Gaming Naysayers Have Little Context for Criticism

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday November 24, 2004 @08:23AM from the you-have-to-play-to-nay dept.

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:Good list. by urbaer · 2004-11-24 13:23 · Score: 2, Informative

They didn't say the games would make you go out and kill your next door neighbor, but that's a decent list of the most violent games of the last year or so.

Actually from the press release:
Dr. Bernice Powell Jackson, executive minister and officer, Justice and Witness Ministries of the United Church of Christ, and president, North American Region of the World Council of Churches, said: "Our concern about these violent video games is not guesswork. For example, there is ample evidence today that playing violent video games leads to increased aggressive thought, feelings and actions. "