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Gaming Naysayers Have Little Context for Criticism

Posted by Zonk on 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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  1. The list of games is silly by FriedTurkey · · Score: 0, Redundant


    1)Doom 3
    2)Grand Theft Auto: "San Andreas
    3)Gunslinger Girls 2
    4)Half Life 2
    5)Halo 2
    6)Hitman: Blood Money
    7)Manhunt
    8)Mortal Combat
    9)Postal 2
    10)Shadow Heart

    WTF??? Doom3 is worse than GTA:SA? Mortal Combat is violent maybe in a 1993 kinda way. It seems like they just looked at the history of the game's name in the media.

    Doom was a big bruhaha in 1995. New one must be bad.
    Uhh Mortal Combat has all this pixelated blood that we got a lot of press off of in 1992. Lets add it to the list.

    Doom3 was scary in a haunted house kinda of way. Not any more violent than a typical FPS.

    Gunslinger Girls 2??? I guess this game could corrupt the 3 people who bought it.

    Shadow Heart?? A RPG?? How violent can a game be when you select attack, run or magic from a menu???

    I would have to say Postal 2 is #1 because it tries really hard to be offensive on purpose and it probably makes the developers really sad it is #9.