Games - evil

i think games are not violent enough, if games were really violent the way they should, then people would look at q4, fear, and postal, and they'd be jokes! where are my voilent games? shooting someone? that isnt violent, i want games were we can torture people slowly, or peel off their skin hannibal style. one day in the not too distant future we'll look back and wish there were calm games like gta, or manhunt.

oh god, what if there was a Hostel: The Game? As if the movie isnt sick enough.

if people do not like blood and gore then they shouldnt play the games, if parents dont like it, they shouldnt let their children play it. my parents are very strongly apposed to guns, and never let me play with toy guns. a Hostel game would be sweet, just to you can cut people toes off

Don't forget playing Stubbs the Zombie will turn your kids into cannibals.

I think all this talk about games making you evil is a big joke. You are in need of help if you think that playing violent games make you violent.

The only people who think games are too violent are soccermoms and Jack Thompson. I doubt any of them ever played a game. And seriously, there are age limits on these kind of things. So don't complain if your 11 year old son goes on a killing spree because of GTA. :\

I don't understand why moms spaz out about games when movies are worse. GTA has always been a good game. It, obviously, contains sex and violence and all that stuff. Well, so does the movie Clockwork Orange. In fact, that movie is twice as "evil" as GTA. But Clockwork Orange gets a ton of awards and GTA gets banned.

Violent games have been in the mainstream for around a decade now and millions of people play them, yet only a tiny amount of cases have shown any kind of link to video games, and even then it's usually tenuous / debatable to say the least. Obviously games should be sold to the age group they're recommended for, as it's probably not healthy for 10 year olds to play violent games.

The people I despise are the ones that are so eagre to attribute violence / bad behaviour to anything other than poor parenting / bad upbringing etc. Especially when the people that blame the games bought them for their kids in the first place.

Since the advent of rock and roll music people have always looked for the boogey man to pin the blame on. Rock and roll, heavy metal, backwards messages in songs, violent films, video nasties and horror movies and the list goes on. Video games is just the latest thing to blame when things go wrong.

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playing games makes you*thinking slower

I'd say faster actually. As gaming does help you develop quick reactions.

Other research shows that it makes you think faster, that it improves hand-eye coordination and that it's a good way to lose some agressiveness.

Also, i think it's a long way from clicking pixels to stabbing someone with a knife.

I read somewhere that playing videogames has the same effect on your brain as cocaine. Dunno if its true tho.

I remember when I first played Doom2, I was shocked about it beeing so violent. One month later I wasn't, and I accepted more and more violence, because you get used to it.

I don't think this is good really, but beeing the naive bitch I am I will still make and play violent games (hate GTA and postal though ;o )

A sick mind can with no doubt gain inspiration from a violent game, a book or a film, but if we those they will find their inspiration elsewhere, the problem is not the games themselves.

It's kind of funny that all over the internets~ the people playing games area saying stuff like "those old ladies haven't even played the games, who are they to judge?", but that's wrong in my opinion.

They still have that shock I had when I first played Doom2, they haven't accepted brainless gore, which is good if you ask me.

But I do not want any of them to have anything to do with my games, as those people are probably the same people who says homosexuality is the devil, and that murder should be punished with death.

Actually. I don't care about videogame violence. It's the dumbfuck parents who can't read ratings on games that care about videogame violence. So sorry your electronic baby sitter turned out to be rated R.

I was watching the video game presentation on C-Span, by Senator Lieberman and the National Institute of Media and Family a month or two ago. Their argument isn't that violent video games will cause players to mimic the behavior. It's that it will desensitize them to this kind of behavior, especially since they're actively pushing buttons to make it happen on the screen. Kids won't start killing female prostitutes, but they'll objectify women more.

The scientific evidence isn't very compelling though - all that's proven is that players become more alert and aroused, which can really lead to anything or nothing. Developmentally, it helps a lot with critical thinking and hand-eye coordination though, especially with complex games like GTA.

Maybe its the fact that life is violent and games mimic life creating a whirlwind of logic in a prudish, ignorantly blissful upper middle class social dynamic that creates a fear of the unknown or worse the fear of the known and the spread thereof. So I propose: who cares? play what you want, create what you want.

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Also, i think it's a long way from clicking pixels to stabbing someone with a knife.

nailed it