Jonathan Blow

To all the people mad at me for saying this ... Why are you so threatened by an obviously true statement?

Like, is it so hard to at least allow a question about whether something is a good idea?

Note that I have said NOTHING about distinguishing fantasy from reality, so please do not try to raise that as an objection.

This is the last thing I expected to read from a game designer about the work of other professionals. Disappointing.

Why?

do you believe when we make games like "The Division" we have mass murdering in mind? We don't.

No, but you build a game where functionally the player acts as a mass murderer, and then work hard to make players feel rewarded

for killing a lot of guys. And a lot of money is spent to make kills feel satisfying in terms of VFX and SFX. *However*,

for what it's worth I don't think The Division is nearly as bad in this dept as some games, because depictions of killing

matter, and the worst games seem to be single-player campaigns where enemies are tuned to be way less powerful than the player

(so they are most there for you to plow through them) and the SFX and VFX are set up to be juicy.

Explain 'absolutely called for today'.

My point is these games are completely tasteless during the best of times, and become extra tasteless during times of violence.

But if you want to join the cavalcade of dumb people who seem to want to read ENEMY OF VIDYA GAMEZ WANTZ TO CENZOR into

any random quote, well, go ahead...

But you 'mass murder teaching' tweet is just...a little strange.

Who ever said teaching?? Sigh.

Sorry, it was 'cool' to be mass murderer. Even worse.