Criminy wrote:
With all due respect, are you new to the gaming scene? There are quite a few people in high places that feel as though gaming is not on the same platform as movies and books. They still view games as a child's toy. There are quite a few of us who are trying to better the media as a whole and titles like this do not help.
Honestly? Titles like this *do* help. They help by telling the uppity, we-want-to-define-artistic, politically correct loving crowd to shove it. At the end of the day, there's great value in saying that a game is legitimate if it has an audience that likes it regardless of whether some panel of experts on what games should do or contain approve. I also personally believe that there is no end to the amount of restrictions the "we're protecting people from themselves" crowd will place if you let them. Giving in to their demands by avoiding controversial titles isn't going to make them back off. It'll make them push harder for ever increasing restrictions.
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So tell me Master, which side of the fence are you on? Do you want to improve the media and eventually be able to experience the gaming version of Citizen Kane or would you rather be thrown any old bone with the mindset that gaming will only last a little longer until something new comes out?
I don't want to play the video game equivalent of Citizen Kane though. And I certainly don't want the entire list of game choices to consist of those
trying to be. If someone wants to make such games, and they can sell them, then all the more power to them. But the same can be said for any other type of game as well.
I don't agree with the premise that the media is "improved" by watering it down.