There can be meaningful messages and there are, but video games is not primarily the place for delivering such messages......Like no parent should leave video-games to teach their children right from wrong...….The medium is multi-faceted no doubt and I love that some games can teach and touch on subjects that elaborates on some problematic issues like "Concrete Genie" with bullying, but by and large video games are about fantasy story telling.....God of War, Uncharted.....Even the movie Indiana Jones, you think one man would be lucky enough to survive all these near falls and pitfalls? It's not realistic.....
Drake killing many people in a gaming world is as realistic as Soap killing a million soldiers in Modern Warfare and that has a deeper hook into realism with it's war aesthetic......At no point playing Uncharted did I find drake to be a mass murderer......There are mass murderers out there who care little about video games, there's no need to make the connection to such people with Drake, who is only a fictional character in a video-game which we indulge in as a hobby.....We are going way too far with this thing.....