Desensitization...

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Not at all. There's a large gap between real humans being mutilated and a few unconvincing red pixels.

 

[veloper]

The evening news and real life has desensitized me. Games make me go soft.

 

[Andrecova]

No, my underlying apathy did that.
But video games, movies, news and the Internet may have helped.

 

[Fappy]

Not to anything in real life. I can laugh at a dude's head exploding in a movie but if some one got hit by a bus right in front of me I think I would throw up.

 

[hermes]

It probably helped, together with movies, TV, comics and magazines.

 

[Woodsey]

They've desensitised me to most game violence and some on-screen violence - doesn't mean I'd then go and blow someone's head off with a double barrel shotgun though, does it?

 

[Adventurer2626]

I love blowing apart game characters to their constituent pixels/polygons but gore in real life beyond minor bleeding makes me sick and want to go hide in a corner.

 

[suhlEap]

i think i may have been a bit. but i think films are worse for it than games. but to an extent games do it, but only for other games i think.

 

[SneakyBugger]

Meh, probably. Too many other factors to include, like movies, psychologial disorders, and most noteworthy, the internet.

 

[chris11246]

I'd say the news is more to blame for my desensitization of real violence (and movies). I hear all the time about people dying and killing other people. But what really has desensitized me was some tv shows like NCIS and CSI where they show realistic damage to people and show the autopsy in NCIS with the persons chest cut open.

 

[TPiddy]

I definitely have not been desensitized because I can bring myself to watch horror movies or senseless disgusting violence. Also, we had someone fall from our building here last year and I looked down from my balcony to see their lifeless body on the concrete. It was still upsetting.

So long as you can still distinguish between real and fake, you're ok... but all mediums will be plagued by this problem, not just video games.