Reply #131: Our consumer sensibilities know no bounds... [View All]

Our consumer sensibilities know no bounds...

I imagine that before too long, we'll be playing a Holocaust games on our Console Gaming Systems (the New & Improved Opiate of the Masses-- not too many people zone out for a weekend at church anymore, but put a controller in the hands of an American male, and as the wife says, "there goes the weekend"), taking on the role of some S.S. commandant and scoring points by killing inmates in New & Improved ways. But hey... just like running over prostitutes or killing commies, it's not at all bad-- just another way to "relieve the tension after a hard day at work..." and will be righteously defended, packaged, marketed, bought and played.

It warms my heart to know that this will be justified in the deep recesses of our collective conscious, relevant to many gamers, well-grounded to the marketeers, puissant to the first amendment, and consequential in devolving us even further.

Dignity, shmignity! Honor doesn't sell t-shirts and class doesn't make for good copy. Civility sucks for games... so let us swear fealty to deviancy and depravity, all on board for the celebration of petulant perversity and reprehensible behavior-- 'cause *that* makes for a damn good game and an even better profit.

It seems to be one step historical forward and two cultural steps back when it comes to the human race... :banghead: