Violent video games linked to verbal aggression and hostility but not physical aggression::Violent video games are linked to higher levels of verbal aggression and hostility but not physical aggression, with narcissistic traits also correlating with aggressive behaviors, according to a study published in Frontiers in Psychology. The research emphasizes that personality traits and game choice independently contribute to aggressive tendencies, but neither is proven as a causal factor. …
It’s interesting that almost every single game involves violence and death in some way.
I suspect that it’s just a universally understood concept that every living creature gets.
Death bad, alive good.
Violence is just part of our predator DNA.
I don’t have time to confirm it right now but I think this has the video where I first heard this brought up: https://youtu.be/cYnylXvk65s?si=Y5qQmMC09nb4YvAq
Yeah, I’ve also seen it argued on a much smaller scale, that fun in video games is often done on a risk-reward basis. You bring yourself in danger to get a reward. And well, there’s other ways than violence to portray that, like spikes in a jump’n’run or a stupid wall in a racing game. There’s also other ways to induce fun, like puzzle mechanics. But yeah, ultimately you’re left with a small fraction of genres that really work or have been explored…