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   Kosaka Jinnai said, 6 months ago

   The sadder thing is that the story elements of these games are being overlooked and discarded by halfwit gamers.

   There’s a reason these games are rated “Mature” and it’s not because of the blood and gore. There are adult issues that have to be faced in these games and the stories are written to reflect that.

   Academics in Oxford are trying to pioneer the idea that video games should be treated and studied as an academic discipline.
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   ewalnut said, 6 months ago

   I wonder if kids would enjoy these types of games so much if they had to write “game reports” on them after playing them — talking about story, themes, characterization and such — the way we had to do with “book reports” in school.
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 6 months ago

   Don’t you want it to be as real as possible? Otherwise he will get the wrong idea about weapons and killing.
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 6 months ago

   @ewalnut

   Excellent idea.
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   hcr1985 said, 6 months ago

   @Kosaka Jinnai

   You made great points. The sadder thing still is that many parents either don’t know what the rating mean, or they don’t care to check, and then they get made at the makers of the game.
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   r2varney said, 6 months ago

   @Night-Gaunt49

   Real would include some way to instill pain to the player. Perhaps some way to loose a leg or kill your parent.
   Unfortunately these “games” turn to real life and the consequences are still games.
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   hippogriff said, 6 months ago

   Karl Fairburne: The American Psychological Society refuse to acknowledge that video games are addictive, despite studies showing they are; yet they describe the psychiatric specialty of treating this addiction as a “hot career”. The tabletop role-playing games, originally targeted for every crime and abnormality, actually avoid these problems by involving more than one player. It is hard to get even a small group to go for double-digit hours on a game, and thus creates a cap on involvement.
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   dbig 1oohh said, 6 months ago

   I played “PONG” when it showed up and went to “D&D/AD&D” from there.I did meet 1 guy who had a bit of trouble understanding that"it’s just a game,not reality" but everybody else excepted it for what it is,a game. Now I’m a retired soldier and I’ve got almost every video game console ever made, from Nintendo to XBOX360/PS3 (my gamecube burned out). And most gamers today have done like me and accepted the fact that “it’s just a game, not reality”and except life in reality for what it is. It seems that the “Studies” are done by people who focus on the negativity of gaming and feel “We the Gamers” shouldn’t play them because it’ll be bad for us mentally. The Games are gonna be around LONG after we are all gone. If you want to focus on the negativity of games that way,I feel sorry for you.
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   tegm said, 5 months ago

   hehehe, sounds like a pretty cool game!
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