It’s true, really. The feminization of America instigated by the radical leftists and teachers unions, trying to turn boys into girls and girls into boys is going to produce a backlash of some sort. Violence is an instinct inherent to us, and we need to practice it in a controlled form to remain mentally balanced. Removing all sports from schools that show a hint of simulated violence is not going to have the expected result.
This is pretty true. My 6 year old son can’t wait to play war and shoot toy guns when he gets home from school. It’s called being boys. ;-)
Video games have advanced to the point (graphically and in sheer size/time commitment) that they basically ‘pick your path’ novels.
Now pushing 50, I have probably read close to 5-6oo books in the sci-fi/horror/fantasy genres and in my experience, earlier games like Xenogears/Xenosaga, which were ultra heavy morality/philosophical exercises with space ships and sentient computers have set the stage for today’s epics.
The stories in modern RPGs are action heavy, deep and require thought. It ain’t all Angry Birds. Modern computer power has unlocked an immersion factor that goes beyond the printed page...but REQUIRE the very same writing. If the story sucks, the game sucks. and no big booms will save it.
AND perhaps most importantly, there are still old school ideas and attitudes that have not been totally PCd to death in them. That unfortunately is changing because libs have been working their crap into even the best games.