Off my "places to live" list... if I had one.
This is because of
this news.
Apparently they want to band all violent videogames, and by the small list presented in the article, it would seem to allow only kids games in Germany.
Maybe as one redditor comment once, they are just tired that almost every single
FPS makes you kill germans. Which I agree with
Yahtzee U.S. developers should move on from their only conflict where it is commonly accepted they did good, and find new sources of inspiration.
But beyond the FPS, games like God of War would never be seen on German soil... at least legally. What can they achieve with this? According to t
he study Sytnky send to me, Germany is already a peaceful nation. What is their worried about the violent videogames?
I understand that showing off excessive blood and gore to small children is not something we want to do, I wished I had not seen "
critters" when I was a kid, that thing gave me nightmares!! at laughable at that is when I see it at this age.
But banning the entire industry from their country would not benefit anyone in anyway.
After the age of the internet, everyone has access to any game if they know where to look for.
Every console has a parental control, as well as every game has a rating. It is not the industry but lazy parents that will not oversee this.
I do not think their parliament would pass such law, I also believe games are a growing for of art, but I am kind of curious about what would happen if this law came true. It would be an interesting test to see if such measure would indeed affect anything; there would be too many variables to consider when looking a few years down the road if the measurment work in reducing violence, but I admit I would be curious.
But I will observe from a far. I like to live where I can see how relentless a rising god of war should be while reviewing my greek mythology.
