Spector On The Current State Of Games: "Ultra-Violence Has To Stop"

I don't think violence has gone "too far", but it's more like "too common". We have a billion games where you can blow limbs off or finding over a dozen ways to behead someone. It's become a routine.

I'm inclined to agree with him, with all the violence in games today it seems were becoming more and more desensitized to it, I mean even kids games these days are heavily combat focused. Don't get me wrong im not against it its just when its added for no reason it seems its just put in for shock value or basically because violence sells these days.

Burgess would lower his head in shame at the sight of your comment.

In my opinion, games are a way of escaping realty, and letting go of the world around you while you immerse yourself in a different universe. The artistic freedom is the very foundation of games and why they are so popular (IMO). I would go the whole alcohol/drug route but that is horse has been killed more times than all the horses in Skyrim since release. We have something special here and Specter can continue to make his games the way he wants just like other developers can pursue their visions. He will attract those interested in his game, and defer those that are not. Life.

Parents arent parenting their children or looking at what they watch, listen, and play. It takes a village to raise a child... no, **** you the village is busy with its own problems so why dont you spend some quality time with your offspring and be intelligent about what is age appropriate for them. I do agree that some go a bit too far but others just try and sell a game based on violence/sex and not content. The same can be said about films and tv shows as well. Laziness and lack of originality on game devs part will just spawn more of the games Spector has problems with.

He says it is "in bad taste" and "will cause us trouble", but he doesn't say what exactly or why. If he doesn't want to play or make violent games, that's fine with me. However, as one of the millions of gamers who enjoy violent video games and has never physically harmed another human being, I don't understand what he's getting at, why he feels that way, or what he thinks should be done about it. He needs to elaborate beyond "Violence in games is bad, mkay."

I work in online advertising within the travel industry and we constantly have to innovate on our products and advertising in order to keep the company and department in positive growth. So like video games we innovate or copy a competitor and while innovation is nice, it is far from guaranteed success, whereas a copy has at least some proven success. So as long as your standard "ultra violent" game continues to turn a profit I don't see why these developers would change. In today's world where a risk gone bad could mean the end of a company, there is just not enough incentive to constantly innovate...In my opinion anyway :p

tell that pansy to get bacc into the kitchen

I wanna play a game where a robot with guns for arms is shooting a plane made out of guns that fires guns.

He reminds me of a certain group of people who will do bad things for a significant portion of their life and suddenly are umm..."born" again and rail against all the very same things that they used to do. It was ok when they were doing it, but now that they aren't doing it anymore, it is not ok for anyone else anymore either.

While it is admirable to want to better yourself and do better, just focus on your own improvement and not try to have everyone around you conform to your new found (in your own mind) superiority.

I definitely don't agree with violence being too prevalent, there are plenty of nonviolent games out there and the fact that there ARE violent ones literally affects nothing. However, I do agree that the focus of violence is different now, and not as mature as it once was. Except for cases like No More Heroes and games of similar ilk, where the focus is satirized and overdone, it seems like violent games are more about catharsis than actual portrayal of violence. There are games with dehumanizing violence, like Grand Theft Auto where murder is entertainment, and my personal preference, humanizing violence such as ARMA where you actually end up fearing for your ingame life.

I like violence, and eating animal products, drinking alcohol, smoking (before the wife nagged me into stopping). If it doesn't harm anyone else, I don't care what you do. I feel like if he wants to make non-violent games, great for him. Stay out of my life if it doesn't affect you. Also, I feel there need to be more insanely graphically violent games. It's very cathartic.

I'm all for violence in games. I'm just not all for games that base their gameplay strictly on violence (Gears of War, CoD, I'm looking in your direction). A game like Red Dead where violence is certainly welcome and part of the core gameplay mechanic but only a fraction of the experience is much more appealing to me. I would love a scene of intense violence and gore to happen in a game that isn't strictly about killing as you would feel the impact of it so much more.

Just shut the **** up and make Disney games. OR I'LL RIP YOUR FUCKING HEAD OFF.

Disney needs to listen to more people like this

Epic Mickey 3: Fuckin Epic

Epic Mickey of War

Epic Mickey 4: The Return of Mickey Rourke

Lawsuits, Lawsuits everywhere.

Too many games try to be gritty and realistic now that's for sure. I can kind of see the ultra violence he speaks of. When he says something bad I doubt he means murderous kids but for video games to be socially accepted and "okay" with the uptight, those types of games can only hurt. And I mean, Tomb Raider now has Lara Croft getting raped?

I think it's the whole bit of games trying to be serious so that they are taken seriously, which in turn makes the game look like a kid trying to be a grown adult.

violence is everywhere, there's no getting around it. i play violent games because it lets me do what i wish i could do.

LOL

True story.

Agreed, I have nowhere near the stamina or patience to go driving downtown, find a hooker, drive to a safe spot, have sex with her, pay her, wait till shes in front of my car, run her over until dead, get out of my car, fish thru her clothes to get all her money, get in my car, and make a hasty retreat back home to wash the blood stains out of my loot.