Gaming and its Affection for Empowerment Fantasies

Dabe Gordon of Bright Hub writes; "Video games have ostensibly been known to the societal consciousness as nothing more than adolescent shooter’s and empowerment fantasies. Unfortunately, this narrow view is only accentuated by the big developer’s sadistic requirement to produce more puerile attempts at empowerment and defeatist stories, going so far as to filter down the idea to a large number of indie developers.

With games like God of War, Call of Duty, Battlefield, Gears of War, Grand Theft Auto, Shank, I MAED A GAM3 W1TH ZOMBIES 1N IT!!!1 and even Bioshock, it becomes apparent that this caustic cross section of gaming attitudes is in need of a rethink…"