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Post by OddChild on Oct 24, 2006 15:06:26 GMT -5
Hi all, for anyone, outside of the states... Columbine was an incident that occured in the states. Some teens brought guns, pipebombs, etc.. to a highschool.. Someone has released a game to let you play the part of the killers... What do you think about this kind of game? What would you do if that was on your server? Also... What is the difference between this type of game and a fantasy?   www.columbinegame.com/ |
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Post by Guilect on Oct 25, 2006 8:43:49 GMT -5
I believe that everyone has the right to make whatever kind of game they want.
IF you don't like it don't play it.
(kinda like art or music, there are lots of both that I don't care for but others do, so live and let live)
I also believe that this one is a bit in bad taste.
While it seems that 90% of all games involve shooting something, most disassociate themselves from being tied to real and tragic events. Most of the time you are blasting zombies or space aliens, not fellow innocent students.
I believe that this game is like every game, it is a fantasy, make believe, a diversion from reality. People with a normally functioning mind have no problem recognizing that this is fantasy and not acceptable or conceivable in real life. Just like watching cartoons, what goes on in a cartoon is not how things work in real life.
From the screen shots the game appears to be similar to RPG's.
I will not download and try it (not interested in the theme).
I think that a good game of this style set in a fictitious setting would have had wider appeal. Also, changing the victims from innocents to fantasy characters like witches, trolls, or unicorns would be more appropriate..
Is that what you meant oddchild?
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Post by matthew on Oct 25, 2006 9:51:35 GMT -5
If it's of any interest, I remember when Princess Diana died in that Car Accident. A few weeks after it happened someone brought out a game based on the accident.
Games like those usually tend to be quite lame and are designed to provoke a reaction and nothing else.
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Post by OddChild on Oct 25, 2006 10:53:50 GMT -5
While it seems that 90% of all games involve shooting something, most disassociate themselves from being tied to real and tragic events. Most of the time you are blasting zombies or space aliens, not fellow innocent students. I see what you are saying.... But what happends when, in 10 years or so, when our games become more and more lifelike. At what point will games like, Grand Theft Auto, become just too realistic, too lifelike to be acceptable? This game specificly, uses life like roads, etc... I once heard someone ask the question... What is the difference between watching people die in the coliseum and on the TV? Just curious on everyone's thoughts... |
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Post by matthew on Oct 25, 2006 11:19:01 GMT -5
But what happends when, in 10 years or so, when our games become more and more lifelike. At what point will games like, Grand Theft Auto, become just too realistic, too lifelike to be acceptable? The Graphics in Computer Games nowadays are far more realistic than what they were when I was a Child and I'm sure they'll keep becoming more realistic in the future. But they'll still be Computer Graphics and not real 'flesh and blood'. I once heard someone ask the question... What is the difference between watching people die in the coliseum and on the TV? Well I suppose if you don't like what you're seeing on TV you can just change the channel. But if you were actually there it would be more difficult to avoid the 'reality' of the situation. |
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Post by OddChild on Oct 25, 2006 11:52:55 GMT -5
I realize that, just trying to see what everyone's ideas of where that border lies.
For example, if someone made a game where people can rape kids for example... Regaurdless of if it is real or realistic animation... it still has similar effects on the individual watching. Like the big boom in animation porn... regaurdless of the fact that they are animations, it still aparently is desired as much as regular porn to some people.
So if that aspect of it can have the same effect on the viewer, how then can we say that "in the not too distant" future that watching people killed (realisticly) will not have the same effect?
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Post by matthew on Oct 25, 2006 12:09:34 GMT -5
Oh, I understand.
Y'know, psychologists have spent years debating whether On-Screen violence leads to an increase of violence in society. I don't think there is a clear answer to this subject and I doubt if there ever will be.
I'm sure that most people won't be affected by what they see on Screen because they are able to distinguish between fiction and reality but there will always be a minority who can't.
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