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Posted September 23, 2009
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Miaghstir: There are several games without avatars at all, I believe few card games could be considered violent, tetris has already been mentioned, as has peggle, bejeweled and some other games. Minesweeper probably sits in that category as well, even if the spoof movie depicts it differently. Guitar hero and rock band do have some form of avatars or personas in them, but no violence as far as I know.
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AlexY: If, as mentioned above, getting a car hit with no visual damage is considered violent, then bending a card, destroying innocent falling blocks, switching and exploding gems, shooting deadly balls that also destroy walls and change their colour can be also considered as violence. Even songs in Guitar hero can be ear-rape then. I mean, come on.
What kind of rules are those, Weclock? Are we talking about kids getting into gaming or adults with no gaming influences?

Ramming a car into a wall is a pretty definite reference to real-life violent car crashes even when the digital car has no driver or gets damaged.
The blocks in tetris and the ball and paddle in breakout has no real-life counterpart, the ones in pong may be referenced to table tennis and the cards in card games are pretty much 1:1 depictions of those in a casino, but even for the latter two, the real-life depictions doesn't naturally contain destruction or violence (other than maybe in extreme cases, such as gangster movies where the boss kills underlings that cheat in poker or whatever - those aren't real life depictions, but are real enough to get treated as real memories).
Oh, yeah, also Rockstar's Table Tennis and most other sports games (I'm told some NHL games contain fighting, so disregard those, boxing, and martial arts games).
Jumping on enemies in mario or donkey kong is a stretch, but they do depict a human or humanoid killing other living creatures.
Post edited September 23, 2009 by Miaghstir
Posted September 23, 2009
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Miaghstir: Ramming a car into a wall is a pretty definite reference to real-life violent car crashes even when the digital car has no driver or gets damaged.
The blocks in tetris and the ball and paddle in breakout has no real-life counterpart, the ones in pong may be referenced to table tennis and the cards in card games are 1:1 depictions of those in a casino, but even then the real-life depiction doesn't naturally contain destruction or violence.
Jumping on enemies in mario or donkey kong is a stretch, but they do depict a human or humanoid killing other living creatures.

But..I mean, it's a videogame. I wouldn't recommend MadWorld to my 6-year-old cousin, but that doesn't mean I'd forbid her Mario because he violently kills cartoon turtles and mushrooms.
This is really silly. Something like this.
Posted September 23, 2009
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Miaghstir: Ramming a car into a wall is a pretty definite reference to real-life violent car crashes even when the digital car has no driver or gets damaged.
The blocks in tetris and the ball and paddle in breakout has no real-life counterpart, the ones in pong may be referenced to table tennis and the cards in card games are 1:1 depictions of those in a casino, but even then the real-life depiction doesn't naturally contain destruction or violence.
Jumping on enemies in mario or donkey kong is a stretch, but they do depict a human or humanoid killing other living creatures.
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AlexY: But..I mean, it's a videogame. I wouldn't recommend MadWorld to my 6-year-old cousin, but that doesn't mean I'd forbid her Mario because he violently kills cartoon turtles and mushrooms.
This is really silly. Something like this.

Yeah, that's why I said it's stretch, but I'm trying to interpret what wec might mean with "violence" considering his interpretation of the other guy's definition seems to be pretty harsh. (Yes, the classic "a guy said that a guy said that a guy said...." makes definitions become very screwed-up).
Posted September 23, 2009
What about Stair Dismount or Truck Dismount? They aren't violent, and the random guy seems to enjoy falling down a flight of stairs.
Posted September 23, 2009
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Wraith: What about Stair Dismount or Truck Dismount? They aren't violent, and the random guy seems to enjoy falling down a flight of stairs.

His lawyers will be in touch with you shortly.
Posted September 23, 2009
Good, I'll push them down the stairs too.
Posted September 23, 2009
Mini Ninjas. It has combat of sorts but you arent actually killing anything. In fact your saving woodland creatures from an evil curse and nothing dies.
Posted September 23, 2009
Sim Theme Park (unless you count security guards stuffing vandals into burlap bags to carry them out of the park) and Monopoly Tycoon. Although I'm not sure how popular either of these are.
Posted September 23, 2009
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? had no violence.
Most rhythm and music games would be considered non-violent.
Posted September 23, 2009
World of Goo
Penumbra Overture (Except for a COUPLE of encounters with a God, the sequels have NO combat)
Most Popcap games
Posted September 23, 2009
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Syme: Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? had no violence.
Most rhythm and music games would be considered non-violent.

Well, rhythm based games like DDR could be considered violence against your heart and lungs if you're really out of shape...
Posted September 23, 2009
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Syme: Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? had no violence.
Most rhythm and music games would be considered non-violent.
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ceemdee: Well, rhythm based games like DDR could be considered violence against your heart and lungs if you're really out of shape...

Rock Band is kind of violent, if you think about it. I mean, someone almost ALWAYS ends up shoving drumsticks down their throat.
Posted September 23, 2009
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Syme: Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? had no violence.
Most rhythm and music games would be considered non-violent.
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ceemdee: Well, rhythm based games like DDR could be considered violence against your heart and lungs if you're really out of shape...
stop controller violence!! pressing buttons is murder!!
Posted September 23, 2009
In other news, I heard my broccoli screaming in pain today.
Posted September 23, 2009
I don't recall Harvest Moon being violent in any way.
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