29 July 2008

Games is Culture?

Games is a huge entertainment and sales community. Games have reach over the level of the music sales and it continue to grow up and become bigger than ever before. But videos games has not allways been positive manage. There is one thing that always seems to revolve around games and it's content. The violence and the effect on how the human react.

The content in video games is some sort of virtal reality, an art expo, an personal though and vision. It's just as what cind of movie and comic cartoon there is out there.The politician consider that the violence in video games are harmful and are not going to bee sold to kids that's under 7 years old, or ether prevent the sales of the game complete. I can agree i some point of that, people thats under 10 years old are not going to play games like Grand Theft Auto or the so despise game, Postal 2. But the question is if people are react after what they do in video games. You can consider it but not more. I mean murder is happening and the starvation in Afrika is a fact. The number of deaths in the WTC attack is less. Several kids is dying every week of starvation, but we dont care. Because exploding planes is mush more entertaining.

No one is creating a mod where you walk around with starving kids in Somalia. Some says that video games is our generation to express our selfs. An it have been made a serious comparison about how music was a importent fact in earlier generations. Games is not a expression for politic opinion, ethical question at issue or the critique of the community. There is actually no announcement in Splinter Cell or Half Life. And even if Hideo Kojima likes to plant these in hes games, how many have mention that, no one. We play for a good story and enteratining characters. There is no Bob Dylan or Jon Bon Jovi in the game development, games are not even close to other media than music. the Only thing thats attach games and poliicy together is the constant more or less on-going violence debate.

Foremost in the USA where we have governor Arnold Schwarzenegger who is working against violence video games and the selling of these products to kids that's under 7 years old. This become cinde a ironic, because Arnold has been involved with on of the 90s most violence action movies, Termenator.I have played games for about 13 yers now, and as maby all othere gamers i have always got a fairly indiffrently collimation towards the more or less constant on-going violence debate. i have dismiss Jack Thomson and his company contention that's nothing more than madness from unversed dottards. It's not before now i bethink the matter for real.I dont know what's behind it, if i begin to get old or is it because the games gett mush better looking and had get a more visual reality. How mush we though about and liked the previous generation graphics, have the current generation that just have begin, have started to touch visual reality. Something that maby the next generation consoles can produce, or have we make it to the top? Is our clincher about violence debate still gona be pertinent? (It's just a game, healthsome people can see the diffrense between games and the "realworld") ?In excess off this i think that you should keep thing apart between policy and games, and not ambitious take games to seriously.

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