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[17R3W]

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Originally Posted by Brooks Brown

We'll start this blog off really simply. For those of you who don't know me - i went to columbine, i was friends with both killers and the killed, had reported the killers to the police, the cops did nothing, etc.

If you look up Brooks Brown on Google, you'll learn a lot about me
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The first thing i did was look at my favorite violent games. Although the list has changed over time, my personal favorites are the Hitman Series, Postal 2, and naturally GTA. Each of these games depicts incredibly violent acts - from using a emathook to kill a man all to taking over a town with a town to using a cat as a silencer for your shotgun. All these moments gave me enjoyment, whether it be a cheap laugh or one of those great '**** yeah' moments (you know what i mean).
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But here is where i realized that nobody was looking at these games right, not even me. Hitman isn't a game about going in *****-to-the-wall. It's about figuring out how to do things. It is, by nature, not a shooter, but a puzzle game. GTA isn't about ******* hookers or killing cops. It's a story of a guy who got ****** trying to get back on top. It is, by nature, a story game.
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it is WE - the gamers - who change what the game is about and determine what happens. It is the person playing who determines what the game contains
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the things in these games that are violent are only a secondary thing. i no longer turn on GTA to randomly kill and nobody turns it on anymore to **** hookers. I turn it on now to race around, find minigames, and that type of thing.
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But the most amazing part of all of this? it's the gamers choice how violent these games get. That's why i enjoyed postal 2 so much. You COULD play the game 100% non-violently. you COULD. I didn't.
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Before I did the show on tuesday, my parents came over to my house, and we went through a list of games they wanted to see. Of course, GTA and the like made it - but i also showed them Katamari, World of Warcraft, Battlefield 2, and of course, Halo 2. Our of every game in this post (including postal 2 and hitman), which one do you think my parents were most angry at?

Halo 2. My dad said it was the most disgusting thing he'd ever seen. His face was red. Seem like an overkill reaction? nah - you see, i was on xbox live and some little kid called me a to profane to post here.... read the article
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This upset my parents more then anything. Because they realized that in these other games, the kids weren't pushed into doing bad things - they CHOSE it. My parents finally realized that parents suck. It's the parents fault. You don't get this - my PARENTS realized it's the PARENTS fault.
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102 comments as of 3:22 (i'm not reading through them all, I want to discuss it here, with you guys. FYI D_FENS = Brooks Brown = the same D_FENS on faygoluver Havaen)
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Originally Posted by http://www.lanternbooks.com/author.html?au=1403

Brooks Brown graduated from Columbine High School in 1999; this is his first book. Brooks worked and consulted on Michael Moore’s Academy Award-winning documentary Bowling for Columbine and is currently working on a documentary of his own. He lives in Littleton, Colorado

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Please read the article before posting... The quotes are there only to highlight...

that as like, the most well written article on violent video games i have ever read

he has an excellent point

[ShadowMarth]

"But here is where i realized that nobody was looking at these games right, not even me. Hitman isn't a game about going in *****-to-the-wall. It's about figuring out how to do things. It is, by nature, not a shooter, but a puzzle game. GTA isn't about ******* hookers or killing cops. It's a story of a guy who got ****** trying to get back on top. It is, by nature, a story game. "

This paragraph is complete BS. Does anyone play GTA for the story? I really don't think so. They didn't even put much story in it. They made the game to be pure adrenaline violence, to appeal to those idiotic kids. If it was about the story, do you really think healing yourself with hookers would be in the game? Hell no.

So I guess I'm the only person who enjoys the GTA series' (3D ones, anyway) storylines? I don't play GTA to randomly kill people all the time, only on occasion. I could care less about the hookers, too.

[ShadowMarth]

That's just an example of how this game was designed to be this way. It is not "made that way by the gamers", it's designed that way. The only time that occurs is with heavily modded games.

It's designed to simulate reality. The designers made the game that way so that everyone who played would be satisfied, no matter how little or how much violence they wanted to enact within the game. The person playing is the one who decides how violent they want the game to be.

[17R3W]

Originally Posted by ShadowMarth03

That's just an example of how this game was designed to be this way. It is not "made that way by the gamers", it's designed that way. The only time that occurs is with heavily modded games.

I disagree,
take for example the LOZ series...
that can be a boring repeditive game if you choose to wonder around fighting the baddies without completing the goals (as my little brother used to do).

No one is denying that GTA is violent and volgure, but the level is reflection of the player....
Do YOU only go to the hookers to recharge yourself, or do you go for a laugh...?
Do you run from the cops, or kick them over and over?
Do you sign the top score in pac-man with A.S.S?
Do you go on XBOX live and make sexual/racist comments?

The more "free" you are in these games the worse you can be...
go back to playing as kids.... the free form of play outside in the yard, etc etc...
Did you call your friends the N-word, kick them when they we're down, and imagine the game to be very bloody?

Did your ninja turtles hump your little sister barbie?? :?

Play is a reflection of yourself...

[ShadowMarth]

Well technically, you could say the same about fighting games. It doesn't make a difference. You can choose to fight or not in MK, but if you don't, good luck winning...

Originally Posted by 17R3W

Play is a reflection of yourself...

Word. That pretty much sums it up.

[ShadowMarth]

All right that's also a perfect example. Can you play Mortal Kombat without violence? Of course not, it's the entire point of the game!