gory games?

Man, in one post you've exposed the limitations of the gaming medium. I read that paragraph above and tried to think of games that are interesting yet non-violent, I said to myself, sure I could find one gaming that has "action" but doesn't involve shooting or hack n'slash, but I couldnt find a single one. Zelda came to mind, but that has you weilding a sword, which leaves only Racing games, Sports games and games like Flower. So yeah, I agree with what you're saying. There simply aren't many action games that you can play games that your kids around.S0lidSnake

Your are going this far on this minor thread? Man the topic of this gory games..not the analysis and the human condition of violence. Getting back on topic..... Dont forget about the really bad "The torture game 2" flash game on the internet.

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This place is a discussion forum, where one topic can evolve into many others. That's the beauty of discussion.

You may want to consider that little fact before lecturing me on what to post.

[QUOTE="S0lidSnake"]Man, in one post you've exposed the limitations of the gaming medium. I read that paragraph above and tried to think of games that are interesting yet non-violent, I said to myself, sure I could find one gaming that has "action" but doesn't involve shooting or hack n'slash, but I couldnt find a single one. Zelda came to mind, but that has you weilding a sword, which leaves only Racing games, Sports games and games like Flower. So yeah, I agree with what you're saying. There simply aren't many action games that you can play games that your kids around.muthsera666

Yeah, I guess you're right.

Going back to your Lion King and Tarzan examples for a minute, everytime someone died in those cartoons, it was integral to the plot. The rest of it was pretty straight forward "Hukana Matata" stuff. THe only time you saw a violent sequence in those games was when the plot needed it. Same with the Harry Potter movies, the action and the violence is justified by the story, and isn't the main feature in the movie. Games like Uncharted have you shooting and killing people from start to finish. I agree with you that it's impossible to remove violence from games or movies or even books, but games rely on violence way too much. Lion King had three violent scenes in the entire movie...... Uncharted, Fallout, Zelda are built around combat, and the plot is there to keep u moving from one action set piece to another.

I remember playing the Lion King video game when i was young, and i loved it! It had so much variety, so many different gameplay sections that developers simply dont bother with nowadays. They design a gameplay system (be it shooting, sword combat or a hack n'slash combat system) and make the whole game around it.

Well you have to think there have been some less violent games that got GOTY. Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time, which if I am not mistaken had a rating of E. Also didn't Sims win GOTY once as well? I mean all the most recent GOTY's are fun, still sometimes I find it is nice to play some games that don't base the whole premiss on violence or gore etc. I mean I know some games do it for art and stuff like that.

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Whoa. Erm, don't mind me... I'm just posting a link for the OP that I stumbled over while perusing the forums:

Topic: "Taking it too far?"