I will be straight to the point, people accept violence in games, because we are used to it since the times when started to have a story, and it was done so many times it became mundane. It was trivialized by years of pixel killing. Death in fact, can overall be seeing as a heroic action in real life. For example, like when people goes to war to defend their country or when some kills to defend it's home, or in past, people when people we challenged and had to fight to the death to defend their honor. Hell, even the bible abides killing, after all no one had ever killed people as God did, after all, it is not like he does not have the right, after all, he creates it, but let's forget about what I just said.
Bottom line is, killing is good, if you have a good cause, in fact, it is so good, that you can do it in games, and couldn't only kill the bad guy, but also civilians and for the most stupid reasons, I lost count how many times I turned my goody two shoes hero into a killing machine just to get more money and experience, after all I am to save the world, that are those few lives compared that what I am trying to achieve. Your only restrain would be your own guilty conscience, which we don't actually have, after all why the hell should I care about those virtual pixels that I just killed, but hey he had an special item that I can't get anymore due to a game bug, time to reload the game... And that is about all your punishment you will have aside from some people telling how terrible you are.
Now let's talk about sex, if there is single thing that we learned with conservative people is.. Pleasure is bad; as a matter of fact it is so bad that you're going to burn in hell with you genitals cut. You see SEX is such a big of an elephant that even our parents feel embarrassed to talk about it when we are kids. Dad, what you and mom were doing today, mommy was twitching; well my son your mother had a stroke, but she is better now, here go get an ice cream. And that is on the better case, there is also there. Shut the hell up kid, he go buy my cigarettes and don't some them this time.
And in the end what happens, we make sex with a guilty continence and fear of the unknown, we are afraid to do it, but the pain on our pants is too much to bear, so we do it even if we know that hell awaits us in the end. But this is also a good scenario, what usually happens is this. Well, we are naked now; good.. err you can start; ok….humm where the hell should I stick this thing into?
See what I mean? People does not know what sex is, some think it is related to pain, some it is wrong, some does not even want to know, and you better not talk about it, father Thompson is watching your every move, you have forgotten your lesson?
And can you believe that still happens? That is not stuff from the sixties, that is today.
Now let's get back to games, a game must have a purpose, and thus everything needs a meaning, so if you killed someone it was because it was part of the plot, or you needed money to complete your quest which is crucial to the plot.
So, if everything has a purpose… What purpose has sex, money maybe? Well no one wants to play a game where you are a hooker who needs to have sex with a number of men to save your daughter and provide her a good school so she does not share the same fate as yours, or even a game where you play as a man in prison and you needs to avoid being raped by the other cell mates, and failure is not an option. Who the hell would want to play these games? And given the fact that killing is good if you have a just cause and sex is just bad altogether, who would place that in a game?
As games evolved we were allowed to get away from the main plot line and cool down, have our own time and enjoy our high definition view of a virtual place, our avatars to do what we usually to calm down which play games might be involved, confusing I know. So we could do other stuff, even randomly kill some passer bys. But not SEX. Because if sex was developed in a game publishers would not take the game, because they knew about the consequence of releasing a game with sex or nudity in it. But if they did publish it, oh boy, now you did it. Parents would forbid their children to even get close to it, because they saw on television that it was inappropriate for children, Father Thompson would bring a copy to the church and show what a devil spawn looked like, and the internet would say that is was the coolest thing ever… bottom line, children would not be scared, they would just get more curious, and boy, would they try to get their filthy hands on it, not matter the costs.
And you know what, you can't hide these things from children,you can never monitor them a 100% of your time and you really shouldn't, so when you forbid those children to do something, your are actually inciting them to do it, Its called reverse psychology, and when those filthy children did get their eager hands on what they wanted, the damage would be done, they would look, they would experience and would not understand it, and would get it all wrong, but that is ok, after all, games does not have sex in it, so we are safe, thank God.
When a kid does not have a parent to tell them what is real or not, they will learn from the nearest source, and let's be honest here, a game is hardly the best teacher in the world.
So when we see kids getting weapons and shooting people at school we shouldn't be surprised by it, we should be surprised why they didn't pack condoms for a raping spree, at least sex gives you pleasure. But hey that game never taught him what sex was, so how would he know right?
Kids know more about killing than sex. And next day you will see on television old people and revolted parents trying to ban violent games from their country, and the kids that did the killing have a nice electrified chair waiting for them. And those killed kids parents, would appear on television sobbing and asking themselves why their kids became monsters. Well I can answer that question, it is because you weren't their when they needed you; you weren't there when your children saw its character killing zombies and started to confuse what was real. I can go as far as to tell that you failed as a parent, you were so worried trying to shield your kid from this harsh World, I could say that you forgot to prepare him to face it. I could say that you deserved that kids place on the death row.
I know what you are thinking, what about movies dude, people have sex in movies all the time dude. Well, I have to say that, a game provides a much more intense experience than movies, because you are actually controlling your character, and not simply watching powerless as the story unfolds.
Someone once told me when I was defending the same point of view as now, that I was simply saying that Violence/Sex=Mature. Well, he couldn't be more wrong.
Violence and death is seems as superficial and superfluous act, but sex is seen as brutal and wrong. I believe that things need balance, and it is a shame that people does not work on that.
I hope that the day will come when sex in games will not cause controversy, but simply accepted as it is, two bodies providing pleasure to each other. I am not saying that parents should play game with pornography with their children, but they should be there when the children is willing to learn. That is what I call evolving, that is what I call mature
Looks like 3 people actually visited my blog, I suppose I will have start writing in it then
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Nothing much to say I guess, at least, nothing related to games. Today was a hell of a day, too much work and stress. But everything worked in the end, which does not usually happens
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And after the work, I just read an article about Metro 2033. Which I suppose will rock. That is it people, I suppose that european games will rule in the near future, I wont say they are better, just different I suppose, maybe because it is something new to us.
There is something about knowing a new culture that make playing their game more worthwile, even if we have to face tons of bugs that is, and I think the extra something that makes their game more special is the soul. I mean there is love in it, not the same formula being used over and over again. Take Modern Warfare 2 for instance, the game is perfect, it is the perfect example of a genre, but there is no soul in it, we played it over and over again.
Now, take a game like STALKER, yeah it was buggy as hell, but those who are able to overcome it, will find a game unrivaled in it's atmosphere and sense of place.
By games we are able to know entire cultures, for example we are tired to see them as villains, be when we get to know their games, their literature, their movies and music, we discover a somber people, who are tuned with their inner selves, who are contemplative and philosophic.
I am not saying that american developers are not able to do games that touch the soul, take Planescape Torment for instance, but how much time will pass until we have another game like that.
I am not saying that games should make you feel sad, but it should make you feel something, and not just adrenaline.
We I am leaving now, sorry for the typos. It is that I do not have much time right now to revise it all. I promise to keep improving in the future, so have a good night everyone.
I think not, this is a test post. If anyone decided to read it, please send a comment, I might as well start to relate the exciting events of my daily life.
Also my english got better, it is not like I am going to fool anyone that it is my native language, but still, it's better than before. Anyway. If anything, please shout.



