Have you ever felt really offended by a game?

[dolgion]

So as the title says: Have you every felt really offended by a game?
If so, in what way? There are many games for example that offend women by the depiction of female characters in them.

For me, these games come to mind:

1. Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core, because it's nowhere near the project of passion that FF7 was. It was a dull grind with a flawed combat system. The character development is so piss poor that I felt insulted intellectually. Seriously, Square Enix thinks that these shallow characters with their big talk are enough to keep me engaged, to make me care for them? All in all, a goddamn insult for fans of the original game, trying to cash in on the good reputation of FF7, with a cheaply done spin-off.

2. Even though it isn't the actual game, I was upset about the debate about Medal of Honor, where all of a sudden it wasn't okay to play Taliban in the multiplayer. I understand that people would be upset that it would be possible in a game to kill American soldiers and take the role of their current enemies. But then it's all very biased and racist. American soldiers are after all just that, American soldiers, just like German Nazi soldiers, just like North Vietnamese Vietcong soldiers, just like Russian Communist soldiers, just like Afghani Taliban soldiers. I don't like that American soldiers should in any way be treated better than others in games. You can have political opinions, but once it's transfered into a game, the game itself just becomes a tool. Btw, I don't actually have anything against American soldiers.

 

[Trolldor]

No.
Being offended means you are DOING IT WRONG.

 

[HassEsser]

No.
Being offended means you are DOING IT WRONG.

Very very very much this. In fact, I maintain that if you are ever offended by anything, then you are doing it wrong ("it" being life).

EDIT: Just want to clarify, I'm not hating on you, OP.

 

[Grabbin Keelz]

I get offended when people say hats ruined TF2. THEY DIDN'T. But everyone just keeps pointing this shit out. I don't see how hats can ruin the gameplay. It's just a silly argument that haters keep hating on because Valve is so awesome that they can't find anything else to hate on about it.

 

[Eifla]

Tom Sheldon was a tit in Just Cause 2, blaring stupid, stupid, STUPID idiocies.

Ehhh.... He didn't offend me, but I seriously wished I could make Rico stick a shotgun shell in his fat, grinning, overcast face....

 

[zohmbee]

I could be the typical psychotically dedicated Silent Hill fan and say that any game in the series after Silent Hill 4 (IMO) offended me because [insert rant about the series steadily going downhill with no hope for the new one], but even then, it really doesn't offend me. It just irks me a little bit.

Honestly, I don't think I care enough to get offended by anything. Like, REALLY offended.

 

[Elamdri]

I was kinda confused by the Medal of Honor/Taliban controversy. I just wanna say, I have been killing people online for YEARS as a Terrorist in Counter-Strike. Why is it that it's ok for me to play a vaguely Eastern European/South American Terrorist, but I can't play a Middle Eastern Terrorist?

oh...and also...IT'S A ******* VIDEOGAME!

 

[Sarge034]

WOW.... looking back on it I can honestly say no. A lot of games have made me mad, but not one that I have played has offended me. The closest one ever came to offending me was playing an American soldier in the civilian shootout in MW2. Again, that one falls into the mad catagory, not offended.

 

[SnowyGamester]

I was offended by the fact that you don't like crisis core more than ff7. ff7 was absolute shite. Though I feel that way about most jrpgs, nay, most rpgs in general. I did like chrono trigger though, but that was a masterpiece.

OT: No. Never. Though there was that one part in BlOps where you pull that guy out of the boat and slit his throat...I wasn't offended by a long shot, but that was some pretty graphic shit (compared to the rest of the game), and I played it on the wii, so I got the watered-down version...

...but the better gameplay ;D

 

[Savagezion]

No.
Being offended means you are DOING IT WRONG.

Very very very much this. In fact, I maintain that if you are ever offended by anything, then you are doing it wrong ("it" being life).

EDIT: Just want to clarify, I'm not hating on you, OP.

Well, that seems foolish and unrealistic. That would mean that a person would have to be completely without conviction. Why bother to be alive at all then?

With that said, I don't think I have ever been offended by any game. Let down, sure. But I think I am more offended by the industry and its practices or certain specific parts and people of the industry. (Dead Space 2 being marketed to ages under the M rating as 1 recent example.) As well as the outcry by "modern day" society against the gaming medium.

 

[Ridgemo]

I was offended by the fact that you don't like crisis core more than ff7. ff7 was absolute shite. Though I feel that way about most jrpgs, nay, most rpgs in general. I did like chrono trigger though, but that was a masterpiece.

I may have to ask you to step outside to partake in some pugilism! Although i will agree by the face that Crisis Core wasn't a bad game at all, i throughly enjoyed it.

I just offended myself by being a Final Fantasy fanboi...

I don't really get emotionally invested enough in games to be offended as such. I just see it as a vessel for entertainment. As for people that work with the industry, i don't get offended by anything they say, just think when they talk about motion controls or 3D gaming, that they are massive idiots.

 

[DarkTenka]

[Well, that seems foolish and unrealistic. That would mean that a person would have to be completely without conviction. Why bother to be alive at all then?

I disagree. I believe taking offense to something would imply that your conviction is fragile.

If someone says something in contrast to something I strongly believe, I recognise that it is common and likely for someone to have a differing opinion on the matter. But further more in the context of games, not only are games not real but they exist to give us insight and experience into anything we wont or can't do in real life. And as such they should have NO correlation to real life experiences aside from anything YOU choose to interpret as such.

I guess what I'm saying is that you can't be offended if you can't be hurt. If theres something in a game that you disagree with, be mature and recognise that this is "the developer's interpretation" of the subject matter.

 

[Zaik]

No.

It'd be kind of silly to be offended by a game. Annoyed? Maybe. Disgusted? It happens a lot.

Offended? Yeah right. If a game could offend me I'd have to stay a mile away from the internet.

 

[Zyst]

I felt offended once, when I was playing any game online that allows for voice chat and someone was speaking shit.

But why the hell would you get offended by the game content. It's ridiculous, I find it hard to believe that someone can actually be offended by something so trivial.

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

Being offended is a choice. Plain and simple. If you want to be offended by something in a game or otherwise, go for it. I made the choice to never be offended and it has worked wonderfully.

 

[Frotality]

i was offended by dragon age origins, where some writer actually thought i as a player would find alistair's dialogue to be funny.

i was further insulted when in awakening, anders was introduced; the pathetic shadow of alistair's already failed humor; with the same expectation.

 

[ImmortalDrifter]

I was offended by Too Human. That game was such abject shit it felt like a personal insult to me when i played it; thinking it would be an actual game.

 

[King of the Sandbox]

I was offended by Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing.

I've never played it, but it still offended the shit out of me.