Steam, I would pass on this game... (game news)

How about school paedophile manager? What is the moral difference between this and School shooter?
If people can't see the difference between the games mentioned and this latest 'game' then we are in more difficulties than I thought.
 
Meridian said:
The biggest problem here is not that it will drive a single person to carry out a spree shooting (it won't) but that the Second Amendment crowd will use it as yet another thing to add to the list of "Things that cause spree shooting that aren't guns. No sir, definitely the viseo games, not the guns. Now nice NRA, can I have my money". OK, some of that will be be implied, but the first part will be out loud.
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At least one person gets it ^

Draws the wrong sort of attention to video games. not good for games or gamers
 
gailjon said:
How about school paedophile manager? What is the moral difference between this and School shooter?
If people can't see the difference between the games mentioned and this latest 'game' then we are in more difficulties than I thought.
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Appeal.

A fantasy world where the laws don’t apply to me, where I can tote guns, steal cars, drive like a maniac, evade the police without any ramifications or anyone getting hurt; that really appeals to me.

A fantasy world where you molest children, that does not.

cheesyboy said:
Draws the wrong sort of attention to video games. not good for games or gamers
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Insightful assessment, I stupidly hadn’t even considered it. You’re completely right.

And I may have been too quick to make my statement that I’m happy about the prospect of such a game. Perhaps if we’re going to preserve the state of gaming we need to draw a line somewhere.
 
Wow, it looks amazing. It makes me wonder why larger developers such as Bethesda, Rockstar and CD Project Red, haven't explored the possibility of developing a game built around the slaughter of children. Never mind your engrossing storylines, character development, expertly designed environments and finely tuned gameplay mechanics, that all gel to give reason as to why you're sat on your a$$ playing a video game. Sometimes you just wanna off-load an AR-15 into a child's face, right? #GameOfTheYear. Second only to RapeLay.
 
tek81 said:
Wow, it looks amazing. It makes me wonder why larger developers such as Bethesda, Rockstar and CD Project Red, haven't explored the possibility of developing a game built around the slaughter of children. Never mind your engrossing storylines, character development, expertly designed environments and finely tuned gameplay mechanics, that all gel to give reason as to why you're sat on your a$$ playing a video game. Sometimes you just wanna off-load an AR-15 into a child's face, right? #GameOfTheYear. Second only to RapeLay.
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Crazy right? Why are there no games where you can end innocent lives on mass, bomb people, tear them limb from limb and... oh wait, my Steam library is full of them :) most of them aren’t winning storyline of the year either.
 
WantoN said:
Crazy right? Why are there no games where you can end innocent lives on mass, bomb people, tear them limb from limb and... oh wait, my Steam library is full of them :) most of them aren’t winning storyline of the year either.
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Hey, as long as they excel in other areas, such as wanton destruction and senseless acts of cruelty, that's all that matters. Personally, I'm going to forward my idea for Super Baby Aborter to Revived Games, because given their back catalogue, they're obviously the most qualified to take advantage of this untapped niche.
 
tek81 said:
Hey, as long as they excel in other areas, such as wanton destruction and senseless acts of cruelty, that's all that matters. Personally, I'm going to forward my idea for Super Baby Aborter to Revived Games, because given their back catalogue, they're obviously the most qualified to take advantage of this untapped niche.
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I don’t want to go to War, I don’t want to commit crimes, I don’t want to hurt anyone, at all. But I enjoy games with this kind of content, and there’s a reason they’re arguably the most popular. It obviously appeals to something in the human psyche.

There’s a precedent for this type of game. There isn’t one for aborting babies or molesting children. A violent game isn’t the same, as you and others are suggesting. Drawing a comparison isn’t valid.

As I’ve said though, my standpoint has been changed by another poster; there’s plenty of whiteknights and sn0wfl@kes who, even though this doesn’t affect them in any way, will be desperate to climb all over a title like this and demonstrate their moral superiority. It’ll draw the wrong kind of attention to gaming, and that’s why I won’t support it.
 
Completely in agreement with the last line of WantoN's post above...this shines a light of complete negligence on the way Steam looks after the content that it sells, or allows a place on it's storefront. Given the frequency of shootings that have taken place in the US in the past six months, and the fact that this is a shooter that takes place in a school and sells itself on that fact, a game of this nature is just asking for the furore that took place in 1994 when Sega and Nintendo took chunks out of each other and Lieberman and Kohl wanted to blame videogames for the ills of society. Just look at the way games already get blamed for causing shootings...something like this is only going to encourage further censorship and scare off developers in the future from making a more intelligent use of the idea.
 
WantoN said:
I don’t want to go to War, I don’t want to commit crimes, I don’t want to hurt anyone, at all. But I enjoy games with this kind of content, and there’s a reason they’re arguably the most popular. It obviously appeals to something in the human psyche.

There’s a precedent for this type of game. There isn’t one for aborting babies or molesting children. A violent game isn’t the same, as you and others are suggesting. Drawing a comparison isn’t valid.

As I’ve said though, my standpoint has been changed by another poster; there’s plenty of whiteknights and sn0wfl@kes who, even though this doesn’t affect them in any way, will be desperate to climb all over a title like this and demonstrate their moral superiority. It’ll draw the wrong kind of attention to gaming, and that’s why I won’t support it.
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I wasn't suggesting that. I don't think there is any correlation between virtual and actualised violence. Through sarcasm I was trying to imply (quite loudly), that perhaps, on occasion, lines have to be drawn for the sake of taste and decency, if only for the betterment of the gaming industry. Lastly, I would postulate that if a game based around child abortion was released, people would play it. The fact is, there are many facets of interactive gaming that could be explored in order to satisfy the base proclivities of the masses. Does that mean they should be made though? That's the question.
 
IronWarrior said:
It's just a poorly asset filled game where you can play both the shooter or the police. There are SWAT games. One of the biggest games right now is Rainbow Six Siege, then you have the whole GTA game series, even Counter Strike and a dozen more.

Nothing to be upset over, move along.
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I could imagine the game Postal 2 stirred up some controversy when it first came out as well, not to mention you can still buy it on Steam for a really low price.
 
Talasour said:
I could imagine the game Postal 2 stirred up some controversy when it first came out as well, not to mention you can still buy it on Steam for a really low price.
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I loved that game when it came out.

tek81 said:
I wasn't suggesting that. I don't think there is any correlation between virtual and actualised violence. Through sarcasm I was trying to imply (quite loudly), that perhaps, on occasion, lines have to be drawn for the sake of taste and decency, if only for the betterment of the gaming industry. Lastly, I would postulate that if a game based around child abortion was released, people would play it. The fact is, there are many facets of interactive gaming that could be explored in order to satisfy the base proclivities of the masses. Does that mean they should be made though? That's the question.
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I agree with all of this. As to your question, no I don’t think they should; that line will be different for everyone, and I would rather draw it to protect gaming than people’s feelings, there’s far too much of that already.
 
WantoN said:
I loved that game when it came out.



I agree with all of this. As to your question, no I don’t think they should; that line will be different for everyone, and I would rather draw it to protect gaming than people’s feelings, there’s far too much of that already.
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Agreed.
 
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