I don't think games are too violent per say, I just get sick of seeing it all the time. The slaughtering gets too much. There's only so many times I can shoot people or burn them or watch their head explode before I need a breather, no matter if it's particularly gruesome or not.

I just play Beautiful Katamari until the world doesn't seem so bleak.

reading Berserk has hardened my idea of what's too much gore lol

I honestly thought the NO Russian in MW2 was too much . my opinion though
If it had been Americans instead of Russians we all know how the media would have reacted

It isn't. Because it's a freaking game.

"When Exactly, Does a Game Become Too Violent?"

Never will in our lifetimes.
Maybe in a time where a holographic game character and a real human cannot be told apart... then things would start getting ugly.

I love playing games that are so violent that it's comical.

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I'm all for total realism when it comes to gore. Odd example, but what they did with the wolverine: origins videogame, where they had layers for bone, muscles, organs and tissue that would be damaged in the fighting, that was really awesome. I always turned on the dismemberment cheats in the old Kyle Katarn games. I can't wait until functional bodies replace hitpoints, so that people bleed out/go into shock and such instead of hitting up against critical existence failure.

I don't need senseless over-the-top nonsense, but there's nothing wrong with the accurate portrayal of the consequences of violence.

11.30pm? No, wait.... 2389AD? I dunno, I'm just bored.

As long as the game can justify it
If it's just violent for the sake of being violent, then it has no reason to be imo

I think it depends on what offends the player. Some people would say Mortal Kombat is too violent but I think it is great.

The only viable answer is "it doesn't." It's as simple as that. It's a game and nobody forces you to play it.

Not sure if this applies to the argument but I have been playing the UFC demo and it is violent in a eerily realistic way . Every time there is a knockout you can almost feel it.

Easy answer... when everybody tells you it's too violent.

This means gamers will own the files to the game. I'm getting Silent Hill.

Sure , as long as they put making a good game to the forefront before anything else . I don’t mind them trying new stuff and expending the lore and universe but just make sure the game is fun and scary .