The local paper today carried a headline today 'the games that screw with childrens' minds!'. It was about GTA4 and the fact that it's been classified as R18 in New Zealand didn't seem to come into it.
We do - it's called casual gaming.
But in terms of general gaming, it's for several reasons.
Firstly, particularly in the early days of PC game dev, it was much easier to build excitement by having a pixel moving across a screen representing a bullet, rather than by trying to model complex social interactions. It was just a limitation of the medium.
Secondly, the whole field of programming simply appeals more to males and they are the ones who have built up the field of gaming. Even today, look at any dev team and they're mostly guys in their twenties/early thirties wearing cleverly captioned t-shirts and jeans. And they know what they like which is combat and space marines/special ops/orcs and bloody elves.
why dont we have some games where you dont kill
We do - it's called casual gaming.
But in terms of general gaming, it's for several reasons.
Firstly, particularly in the early days of PC game dev, it was much easier to build excitement by having a pixel moving across a screen representing a bullet, rather than by trying to model complex social interactions. It was just a limitation of the medium.
Secondly, the whole field of programming simply appeals more to males and they are the ones who have built up the field of gaming. Even today, look at any dev team and they're mostly guys in their twenties/early thirties wearing cleverly captioned t-shirts and jeans. And they know what they like which is combat and space marines/special ops/orcs and bloody elves.