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Lost Garden has a good look at some of the more tasteless media marketing that has been foisted on gamers, and what the willingness to shock for sales means to the industry as a whole. From the article: "When I look at many games and the sorry advertisements that reflect back their pitiful value, I see people mechanically spewing out 'more for the sake of more.' A game that only offers perfectly modeled bullet paths or the ability to murder beautiful women is a waste of talent and a blight upon our industry. I say this not because I'm morally opposed to such content, but because it doesn't accomplish anything worthy for the customer, the industry or our industry's wonderful developers." The ad that specifically caused him to write this was one for 'Hitman: Blood Money', in April's EGM. It's pretty darn tasteless; Why would a beautifully made up woman with a bullet in her brain make you want to buy a game?
And how is this any different than showing monsters being shot in the face area by our manly hero's giant gun?
Showing "beautiful woman being shot in the face are a by our manly hero's giant gun" would fall astray of the anti-pr0n groups...
I was flipping through my copy of EGM with my fiancé just the other day.
Really, what is his name? Come on, outrage over gratuitous violence is one thing, but this is a little bit pansy isn't it. Along the same vein as the UK banning the Austrlian 'bloody' adds, a backlash by the over-sensitive crowd. Just what we need.
The fact is that a lot of games are about violence, and shooting people. If it is the advertising that bothers you - then that is a problem for you. Perhaps it is the fact that you are faced with what gaming is in a very different way, perusing a magazine with your fiance, rather than hidden in your darkened room, firing away at people.
I'm still waiting for John Romero to make me his bitch.
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Yeah.
Tetris.
No matter what you do, the bricks just keep falling.
And nothing you can do can ever change that. NOTHING.
And how is this any different than showing monsters being shot in the face area by our manly hero's giant gun?
Of course I can't speak for what it's like where you are from, but here on Earth, "monsters"=="teh Bad," and beautiful women are entities to be nurtured and protected. I'm no socio-anthropologist, but I seem to recall it having to do with primal instincts and survival of the species. And the whole evil monster thing has got legs deep into heroic mythology and race memories and such; I'd say that you and the rest of your "People for the Ethical Treatment of Monsters" troupe have your work cut out for you if you're really intent on having the image of a slain frost dragon register with the same impact as the depiction of a beautiful woman with a bullet in her head.
But, hey, good luck with that, let us know how it works out...
You can pause the game.
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