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- FrozenPie, on 07/08/2009, -17/+68yes
- Brentg7, on 07/09/2009, -6/+43Portal
- trer, on 07/10/2009, -2/+35SimCity!
- spunker202, on 07/10/2009, -1/+30Still those turrets.
- WafflesID, on 07/09/2009, -10/+35Little Big Planet...
now STFU - asielen, on 07/10/2009, -1/+26No its just an easy way to make up for lack of creativity and innovation.
- sockpuppets, on 07/10/2009, -2/+23I know another game your mother enjoys.
- Xaevier, on 07/08/2009, -4/+25Let's think what are popular non violent video games
Tetris
Peggle
Bejewled
....So basically violence is only needed for a game to good if you want to sell to anyone that is not your mother. - lazycat, on 07/08/2009, -1/+21Remember Battle Chess? - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Chess
I am still waiting for an adult version... - EquesArdor, on 07/10/2009, -2/+21Why haven't Guitar Hero and Rock Band been mentioned yet?
- SpectralSounds, on 07/10/2009, -0/+16There are plenty on the DS. Such as Phoenix Wright, Trauma Center, Professor Layton etc... all very good games and barely any violence.
- nbcaffeine, on 07/10/2009, -0/+15It's brutal when you murder a whole line at once
- s73v3r, on 07/10/2009, -0/+15Tetris
- CanadianCheese, on 07/10/2009, -0/+14Myst
- supferrets, on 07/10/2009, -0/+14Portal had plenty of violence.
- ennuisquared, on 07/10/2009, -2/+15No. Flower for PS3.
- mccartyba, on 07/10/2009, -1/+14Mario went around throwing fireballs and stomping on turtles and mushrooms, then encountered a fire-breathing King Koopa and dropped him to a fiery doom.
- imikedaman, on 07/10/2009, -0/+12I must have imagined killing that boss with explosives, smacking my friend off a cliff into lava, then getting crushed to death.
- 4degrees, on 07/10/2009, -0/+12Katamari Damacy? Does Wii sports count as non-violent? or any sports game for that matter?
- CaviMike, on 07/10/2009, -0/+12I dunno about you but I sure enjoyed shooting those squirrels and deer and watching them go belly-up like a dead fly.
- meruru, on 07/09/2009, -0/+11I agree that the base of any good game is to "challenge the player by giving him difficulties to overcome", but that can be done without violence.
Usually that involves puzzles/making the player think. Look at all the great adventure games like Myst, Maniac Mansion, Longest Journey, Grim Fandango, etc.
The other way to do it is using high scores/leaderboards. That's how all the great classic arcade games worked (I guess you could claim they are violent if you really wanted to, but I don't consider them to be). Thats also what makes rythem games work: you want to beat the next song or get a higher score than you did last time. - SpectralSounds, on 07/10/2009, -0/+11The fact that you are being pursued and shot at for 95% of the game would say that it is still pretty violent.
- ShingoEX, on 07/10/2009, -0/+11Pick up a real gun, my god
- Auraness, on 07/10/2009, -0/+10Wow okay, let's just all pretend that we didn't enjoy playing The Oregon Trail.
- LuxFX, on 07/10/2009, -0/+10World of Goo!
- SpectralSounds, on 07/10/2009, -2/+12You could call in disasters and kill most of the people in your city. Still violent.
- Treshnell, on 07/10/2009, -0/+9Not having played more than a little of them, I'm not sure, but, what about harvest moon games?
- harrisbradley, on 07/10/2009, -0/+9I would love to be able to frag the dude who skipped me in Uno, but the game is great nonetheless
- 2winhe1ix, on 07/10/2009, -4/+12PORTAL!
- OrangeTide, on 07/10/2009, -0/+8Katamari Damacy is an incredibly violent game. You roll up live people into a ball and they sometimes scream and try to run away.
If people want to draw a distinction between humorous cartoon violence and realistic violence, then yes. you can do a good game without realistic violence. - 1337Einstein, on 07/10/2009, -0/+8What's the difference between you and a mallard with a cold?
- Griminald, on 07/10/2009, -0/+8Yeah, and a key thing FTA is that the Bioware rep is not talking about Tetris-like games. He's talking about having non-violent games with a compelling storyline.
The problem is that we find the idea of an "against the odds" struggle, the survival instinct, to be very entertaining. And a lot of stories, not just in games but also in books and movies, focus on people struggling against the odds to survive -- a struggle that wouldn't have nearly as much impact without the violence.
In movies and books though, you have different genres like romantic comedies. How do you make a compelling story for a video game without that survival instinct? How would someone "play" it? It takes more risks than most companies are willing to take, sadly.
Most simulation games don't necessary involve violence, but they also have no storyline -- I'd like to see Bioware try to come up with something that combines both ideas - IAmSam14, on 07/09/2009, -4/+11Games like portal and little big planet were huge succeses, and all you have to look at to disprove this point is about 90% of the wii. i mean sports resort just reached half a million and there isnt much killing there
- AndrewDB, on 07/10/2009, -0/+7Do I remember Battle Chess? Only every other day because I bought it on Good old Games..
***** awesome game. - rabidjester, on 07/10/2009, -0/+7Wow, aren't you edgy. Replacing an s with a z at the end of a word, that's some pretty leet ***** right there.
- philb0t5000, on 07/08/2009, -5/+11Quite possible. Could acctually make for an interesting game. Violence is always taken as a given when creating most video game stories, so to take that out, a hell of a lot more thought will go into the story. Hopefully.
Wow, I really can't think of a story driven game without violence. Mario games maybe, if you would call them non-violent and story driven. Other than that, Myst is the only one that comes to mind. - jhourcle, on 07/10/2009, -0/+6Is it just me, or is Don Reisinger just a troll with a blog?
- zbeast, on 07/10/2009, -0/+6compelling story line, but there's lot's of violence. Being crushed, shot at, disintegrated.
- TVarmy, on 07/10/2009, -0/+5Tearing up time and space, as well. What did those quantum particles ever do to Chell?
- s73v3r, on 07/10/2009, -0/+5I dunno, the boss fight gets somewhat violent. And there's the constant berating of you by GlaDOS.
- voomfoo, on 07/09/2009, -6/+11, yes it is.
- funkytaco, on 07/10/2009, -0/+5Yeah, just look at Parappa the Rapper, Excite Bike, Wii Tennis.
- sgerwel1985, on 07/10/2009, -3/+8Is violence required to make a good game great?
No, but it sure does help. - Frixionburne, on 07/10/2009, -0/+5How DARE you mention that child-scarring violent game!
All those poor bricks, being constantly smashed on top of each other, and the blinked out of existence when a line is completed.... So brutal.... So inhumane! - Arramol, on 07/10/2009, -2/+7But a lot of the levels don't use them, so the point still stands that you can make a good game without violence.
- ShingoEX, on 07/10/2009, -0/+5So, where does Tetris fall in? Is it a sports game, or a violent game where you beat people up?
- hfactor, on 07/10/2009, -0/+5In my days, we had adventure games, we had Sim City and all the other Sims, we had sports games, for short breaks we had stuff like tetris, there were puzzle games like The Incredible Machine... I don't see what's so revolutionary about games without violence.
- m4x30000, on 07/10/2009, -3/+8Violence is good when you don't have any imagination/creativity/talent.
It's valid for movies, too... - TimtheTaxMan, on 07/10/2009, -0/+4@awtripp
Thanks…It’s never going to be quite the same playing again. - Kaiern, on 07/10/2009, -0/+4The Monkey Island series. I would sat that's a pretty damn good example.
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