Aestu wrote:
Games like Fallout or Grand Theft Auto or Mortal Kombat are great games. And I think that greatness is diminished, not heightened, by gratuitous violence and blood and gore. What makes those games great is the depth of character development, the story, the gameplay, the adventure, the dialogue; the violence is merely a superficial addition to pander to the lowest common denominator, and I think that's unnecessary and it holds the genre back.
Believe it or not, not everyone who buys video games does it for player immersion. If Fallout: NV didn't involve shooting people, I don't know how the game could work, considering killing things is how things get accomplished.
Not to mention the billions lost in revenue from these companies would probably severely damage the video game industry as we know it.
I could understand some of the gorier games out there, but not being allowed to kill anything in a video game until you're 18 is beyond stupid.