As a gamer you just can't read German newspapers atm. They're all freaking out. Politicians, authors, all of them. And I'm not talking about Bild or other yellow press media. I'm talking about the so-called serious newspapers. I was just reading the Sueddeutsche Zeitung and they're really full of it. What's even worse is that they aren't even trying to be objective or listen to the gamers. It would be funny if it wasn't so sad. They apparently read some CSS forums where people spoke right out of my heart by saying things like "CSS isn't so much about playing an actually violent scenario as it is about tactics, reflexes, key combos". And waht was their response? "That's an absurd argument."
Yeah right, you say someone's freaking out killing people only because of a GAME but you call the above an absurd argument.
What's also very upsetting is that they still think gamers are some kind of sub-culture, comprised of a select few freaks. I mean almost EVERY male in my age I know has played or still plays computer games on a regular bases. And 90 per cent of them play first person shooters. We're not a sub-culture, computer games are a mass medium like TV!
Then they show a picure of Doom 3 with that baby-demon-monster. Implying we as gamers had fujn killing babys. It's like showing someone who has never seen "The Excorcist" the scene where the little girl says "**** me" repeatedly to the priest. Of course it's disgusting, but for Christ's sake it is a horror movie. It's meant to shock and scare you. I remember the late 80s when they were allover horror movies or even stuff like Terminator, saying it would cause violent behaviour or train your killing instinct. Everyone would laugh if I'd say that now. We can also go back further to the 70s and "satanic" rock music.
The really sad thing is, the same generation that was listening to Black Sabbath back then acts now all hyterical when they see Counterstrike players making headshots.
Let's face it. We're most probably about to get a new/modified law restricting first person shooters even more than they are now. Even now I can't play ROOST completely uncensored, in a year I might not be able to get a game like that at all.
Yeah right, you say someone's freaking out killing people only because of a GAME but you call the above an absurd argument.
What's also very upsetting is that they still think gamers are some kind of sub-culture, comprised of a select few freaks. I mean almost EVERY male in my age I know has played or still plays computer games on a regular bases. And 90 per cent of them play first person shooters. We're not a sub-culture, computer games are a mass medium like TV!
Then they show a picure of Doom 3 with that baby-demon-monster. Implying we as gamers had fujn killing babys. It's like showing someone who has never seen "The Excorcist" the scene where the little girl says "**** me" repeatedly to the priest. Of course it's disgusting, but for Christ's sake it is a horror movie. It's meant to shock and scare you. I remember the late 80s when they were allover horror movies or even stuff like Terminator, saying it would cause violent behaviour or train your killing instinct. Everyone would laugh if I'd say that now. We can also go back further to the 70s and "satanic" rock music.
The really sad thing is, the same generation that was listening to Black Sabbath back then acts now all hyterical when they see Counterstrike players making headshots.
Let's face it. We're most probably about to get a new/modified law restricting first person shooters even more than they are now. Even now I can't play ROOST completely uncensored, in a year I might not be able to get a game like that at all.
