Survey: Videogames and Violence (for a class)

[Sinisterair]

1. Age: 17
2. Gender: M
3. How often do you play videogames?: Daily
4. What genres?: Rpg's and Fps
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them?: Rage quitting when on Rts's
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them?: no
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them?: no
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them?: no
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior?: Rarely, but its......awfull when it does happen lol

Your Welcome

 

[BlackHazard]

1. 22
2. Male
3. Once a day, almost every day.
4. Everything but RTSs and MMO.
5. Yes alot.
6. Yes.
7. No.
8. No.
9. I might throw the controller (a the bed) rarely.

 

[Alkore]

1. 22

2. Male

3. At least 3-4 hours everyday

4. beat em ups shooters 1st and 3rd person stratgey rts and turn based rpgs jrpgs sports and fighters

 

[Metal Brother]

1. Age: 41
2. Gender: Male
3. How often do you play videogames? 3-5 times per week
4. What genres? FPS
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing) Yes, of course
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller) No
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions) No
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions) No
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior? Almost never, except for appropriate contexts such as martial arts

 

[Sable Gear]

Age: 18

Gender: Female

How often do you play videogames?- About 3-6 tomes a week, depending on how busy I am otherwise.

What genres?- Mainly Action/Adventure, a few shooters (Half-Life, Metroid).

Have games ever made you angry when playing them?- Not raging angry, maybe frusttrated from time to time.

Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them?- Nope.

Have games ever made you angry when not playing them?- Nope.

Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them?- Nope.

How often do you engage in violent behavior?- If karate class doesn't count, then really never.

 

[Tartarga]

1. 17.
2. Male.
3. 2-4 hours a day. 3-6 on weekends.
4. All of them except for sports games.
5. Yes.
6. Yes.
7. No.
8. No.
9. Never.

 

[Alkore]

crap pressed post

5. yes
6. only street fighter 4's final boss fight
7.no
8.no
9. Very rarely and never against another human being only against inatamite object

 

[Rewdalf]

1. 17
2. Male
3. 7-8 hours a week
4. FPS, Racing, Simulation
5. Swearing and the occasional rage quit
6. Worst I've done is throw a controller at my bean bag, no injuries to either item
7. Nope
8. Nope
9. I'm usually passive-aggressive when angry, but never physically aggressive.

 

[kahlzun]

1. 27
2. Male
3. Daily
4. RPG, FPS, TBS, RTS, Anything that's good
5. More frustrated than angry, but there have been a few cases where a game has angered me (Bioshock where they steal all your guns and ammo that i'd just bought etc)
6. No
7. No
8. No
9. Rarely/Never

Thank you very much!

 

[KiKiweaky]

1. 21
2. male
3. most days
4. fps, rts and turnbased strategy, mmorpg's
5. Yes, sometimes I swear so loud I upset my dog in the other room, I have ragequitted more than once.... its mainly fps's that make me do this though.
6. Yes, I hit myself so hard before I gave myself a dead leg, once again I'll blame fps games for this.
7. No
8. No
9. Never, I swear alot anyway but fighting isn't my thing (im not very good at it) I'm a lover

If you make a more detailed survey let us know I'd gladly fill it out for you.

 

[TheKruzdawg]

1. Age: 22
2. Gender: Male
3. How often do you play videogames? I used to play more, but now it's about 4 hours a week at most.
4. What genres? RPG, shooters, some sports, survival horror, action/adventure
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing) Yes
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller) No, I paid money for it, why would I break it?
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions) Not that I know of
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions) No
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior? Well I'm part of a foam weapon fighting group that meets twice a week for about 3 hours each.

 

[Archangel768]

1. Age:
17
2. Gender:
Male
3. How often do you play videogames?
Varies, everyday, or a few times a week.
4. What genres?
Most appeal to me. High quality jrpg like Final Fantasy and Persona is what I really enjoy the most.
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing)
Yes. Rage quit, swearing, this is all to myself. I don't get angry at other people because of it.
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller)
Maybe lightly hit the controller, I think.
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions)
No.
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions)
No.
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior?
It has been years since I have been in a fight.

 

[MetricFurlong]

1. Age:
21

2. Gender:
Male

3. How often do you play videogames?
Probably averages out to an hour or two a day, although that's not a constant routine or anything.

4. What genres?
RPGs and Stratagey, almost exclusively.

5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing)
Yes

6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller)
Once or twice.

7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions)
Not as I recall.

8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions)
No.

9. How often do you engage in violent behavior?
Towards animals or other humans? Almost never. I've been known to occasionally punch innanimate objects (mainly walls) when annoyed though.

 

[CaptainKoala]

1. Age: 16
2. Gender: Male
3. How often do you play videogames? Probably 1-3 hours a day, on average. I tend to go on little gaming binges every once in a while though.
4. What genres? FPS, RPG, Real time strategy, and Indie.
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing): Occasionaly. Generally not, though.
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? Nope.
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions): No.
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions): No.
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior? I can't say never because that wouldn't be true. But its so close to never that it might as well be a 'never'.

 

[Flamezdudes]

1. Age: 15 (16 on Saturday)

2. Gender: Male

3. How often do you play videogames? : Almost everyday, however recently it's more every 2 days but thats just because I haven't got much to play.

4. What genres? : RPG, FPS, TPS, Puzzle, Action Adventure, Sandbox.

5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? Angry occasionally but only for a short while, but I very rarely Rage Quit.

6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller) : No, I don't think that's ever happened.

7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions) : No.

8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions) : No.

9. How often do you engage in violent behavior? : No, I'm not a violent person. I couldn't hurt anything anyway.

Thank you very much!

No problem!

 

[Just_in_time]

1. 17
2. Male
3. occasionally, mostly over the holidays
4. no preference
5. yes
6. lol yes
7. nope
8. nope
9. none at all i'm a very peaceful person when i deal with other people

 

[Professor James]

1 17
2 Male

3 2 or 3 times a day

4 Shooters, RPGs, platformers

5 Rage quit yes, swearing no,

6 No

7 no

8 no

9 no

 

[metalcore42]

1. 18
2. Male
3. between 6 and 20 hours weekly
4. Strategy(MOBA)/Shooter/RPG (In descending order)
5. yes; 1)If my team sucks ; 2)If I had particularly bad luck ; 3)Bad glitches/bugs (I swear a lot in general)
6. No.
7. No.
8. No.
9. nope.avi

 

[internetzealot1]

16

Male

From once a week to every day

Shooters, platformers, stealth, action-adventure, puzzle, turn-based strategy/rpg,

Yes. Rare rage quits. Angry swearing about every third game, but no antagonizing other players

No

No

NO

Rarely. Worst thing'll do when I do get violent is punch a wall when I'm SUPER PISSED

 

[mireko]

1: 19
2: Male
3: 10-20 hrs/week
4: RPGs (Western&Japanese), Action, Rhythm games, Strategy (Turn-based and/or SRPG), FPS.
5: Sometimes, more "frustration" than "anger".
6: No.
7: No.
8: No.
9: Never.