Does anyone else play non-violent games?

[aimeeandbeatles]

I play 'em. Mostly business simulations, a few horse games (although a lot of them are buggy, there's a few good ones.) And I definately like Civ -- I prefer the newer ones 'cos you don't have to go to war to win. At least in theory, not so in practice.

Seems some people here think 'cos I don't like blood and guts, I'm not a "real" gamer.

 

[carmen510]

I've played business and city-building games. When you say violence, do you mean all types of violence (Cartoon, Civ figures battling, etc.) or just bloody/gory violence like most Mature FPS's?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Mostly bloody violence. I mean, I play one game where I'm stuck on an island and have to kill animals to survive, it's just I can't stand blood and... ugh.

 

[Maniacal]

Eh the blood in games is pretty weak, but I felt the same way when I was 13. Now the grittier and bloodier the better (Being a 19 year old male helps though, yay for tetosterone!).

I think the reason people look down on those avoiding violent gmes is because a lot of non-violent games are really bad or no where as good as some more violent games. Or at least they think of the bad ones first like Barbie's Horses or something. Course this isn't true, SimCity series for example.

Some non-violent games I am thinking of;

Sort of Risk-like time waster game that is quite fun.
http://www.smozzie.com/fracas.html

The Europa Universailels and Victoria series, which have warfare, it is somewhat abstracted and especially victoria can be played without a lot of war. It is probably less violent than Civ. Crusader Kings is more about building a dynasty than controlling a nation (which can be a mental hurdle to get over).

Both morrowind and Oblivion's violence is pretty weak imo (more so morrowind) and both likely have mods to remove blood and can be played quite non-violently.

Portal, okay it has turrets with guns that shoot at you but I don't remember there being blood and the turrets are easily disabled. But it's a first person puzzle game really.

Possibly Darwinia, as the characters are all electronic sprites living in a virtual world (I can't get it to work on my comp though >.>)

Oregon Trail off Home of the Underdogs. Although it does require hunting.

Wikipedia article, but I doubt it will help much.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_video_game

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Well, more like shooting at people is what I don't like. Killing them. Even injuring them. Although in Roller Coaster Tycoon I'd crash the coasters....

 

[Maniacal]

I think you would still like Portal though.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Eh the blood in games is pretty weak, but I felt the same way when I was 13. Now the grittier and bloodier the better (Being a 19 year old male helps though, yay for tetosterone!).

It was the other way around for me (almost). When i was around 13 i was obsessed with violent games, the more gore the better. Now i'm meh toward it.

 

[Esckey]

I think I've spent more time playing non violent games like Civ, Col, Railroad Tycoon, Transport Tycoon and simcity then I have playing the violent games

 

[azzaman333]

I don't think Guitar Hero or Rock Band are violent.

 

[GoodGame]

I play sudoku, and many an arcade game which is not bloody violence. The sudoku squares might feel violated however.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Horse games aren't as bad as lots of people make out -- they're just more....errr, girlish?
Although I don't really like gender stereotypes, shooting at people makes me physically ill.

 

[rhawn]

I'd be more comfortable answering if there was a list of some non-violent video games. I can think of Madden(as violent as football) and Rock Band. Most games even Mario involve killing something as an objective.

 

[hossam]

i play hello kitty island adventure

 

[Dachs]

I think you would still like Portal though.

Portal has shooting, of a sort. And definitely violence. Those turrets have such sweet voices...

 

[Maniacal]

Not really, you shoot portals at a wall, the turrets are violent but they only shoot at you and you don't see yourself usually. It's a pretty awesome game. ANd disabling the turrets by knocking them over is disabling the only guns.

 

[Dachs]

Not really, you shoot portals at a wall, the turrets are violent but they only shoot at you and you don't see yourself usually.

But there's shooting and violence involved, and if they shoot you enough times you die. And you're also actively attempting to disable them, as well as GlaDOS.

 

[Maniacal]

But there's shooting and violence involved, and if they shoot you enough times you die. And you're also actively attempting to disable them, as well as GlaDOS.

Yes but it's not all that violent, and you are not shooting at humans or living creatures, nothing that should "turn off" aimeeandbeatles. No matter how much of a ssimulation of sentience GlaDOS and the turrets may have they are still machines.

There's a demo availiable on Steam, so she can try that, and there are plenty of maps without turrets anyways.

 

[LightFang]

Portal is fun.

I agree, even though it's violent in a way, it's not really. There isn't like blood spilling everywhere, and when you die, it's not like you see your entrails dropping out of your body onto the floor in excruciating pain and detail.

 

[Maniacal]

What game does show your entrails dropping out of you?

 

[azzaman333]

If you die, there certainly is blood in Portal.

But if you don't plan on much dying, there isn't much blood!