Study: Violence and gore don't make games more enjoyable

I don't think Halo 3 is all that violent.

doesnt make a game fun, but sure makes the game more funny. Anyone ever played No More Heroes on the Wii? Fucking hilarious when you kill someone, but all around a terrible game.

Well everything those guys know is wrong!

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=wrP2hzVabmM&eurl=http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?cid=16882

It'd be wonderful to see more games that are capable of motivating the player without having to resort to having violence become a staple of either the story or the gameplay itself, but as it stands, right now it's still a functional method and many games would simply fall apart without the violence. I'm not saying that violence is necessary... I'm just saying that it's an easy way to provide conflict and give the player something to 'fight for/against' in their head. The whole super-ultra-violence trend that's been taking place lately is unnecessary, but that doesn't mean violence should be entirely rejected - after all, if, like I said, it were to provide gamers with something to fight for, then it would at least make those games more enjoyable.

i wonder if this is related to a youtube vid i saw a couple days ago. they used the same game but one version had really graphic deaths and the other had players teleport back to a home base

WoW players (and MMO players in general)=/= gamers. Violence is satisfying without it I don't think I'd play very many games.

all i know is that playing gears of war 2 with the gore filter on sucks hardcore.

I cant say I agree completely. I mean, i'm not saying a game HAS to have exploding heads and rendered intestines, but sometimes it does make it a lot more fun. In Gears of War when a head explodes, it's like a reward for having good aim. Sometimes it can just be funny too, like stabbing a zombie with a huge drill and spinning him around in the air to hit other zombies.

No but it sure does help Gears of War sells *Rim shot.

There are many games that are great without violence like let's say Portal or Sam & Max but yeah I guess what is attractive about games for some is that they think they are actually capable of being invincible killing machines in their minds.

Since now consoles trademark are FPS instead of Platformers may be why games are more violent nowdays I mean I think only Noa’s Ark and Labyrinth are the only (Pseudo)FPS that aren’t all that violent (You got to admit shooting goats with rocks is kind of violent) although Labyrinth creep outs I mean when I was a kid I could handle games like Wolfenstein and Doom but Labyrinth a supposed kids game was just f*cking weird.

I disagree sorry. Gears of War 2 is made more gratifying because of it. My friends get much more fired up with it due to exploding heads, close up shotgun blasts or humiliating curb stomps.

It also makes the game much more interesting to non-gaming spectators.

It is fun to play something really over the top but realistically gorey games are disturbing.

Blood and Gore, Mild Language, Violence

If you obtain the "I would have been your daddy skull" there are some inappropriate references, as well as brutes urinating, some very strong death threats on Legendary, and the concept of suicide grunts. Aside from this there's references of an infection that takes you over completely, and although not shown in cinematic form, there are battle scenes during play through which show aggressive tendencies, as well as seeing others becoming infected which is kind of graphic.

In addition there are some very very violent references such as the "glassing" of an entire continent, which nonetheless means the entire eradication of a majority of civilians, animals, insects, pathogens, and bio-forms all to remove a parasite which the player has very little fluency and care towards.

Of course there is also the many references of a totalitarian military government, just a little less cruel than the Federation in SSTroopers. I'm relatively certain there is the mention of the eradication of all Human's in the game as well, and the thought that we can't "escape the coming storm" and of course "are all vermin" (which I agree with on that one).

I've heard several vulgarities (a vulgarity is a term that is used incorrectly in place of it's proper definition with the purpose of aggression or insult) from the soldiers, and even the aliens... and of course since I'm very partial to the aliens and their strife in the conflict, I can also say that when I see elites, or hunters being killed outright, it saddens me.

There is the actual killing of a character via an advanced rampant AI, and since the character is well known it is actually thought of as even more violent. There is also Keyes who gets impaled by one of the spikes from a mauler.

In truth there is a ton of violence.

However I've played online (unfortunately) and met many people that have not even played the campaign, which essentially means that they bought it for multiplayer (what is our world coming to when games are no longer focused on for story?) and we all know that if multiplayer was rated this game would have the new rating of (Drum roll)...

"IM" - for Immature.

In conclusion, as a gamer who has played way too many games in my life, and done so for the story, but has also tried multiplayer in certain gems... I can safely state that "MATURE" was a generous rating.


WOW is violent, btw... even if you don't see the blood.

yeah I mean, look at MadWorld. The violence in that game has nothing to do with why I want to play it. I'm just really interested in the sto-okay maybe violence has some appeal.

The methodology of their study seems flawed.

Fallout 3 without rendered brains?...


I think that is part of the most rewarding aspects of the game for having great 'aim'. It also plays strategically into the game as well (cripple legs and they move slower etc.).