Sgt. Sykes said:
Please post your best ideas about what to play instead of 'violent' shooters for that day.
I'm thinking Carmageddon.
Well, I have Saints Row 4 now. Maybe I'll see how much carnage I can cause with nothing but fists and fireballs.
snekadid said:
This..... is...... repulsive. Yes, stupid people like to link real life violence to video game violence where no actual connection exists, but you DON'T HAVE TO VALIDATE THEM!
Playing into the hands of fundamentalists and extremists is what we do in this country. I'm surprised the games industry didn't make another completely voluntary compromise to no good end.
Personally, I'm thinking a mandatory waiting period for M rated video games. And it has to be longer than that for firearms, because, well, let's be reasonable eh?
amaranth_dru said:
You know what I'll do? Toss in GTA V, drive while observing rules of the road, impose a speed limit on myself (if I can judge relative speed) and not use any weapons. Go sight seeing, take selfies of my day of non-violence in a violent sandbox and prove that I can still have fun without wanton destruction and violence... Of course if I off-road on my ATV and happen to get hurt, well thats my fault. Maybe go base jumping too... Golf a few rounds, play some tennis. Actually that sounds like fun... I would do that anyway whether or not its a cease fire day.
Proving that one can choose note to be a psychopath in GTA is a hard thing to do, I welcome the challenge.
Oh and I'm serious, totally serious. No sarcasm, no facetiousness here. I want to do this.
I do this fairly routinely. Los Santos has a lot of fun that doesn't require killing. Parachuting and off-roading. I know it's a violent murder training program or whatever, but I always appreciate just how much I can do in it without ever pulling out a gun.
Not that I do it all the time, mind. It's also fun to shoot up things.
But, of course, it's still a game.
The_Echo said:
Would it be wrong of me to play a game with guns on December 21st? Would I be morally reprehensible for doing so? Would it offend anyone?
I know people from the area whose first response was to go out and buy guns when it happened. but clearly, playing a shooter on that day would be over the line.
chikusho said:
This is to the noble heroes who choose to valiantly sacrifice an unrelated source of entertainment for a single day.
Please be taking the piss....
I mean, jesus christ, if you can gather the attention of 3000 people, get together and protest or something. Gather a collection to the victims families. Show off the gaming community as a source of good, don't make the implication that not playing shooters is actually doing good.
But that's the thing. Protesting is doing something. Gathering people is doing something. Not playing a game is quite literally doing nothing. People aren't heroic for doing nothing. There's no demonstration of positivity here. It's an ultimately lazy and thoughtless symbol. Will this become the gaming equivalent of putting a yellow ribbon on your car? Do we really need empty gestures?
