Bawww fictional war crimes bawwwww!

wait, whats that? Real crimes against humanity happening right in over a dozen countries? You dont say...

Do these people forget that shooters aren't the only kind of videogame?

Morons.

"Humanitarian lawyers"? What's next, "honest politicians"?

Interearinglty enough I would find a game interesting if it did bring in the real rules of war and punished you severely for breaking them. Something that gave you a sense that there was a real notable consequence to your action.....that being said....holy crap these people are dumb. These bull shit studies bug the hell out of me.

Breaking: Research on violent video games intended for adults concludes that adults cannot handle or discern simulated adult situations happening inside their televisions, and adults are also incapable of raising or controlling their children from using these products.

Sure games help you commit war crimes. You know what helps you more? Guns. And you know what helps you even more? Your government ordering you to commit war crimes.

I knew it! We were all along would-be genocidal-rapist-war-criminals. That lawyer was always right!

Quick! Commit harakiri!

We live in a stupid, stupid world.

if world at war DIDNT feature war crimes it would be extremely UNREALISTIC to the point of being an insult to those that suffered throught that brutality. War is a crime in itself, morally speaking regardless of whats sanctioned or not, so i find the general tone of this quite disturbing like its ok to kill people but not do so that violates laws etc, but its a fucking videogame, ai doesnt feel pain. This reminds me of the time animal rights skullf@&%ks got id to remove attack dogs from wolfenstein even thought you slaughter 1000s of humans. what next will the ACLU express disgust that max payne depicts wanton police brutality and that max never abides by law enforcement doctrine or gives the 100's of mobsters and junkies he kills their constittional rights to not be shot in the face with a desert eagle in bullet time

Remember that guy who made his son play WaW according to Geneva conventions?

Revolver Ocelot: "You're a tough guy, Snake. I've got some bad news. You're no P.O.W.- you're a hostage. There's no Geneva Convention."
oclelot sure knows his human rights law, the shadow moses uprising was by the books

Yes. I want to maim and kill in video games. That way I can nonviolently have stress relief. Sooooooooo terrible.

Next they're going to try me in military court for killing those civilians in MW2.

Odd even BBC did not provide a link to the actual study - http://www.trial-ch.org/fileadmin/user_upload/documents/Evenements_et_manifestations/Playing_by_the_Rule.pdf

If a 'game' was entertaining enough to include eduction in defining what war crimes are, international law, I'd say that is a niche product that provides an added value. I'll leave it at that.

As for game mechanics of punishing violence toward civilians- the best example of a game that does this was not one of the games they tested.

Best analogy I can think of currently for punishing acts of violence towards (game)civilians
is in Left4Dead.

All the survivors in LFD are civilians. If they are griefing and harming each other in a co-op game the team does not survive. You can kick players in LFD2 with a vote.

That seems about as much of a sanction as you are ever going to get out of a game company.

Banning players from servers after being kicked however many times is another way to solve the problem.

Dehumanizing gamers by this constant BS that they are somehow unable to differentiate "reality" from cartoon pictures coming out of a plastic box is bold faced intellectual dishonesty.



Not being able to discern reality is what happens when you have media companies dumping these retarded, bankrupt theories day in day out through your tv at you.

As an Aside-
From what I read this term of propaganda that is used all the time, "Counter Terrorism"?

When we are (the United States) going to commit acts of terrorism under US and International Law we call it, "Counter Terrorism."

A serious issue that really is not something that should be treated lightly in the confines of an game.

ofc.....watching movies too

"Videogames: The create murderers"
/article

I agree with this study. Army of Two was a crime against humanity.

So in other words, if this study's recommendations are followed, games will become boring and the player will have to fight like a total nancy-boy. No thanks. It's bad enough we do it in real life.

The study totally says that they don't think videogames should be less violent, just that they should contain reminders that in the real world, laws apply to these crimes. It's still kind of stupid, but it's also stupid that "war sims" have you committing international crimes on the say-so of your superiors, with no thought to the actual law.

It is a stupid study mostly because games are fictional. Beyond that its retarded because many nations, including the United States, are struggling to follow humanitarian laws.

If any thing even the most fictional games are giving us a somewhat realistic view of what really goes on in war time. No honor amongst thieves and all that.

Just a few more decades... just a few more...

Being a president allows you to commit war crimes, too.