MTV Multiplayer: Please Stephen, Don't Hurt 'Em
This entry was posted on 4/3/2007 7:29 PM and is filed under MTV News Multiplayer,Violent Games,PS3 Surprises,NES surprises.
It's probably a bad sign that I chose to use my own name in this entry's headline... even worse that it's based on an M.C. Hammer song. But so be it. Though I skipped work on Monday I heroically filed an installment of MTV Multiplayer (now with unique URLs, dear bloggers).
This one was a confessional: why I like all sorts of fighting in real life -- I'm late for my karate class as I write this -- but don't really dig the fighting/wrestling/boxing games.
I posed a few theories. Allow me to quote one (and if you don't I'll punch you in the face... see?):
If I'm so into combat outside of video games, how can I be so disinterested in "Mortal Kombat" games? I'm not sure if it's that strange. I have a game-reporter friend who used to do carpentry. As best I know, "SimCity" is not his favorite game. I interviewed Tiger Woods for about 10 minutes once and asked him what he was playing. He didn't volunteer "Tiger Woods PGA Tour." He volunteered "Resident Evil 4." I hear American soldiers do like their "Halo" and football fans sure do dig "Madden," but some people don't play the things they know.
One of my earliest memories from karate school, oddly enough, involves chainsaws. I was young and overheard a parent complaining about the unwatchability of the "Texas Chain Saw Massacre" movie. His problem wasn't that it was scary. His problem was that it insulted his chainsawing intelligence. He knew chainsaws from his day job — he was a lumberjack, I hope — and he knew that chainsaws couldn't take the beating they did in the movie and keep on working. Some people just know too much about a particular thing and can't appreciate the entertainment.
I've got a few more theories in the article. Click the link or I will crack you in half.
