Hi Dark, Well, weather the violence in the game is harmless or not is up for debate. In my personal opinion it is harmless in the sense that nobody really gets hurt, it isn't really hurting anyone in real life, but I find the nature of the violence in the game emotionally disturbing.
For example, when the game first loads you walk into a party and just start stabbing people at random to death until all 10 of the party goers are dead. We could argue that it is just a game, that we are just acting out the part of a psychopathic killer, but for me doing so is still unethical because I don't take killing people lightly. I'm one of those sorts of people who is in favor of abolishing the death penalty in the U.S. and am active in other humanitarian groups so just walking into a party, bar, or some other place and killing people in a game isn't my idea of fun or entertainment. It goes against my moral and ethical inclinations to do so, and I found the game disturbing to say the least. I suppose that is why when I have enemies in my own games they aren't particularly human. In MOTA, for instance, the enemies are skeletons,harpies, centaurs, and so forth. Those are monsters not people. Therefore I don't feel any ethical or moral objection to killing them. Same goes with mowing down hoards of zombies in Swamp. I don't consider zombies people so have no objection to slicing, dicing, or killing as many of them as I can. On 4/29/15, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > @Desiree, interesting comment on violence. > > I will say this is why I don't tend to enjoy crime based games such as torn > > city or I mobsters myself. > > Nottingham where I grew up and where my parents live has the highest gun > crime rate in the Uk and one of the highest over all in the country, it > really is one of these cities where you don't walk around in the city center > > after dark. > > That is why I don't live there anymore, but also why crime has never > particularly interested me in a game sinse hay if I want to see da gangers > hangin in da getto I hardly need to play a game :D. > > That being said all I've heard of Psycho strike's gameplay has been hugely > interesting, and a bit of harmless violence provided it is harmless violence > > can be fun on occasion, so I'll reserve judgement until I've tried the > thing. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
