Hell, even a game about an assassin can be completed with minimal killing -- the Hitman games can be finished, and in fact are supposed to be finished, with only killing your specific targets and not killing anyone else in the mission. It's certainly possible to just run in and shoot everyone in sight, but that's not the way it was meant to be played. They all have some sort of non-lethal way to knock people out so you don't have to kill them.
But the real reason I'm making this post is to say that there are PLENTY of games with no violence whatsoever. The most obvious example would be to say sports games, which have a huge market -- but that doesn't really fit the point he's making. But look at adventure games.........most of those have little or no violence whatsoever. Look at all the simulation style games that do so well..........SimCity, Theme Park, Zoo Tycoon..........all of those. Of course the FPS genre will always be full of violence, because it's a shooting game............and strategy games generally will as well, because most of them involve armies and battles. But I think there are many genres which have a vast number of excellent non-violent games. The real point is that people BUY the violent games more than the non-violent games (the Sims excluded), and since they sell the best of course game companies will continue to pump out as many as possible. You're going to make what will make you the most money.
|
