So. You're a gamer. You've seen all the crap before. You've seen people get all uppity about combat in a church when it's happened thousands of times before. You've seen a hundred poorly made reports linking games to violence. You've seen mass effect be called alien pornography, you've seen call of duty be called a murder training simulator.
Then, every once in a while, it happens. There's an outrage, and you agree with it. When has it happened to you?
EDIT: Of course, the whole "games cause violence" thing is BS, always has been BS, and until a game system is invented that actively injects various chemicals into the brain, always will be BS. What I'm saying is when has there been an individual uproar about a game that you agreed with, that it crossed "the line".
Then, every once in a while, it happens. There's an outrage, and you agree with it. When has it happened to you?
EDIT: Of course, the whole "games cause violence" thing is BS, always has been BS, and until a game system is invented that actively injects various chemicals into the brain, always will be BS. What I'm saying is when has there been an individual uproar about a game that you agreed with, that it crossed "the line".
Mine came when I heard about the alien hive level in duke nukem forever. When I heard the outrage, I thought "Dumbasses, can't they see it's a simple aliens reference?" After a while of hearing about it, I got curious and looked up a walkthrough on youtube. And it was horrible.
It wasn't that amazingly graphic. They body asplode, then loads of little alien critters pop out, honestly, that's probably the most friendly they could've done an aliens reference visually. But then there's the sound design. Screaming, crying, saying stuff like "I wanna go home" and "how can it already be moving!!?" It's goddamn horrible! How the f*** did the game designers think this could be funny? Was it supposed to be this bad? Was it supposed to be a genuine scary section? Because that's blown away the moment the duke tells two victims "You're f***ed".
In fact, it reminded me of the sound design in dead space 2. People can say what they want about dead space, but I will defend the sound design to the death. The section where you come out of the hospital into a residential area, and you can hear an the screaming of an unimaginable number of people. See, dead space is a game that goes close to the edge at points, but it's okay there, because it's all done to achieve a scary effect, it doesn't imply f***ing rape, and most of all, the audience aren't expected to laugh at it, at all. It's all meant to be scary and even tragic.
Seriously, whoever made that section and thought "Yep, the prolonged torture, rape, and eventual painful death of thousands of innocent women is hilarious!" is sick. And that's coming from me.
It wasn't that amazingly graphic. They body asplode, then loads of little alien critters pop out, honestly, that's probably the most friendly they could've done an aliens reference visually. But then there's the sound design. Screaming, crying, saying stuff like "I wanna go home" and "how can it already be moving!!?" It's goddamn horrible! How the f*** did the game designers think this could be funny? Was it supposed to be this bad? Was it supposed to be a genuine scary section? Because that's blown away the moment the duke tells two victims "You're f***ed".
In fact, it reminded me of the sound design in dead space 2. People can say what they want about dead space, but I will defend the sound design to the death. The section where you come out of the hospital into a residential area, and you can hear an the screaming of an unimaginable number of people. See, dead space is a game that goes close to the edge at points, but it's okay there, because it's all done to achieve a scary effect, it doesn't imply f***ing rape, and most of all, the audience aren't expected to laugh at it, at all. It's all meant to be scary and even tragic.
Seriously, whoever made that section and thought "Yep, the prolonged torture, rape, and eventual painful death of thousands of innocent women is hilarious!" is sick. And that's coming from me.
