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Espio0

thats true, its just one of these things you'll never do in real life (unless your a psycho), but get you still get a feeling of doing it somehow

i was playing alone in the dark on the 360 one day, and this zombie chick attacks me, i find one of those spoons they use to serve soup (f orgot the name D: ) and use it to beat the shit out of her, while imagining its my former boss/new boss, it was funny tho, the sound when i hitted her was extremely funny and made me think of that vid with the guy who keeps whackin this other guy with a spoon

it really was a horrible slow murder with an ineficient weapon

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vick1211

/thread...YOU WIN!!!11oneone111eleven

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vampiric161

You can remove as many "violence-encouraging" factors from media as you want but you will never remove envy, jealousy, greed, prejudice or racism from the world. As long as these emotions exist, so too will violent tendencies.

Video games are meant to be a form of entertainment, and are a way to relieve stress for many people. I concede to the fact that some people may feel more enticed to act violently after playing certain games but, I would think that is more than likely attributed to experiencing these violent games too much when too young or simply because that person has had some kind of experience in the past which has caused them to become more aggressive or desensitized. Also, as far as desensitizing goes, no video game, movie or tv show can prepare you to kill another human being. The notion that someone commits a murder because "they saw it in a video game" is absurd.

I'm sorry, but this is (pardon my language) utter bullsh*t. If a video game has the same amount of influence on your child as you do, you're doing something wrong. A parent can prevent a child from playing a video game (let alone preventing said video game from being bought) that they aren't meant to be playing. You blame an adult for buying an under-age person liquor yet blame the video game instead of the parent in the same scenario with a different age-restricted object.

BGLamb

Unfortunately, any sensible discussion about violence in games will always be clouded by the arguments made by right-wing-meadia-morons who claim (or at least heavily imply) that these influences can take someone who is otherwise normal and turn them into something violent.

Most of us can see very quickly that this isn't the case, but this argument has such a detrimental effect on anyone trying to talk seriously about the subject.

Nobody in this thread has seriously proposed the point that violent games will turn normal people into killers yet many, many people have ignored all of the intelligent discussion and focused on the fact that this argument is stupid.

I've been shouted down many times in real life for saying that there may be a connection between violence in real life and violent games, all by people who cannot see past this simplistic and stupid argument that gets thrown at them in the tabloids.

Why can't people foget about those stupid arguments and have an intelligent discussion?

I'm not accusing everyone here of this, of course. just a little side-note to the topic.

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