• Cracks About Video Games
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[QUOTE=Rusty100;51567120]it moves independently of his shirt so they brightened up his graphic ?????[/QUOTE] Sponsored?
[QUOTE=Rusty100;51567120]it moves independently of his shirt so they brightened up his graphic ?????[/QUOTE] they really really want you to know that he's totally a "gamesman" by highlighting the resident evil shirt he has on
This is nothing more then bait. It's so intentionally uninformed, that people have no problem rushing in to correct them, thus generating clicks and views.
[QUOTE=Mitsuma;51566982] Do we just gonna ignore all the educational, simulation, sports, racing, puzzle solving, building games? Generalizing all games as violent sounds just wrong to me.[/QUOTE] Someone clearly just read the tl;dr and decided to reply. [editline]22nd December 2016[/editline] [code]Top games by current player count Current Players Peak Today Game 427,080 557,528 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 400,236 846,228 Dota 2 63,420 91,561 Grand Theft Auto V 59,664 70,119 Team Fortress 2 53,011 56,796 Rocket League 49,235 57,225 Warframe 45,072 48,861 Garry's Mod 43,688 48,149 Football Manager 2017 41,384 44,031 ARK: Survival Evolved 37,469 38,746 Sid Meier's Civilization V 34,179 40,326 Rust 32,965 36,142 Arma 3 30,554 31,293 H1Z1: King of the Kill 29,788 30,873 Sid Meier's Civilization VI 28,806 30,447 Path of Exile 28,457 30,729 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim 27,964 38,624 Paladins 25,789 26,259 Terraria 23,490 24,253 Fallout 4 22,767 32,245 Unturned 18,577 20,945 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege 17,153 17,959 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition 16,730 18,373 Football Manager 2016 15,913 24,024 Counter-Strike 15,666 23,177 Euro Truck Simulator 2 15,515 19,164 War Thunder 15,280 16,669 Clicker Heroes 14,580 15,720 Europa Universalis IV 14,570 25,532 Dead by Daylight 14,532 15,628 Total War: WARHAMMER 14,253 15,423 SMITE 14,036 19,943 Tom Clancy's The Division 12,978 13,265 7 Days to Die 12,011 12,479 Age of Empires II: HD Edition 11,687 12,642 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 11,326 13,006 DayZ 10,684 11,262 Hearts of Iron IV 10,575 11,103 The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth 10,242 11,276 PAYDAY 2[/code] All games with currently over 10k players on Steam. Count the amount of games with violence in them and you will find they are an overwhelming majority. Not saying this is a bad thing, but it is a [b]fact[/b].
Yeah but that's steam, what about consoles?
[QUOTE=Xonax;51570057]Yeah but that's steam, what about consoles?[/QUOTE] probably not going to be less violent by any stretch. There are entire genres and game types that are non violent but clearly the most common type of game is a game that utilizes violence in some way. It's not a bad thing. It's just how it is. Most art of note and merit is violent to be honest.
[QUOTE=Helix Snake;51565677]Gamergate is really when Cracked.com went to shit.[/QUOTE] No it wasn't. You just didn't notice them going to shit until gamergate happened. Cracked started experimenting with hamfisted political articles years before gamergate happened. Not video game articles, though. The hacks who wrote their video game articles didn't need to be political to drive people away. A lot of it was TV and comic books at first, because that's what the popular writers liked to write about. Once the clicks came in they got the green light to make "Well [I]fuck you[/I], commenters!" articles, attacking the comments section of past articles for not agreeing with the writer's opinion. Thing is, these political articles were vastly outnumbered by apolitical clickbait at the time, written by people who were either fired, disappeared, or started writing their own political garbage later on. Also, clicks don't matter to them anymore, as Cracked has been continuously losing traffic since 2011 and they've made absolutely no attempt to reverse this trend. Gamergate was a coincidence, not an opportunity.
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