Have you ever felt really offended by a game?

[Andy of Comix Inc]

I was offended that I was the target audience for Saints Row 2.

I mean, Saints Row 2 was right up my fucking alley and was one of the most enjoyable game's I've ever played but that it was is pretty goddamn offensive. :3

 

[LawlessSquirrel]

Offended as in outraged? No. Offended as in I felt a personal aversion to the impact? Yes.

If you're not offended, it's not pushing boundaries, which is (arguably) an unfortunate sacrifice. That street execution at the beginning of Homefront, that CoD level, certain parts of Silent Hill etc. I would consider offensive, but I wouldn't try and stop them. I welcome the effort to break boundaries.

 

[VaudevillianVeteran]

Silent Hill: Homecoming offended me. Mainly as it didn't look, feel or even live up to a Silent Hill game. It felt like someone had looked at the movie, took a load of random things associated with Silent Hill- Big titted nurses, evil kids, Pyramid Head, fog, rust- and sewed them all together to try and make a game to appease the fans, but only seemed to be a light-hearted nudge at them.

Although I will say that not everything is bad about it:

 

[aaronobst]

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

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

You're Winner

 

[Savagezion]

[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.

You are talking about opinions. Sticks and stones there for the most part. But I was talking about across the board as the person I quoted was. But I have a hard time buying that. It sounds good on a forum but I don't believe that there is actually NOTHING anyone can say to get under your skin. If someone calls my nephew a worthless bastard child, I am offended. I don't simply "disagree". Because I strongly disagree and you get an offended response from me by just using words and an opinion. My conviction is not fragile or in jeopardy it is being exercised. My conviction would be fragile if I did nothing as then I risk losing my conviction.

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.

Everyone can be hurt, it is the human condition. Sometimes we place our faith in poor places. But that is what "being alive" is all about as opposed to just "being". I don't see anything "wrong" with someone being offended by a game or anything else for that matter. You want to be offended a bugs exists? Go ahead. I ain't saying all convictions are rational but it is what makes us who and what we are. I haven't been offended by any games as I said before. I would say that there are certain subject matters in some games I find offensive. (Like that KKK game) But the game is so freakin retarded it is hard to be offended by something that rediculous. I say "If you are never offended by anything, life must be a drag."

Without ugly, you can't have anything to measure beauty up against. Makes for a drab experience.

 

[5t3v0]

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

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

You're Winner

One word: This.

 

[Floppertje]

Age of Empires 3, by getting the Dutch flag wrong (come on guys, how hard can it be?) and making the Dutch voices sound utterly shit. and I don't even LIKE this place.
I'm not offended because they did something edgy, but by their apparent inability to do some damn research (i.e. opening goddamn wikipedia or google images) and hiring decent voiceactors.

 

[Trolldor]

*snip*

If what is said is true, the problem is not whether you're offended. The problem is that it's true.
If what is said is false, why be offended at all?
Taking offense is a waste of time.
Being offended is ignoring what is in front of you and instead basing your entire idea around some shallow idea of what is appropriate.

 

[Savagezion]

*snip*

If what is said is true, the problem is not whether you're offended. The problem is that it's true.
If what is said is false, why be offended at all?
Taking offense is a waste of time.
Being offended is ignoring what is in front of you and instead basing your entire idea around some shallow idea of what is appropriate.

Spoken like a man with no conviction. So if you are on a date with a girl and the guy across the table sees your date and says "Look at that whore" you'll just say "Meh, ignore em honey."?

 

[moretimethansense]

Every Silent Hill after the third, The room wasn't that bad but it still wasn't good enough.

The new DMC, no more explination needed I think.

Fallout 3, that bloody ending, then they had the gall to make us PAY for a satisfying resolution, fuck you with a rake Bethesda, fuck you.

The only time Iv'e felt offended by the content of a game however was Suikoden Teirkis, in it there's this cult, they believe in fate, as in eveything is preordained,EVERYTHING.
This wouldn't be so bad if not for the following, they believe that since everything is already decided, they need to conquer the world in order to force people to not stray from their destiny.
Think abouyt that fort a second, if you can change your destiny so easily, IT'S NOT FUCKING PREORDAINED NO IT IT?!
It get's even worse, they tell you what your destiny is, then if you even think about doing something different they take you away to be "re-educated".
Now don't get me wrong, I get brain washing, but this is so monumentaly stupid that there is no one on any earth that would fall for it, or so I thought, I later found out about FSTDT and Sciantology, to be honest the fate cvult idea doesn't seem so far fetched anymore

 

[kittii-chan 300]

the announcer on TS:FP said that i sucked )0~0 but then i forgave him when he said "open head surgery!"

