Nannies Get Angry Over Dante's Inferno Achievement
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Erm is it just me, or is there a lot of wierd groups/ associations around these days? And half of them seem to be bitching about something so pathetic, as long as it gets them heard of
I can't take an International Nanny Association seriously.
But I'm not going to buy the game since it has no (apparent) similiarities to the book aside from the very basic roots of the story.
A guy takes a trip to Hell.
I can't be any more elaborate than that because that's where the similiarities end.
But I'm not going to buy the game since it has no (apparent) similiarities to the book aside from the very basic roots of the story.
A guy takes a trip to Hell.
I can't be any more elaborate than that because that's where the similiarities end.
Truth be told, murdering human beings in video games generally has about the same emotional/moral impact for me as squishing a spider. I don't see why uncharacterized dead babies should make much difference. I had no issue slaughtering them in Doom 3 or Dead Space, I just shot em and moved onto my next objective, fully aware that what I just killed was simply a means to an end (read: survival).
In fact, the only times I actually question what I'm killing in a game is when said victim has been characterized to the point where I actually start wondering if what I'm doing is morally acceptable, both in my mind and the context of the game universe. Mass Effect did a fantastic job of this. Hell, I spent a good two minutes debating the fates of some of the characters from Grand Theft Auto 4. However, if those characters were ambivalently evil or weren't characterized, I would have no issue pulling the trigger immediately.
I always keep in my mind that all I'm doing is playing a video game. It has no impact on my life past the time I spend playing it, and I know when to separate fantasy from reality. Murdering dead babies in a video game doesn't strike me as morally unjust (seeing as they are nothing more than pixels), but rather a video game "enemy" whose very purpose for existing is to make the player uncomfortable.
In fact, the only times I actually question what I'm killing in a game is when said victim has been characterized to the point where I actually start wondering if what I'm doing is morally acceptable, both in my mind and the context of the game universe. Mass Effect did a fantastic job of this. Hell, I spent a good two minutes debating the fates of some of the characters from Grand Theft Auto 4. However, if those characters were ambivalently evil or weren't characterized, I would have no issue pulling the trigger immediately.
I always keep in my mind that all I'm doing is playing a video game. It has no impact on my life past the time I spend playing it, and I know when to separate fantasy from reality. Murdering dead babies in a video game doesn't strike me as morally unjust (seeing as they are nothing more than pixels), but rather a video game "enemy" whose very purpose for existing is to make the player uncomfortable.
isn't there a regulation on violence towards children in video games? I'm all for baby-killing but isn't that the reason Fallout 3 was lacking in the child vats department?
EDIT: i mean realistic children, not mutated monster-children from hell
EDIT: i mean realistic children, not mutated monster-children from hell
A lot of inapproprite things are alright to you. Anyways we kill things things in video games all the time and there are a few people who are mentally ill and take things too far, but those are a few sick individuals, for the most part we don't kill things because we did it in a game, thats just nuts.MaxTheReaper said:
But za babies I HUNGER FOR ZEM!
Seriously though, people take videogames too seriously. It's not like we are training to be baby killers. Plus I heard the game was lame anyway.
Seriously though, people take videogames too seriously. It's not like we are training to be baby killers. Plus I heard the game was lame anyway.
