http://dungeonrun.com/2006/05/17/a-history-of-videogame-violence/ How is your gaming kung foo? Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:35:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 http://dungeonrun.com/2006/05/17/a-history-of-videogame-violence/#comment-378 Phy Wed, 17 May 2006 23:35:09 +0000 http://dungeonrun.com/2006/05/17/a-history-of-videogame-violence/#comment-378 As I've mentioned before, the /real/ videogame violence that I've experienced has always been griefers, people not playing the same game as everyone else, and always at the expense of everyone else. In Halo PC, they'd teamkill their own team-mates, and then when Gearbox patched it so that people that shot their teammates were auto-kicked, griefers changed up their tactics by merely shooting their teammates and then provoking others to kill /them/, so the victim because the supposed victimizer (according to the logic of the patch) and were autokicked while the real culprits remained. /That's/ videogame violence, not the person sitting in a chair and taking part in the spirit of the competition. In that sense, Doom is no more violent than Pong if the players are all playing according to the rules of the game and playing fierce but fair, demonstrating sportsmanship in the process. As I’ve mentioned before, the /real/ videogame violence that I’ve experienced has always been griefers, people not playing the same game as everyone else, and always at the expense of everyone else. In Halo PC, they’d teamkill their own team-mates, and then when Gearbox patched it so that people that shot their teammates were auto-kicked, griefers changed up their tactics by merely shooting their teammates and then provoking others to kill /them/, so the victim because the supposed victimizer (according to the logic of the patch) and were autokicked while the real culprits remained. /That’s/ videogame violence, not the person sitting in a chair and taking part in the spirit of the competition. In that sense, Doom is no more violent than Pong if the players are all playing according to the rules of the game and playing fierce but fair, demonstrating sportsmanship in the process.

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