Violence In Video Games

Violence in video games is a very controversial topic in the entertainment industry. I especially agree with Sid Meyer when he says "On one hand I'm a game designer and I believe in freedom of expression [...] we're artists and we're allowed to create. On the other hand I have a twelve year old son who plays video games and I'm very concerned"(1). I do believe that as artists and creators, we should have the right to create the worlds we imagine, regardless of their content, and I would be one of the first to jump behind the ratings as many of the game companies did, as an excuse to publish more violent games.

Senseless Violence In GTA
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I feel like this video is a little old to express some of the real issues that I see in violence with video games. Games like GTO and the like where it shows a character in a more realistic world, doing things that are possible and horrible. It is this kind of violence that I am opposed to. I feel that video games, regardless of that minors can't by M rated games, is like minors getting alcohol. It's going to happen and it should be a consideration. I would like to see something happen in this realistic realm like what happened in television, where there should be an underlying positive moral theme. Games that glorify senseless violence in the name of greed and baseless hatred are the true issue. Games like halo are a games with a objective to survive, or save their people from some evil. Even the extremely recent StarCraft II Heart of the Swarm where you play the "Evil" race the Zerg, you are fighting to destroy a more evil dictator character. Although you use an evil alien race and slaughter the good guys you played in the first iteration of the game (Wings of Liberty), you are still fighting evil. There are still the themes of love, prejudice, and learning embedded in the game. In one cinematic after fighting the army defending the dictator, led by a good man and good soldiers just doing as they are told, fighting what appears to be the "evil" queen of blades, you kill the general, but he begs you let his retreating soldiers live. After telling the general you won't, she calls off her forces and let them run. These are the games I would like to contribute to in the future.

The Main Character "Good Guy" In StarCraft II Heart of the Swarm

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