videogame attitudes UK vs USA

[ScrabbitRabbit]

But then again what do I know? The US had its own video gaming TV channel, so maybe there attitudes towards gaming is more positive to us, I mean we don't have a TV channel for games

Yeah we do. It's called Ginx or somesuch. It's on Virgin Channel 286.

 

[Someone Depressing]

The UK has criticised video games often.

And in Scotland, a game that isn't COD, WWE or GTA is hardly going to get any attention. Especially anime games, mech games, and RPGs. I do think Final Fantasy sells pretty well here, but that's disputable.

Like, a British therapist saying that video games are ultimately the root cause of all modern violence. When I read about him, I literally headbutted the wall so hard I had to go to hospital.

 

[MCerberus]

Does the phrase "culture war" exist in the UK? If not, there's you're answer. In the US pundits always have to take a stance that every little cultural shift is something that IS DESTROYING AMERICA BALD EAGLES ARE CRYING. In this hyperbolic environment, gun control is a government plot to install some 1984 hellscape (the actual spying on citizens and forever wars are apparently fine though), inclusiveness is a plot to destroy religion and turn us all communist ("War" on Christmas), and trying to change mechanics for systems of welfare that keep breaking when they're merely patched is murdering the poor and eldercide.

In this context, we have videogames displacing other things people traditionally stared at screens for. It skews a lot younger than the current retirement age, so the CULTURE WAR machine spins up. Naturally the party that is more conservative and older makes the most noise here.