Manhunt, as gratuitous and violent as it was, was a great fucking game. The stealth dynamics, the game making you change your method of approach, was something that was completely unlike anything released at the time. A truly underrated game.
Goddamn, I'm not a real fan of Oppie and Anthony. I only discovered Patrice and the show years AFTER his unfortunate passing and the show's breakup. What a great show this was and thanks for posting this stuff!
One of the few times Opie was right: "video games release stress". Absolutely correct. That's why they don't cause violence: they're cathartic. It's similar to how many porn addicts rarely, if ever, fuck other people. They're already releasing that urge when they masturbate to the porn. Art is cathartic, no matter what form it takes. Video games, if anything, decrease the incidence of real life violence. You don't want to go through the personal guilt and the public prosecution for killing somebody in real life if you can "kill" 20 more people in your video game without consequence, other than leveling up or gaining rewards. Media that demonizes violence in video games is akin to churches that are against contraception and end up causing AIDS.
At Gamestop I actually had to talk a guy out of buying Scarface for his kid who was between 10 and 12. He really didn't think it would be that bad, a game based off a movie credited with the most uses of the word "fuck". An achievement the game destroys in about the first five minutes, and this is independant of the violence, sex, and oh yeah, aren't there drugs in Scarface??
But why though? Titanic is a 12 rated movie for example, it has nudity, blatant sex, breaking and entering, people getting shot, it has a close attempted suicide, infidelity, violent beatings. Yet it’s just titanic. But if they made a game of the same plot line, but purposely didn’t call it that. Call it boat or something. Guaranteed these game haters would be saying all what I just said, but it’d be the most dangerous game ever. Even though it’s titanic in disguise.