Game Violence = Real Violence? You decide!

[God52495]

Do you escapists think that game violence actually leads to real-world problems? (I know this propbably has been done 100's of times) I don't think someone playing as the OPFOR in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will become a terrorist, nor do i think witness fake people made of pixels will scar them for life!

Whats your opinion?

 

[Neonbob]

Psh.
No.
I've spent hundreds of hours killing virtual people in all sorts of ways, yet I'm...wait...I may have just shot my case in the foot there...
Crap.

 

[Hybridwolf]

Games are never the cause of violence, there is always a primary reason, like an abusive family etc. If anything games merely provide the means of killing not the incentive to kill (Even then, that only counts for games like manhunt).

EDIT: Bugger, just remembered about the person who killed someone after losing their item in a MMORPG. That's blown a hole in my arguement...

 

[grimsprice]

0_0 I WANT TO KILL. If i can KILL in a game why not the real world! KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL..... I want to chainsaw someone in half... that looks really FUCKING COOL. lol. /cynicism.

OK. So i've always thought that people are people, i'm one of those 90% genetics 10% environment believers.

 

[The_Healer]

Hmmm.... on the most part i don't think people have the balls to initiate extreme violence.
But games sure are a good inspiration for thinking of new ways to be violent. All anyone really needs is a crowbar.

 

[Ibanez887]

Its really stupid that people think that seeing people die in video games make us seems that completely normal
It makes all gamers sound like 5 year olds who copy anything they see

 

[God52495]

Games are never the cause of violence, there is always a primary reason, like an abusive family etc. If anything games merely provide the means of killing not the incentive to kill (Even then, that only counts for games like manhunt).

EDIT: Bugger, just remembered about the person who killed someone after losing their item in a MMORPG. That's blown a hole in my arguement...

well but thats because he was a wackjob! Slightly unrelated, remember that Swedish kid that died playing World of Warcraft for 3 days straight? yet another wackjob case!

 

[Hybridwolf]

Games are never the cause of violence, there is always a primary reason, like an abusive family etc. If anything games merely provide the means of killing not the incentive to kill (Even then, that only counts for games like manhunt).

EDIT: Bugger, just remembered about the person who killed someone after losing their item in a MMORPG. That's blown a hole in my arguement...

well but thats because he was a wackjob! Slightly unrelated, remember that Swedish kid that died playing World of Warcraft for 3 days straight? yet another wackjob case!

Okay...thats just mad, stupid and not entirely surprising.

Okay, so disallowing for the MMO players, (Who are batshit crazy) there have only been around 5 to 10 cases of video game murder, over the last decade. I'd say that pretty reasonable odds, espically since if the video game hadn't been there it wouldn't have been blamed. So no, video games aren't going to make you anymore violent then if you had just played football with your mates as both things get the adrenalin up.

 

[Raregolddragon]

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[Worgen]

if game violence = real life violence then there would be more rl violence instead of less, there is no you decide bs, thats just a stupid term used by soft ball news heads to give the illusion of giving you an opinion in biased "reporting"

 

[Hybridwolf]

Games are never the cause of violence, there is always a primary reason, like an abusive family etc. If anything games merely provide the means of killing not the incentive to kill (Even then, that only counts for games like manhunt).

EDIT: Bugger, just remembered about the person who killed someone after losing their item in a MMORPG. That's blown a hole in my arguement...

Explain the edit please.

Secondly gaming doesn't cause violence in people. When I play games like GTA I don't want to go out and shoot people. Plus killing people in games is so fun!

That was to show I had added it after writing out an arugment I thought might have worked. In other words, I'd wanted to make sure people knew I hadn't just thrown it in five seconds after writing it. But if it's confusing I'll remove it...?

 

[KaiRai]

Games are never the cause of violence, there is always a primary reason, like an abusive family etc. If anything games merely provide the means of killing not the incentive to kill (Even then, that only counts for games like manhunt).

EDIT: Bugger, just remembered about the person who killed someone after losing their item in a MMORPG. That's blown a hole in my arguement...

Maybe. But if you come home angry, and hate the world etc, then you whack on Saints Row 2 and blast the living shit out of everything you see. It becomes funny to the sick and twisted mind of an angry gamer, before you finally realise, you haven't eaten, drank or pissed in 6 hours and the rage has gone.

MMORPG kids take thing to the extreme's anyhoo.

 

[vonwenck]

their is a difference between the MMORPGer and a gamer but to me games give ppl and well me somthing to kinda take your anger out on, i mean if i didnt have videogames i feel some bad stuff would have happened by now

i mean yes there are rare cases of people doing things in real life b/c of a video game but those cases are rare and those ppl defenitly have other problems

 

[SquirrelPants]

their is a difference between the MMORPGer and a gamer...

What exactly would that be? I'm sure the majority of people who play a lot of MMORPGs(myself included) are perfectly normal people. Being a gamer just means you enjoy and play video games. I think you're just generalizing the MMO audience.

OT: Naaaaaaaah. It sure gives inspiration, and makes some people act like complete idiots and assholes, but it doesn't cause most of the things that have been said to have been caused by video game violence.

 

[vonwenck]

their is a difference between the MMORPGer and a gamer...

What exactly would that be? I'm sure the majority of people who play a lot of MMORPGs(myself included) are perfectly normal people. Being a gamer just means you enjoy and play video games. I think you're just generalizing the MMO audience.

OT: Naaaaaaaah. It sure gives inspiration, and makes some people act like complete idiots and assholes, but it doesn't cause most of the things that have been said to have been caused by video game violence.

yes you are right there are lots of normal people that play MMORPGs but god in my 5 years playing WoW i met too many that would be better described as a MMORPGer than a gamer like i mean ppl that have the game as their whole life but yes you are right there are plenty of normal too that play

 

[moose49408]

The short answer: no. If anything, video games give people an outlet for our predisposition toward violence that doesn't involve actual people getting hurt.

The long answer: People are (and always have been) very violent by nature. In recent years, thanks to the networking of the world (internet, the news, etc) people have become much more aware of the violence that has always been taking place in the world. Naturally, assuming that this apparent rise in violence must be attributable to some new influence in our lives, people look to new forms of entertainment and the like, eg: video games.

In short, to those in the world who do believe that video games are making us more violent, I say, "read a history book." There were no video games during the crusades, or the dark ages, yet we still managed to commit horrible atrocities.