Tempest wrote:My point is that videogames are simply saturated with violent content and that this is not the only way to present conflict.
And my point is that the REASON video games are saturated with violent content is because if you want to depict physical conflict, video games are the ideal way to do that.
If you want to present conflict as a puzzle or what have you, then you could probably do that just as well (and I'm sure it has been done just as well) with a pen and paper RPG game or a board game.
And yes, most people don't solve conflict by resorting to violence. That's what makes video games so appealing. We play video games for the same reasons we play D&D, watch sports, go to sci-fi cons, binge-watch Game of Thrones, etc. - to escape from reality, not re-create it. No person has even spent $60 on a video game hoping it would remind them of the 9-to-5 they were forced to do to afford it.
