it’s my god-given right to blow guys’ heads off if I want to in my videogames!
Nevertheless, I still think there is a certain social responsibility to not make things too violent. Fallout 3 is very violent, but the violence is cartoony. Sometimes you’ll shoot a guy in the head and it won’t explode; it takes the whole head off. Is it realistic? No, it’s funny, and it becomes cool because of that.
We’re grown-ups, we can make and play something like this. We think it’s funny, we think it’s fun and people have been agreeing with that.
http://www.edge-online.com/blogs/emil-p ... rites-edge
No need to think too much about it. Everything written on the subject of videogames and ethics is by definition funny.