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DICE 2013: Spector claims games like Lollipop Chainsaw "should not be made"
Posted: 08.02.2013 05:25 by JonahFalcon Comments: 3
Ex-Junction Point founder Warren Spector attacked games such as Grasshopper Manufacture’s Lollipop Chainsaw at his DICE panel, claiming such games “should just not be made”.

While Spector did not namedrop the game specifically, he showed a slide of the promotional art for the game while stating, “There are some games that should just not be made.”

According to Spector, “Adrenaline rush and spectacle were all I needed (when I played games as a teen). I don’t think I was alone in that. When you’re this age, spectacle is plenty. And bloodsprays and all that stuff is really kind of what you’re looking for because you really want to alienate people in a strange sort of way. You want to shock people and you want to be different.

“Not so much, anymore. I have no interest in guys who wear armor and swing big swords. I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don’t need to go there anymore. I want content that is relevant to my life, that is relevant to me, that is set in the real world.

“If we’re going to reach a broader audience, we have to stop thinking about that audience strictly in terms of teenage boys or even teenage girls. We need to think about things that are relevant to normal humans and not just the geeks we used to be.”

This isn't the first time Spector has complained about violence in videogames. Back in June, he stated games were getting "too ultraviolent".
Source: VG247

Comments

By FoolWolf (SI Elite) on Feb 08, 2013
FoolWolf
Well, good for him that he has been the Space Marine - but in the future there may only be one Space Marine available, the WH40K one since Games Workshop is using heavy brute force and dragging anyone using the term to court...
And while I think it is good that people wants to do other stuff than really bloody fighting and shoot 'em up games - it is actually not up to him to decide what the audience wants. Now how did Mickey fair eh?

Reall, dissing other games and genres just because you are getting older and "wiser" is the ultimate of clichés. You don't like it? Do like me - get the FOXTROT out of the room and spend energy on something else. But don't piss in the punch before you leave and leave that bitterness to soil for all the rest who haven't been a s big shoulderpadded Space marine in the end of the galaxy defending mankind.

You want to change the gaming world? Fine - I think you may be one that could do that - but you better start leading by being an example that people want to follow and not jsut another guy taking a piss in the cup they just been drinking of...
By nocutius (SI Elite) on Feb 08, 2013
nocutius
Very well said, not much to add to that.
As long as these kind of games are not the only ones being made I have nothing against them. To each his own and as long I'm getting my fix I have no right to complain about others.
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Feb 08, 2013
herodotus
A game developer stating that certain games shouldn't be made I take with a grain of salt and don't appreciate being told what should and should not appeal, let alone be made.
Up your arse, Spector, with broken glass...to boot.