Oh, I have to admit that I love horror and a certain amount of violence. It gets the adrenaline flowing and scares the crud out of me, and i get a rush. If I still get a rush from it, and I play the same amount at the same level, I suppose I’m not getting terribly desensitized. :)
Teresa "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."--Groucho Marx On Dec 15, 2013, at 11:23 AM, Ulysses Garcia <birdlover2...@hotmail.com> wrote: > How do you define a monster, in theory? > A monster is a dehumanised creature with characteristics of evil. A zombie is > a legendary creature from which a human once died. When it comes to playing > things to dehumanising a creature, it allows us to feel less tender-hearted > towards that creature so we can destroy it. > Myself, games that entail any form of violence I steer-clear unless they have > puzzles (like the ones you stated). The point here is to have as minimal > amount of violence. > On 12/15/2013 11:18 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: >> I don’t think games have to be about killing people. Killing monsters and >> zombies is fine. :) Or you could make it somewhat abstract and have to react >> to something in a split second. Change reaction comes to mind. It has some >> elements of both a puzzle and a shooter. I play that game quite a bit, too. >> >> Teresa >> >> "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too >> dark to read."--Groucho Marx >> >> On Dec 15, 2013, at 11:03 AM, Ulysses Garcia <birdlover2...@hotmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I am not sure how the genre of games are classified, but I do know one >>> thing for certain, there has been a lot of controversy about violence and >>> stuff like that over games like this, and in my previous research I >>> discovered that the long you are exposed to it, the more hard-wired it is >>> going to be in your brain. >>> Also, there is an upside to this. It allows you to increase and boost your >>> decision-making mechanisms. On a television news cast I watched one day >>> they discovered that people who played these kinds of games had shorter >>> reacting time to real-life threats. >>> In conclusion, violent games should not be played to any extreme that it >>> will force your attitudes to change, but should be played at a level of >>> moderation. >>> On 12/15/2013 10:49 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: >>>> This topic has come up on another thread, and it jogged my memory of >>>> seeing an interesting article while looking at some other things. 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