Now I know games like Call of Duty 4 or Street Fighter can help you relieve stress because your shooting and punching guys in the face but I got to thinking why isn't there any games that help you relieve stress in a non-violent why? Every game I seem to play has something to do with violence, with a lot of reason behind the violence, most of the time you gotta kill bad people to save the world. When there is a game that doesn't have killing its usually very manic in nature, Katamari Damacy for example. The only game i've played that did make me just wanna chill out was Fl0W but even that doesn't have the kinda feel I've been looking for because your going around eating things.

The only game I can think of thats being released in the future that is a very calming game is one called Flower which there is no information about. Why can't one of the very artsy developers make a game where your sailing through the clouds very calmly, but if someone where to make a game like that it wouldn't be considered a game but a interactive screen saver I guess. It seems anytime, which is very few, a game has had no conflicts or fighting against something its been considered more of a toy or a puzzle game, though in tetris your fighting against your own choices. The other game I was hinting about was Electro Plankton for the DS, which was considered by many more of a gadget then a game, is a great example of what I'm talking about. I want a game where theres nothing to battle against, nothing to stab, nothing to punch, nothing to shoot, just something to help me be calm.

Many probably think why have calming games there so many other things that can help you relax, and they are totally right there are so many other ways to relax. Listening to music for example alot of the music I listen to is very calm and slow. Reading a book is another thing, but all I'm saying is many other forms of entertainment can help to relax why can't video games? I want video games to give me the same chill feeling I get when listening to a great downtempo track, and most importantly I want video games to not be considered toys but another form of art like Music and Movies.

Maybe this will never happen, but I feel that in order for games to stop being thought of as these horrible violent things it needs to happen. We need to get rid of the image of video game players being these 30 year old Leet speakers who play halo in their basement from the minds of many. I'm hoping in the future we see a flood of artistic games so people against video games like Jack Thompson and Hillary Clinton can't say that all video games are from the depths of hell. I'll just end with we all just need to relax, doesn't matter how you do it just get away from the violence and relax.