This Year’s Biggest Shock in Gaming Culture
I’ve just seen something utterly shocking.
War Stories, on BBC 2 just now, was a documentary on how war is represented in popular culture. At the end, they had a brief section about gaming. It was only a few minutes, focussing entirely on Call of Duty. So far, so predictable.
Dominic Diamond appears as a talking head, in serious mode. He’s talking about how games can provide a form of reality that movies can’t; how they can represent ideas in a tangible form that young people in particular respond to very strongly. I’m waiting for something, anything, about games trivialise the issue or how they encourage violence.
Nothing.
I have never seen a completely pro-gaming bias in any form of serious non-specialist documentary before. It’s completely remarkable that we’re now allowed to take it for granted that games can both deal with serious issues and be considered artistic works with worth extending far beyond mere entertainment. We can talk about them in the same breath as movies.
Welcome to the future of gaming.
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2 Responses to “This Year’s Biggest Shock in Gaming Culture”
§ November 26th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
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§ February 12th, 2011 at 9:10 pm
That sounds fine though i am just still not too sure that I favor it. However will look more into it and decide for myself!