12-17-2007, 10:20 PM
My point was these games are fictionalized representations of reality, much like life bars represent the health of a character in many games. Not exactly realistic, but is designed to keep pace with the game system. Even if a game claims to be a realistic simulation of reality, it is still a simulation and thus will discount some elements present in real life.
My Tekken analogy was in line in a sense that its fighting styles are based from real world martial arts fictionalized as they are represented by different characters with their own weird quirks. Baek uses Taekwondo, Steve uses boxing, and King uses many wrestling moves just to name a few, along side a fighting bear, panda, and a kangaroo. As I said earlier, both games are fictionalized accounts of reality with some elements being grossly exaggerated, like a player's survivability in many FPS games against overwhelming odds and instant consumable health packs with a dash of realism such as the weapon modeling. Remember, both these games are meant to entertain and they fictionalize certain elements of reality for entertainment purposes!
Let's face it, killing things and blowing stuff up in games is part of the fun, maybe they should follow-up that question they asked the 10 year old kid who was interviewed with "Would you kill in real life just like the ones in the video game?" then we'll get an answer if video games do make children want to kill.
My Tekken analogy was in line in a sense that its fighting styles are based from real world martial arts fictionalized as they are represented by different characters with their own weird quirks. Baek uses Taekwondo, Steve uses boxing, and King uses many wrestling moves just to name a few, along side a fighting bear, panda, and a kangaroo. As I said earlier, both games are fictionalized accounts of reality with some elements being grossly exaggerated, like a player's survivability in many FPS games against overwhelming odds and instant consumable health packs with a dash of realism such as the weapon modeling. Remember, both these games are meant to entertain and they fictionalize certain elements of reality for entertainment purposes!
Let's face it, killing things and blowing stuff up in games is part of the fun, maybe they should follow-up that question they asked the 10 year old kid who was interviewed with "Would you kill in real life just like the ones in the video game?" then we'll get an answer if video games do make children want to kill.