 

[BENZOOKA]

No. Never. It's a game. If you get offended by an interactive entertainment product, you need to toughen up to human levels.

 

[Mr Somewhere]

I've never been offended by fiction, or any work of art for that matter. It's the artist(s) statement, if I disagree, I disagree, I'm not one to be offended, in fact, it has become some sort of a buzz word.
That being said, I've been offended by people, or, the ignorant opinions some have held.

In short, if you have the time to be offended by a videogame, or some other work, you should probably use that time doing something else.

 

[Pearwood]

I was pretty enraged at Devil May Cry 2. Or Resident Evil May Cry as it should have been named... (seriously, infested tanks??) offended I'm not sure though.

 

[Gigano]

Nope, if you can't/won't handle fictional stuff, then that's entirely your problem, and you just look away: Problem solved!

On that account, I have been exasperated/disgusted enough twice to quit playing. I wouldn't call it offence though, as I don't have any problems with others playing those games; which is ultimately what is so wrong with offence, that you're saying others shouldn't get to play it either just because you can't/won't handle it.

 

[captainaweshum]

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.

As a father I agree with the Dead Space 2 marketing being offending.

I also was offended by the Medal of Honor Taliban thing. But, I'm offended by a military shooters in general, I think they lack tact. I know the argument that it's okay in movies so it should be okay in games, but I've never seen it done with tact. There is a way to do a military shooter in a respectful way but it hasn't been done as far as I know. It's always a opening screen about how "War Sucks...." and then 12 hours of testosterone fueled gunplay without any gravity applied to the people dying.

But that's just me. I don't expect other people to hold the opinion.

 

[fwlzdxil]

By Dragon Age 2. Isabella is a huge spit in the face. She is a continuation of Miranda's "I was genetically engineered to give you a boner" and nothing else, because "That's what kids want, right!?" Who the shit do they think I am? Wish I could kill her in the ending sequence.

 

[dolgion]

Well it's not that I get offended by the content of a game itself. It's that it can be quite insulting to play a game which is really bad, and in you can imagine quite vividly how the developers approached the creation of the game. In Crisis Core it was like "Zack should have uber gelled hairstyle because that's what guys wanna be like, and girls find that hot as well. Oh and we should put cutscenes all over the place and trigger them randomly! People love the cutscenes!" theres just tons and tons of things that pissed me off, and most of all were the shallow characters with their melodramatic talk. I just hate it so bad. But I feel offended because apparently the designers thought I would be content with low-quality game writing, just as long as Zack looks flashy, has flashy limit breaks and it carries the words Final Fantasy 7 in its title.

 

[DarkTenka]

You are talking about opinions. Sticks and stones there for the most part. But I was talking about across the board as the person I quoted was. But I have a hard time buying that. It sounds good on a forum but I don't believe that there is actually NOTHING anyone can say to get under your skin. If someone calls my nephew a worthless bastard child, I am offended. I don't simply "disagree". Because I strongly disagree and you get an offended response from me by just using words and an opinion. My conviction is not fragile or in jeopardy it is being exercised. My conviction would be fragile if I did nothing as then I risk losing my conviction.

"Calling your nephew a worthles bastard child" is still "sticks and stones". But if someone was to say that, it sounds more like their intent is to make an attack (which would usually be followed up with physical violence). In this case they CAN hurt you and you should review your options to fight back or not. But if someone makes that comment without the intent of attack (ie if it was a joke) then you really dont have a right to be offended, just tell him his mom is a 5c hooker and you will become the best of friends.

Everyone can be hurt, it is the human condition.

Emotionally .. only the weak and fragile can be hurt. Physically on the other hand .. well I guess the same concept applies.

Sometimes we place our faith in poor places. But that is what "being alive" is all about as opposed to just "being". I don't see anything "wrong" with someone being offended by a game or anything else for that matter. You want to be offended a bugs exists? Go ahead. I ain't saying all convictions are rational but it is what makes us who and what we are. I haven't been offended by any games as I said before. I would say that there are certain subject matters in some games I find offensive. (Like that KKK game) But the game is so freakin retarded it is hard to be offended by something that rediculous. I say "If you are never offended by anything, life must be a drag."

Without ugly, you can't have anything to measure beauty up against. Makes for a drab experience.

To say that "never be offended makes life a drag" is a pretty bold statement. You assume that not being offended by anything means not believing in anything. This is very untrue, you can strongly believe in a lot of things and when you encounter the opposing view you have a choice of ignoring it or re-evaluating your own convictions.

What would being offended by it accomplish exactly? You can't change what is already made/said, and you're certainly not going to change someone elses opinion on the matter. To acknowledge offense means only to encourage negetive feedback to something that you have no control over.

 

[Damura]

RapeLay, anyone?