Quote Originally Posted by griffin View Post
For example, playing out the latest Call of Duty, I was put off on a couple of things, most particularly the torture chapter of the game. Why have this as something the player has to do for fun, instead of just being played out as a scene between chapters (or not having it at all)? It wasn't necessary for the plot of the game. Who gets pleasure (the point of a game) from sticking glass into a person's mouth and then punching them in the jaw to make their mouth bleed? What sort of person would choose without hesitation to do that, or why force a player to do that to proceed to the next chapter?
Games are meant to stimulate the pleasure centre of the brain, so why is torturing someone in such a cruel fashion considered 'fun'? I don't mind shooting-type games for improving reflexes, and maybe even roleplaying certain eras of history (like in CoD), but do people really enjoy torturing or mutilating others for them to want it in increasingly life-like games that are supposed to be 'fun'?
I'll agree with you there, that does, IMO, go too far. Having to do it to progress is bad. A cut scene, while still bad in itself, would be less bad than having to do it yourself. Having a choice to do it or not would have been better as well.

One thing that differentiates real life serial killers, and people who play games as serial killers, is that most normal gamers would know the difference, no matter how life-like the game is. If there was a virtual reality game that was so life-like that you wouldn't be able to tell the difference, I wouldn't play it, and then go out and do it in real life, that's just silly. There may be some moron that does it, but the majority of people would know that it is just a game.

To quote a legend "When you look at how many people who listen to you music and kill themselves, and compare it to all those who don't kill themselves, that's pretty good odds"

Things that someone may enjoy (not on a sadistic level) should not be removed from the majority because of some idiot in a small minority who takes it the wrong way and does something stupid, like killing people or themselves.

JMO.