{"id":770,"date":"2009-05-20T10:42:37","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T15:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=770"},"modified":"2009-05-20T10:42:37","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T15:42:37","slug":"wolverine-too-violent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=770","title":{"rendered":"Wolverine Too Violent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gamelife\/2009\/05\/gamesfrontiers0520\/\" target=\"_blank\">Game|Life<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Barely 15 minutes into the new <em>Wolverine<\/em> videogame, I am ankle-deep in carnage. I have filleted soldiers straight up the center, like fish; I have spun in a pirouette of death, decapitating anyone and everyone an arms\u00e2\u20ac\u2122-breadth away. And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve grabbed enemies by the neck, hoisting them aloft and stabbing them repeatedly \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>crick, crick, crick<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d right through their rib cages. Eee<em>yikes<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Wolverine\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/images_blogs\/gamelife\/2009\/05\/wolverine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Does grisly violence like this make action games more fun? For years, I assumed the free market had answered that question with a resounding \u00e2\u20ac\u0153yes.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d If shoot-\u00e2\u20ac\u2122em-up games were insanely gory, it was, I figured, because developers were simply giving their hardcore young-dude audience what it wanted. Violence sells because violence works: It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s crucial to creating a sense of dastardly fun. Right?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe not. In fact, some recent and fascinating scientific work suggests precisely the opposite: In a paper in January\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <em>Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin<\/em>, a group of researchers found that violence might be the least compelling part of our favorite videogames. In fact, sometimes it gets in the way of the fun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gamelife\/2009\/05\/gamesfrontiers0520\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From:Game|Life Barely 15 minutes into the new Wolverine videogame, I am ankle-deep in carnage. I have filleted soldiers straight up the center, like fish; I have spun in a pirouette of death, decapitating anyone and everyone an arms\u00e2\u20ac\u2122-breadth away. And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve grabbed enemies by the neck, hoisting them aloft and stabbing them repeatedly \u00e2\u20ac\u201d crick, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[28,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":771,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}