponent into ping pong related dust and Tetris, which awards you for making blocks simply disappear still a form of violence?

Well if that's the case Tennis is violent, seeing as Pong is just digital Tennis.

You seem to be using the more poetical use of the word 'violent' as opposed to the generally used term.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

What about the blocks that disappear?

OT: Well, uh, Bejeweled?

... You just contradicted yourself there...

 

[Mcface]

God of War 3.

/thread on this.
games without violence are like.. kids without... uhm.. shit who needs analogies when you have a tank!

 

[Treefingers]

Damn, i've been ninja'd on everything i can think of.

But isn't the idea of a competition like pong, where you're grinding your opponent into ping pong related dust and Tetris, which awards you for making blocks simply disappear still a form of violence?

No. Don't be silly.

 

[Withall]

Games like Tony Hawk (ok they have bail violence and recently you can now swing your board at people)
theres those random games that try to be sold on animated girls like deadoralive beach vollyball(havent played it but assuming its violence free)

For a second there I thought you had written "deadorative" volleyball. (Portmanteau of Dead or alive and "decorative". Seeing as the DoA girls in that game are basically ornamental pieces, I don't think it was too far fetched.

 

[iamjonah]

Here you go (great story on a great, albiet outdated, site):
http://www.actsofgord.com/Chronicles/chapter36.php