Do violent video games really influence violence?

[Arkillo]

Originally posted by TreeFrog123
Diablo 2 is rated M and I honestly don't know why

Blood and Gore, and Satanic worshiping, on top of the devil being in the actual game

 

[FoxWar]

Well depends on personality imo, if its a child it will affect it more then an adult

Also depends on how stupid the person is

If they say oh it happened in a video game and he lives, and they go jump of their roof well.... >.>

 

[RoaCh of DisCord]

If a game actually influences you to go out and murder someone, then you're allready completely lost. End of story. A game just doesn't set someone off like that. Not anyone with common sense. Rational people just don't think that way, and would never even think of going out and killing people because of fake violence. They can tell the difference between right from wrong, and reality and fantasy.

It NEVER is the game, or game makers fault...and the company should NEVER be blamed. It is ALWAYS the person commiting the crimes fault, no matter how weak minded they are. People who blame these types of things are just searching for an excuse...searching for something to cover up the real problem. People always love to point the blame before actually looking for the true problem.

I don't really have a huge issue with the having to be 18 rule...but in my personal opinion, age isn't always the determining factor of maturity. Of course little toddlers probably shouldn't play manhunt, but that's obvious. If someone is going to snap and kill people, all because of watching a video game, it could be anyone. A kid, or an adult. Anyone can be a maniac, at any age ...and I don't really think being under 18 makes it any different.

 

[Aeris22]

Video games didn't make me crazy, I already was, games will only affect your mind if you let them, if you feel that the game is more inportant more real than real life and if that ever happens you have major mental problems

 

[jd-inflames]

Short answer, NO

 

[Aeris22]

well yea you can always use that word, its recongized by more countrys than anything else in the world, but really when things like the .hack situation every come to real life than we will have people that truly care more about a game than there real life

 

[ChrisH36]

I think it depends more on the person who plays it then the game itself. Psychological control can be important in certain games, even ones like Halo and Diablo 2 and Serious Sam. If one cannot control these murderous intentions, then one should NOT be playing the game and mimicking what goes on. I am afraid that one day some guy will play Resident Evil 3, go crazy, and come to school with a pistol and shoot everyone dead.

I know its highly unlikely this happens but hey, I have been exposed to violence almost my whole gaming life. From games like Zelda, Perfect dark then to Serious Sam and Diablo 2 then Halo and Manhunt. I have managed to control myself and not go on a frantic rampage bent on killing everything on sight. But yeah, I would still be careful

 

[dust601]

Ok i have a few thoughts here
I feel as if people are blaming game violence for problems there kids had as a scapegoat. They did a bad job raising there kids, didn't teach there kids that hey killing is wrong. so they need to find a way for shifting the blame.

 

[cry0KiD]

in som cases thats tru but not always!! normal kids can tell the diffrense between realiti n games but parents shudnt let kids play games liek gta its just rong!!

 

[ChrisH36]

Well yeah eventually, a person will be exposed to murder and death enough times in ones life. So yeah

 

[Jason the Destroyer]

video games are seen as a scapegoat, but the people who want to place bans on them obviously don't realize that we are exposed to violence in movies and other media too.

 

[cry0KiD]

its quiet disturbing but violense is a part of our day its on the news games movies tv shows everywhere its ****ed up!!

 

[dust601]

I bealive if there going to censor kids away from violence they need to do it 100 percent, not pick and choose which things they feel we need and don't need. "hey lets start censoring video games and music, but lets tell them about all the people shot and murdered on the news every nite, lets show them crime scence photos, but god forbid they see any violence in a game."

I think its a joke these middle age'd mothers and fathers forming groups protesting games when watch the damn news, i rarley watch tv but i turned it on the other nite and on this csi show i'm seeing a dead body on a autopsy table? wtf so seeing a real human body made to look dead is better for me then play a VIDEO GAME and seein a dead person? untill they take on a stance to ban all or none i have 0 respect for them picking and choosing whats right for everyone. Piss off and raise ur own kids my parents are doing fine.

 

[ORC-r0x0r-ROC]

Yeah but they could argue that a game is interative while but when watching a program its more like a documentry (some are, some are just senseless violence). Watching something, I imagine is not as bad as killing someone on a game because it is you behind the 'steering wheel'.

This doesn't mean I support this banning of explicit content in games, apperently there is some sort of primitive instinct in over half of us that makes us not want to kill someone. I hardly believe that a serial killer is going to be driven crazy because he played video games during his life, infact I've never heard of a case like this. I think games relaxes you, maybe 'real' (not graphical) images might spark something off.

We don't need these restrictions on games, what we need is responsible parents that are able to decide if something is just too explicit. The people who make these game show age ranges for the parents these should act like guide lines for the children, not be ignored, though shouldn't be to inforced as they are exceptions to children that might be 'grown up' enough to handle it.

Games do not make killers, people do.

 

[MasAsBadgers]

I fully agree, I have seen it on the news recently that juring the world wars men could not kill another man. It is a cause of one of the most primitive of instincts that stops us from killing. Even with all the military training they could not kill.

 

[munchyman]

Games are an escape......plain and simple.....they offer an alternative to real life. Noone cares if you murder a bunch of textured polygons on a screen, but they DO mind you killing another human being. Also, I think that you have to be either depressed, or seriously f ucking stupid to let video games be the motive for bringing a gun to school and shooting ppl. The kids who do that...(sorry parents) are MORONS.....Just don't give videogames to dumbshits, and the world will be better off.

 

[ORC-r0x0r-ROC]

Unless you can come up with 100 cases where they are sure that it is the game that causes it there no point. Games relieve stress, if you can kill people in a game it will make you calmer and less likely to do it in real life. Anyone who links a game to a crime is mostly like a idiot.

There is no point putting restrictions on games for this. There are tons of reasons to kill, and if we restricted everything that could be linked up to a crime killing would still go on. Doing this isn't helping at all, in some cases it'll make it even worse. If depressed people get lost in a game let them, they might seem sad but it'll most likely stop them form committing suicide or killing someone.

 

[Black Cat]

I do beleive everything your saying, but now im curious can you prove any of this

if we restricted everything that could be linked up to a crime killing would still go on

Doing this isn't helping at all, in some cases it'll make it even worse.

Games relieve stress, if you can kill people in a game it will make you calmer and less likely to do it in real life. Anyone who links a game to a crime is mostly like a idiot.

And dont just say common sence!! I want real evidence and proof.

 

[ORC-r0x0r-ROC]

Protestant executed evolution hypothetically I can't really come up with good evidence on a forum but I'll try come up with explanations

if we restricted everything that could be linked up to a crime killing would still go on

Ok.. now I'm quoting myself. They might be able to restrict images on TV and games but we cannot restrict hate, we cannot restrict people from annoying other people because we can't restrict the mind like that. While hate exists people will get killed.

Doing this isn't helping at all, in some cases it'll make it even worse.

Well, this I can't really prove but hypothetically if there was a really good game that is really addictive but it is banned because people are quick to blame games for murders he might go kill someone because A) He might of been playing this really good game instead of doing something or witnessing something that would make him sooo angry that he would go to the lengths of killing someone. B) The game might of relieves his stress to the point that he would just calm enough not to be willing to take another persons life.

Games relieve stress, if you can kill people in a game it will make you calmer and less likely to do it in real life. Anyone who links a game to a crime is mostly like a idiot.

http://web.ask.com/web?q=do+games+relieve+stress&o=0&qsrc=0http://www.screwschool.com/term/fil12.htm
Well, some who plays a game would be less likely to kill someone simply because they would be a lot less stressed out.

 

[Black Cat]

ok. . .abit jumping to conclusion on things though.