I misinterpreted what you were asking. No, no one else said that. Save one person responding to my initial post.Buretsu said:
Journalist demonises video games in article criticising the demonising of videogames. Inception!
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Gone Rampant said:
I found it hilarious that the article didn't actually mention that example. Probably more worrying from a moral standpoint than killing aliens in Gears.
I'd hate to be wrong but that sounds true [all though I'm pretty sure Saints Row 1 didn't have you beating up hookers with dildos but I may be wrong] especially Max Payne, since it pretty much started the violence craze. I'm just surprised at why we should get mad about it, it doesn't seem like a opinion piece.
Max Payne started the violence craze? Ever heard of a low budget game called Doom? or Duke Nukem 3D?Aprilgold said:
Or, you know, Space Invaders.
IGN AU are actually pretty good. If you read their original editorials they are scores better than anything else on the site, and usually pretty well thought out and enjoyable to read. IGN AU isn't deserving of the same scorn the other subsidiaries of the site are.
But this article is pathetic. I expect more from The Telegraph. They're not known for sensationalist fearmongering like this. The "Top 5 most violent games" bit at the end is shameful. They just picked 5 random games out of the air. It shows they know nothing about what they're talking about, and that section serves absolutely no purpose! It's got nothing to do with the rest of the article, they just put it there to scapegoat them.
These kind of news stories make me more depressed than angry now. Depressed at how it's still happening. They're still prepared to shovel this kind of shit over and over when it's obvious bull crap if you do even the slightest of research. You don't even need to do that. Just look at the millions of gamers out there and recognise that they're not all fucking serial killers!
But this article is pathetic. I expect more from The Telegraph. They're not known for sensationalist fearmongering like this. The "Top 5 most violent games" bit at the end is shameful. They just picked 5 random games out of the air. It shows they know nothing about what they're talking about, and that section serves absolutely no purpose! It's got nothing to do with the rest of the article, they just put it there to scapegoat them.
These kind of news stories make me more depressed than angry now. Depressed at how it's still happening. They're still prepared to shovel this kind of shit over and over when it's obvious bull crap if you do even the slightest of research. You don't even need to do that. Just look at the millions of gamers out there and recognise that they're not all fucking serial killers!
Wow, you really just don't get it? She's not demonizing anything. Killing civilians in No Russian is more "worrying from a moral standpoint" then ripping a chainsaw into an alien, but it's also less violent. She's not making some sort of argument, she's just providing context for her article -- and it's probably not even her. Pictures are usually handled by the editor, because they were part of the whole layout thing when it was all done in print.ResonanceSD said:
Do you understand the difference between an editorial and a newspaper article?
She's not a pundit, she's not putting forth an opinion. She's writing for a newspaper, which means hectically fast writing, often about subjects that you are not intimately familiar with.
To be fair that is a pretty accurate laymans summation of those games...WHICH I LOVEResonanceSD said:
She's the tech writer for that paper. Not having the slightest idea of stuff you're talking about is rarely a good standpoint if you're meant to be a specialist in a related field.Ruzinus said:
Video games are just another scapegoat that media will use to make people blameless, and they will continue to be blamed until the next big thing comes along.
The OP was directly quoting the article. Sloppy journalism strikes again! -_-. Seriously, that article had about 9 seconds worth of research put into it.Aprilgold said:
