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Many computer games involve military combat situations.
To some, this is of course morally repugnant.
But now, programmers at BorgCo are offering for Beta-test a range of rather more acceptable First Person Shooter game products.
Covering a wide range of locations and genres, "Salvation Army:
Black Ops", "Missal:Impossible", "Call of Duty; The Padre Strikes Back" and "Resident Evil: Book of Revelations" will be hitting the stores soon ...
I, Corn
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CropSlash Inc.'s first strategy game. [django, Jul 01 2012]
[link]
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//Call of Duty; The Padre Strikes Back// |
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Ummm… I'm not sure I'd let my kids play this one. |
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Oh yes, great - though there is that famously
controversial scene in Call of Duty 5: Litter Patrol
where in order to gain respect of the gang you are
sent to infiltrate, you have to discard a number of
clearly recyclable items in entirely the wrong bins.
<tsk> <tsk> |
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I was hoping this would be a game where kids got to play special forces operatives sent to kill Joseph Kony (or any evil dictator flavor of the month) and the proceeds from the game go to hiring mercenaries to do the job for real. |
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//Litter Patrol// Is it the next level where you have to look after a whole load of wayward puppies? |
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[8th of 7], You just inspired me to launch CropSlash Inc. Some shameless self-promotion in the [link]. |
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Actually this is a real problem for me as I have two
young children, so I've been reading that you can
actually play "Skyrim" without killing anyone. The key
is to learn to cast happiness spells which get
monsters to leave you alone. |
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//The key is to learn to cast happiness spells which get
monsters to leave you alone.// |
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I used to just put on a Bob the Builder video on plus give
them a few cookies and whatnot. |
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Ever since Fallout 3, there have been a number of sandbox
games made wherein it is possible to play the entire game
without killing, including most or all of the side missions.
Skyrim is only the latest. |
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I'm pretty sure Bethesda started the trend; shortly before
the release of Fo3, they 'leaked' a rumor that the entire
campaign could be completed without killing anything
except two giant cockroaches that must be shot with a BB
gun during the tutorial. I'm not usually a fanboy, but I love
the Fallout series, so naturally once I got home from the
midnight release and got the disc into my Xbox I had to try
it out. I think I made it a good three hours before I
purchased a shotgun for my character and started blasting
away. After I'd completed the whole campaign by killing
anything that moved, I did succeed in doing the two-
roaches-only method. Very difficult. |
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FPSs give me motion sickness, so I don't know of any that
can be played without killing... except for Portal 2, of
course, but that's sort of the point of the game. |
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I can't say i'm at all up to date on this, but i've tried to play
Doom and Quake I without killing. Quake is easier in that
respect because of the genuine three-dimensionality. It's harder
to evade threats in Doom. That presumably means a four-
dimensional FPS has greater potential for non-violence.
Incidentally, i see them as models of intersubjectivity, suggesting
a Sartrean FPS based on shame. |
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The "S" in "FPS" might cause some problems with this idea. Also, it's not the kind of game the author has in mind, but "The Sims" has a (small) element of social responsibility to it. |
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//The key is to learn to cast happiness spells which get
monsters to leave you alone.// |
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You hear that, [beanangel]? They finally made a game
where you get to happylong people. |
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