I enjoyed reading the article arete posted. It was fracking hilarious
Perhaps and hopefully this shooter-shit á la COD, and whatever their names are, is just a temporary fashion.
For one thing it's like fast-food for the masses. No more, no less. Ppl will become fed up with it and come back to original ideas, thinking and creativity in games. At least I hope so
But thinking is stressful. Think about it
you come back home again from work and the last thing you want is to keep up any tension.
(Stupid) shooters fill that niche to relieve from the dreadful ammount of stress you have to endure day by day as a modern wage-slave.
So this might be just the beginning of a more ugly develoption. I don't want to go into too much detail here but when I look at the impact this shit could've - already has - on society.
Starting with a simple question: is violence the only way to solve problems?
for kids who are 12 years or younger now this is the msg. they don't know anything else. yea perhaps they played "phun" for half an hour but became tired of it and went back to COD.
This whole topic leaves me contemplative...