On the topic of video games, it's like I don't want to care, but I know I'm going to get sucked into the issue eventually (especially since my classmates and I will probably be interning at a video game studio this summer). But therein lies the problem- there is apathy on the side that should be defending the video games. Your typical geeky 20-something gamer is simply too used to the graphic nature of games and couldn't give a spit what little Johnny and Suzie are being exposed to or what the exact psychological byproduct will be, if any.
When you think about it, Gen-Xer's and perhaps those in our age range see video games as a medium that has indeed evolve around them; when these gamers were all young and impressionable, the games were wholesome and- as the AVGN points out- the graphics were so sub-par you couldn't exactly expose children anyway. But, flash forward to the present and games have matured in tandemn with these now-young adults. As far as your 20-30 year-old gamers are concerned, the whole industry revolves around them. :\ They certainly don't want to deal with a perpetually pissed off Middle America. At least not until the threat of censorship comes into play (sadly).
*sigh* But I dunno. My beef almost always ends up being with the people who create these game. Because everyone knows the only way to express your creativity in a video game is to show off how horrifically you can kill someone, how to realistically hijack a car and evade police, and how little a female character needs to wear and still be a 'strong role model'. =.= If I want to be upset with Faux News and the citizens of Jesusland, it'll be over something that genuinely affects our very future on this planet.
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Date: 2008-01-24 05:45 am (UTC)When you think about it, Gen-Xer's and perhaps those in our age range see video games as a medium that has indeed evolve around them; when these gamers were all young and impressionable, the games were wholesome and- as the AVGN points out- the graphics were so sub-par you couldn't exactly expose children anyway. But, flash forward to the present and games have matured in tandemn with these now-young adults. As far as your 20-30 year-old gamers are concerned, the whole industry revolves around them. :\ They certainly don't want to deal with a perpetually pissed off Middle America. At least not until the threat of censorship comes into play (sadly).
*sigh* But I dunno. My beef almost always ends up being with the people who create these game. Because everyone knows the only way to express your creativity in a video game is to show off how horrifically you can kill someone, how to realistically hijack a car and evade police, and how little a female character needs to wear and still be a 'strong role model'. =.= If I want to be upset with Faux News and the citizens of Jesusland, it'll be over something that genuinely affects our very future on this planet.