Gaming Naysayers Have Little Context for Criticism

Buzzcut.com has a nice piece on the lack of context video game critics have in making their arguments. It should be noted he is not referring to today's report card, but a list of Top Ten most violent games put out by the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility. From the article: "I followed up with a simple question, "Who on this panel has played which of the games?" Burke answered first, "I haven't played any of them." She backed up her willful ignorance of the games by suggesting that she didn't need to play Soldier of Fortune to know that she was opposed to its glorification of killing. "I think it's an irrelevant question," she concluded."

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Re:for these people it is an irrelevant question

[DAldredge]

Two players, each controlling a computerized representation of a tank, shoot projectiles at each other till one of the kills the other player?

Sound like a very violent game?

Well, its called combat and you can play it on the Atari 2600...

Minor mistake in TFA

[empaler]

It was supposed to be the Center for Relative Advancement of Public Policy, not CAPP.

"Interfaith?"

[Guppy06]

We have both kinds of religions here, Catholics and Protestants!