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Are video games alright?

posted 2 years ago by TheMan18 (13118)
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Including mostly first person shooter ones and are you completely comfortable with them involving killings and whatnot? I mostly am. You?

Cheers thanks. 😀

[–] SamNoyoun (5919) 2 years ago

Yes, I've been pc gaming well over 40 years and have never had the urge to perform those kinds of evil deeds in real life...

[–] FredBurroughs (21872) 2 years ago

What PC game were you playing 40 years ago, Night Life?

[–] SamNoyoun (5919) 2 years ago

Quite a few, my favorites were Microsoft Olympic Decathlon, the original Castle Wolfenstein, and various flight simulators -All played on an Apple II plus [48K RAM-the fancy one!] I also had a modem, with which I was connected to an early online service known as The Source... edit: I'd never heard of "Night Life," but I'm certain 15-year-old me would have enjoyed it!

[–] chilone (18041) 2 years ago

Absolutely. I LOVE killing zombies, aliens and assorted baddies!

[–] Wint3rFir3 (7251) 2 years ago

Yes video games are alright. More than alright, some are works of art.

Not uncomfortable with killing, but I'm also not a fan of first person shooters. I prefer JRPGs, like Tales of Symphonia or Baten Kaitos, and just pretty games in general, like Journey or Ori and the Blind Forest

[–] Kimmie (353) 2 years ago

No, ever since pacman i have an irresistible urrge to run around in dark rooms eating doughnut holes i pick up off the floor

[–] FredBurroughs (21872) 2 years ago

These days I find myself more drawn to video games that involve more thinking/reasoning, like Baba Is You or Return of the Obra Dinn.

https://youtu.be/ILolesm8kFY

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21579) 2 years ago

I used to really be into online gaming. I was an “officer” in a Battlefield 2 clan that was really lots of fun. We would hold weekly practices and have matches against other clans. That was in the early 2000s and we communicated on Team Speak. If it wasn’t so addictive and time consuming I’d love to get into it again.

[–] Kowalski (76824) 2 years ago

I DON'T PLAY GAMES...I AM COMFORTABLE WITH VIOLENCE AND KILLING THOUGH. NOEMOJI

[–] MaximRecoil (4760) 2 years ago

"and are you completely comfortable with them involving killings and whatnot?"

Yeah, I don't lose any sleep over "killing" pixels on a screen. Though, I don't care for modern video games in general, and by modern I mean 3D games that have been predominate since the mid 1990s (Sony PlayStation and Nintendo 64 era).

There was only one 3D game that I ever liked; I guess it would be considered a first-person shooter: Syphon Filter for the PlayStation (and its two sequels, also for the PlayStation). Other than that, all of my favorite video games are from the SNES era or older, with an emphasis on arcade games. Super Metroid (SNES, 1994) is my favorite console game, and Super Punch-Out (1984) is my favorite arcade game. The newest arcade games that I care about are Street Fighter II (1991) and Mortal Kombat (1992), emphasis on SFII.