Webgamania: Controversial Webgames

Webgamania- When people who don't play online games actually care what's in webgames, due to something controversial they include. Do not confuse with Webgaymania, which is entirely different and need not be discussed here.

The most famous instance of Webgamania is V-Tech Rampage, apparently the 4th most evil game ever, according to GamesRadar. Basically, you control the killer in the Virginia Tech Massacre. As a joke, the creator claimed that he would only remove the game after he had received $2,000 in donations, with an extra $1,000 necessary for an apology. According to him, he didn't receive any money. Anyway, the game was clearly controversial, and got a lot more attention because of that, and still is, because I'm writing about it. I'm not linking to it, but I'm going to play it to see what the big deal is about. Until I'm done, content yourself with this much less significant controversy:

Presidential Paintball is the newest in a series of controversial election mini-games. Why? Jesus, I don't know. I mean, you're theoretically shooting other candidates in the White House, but if you play the game you'll realize it's just a stupid, easy game. It's really tame and it's a game about paintball. That's two steps of reality away from actually shooting a candidate. If it were a game where you really killed or even hurt the candidates, then that'd be bad I guess, but you're just hitting them with paintballs. Get over yourselves, Smoking Gun. At least it's not in controversy just because it doesn't include Ron Paul. Seriously, Ron Paul supporters need to stop sending hate mail, it ruined his image for me.

Okay, I'm done playing V-Tech Rampage. (I actually wrote that horrible paragraph on the other game a while ago and never used it, but I really did play V-Tech Rampage after copying it and pasting it here.) Jesus, that's pretty screwed up. Though completely irrelevant, the game is pretty mediocre. It's very short and not that interesting as a pure game, which I consider very necessary to defend a controversial one. The game really goes over the top in the third level, the actual massacre. The stuff they say while you're shooting the people is, uh, let's just say really bad. I don't think I can really defend that game, though it's definitely exercising free speech to an insane degree. I wouldn't suggest they take the game down from newgrounds, but rather just let everyone direct all complaints to the game's author himself. To continue to use simple language, the game's pretty screwed up.


I feel somewhat dirty now after that