Violence limits the potential of games, says Miyamoto

Shigeru Miyamoto believes that violent games, such as Modern Warfare 2, are “limited” in their scope and “narrow down the potential of what video games can do.”
http://www.thatvideogameblog.com/2010/03/30/violence-limits-the-potential-of-games-says-miyamoto/

He speaks the truth. With a ton of violence, you lose the "thought/skill" part of the game.

eh well some games u have to have violence for it to work. zelda has violence so......isn't he contradicting himself? or does he mean OVERLY violent games like god of war?

obviously
games that RELY on it basically games where u have to show off blood or someone getting their head chopped off in order to make it "seem" atleast "good"

I think he means gory violence like God of War not explosions like in F-Zero

solidstudios wrote:eh well some games u have to have violence for it to work. zelda has violence so......isn't he contradicting himself? or does he mean OVERLY violent games like god of war?

I'm assuming he's talking about more over the top sorta violence.

I agree with what he says

One reason why I don't like God of War. To me it just seems these focused to much on the gory and violence, and sex, then actually making the game addictive and fun. To me anyways it isn't fun and they story is mediocre at best.

The man dosen't lie

FaytSaratome wrote:One reason why I don't like God of War. To me it just seems these focused to much on the gory and violence, and sex, then actually making the game addictive and fun. To me anyways it isn't fun and they story is mediocre at best.

true, i don't like the "hey u can have sex for the heck of it!" idea. the violence is pretty cool tho. i wouldn't say the story is medicore either. but think about it, really violent games have creativity too. take madworld for example. great art style

I saw the sex scene if it can be mistaked 4 that. All it was was a tit flash w/an addio of a woman moaning. Not that epic

is miyamoto ever wrong? lol

sikokiller wrote:is miyamoto ever wrong? lol

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snaredrums123 wrote:

sikokiller wrote:is miyamoto ever wrong? lol

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You deserve blue waffle after saying that

truth

fox mccloud wrote:obviously
games that RELY on it basically games where u have to show off blood or someone getting their head chopped off in order to make it "seem" atleast "good"

So' how do you feel about madworld

MadWorld had a good reason for being really violent

Also Madworld was pretty god damn awesome

batman4pres wrote:Also Madworld was pretty god damn awesome

but because of the violence

No, because of the art style and story line and character developement and comedy

Gyoza wrote:No, because of the art style and story line and character developement and comedy

Character development? Really?

Yeah, we learn more about the mayor son, The Black Baron's ho, and the bosses

Gyoza wrote:Yeah, we learn more about the mayor son, The Black Baron's ho, and the bosses

And the announcers

Yup, Howard Holmes wife is a whore

I say in games like Bayonetta, Devil May Cry and MadWorld it's justified because the violence is a function of gameplay.

In God of War the violence only seems to serve the function of "oh look, we have violence, it's okay for people to buy and like this game!".