Warren Spector says games too violent

[Alucard]

While I have no issue with what he says, I still say fuck you for being a sell out with Deus Ex 2 and half arsing Thief 3.

Q: Your high-level sense, your spider-sense, that's important; it's been finely tuned over a number of years.

Warren Spector: Well, my spider-sense is sure tingling danger, danger, Peter Parker! This is the year where there were two things that stood out for me. One was: The ultraviolence has to stop. We have to stop loving it. I just don't believe in the effects argument at all, but I do believe that we are fetishizing violence, and now in some cases actually combining it with an adolescent approach to sexuality. I just think it's in bad taste. Ultimately I think it will cause us trouble.

Q: Are you telling me you didn't like the Hitman: Absolution trailer?

Warren Spector: I left Eidos in 2004 because I looked around at E3 and saw the new Hitman game where you get to kill with a meat hook, and 25 to Life, the game about kids killing cops, and Crash & Burn the racing game where the idea is to create the fieriest, most amazing explosions, not to win the race... I looked around my own booth and realized I just had one of those 'which thing is not like the other' moments. I thought it was bad then, and now I think it's just beyond bad.

We've gone too far. The slow-motion blood spurts, the impalement by deadly assassins, the knives, shoulders, elbows to the throat. You know, Deus Ex had its moments of violence, but they were designed - whether they succeeded or not I can't say - but they were designed to make you uncomfortable, and I don't see that happening now. I think we're just appealing to an adolescent mindset and calling it mature. It's time to stop. I'm just glad I work for a company like Disney, where not only is that not somethin

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...uropean-dailyg that's encouraged, you can't even do it, and I'm fine with it.

[Kiuju2k]

Well it has it's place. Just like movies with ultra-gore or disturbing imagery. Gaming is no different, if there was a difference it is accessibility, wait, no you can just walk right into a R movie. I used to do that all of the time(movie hop). So there goes that.

[Einhander]

I already posted a link to this in another thread.

FAIL

[Alucard]

What thread you canadian

[spider-prime]

When did Warren Spector become Spider-Man?

[Nem]

Would i be trolling, if i said i think his games are too kiddie?

/touché

[KingOfSentinels]

He made System Shock, Deus Ex and Thief. He can say whatever the fuck he wants!!!!!!111

[Nem]

I totally didnt know that.

I'll fix that to: His current games are too kiddie!

[Einhander]

Originally Posted by Alucard

What thread you canadian

http://the-magicbox.com/forums/showt...t=29309&page=3

About halfway down.