Reality vs. Fantasy
So someone brought up how they refused to play a game (after playing the first 4 in the series) because of who it portrays the role of women in it. Also it was said that if you purchase this game you support these depictions against women. Here is the exact wording."So your say its okay to have a game where you can have sex with women and beat them to death, it's fine to run over innocent people with a car? And you have no problem with it, because you don't engage in it and because it's a fanatasy or satire? I don't respect that. You buy, you condone". Really? I beg to differ.
In CoD:MW2 you chose to either shoot innocents in an airport as an act of terrorism or skip the scene. In HALO you kill aliens and it's non stop violence. In FMS I race at high speeds and crash... a lot. In playing these games am I or we condoning terrorism, killing or crashing and driving unsafe or am I just enjoying a game?
If someone chooses not to agree with something in game I can respect that, but don't stick your nose up at the rest of us because you had some epiphony after you played 4 installments of the game. Maybe we just haven't reached your level of clarity yet.
There is no question in my mind that there are some disturbed people that have a problem seperating fantasy from reality but for the normal user I'm pretty sure we all know how to seperate reality from fantasy. I'm not condoning any of this or these acts that are depicted in any of the games I play. I'm actually more offended by this persons judgement of the people that play the game than anything I've yet to experience in a game. I bought it so I condone it...this couldn't be further from the truth.
Has anything you've ever done in a game influenced the choice you've made in a real life situation? Or made you act in a certain way? I'm gonna venture to guess that 95% of us will say no.
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