Girls are very demanding. That it can be a very scary place when your best friend is trying to kill you. Doom made the Net a very compelling experience in a much more adrenaline-intensive way than chat rooms. When you're in a Doom death-match, there are people stalking you, monsters trying to kill you. You observe that the most common premise of video games today is a world in a state of anarchy.
Anarchy resonates for many reasons.
It's just a logical extreme of what we see going on around us, and there's something inherently alluring about logical extremes of any sort. Then also it gets down to this basic primal urge to impose your will on chaos, which is really what these game worlds are about. When everything is blowing up in your face, what you have is chaos, and you're cleaning it up, and that is a basic human thing, to impose your will on chaos. That's Western civilization right there. On balance I would say no.