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| Michael |
 Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 12:13 pm |
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I wonder if their is a relationship between the kinds of games that are popular and the events that are publicized in the news. In other words, are there so many war games now because there is so much war? And was the golden age of adventure games more peaceful?
And if there is a correlation, does it pertain to sales as well as developed titles? Do current war games sell well? (I guess they have to because there are almost no other games, but still...) Or is it just something that developers like to make?
If there is a correlation, then all we need to see better games, is world peace. 
Let's do it! 
Happy new year.  |
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| fook_yu |
| Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 3:07 am |
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It's a big dream to have peace on Earth.... maybe a too big dream 
But Happy new year to you, and every one else  Hope I could test an Alpha test this year |
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| Bogdan |
| Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 1:21 am |
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Hi. Nice to join the club.
That's a very interesting point of view. Indeed the war makes headlines in newspapers. Also this makes Oscar winners, e.g.: "Save private Ryan", "The Gladiator", etc. But there are also not war related movies like "A beautiful mind", "Forest Gump", etc, that has win Oscar. I think that's a problem of marketing & how good the game/movie is indeed.
Probably, as Isaac Asimov said in "The childhood's end", we are stii a little bit imature. We are at the age of childhood, when muscles are the most important thing. That's why the war is so important right now. Even "Lord of the rings", witch IMHO is the best book ever written, is based on war issue. The most wise and pure creature from Middle Earth - elves - are forced to fight for their own survivre. As we can see, the war is very exiting because it creates, tragic or happy-ending love stories, heroes.
Who knows? Probably if our leaders would be women, we could have more peacefull games, movies and for sure more peace on Earth. |
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| Michael |
| Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 9:13 am |
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| War is easy. Both in entertainment as in politics, war is a cheap trick that can replace an answer to a difficult question. |
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| LunSei |
| Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 7:15 pm |
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Personally, I think there always have been war games. It's us who react to them differently and seem to notice them more now, because there's also a lot of talking about the real thing. But it didn't change the game development. Alas, I think we have misplaced the cause with the effect: more real war equals that it looks AS IF there are more violent videogames.
Also what's this talk about "if female were world leaders we'd have less war"? I disagree.... |
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| Wildbluesun |
| Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:41 pm |
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We'd have more bitchy diplomacy for sure. Gossip would rule (assuming my peers are any guide).
Correction - Lord of the Rings is a trilogy, not one book. XD
I never understand how people can read those things. I read the first book and half of the second, but don't remember ANYTHING because I was drowning in description. All I remember is looking at a solid page of description and thinking "OK, this is where I stop".
Tolkein used to be a member of a book club (at his university) and read bits of his work to said book club. On seeing him walking in with a sheet of paper, another member is said to have said:
"Oh no, not another bloody elf". |
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| alpha |
| Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 8:25 am |
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Michael wrote: War is easy. Both in entertainment as in politics, war is a cheap trick that can replace an answer to a difficult question.
Sounds like religion. Actually, there are many layers of wool pulled over the eyes of the average human; the average consumer I might say. Religion, politics, the illusion of a stable civilization with a tissue paper economy. War is less like a war and more like a job nowadays... instead of serving our country and it's ideals, we serve wealth and power into the pockets of the banks and corporations without even questioning the reason why we're fighting at all. The question is difficult because there are many answers, and war should never be one of them. At least I don't think so.
As far as current events affecting the popularity of the games that mimic them... I suspect that some people are more comfortable with familiar things; even a thing as horrible as a war. As long as we're surrounded by it every time we turn around, it's a part of our culture. As long as it's acceptable to kill another person for a hollow cause, there are going to be video games devoted to it. The video game creator has the universe at his/her fingertips and can allow for anyone they wish to transcend this place and time; to become that which they are not. This is the very core of the game and is the most attractive aspect of playing them. If his/her heart is in the right place. The Endless Forest is what you get... if not, well you know the rest. |
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