{"id":39693,"date":"2012-06-14T12:56:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T10:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=39693"},"modified":"2012-06-14T13:01:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T11:01:41","slug":"video-games-are-fetishising-violence-says-warren-spector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/39693-video-games-are-fetishising-violence-says-warren-spector","title":{"rendered":"Video games “are fetishising violence”, says Warren Spector"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guns and guts are the meat and potatoes of video games, but is that really such a good thing? Industry veteran Warren Spector thinks not<\/em>. Of course, he’d kind of have to because he works for Disney now, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have a point.<\/p>\n

“The ultraviolence has to stop,” he told GamesIndustry, commenting on the games shown at E3 this year.<\/p>\n

“We have to stop loving it. I just don’t believe in the effects argument at all, but I do believe that we are fetishising 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.”<\/p>\n

He explained that the reason he left Eidos in 2004 was 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.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

Spector’s next game is Epic Mickey 2, which will not feature slow-motion blood spurts, impalement, knives, or shoulders and elbows to the throat, but will<\/em> feature a demonic talking mouse.<\/p>\n

Source: GamesIndustry<\/a><\/h5>\n

Warren Spector’s next game is Epic Mickey 2, check out some (non-violent) screenshots for the upcoming sequel:<\/p>\n\n\t\t