The Game OverThinker - Episode 62 "Seeing Red"

12/16/11 12:30am

What does the Red Cross have against war games? The Game OverThinker dives right into controversy this episode.

» Show: The Game OverThinker
» Tagged In: #Call of Duty, #TGO, #The Game OverThinker, #War Games

More wicked cool stories and video from around the web. Got tips for us? Tips@ScrewAttack.com

g1 DISCUSSIONS

Welks

May 25, 2012 - 4:37pm

I think the Red Cross has a slight point in how things are potrayed, that being said I don't Think that changing games is a good idea if you want to have soem kind of impact on the society. Just as the OverThinker stated, movies and TV had to grow up because people realized that the original statement of war was not all black and white, good and bad, heroes and villains as it had been shown. I don't think you can change gaming or the people who buy games by forcing them to change thier content. Instead look to the society to see why people don;t seem to care that they just tortured a guy or were holed up in a church and focus on why they don't care. (politics, media, mindset, etc.) entertainment gives people what they want, so don't try to change the entertainment, but see if you can't change how people see war and what they want from a war experiance, and the industry will change on it's own.

Quelthias

March 16, 2012 - 8:32pm

What I take from Bob's message is that there needs to be a game critical of real world issues. We cant have just one type of game out there or just one message. We can have our Modern Warfare, and we should, yet at the same time... How about games that also show the other side of war? Bob I think you have gone on a negative rant a bit much though, show us the positive side!

JPGaming

March 9, 2012 - 12:33am

Wow, really ironic how a guy that spends 90% of the time bitching in his videos, complains about the bitchiness of gaming community. As Ruben said, I too grew up in the height of retro gaming, and is true, at least 90% of the games back then were ass. I consider myself a retro gaming enthusiast, but this biased nostalgic bashing of modern gaming is getting really ridiculous, hope you eventually realize that one way or the other video games are just as good as ever, even better, we get so many good games now a days that is hard to keep up, without even counting the FPS (which are not really bad). At the end of the day you're coming off as a guy who's angry and repressed because Nintendo games are not the mainstream titles anymore, giving us: Nintendo and retro fans that nostalgic bitchy reputation, ponder on that...

DPPalbert

January 25, 2012 - 11:03pm

Gotta love Bob's logic: Games fall now under the first amendment and cannot be censored by the government, therefore it's now OUR job to develop censorship rules for games to make sure we keep those who support censorship happy! ... Brilliant!

Nicodemous52

February 19, 2012 - 9:30pm

You don't seem to understand the man's mission or message do ya'..? Let me break it down for you, while there was a legit threat out there looming in the dark "we" (rational, older, i.e. paved the way supported the industry so it was here for ya'll) didn't mind "your" (typical gamer, especially the younger generation in the community) lack of critical thought in defense for the very life of the art. Now however we simply asks people apply a little rational thought, that is, logic. It isn't that he wants us to "censor ourselves" per se, but that he'd like us all to have the rational, adult dissuasion that ought to come along with the adult content we fought to protect...

DPPalbert

February 20, 2012 - 2:46am

Still sounds like censorship, doesn't matter if you call it "discussion" or "censorship" I'm pretty sure it's nobody's business what I play and when I play it.

Nicodemous52

February 20, 2012 - 2:12pm

Can you define "censorship"? It seems to me you think it is something it is not.

DPPalbert

February 20, 2012 - 2:17pm

I know perfectly well what censorship is, here is an excerpt from Wikipedia:

"Self-censorship is the act of censoring or classifying one's own work (blog, book(s), film(s), or other means of expression), out of fear of, or deference to, the sensibilities of others, without overt pressure from any specific party or institution of authority. Self-censorship is often practiced by film producers, film directors, publishers, news anchors, journalists, musicians, and other kinds of authors."

The Excerpt above is what Bob wants the "gaming community" to do since there is no danger of censorship anymore we should think about how appropriate our content is ourselves. Kinda defeats the point of fighting government censorship if you think about it.