Submitted by TheEdge - April 25, 2008 at 1:59 pm -0500
All of the stuff in games,it's not real.That's what keeps me from not getting sick.Remember COD4's sniper mission,where you shoot that guys arm off?That was less like shooting someone's arm off and more like popping off Mr.Potato Head's arm off and squirting cherry water after it.Movies and TV shows look like the real thing,but games,you can tell they're just pixels.Gears Of War is extremely violent,yet I got squeamish when I watched the infinitely less violent Platoon,Saving Private Ryan(then again,who could hold back the vomit during the D-Day scene,eh?),and The Descent.I guess because movies look so real,and games,while they've gotten more realistic,are not as bad because there is that fine line.Oh well,it's nothing you people don't already know.

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