video game violence

[Badgi]

People need a scape goat for what goes on in the world, as it makes them feel safer to have reason other than "we're a species of ********", video games are an easy target.

I've been playing video games probably since before I was 8, so that's 20 years plus, and although graphics weren't brilliant back then, games still follwed the same model, usually jumping from platform to platform killing stuff. Needless to say, after so many years of playing games, I'm not a psycho.

 

[maxilive]

It's the same with everything it's just manic killers are often unsocail people who play video games so its a perfect target.

The person themselves are what make people killers and such games have 0 effect on me in terms of violence but I have known people who it at least leaves an impression of "whoa that was cool I would love to use a m16 irl" and such. Most of the murders do have something up with their minds even before games come into play so I believe games/movies/magzines/websites might enhance their issues.

 

[antijoke]

I know one thing for sure now, my future weapon of choice is the AK74u with grip and rapid fire.

I'll also need Ninja Pro and Flak Jacket Pro.

 

[hybrid572]

It's not playing video games that drives me to kill.

No, I murder every time the release date of Duke Nukem Forever is pushed back.

 

[Gaygle]

I know one thing for sure now, my future weapon of choice is the AK74u with grip and rapid fire.

I'll also need Ninja Pro and Flak Jacket Pro.

Impossible. You'd also need Warlord

 

[Gaygle]

Reading the Daily Mail makes me want to kill people more than video games do. Perhaps we should ban the Daily Mail?

 

[a1ex2001]

Totally agree that the video games too violence link has been completely over played right back to the Doom days!

One thing that really does get my goat though is the number of people who think that is is ok and normal to let primary school children play call of duty etc. they wouldn't let them watch saving private ryan so why is it ok for them to perform a virtual re-enactment? It also really doesn't help the perfectly sensible argument that adults should be allowed to enjoy these types of games!

 

["andy"]

I'd be interested in your views on the death sentence. Because the murder rate is actually higher or, at least, not lower in American States where they have the death penalty. The stats never lie = Having the death sentence increases the murder rate !!!!

i was joking... but the stats you talk of are a myth

 

[ThomasTheTankEngine]

splinter cell and MGS taught me that i need to be stealthy when if i go on a gun rampage

until then i only had films as my guide and was just going to run in screaming like john rambo

You need to rewatch first blood. John Rambo INVENTED stealth. He only goes nuts with the m60 in the last 15 minutes.

 

[Robbo]

Mentally ill nutcases will always make excuses and 'take inspiration' from anything they can, be it games, films, etc.

Games do not cause someone to be violent, they must already be insane and the things they do would happen regardless of video games.

Its mostly just the idiotic high horse brigades who can't seem to grasp that simple fact that call on games to be banned for various reasons. Idiots.

 

['Wes]

I know one thing for sure now, my future weapon of choice is the AK74u with grip and rapid fire.

I'll also need Ninja Pro and Flak Jacket Pro.

You need a few fix-patches though.

 

[antran]

I have never held a gun or any other kind of weapons in the last 15 years but I love going rambo in violence games.

 

[wildman]

There is no proven link between violence and video games. Now excuse me while I steal a car and murder a prostitute with an RPG.

are you a lorry driver ? I though only lorry drivers murdered prostitutes ??

 

[hybrid572]

So I bought my 12 year old son who I never spend time with a gratuitously violent, sexual and criminally oriented video game with a massive logo saying 18 OR OVER on it, a rating system specifically designed to protect kids from unsuitable content but I bought it for him anyway, and he took one of the many easy-to-access loaded guns displayed across my house and went and killed our neighbour who I'm always saying I could kill for various reasons.

I BLAME VIDEO GAMES MANUFACTURERS

 

[jas72]

splinter cell and MGS taught me that i need to be stealthy when if i go on a gun rampage

until then i only had films as my guide and was just going to run in screaming like john rambo

LOL didn't you watch bond. Win at poker then bonk the losers wife.

Now that's style

 

[Mat]

I went through bouts of schizophrenic delusions after I played Tetris and any through the wall type games...

 

[Delvis]

Not read the thread, but the title and first post content is enough, video game violence is a load of tosh, i've been playing violent games since i was about 8, and ive not once murdered or assaulted anyone, in fact im one of the least violent people on this damn planet.

Yes, some people play a game and go mad and then kill someone, but its not the games fault, its them, they are the oens screwed up. The day 'violent' games get band is the day the video games industry is destroyed

 

[Cosimo]

I went through bouts of schizophrenic delusions after I played Tetris and any through the wall type games...

Playing asteroids nearly drove me to drink.