The controversial Half-Life 2 mod's developers defend their shocking creation!
BeefJack: "The most offensive games in the world – and their developers’ ridiculous excuses."
Arcee "For those of you that know me, you know that, for the most part, I am all for a person’s right to free speech, that I am pretty much anti-censorship and that I am for creator’s rights even when it pertains to sometimes objectionable material, within the confines of what is legal that is. (I don’t want you all thinking that I am for kiddie porn, because that is not what I am saying. Personally I think those bastards should die. Come on Anon, why not do something good for a change and go after these assholes!) Anyway, I would like to think that we all have the right to say what we want and play what we want."
The video gaming advocacy group Gamers’ Voice have condemned the School Shooter: North American Tour 2012 mod for Half Life 2 as “morally reprehensible”, as well as speaking of their frustration at the damage such examples do to their attempts to show video gaming to be “an intelligent, thought provoking and artistic medium.”
Yesterday, BeefJack ran an excerpt from our forthcoming interview with Paul Gibson, Chairman of Gamers’ Voice, in which he described how combatting media scare stories about video gaming left the organisation feeling “like we’re hitting our heads against a brick wall sometimes”, but that the games industry sometimes did itself no favours.
a) I'd never heard of this mod until they brought it to my attention.
b) It's a mod. It's not a product of the 'games industry', just the creation of some guys with too much time on their hands.
c) So what? They can make movies about school shootings but games are a no go? How come movies can get away with stuff like 'I spit on your grave' and 'A serbian movie' but games can't contain that kind of content? There's always going to be sick stuff on the fringes of any creative medium that people make for the lurid enjoyment of a select few, providing it's not directly harming anyone... get over it.
Unfortunately some people don't seem to realize this isn't something you'll be picking up at any local store or Digital Distribution service beyond a link on a webpage.
You cant control what people make with your stuff.
Pawnstick's last response.. wow.
How can you defend something like that??
It's inherently invalid.
Did any one feel crazy after cod mw2 killing all the people in the airport? I kinda was like wow I just did that
But this is different no point just crazy rage killing
I do not approve of this type of game or rape sims just kinda seems sick and lost
Whatever you think about the mod, that was a bloody good interview, both from the bloke asking the right questions and the honest and no-bullshit responses from the interviewees.