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so ive been playing through quake 4 (again - for the first time since 2005) and god damn is it nasty.

back then i was in my early 20s i played it and it fast became one of my favorite fps titles. it had a thick atmosphere, faster gunplay & better graphics than doom 3, etc.

so friday afternoon after going to the gym i felt all testosteroney and wanted to play something punchy and brutal. spent about 5 hours playing quake 4 this past weekend and i found myself incredibly irritable afterward. like all the sights and sounds of pain made me tense and stressed out.

honestly, for as much as i like quake 4, it's a fucking monument to human suffering. confused disembodied heads and limbs being kept alive via alien technology, vivisection, skin stretched and crudely bolted onto mechanical parts, the stroggification process, the waste processing facility (all the human bits the bad guys couldn't use).

it's like a switch went off in my head over the last couple years, and being in my mid-30s has turned me into a sissy.

im going back to terraria and stardew.
Post edited September 10, 2018 by fortune_p_dawg
Nope. Stop eating sprouts!
I was playing Postal the other day and became really turned off by it. I thought I was losing my taste, but when I started playing Far Cry 2 a few minutes later I had a blast, pardon the pun.

I realized I hadn't lost my taste for violence but rather how it applies to certain subjects in certain games, no doubt because of current events. Postal used to be my favorite game ever, now it just doesn't seem funny anymore.

I really don't want to turn this into another annoying hot topic thread so I won't go into it any more than that.
Post edited September 10, 2018 by tinyE
Going to the gym?? What an abominable activity!
Stop doing that or in a few years you will only enjoy playing Candy Crush.
From grosse pointe blank:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jMSuogRwHA8
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nightcraw1er.488: Nope. Stop eating sprouts!
ah yes, it is sprout season soon. thank god.
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fortune_p_dawg: so ive been playing through quake 4 (again - for the first time since 2005) and god damn is it nasty.

back then i was in my early 20s i played it and it fast became one of my favorite fps titles. it had a thick atmosphere, faster gunplay & better graphics than doom 3, etc.

so friday afternoon after going to the gym i felt all testosteroney and wanted to play something punchy and brutal. spent about 5 hours playing quake 4 this past weekend and i found myself incredibly irritable afterward. like all the sights and sounds of pain made me tense and stressed out.

honestly, for as much as i like quake 4, it's a fucking monument to human suffering. confused disembodied heads and limbs being kept alive via alien technology, vivisection, skin stretched and crudely bolted onto mechanical parts, the stroggification process, the waste processing facility (all the human bits the bad guys couldn't use).

it's like a switch went off in my head over the last couple years, and being in my mid-30s has turned me into a sissy.

im going back to terraria and stardew.
I completely agree. I feel that people that are enthralled with violence in games and movies are those people that have never had to experience violence first-hand.
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Post edited September 10, 2018 by Fairfox
Nope, it just keeps oscillating.

As you get older, though, more and more lolz fun things start evoking true life situations you've witnessed or been through (or grasped more accurately, more thoroughly). So, you end up seeing things a tad differently. Now, it makes some people laugh less with that sort of stuff, and it makes others laugh all the more (almost as a duty). In both cases with less innocence and more awareness.

But it's just a subtle shift of flavor. It doesn't determine attitudes.
Post edited September 10, 2018 by Telika
Violent games are still alright as long as they are in the setting and not just done for shock same with swearing, I really dislike people who pointless swear in real life more so the older I get. In summary so long as it is setting appropriate and not just done to be edgy or trendy.
Post edited September 10, 2018 by David9855
I'm like this, but not so much with violence. More sex and swearing. I'm really noticing how much its being forced into media etc these days. I don't get it.
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fortune_p_dawg: ...
As somebody who will soon enter in his mid-40s (damn....) the answer is no.

If anything as time goes by I tend to find that most "violent" or "gory" games are actually pretty tame in comparison to movies, often more silly and over the top than really "violent".
Can't say i am. I have less time for games that try to make you feel like you're great at them though e.g. BF 5, Overwatch, a lot of modern Triple As.

But thankfully, i have Squad and a host of single-player indies and classics to fall back on.
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Lone_Scout: Going to the gym?? What an abominable activity!
I used to belong to a gym.

I had to quit because they didn't have an ashtray on the StairMaster.
Post edited September 10, 2018 by tinyE
I don't think I ever really "liked the violence". There were friends of mine when we were all discovering "Doom" that would go on about "you shoot one with a shotgun and his head explodes", but for me that was more of "an achievement" and once I'd seen that it was more about completing the game.

It's still the case now - Shadow of war (I recently finished) I would brutalize kill just about everyone I could, not because it was cool to see him repeatedly stab the orc, but because it was the easiest way to get the others to piss off. Dragon age: Origins, just bought the ultimate edition, saw some fancy bloody ending of an ogre as we won the fight, so what? I'm not sure many people actually really "like" the bloody games.