@thereal25: we have the same games in europe but dont have the mass shooting the U.S. has...... it is nothing to do with games.
Agreed. I think the main issue is gun control. I really think America needs to make drastic changes in this department. In a society where at least one in ten people are mentally unstable and/or psychopathic, the idea of anyone over the age of 18 being able to walk into a store and purchase a hand gun or assault weapon is just ludicrous.
As for games, I do think that certain games are inappropriate for children and maybe even young teens. Otherwise their developing minds might get the idea that so much senseless violence is normal.
Hm, well this is a tough one. On the one hand, I'm open the the possibility that violent games could inspire real-life violence to some extent. But one has to ask if there was no violence in games - could they even exist at all? The same goes for tv series, movies and books... - how could we create entertainment that has no violent content?
The line is fairly thin to be sure. I guess it's probably defined where you can make story-based choices that will affect the outcome.
So in Doom, you're pretty much just a guy who shoots stuff. Sure it's a role, but you can't really make any meaningful changes to how the story plays out.
I'm not familiar with Age of Wonders Planetfall though so I couldn't comment on that.
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