Survey: Videogames and Violence (for a class)

[Joshimodo]

1. Age: 20
2. Gender: Male
3. How often do you play videogames? Easily 40+ hours a week.
4. What genres? Platformers, RPGs, adventures, shooters, RTS. Some puzzlers.
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? Yeah, but that's not exclusive to games.
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? When I was a kid, I bit the controller when stuck. Very rarely drop the controller when in a mood.
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? Nope.
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? Again, nope.
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior? Never, unless you count multiple martial arts, but then that's what you do when you're brought up in a family of martial artists.

 

[Tdc2182]

1. Age:
2. Gender:
3. How often do you play videogames?
4. What genres?
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing)
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller)
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions)
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions)
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior?

Thank you very much!

1. 17, almost 18
2. Male
3. Every weekend, sometimes less
4. Mostly FPS
5. Yes, only on online multiplayer.
6. Once threw my headset on the ground breaking it. I proceeded to take a break
7. Not at all.
8. Nope
9. Pretty much never.

 

[Naheal]

1. Age:

25

2. Gender:

Male

3. How often do you play videogames?

It varies. Typically speaking, I'll game at least a little while every day. That said, I don't watch TV. I play games instead.

4. What genres?

I prefer RPGs, RTS, TBS, and tactics. I occasionally play FPSs.

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

Rarely. With RTS, TBS, and tactics games, I can usually recover, given time. RPGs just end in me swapping to grinding for a little while before I go into combat again.

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

No. The games I play are far more cerebral than physical.

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

Sort...of? Not angry, per se, but I've noticed an increase in my ability to multi-task since picking up the RTS genre.

8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions)

See my response for #6.

9. How often do you engage in violent behavior?

Almost never. I'm not a violent person.

 

[Steam Colossus]

1. Age:
15
2. Gender:
Male
3. How often do you play videogames?
Very often
4. What genres?
Shooters and RPGs
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)
Yes (Rarely)
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?
Rarely

 

[WOPR]

1. Age:
2. Gender:
3. How often do you play videogames?
4. What genres?
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing)
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller)
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions)
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions)
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior?

Thank you very much!

1. 18
2. Male
3. Quite often; 3-5 hours a day on weekdays
4. Umm... all genres; I just don't do Pokemon; CoD; Halo; Rock Band; Guitar Hero; Smash Bros; Mario Kart... actually thinking about it; I hate most mainstream console/nintendo games... nothing personal they're just bad and hype
5. no- it's just a game and if it makes you mad you have a problem
6. I've hurt the other person for being a pansy dick and breaking my controler just because I owned them in a game (they said "DUDE YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO KILL ME YOU KILL THE COMPUTERS!!!" ...please note it was an FFA match)
7. no- I have a life
8. no- no I have... dang I don't know... I have a brain?
9. When people forget their place; i.e. when someone acts better then me, I quickly show them how wrong they are (this is in real life not videogame life)

-sorry if I seem like a jerk but I'm a person... and everyone around me is a total baby when it comes to games; they won't play because I'm too good, then when they do they whine about everything and hurt my stuff because I'm too good...

...yeah it's REALLY annoying... and I'm the only one that has never rage-quit a game; instead I get excited! **remembers playing IWBTG on "Very Hard" ...good times**

 

[The Grim Ace]

1. 19
2. male
3. 8 - 20 hours a week
4. RPGs, FPSs, platformers
5. I've rarely rage quit and the swearing is usually done jokingly with friends
6. no
7. not at all
8. still no
9. rarely if ever

De nada

 

[cthulhumythos]

1. Age:
2. Gender:
3. How often do you play videogames?
4. What genres?
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing)
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller)
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions)
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions)
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior?

Thank you very much!

1. 15
2. male
3. too often
4. shooters, rpg's, rts', etc
5. i can't stand people who are annoying over xboxlive, so i rarely play multiplayer. as for single? messing up anju and kafei's quest in majora's mask pained me to no end.
6. really difficult bosses that i'll waste alot of time trying to defeat sometimes cause me to lose my cool and have to take a break from the game (this was years ago mind you, while i wouldn't say i'm fully mature at age 15, i'd say i'm more mature than what i was when younger)
7. not really, i might get frustrated, but not when i'm away from the game. not being able to get past the final bosses in metroid fusion would not anger me until i was dying countless times while playing metroid fusion.
8. as with 7, no. i rarely become physically aggressive anyways, and it the notion is silly for me to think about; i like video games, but getting caught at one part won't damper my day.
9. i don't. i play violent video games to blow off steam, so i don't have all those bottled up emotions.

 

[Double A]

1. almost 17
2. Male
3. Anywhere between 0 and 10 hours a day, depending on if it's the weekend and how much homework I have.
4. Shooters, RPGs, strategy (TBS and RTS), action/adventure
5. I swear some when the computer cheats.
6. The only time I've been physically violent was when I was playing AoM on medium in a random map against the AI. Three independent bots ganged up on me, I got pissed, and bashed my keyboard. The nubs that elevate the back were broken off, but that's it.
7. Empire: Total War really pisses me off, I spent a day getting it to work, and then it kept crashing. It's buggier than a bayou.
8. No
9. Once a year? Maybe? Does beating a punching bag count? Cause I've done that a few times when I needed to cool off.

 

[MirrorSweep]

1. 17
2. Male
3. 5-6 Hours a day
4. FPS, Racing
5. Certainly have
6. Have broken one or two controllers, actually a few holes in my wall as a result of CoD and Halo
7. Not really, the rage is pretty situational
8. Again, not really. I don't get mad just thinking about them
9. Not that often other than than irregular game rage

 

[Slash12]

1. Age: 18

2. Gender: Male

3. How often do you play videogames?
- Quite a bit, at least a couple hours a day on an average day.

4. What genres?
- Wide variety, most often RPGs and FPS's

5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing)
- Yes, I tend to rage quite often in multiplayer games.

6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller)
- I have sometimes hit something like my desk (softly) or another cushioned object. I've never broken anything.

7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions)
- Nope

8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions)
- Nope

9. How often do you engage in violent behavior?
- Never in situations not involving me just raging at a game

Thank you very much!

 

[Nouw]

1. Age: Sorry but I'm not going to tell you
2. Gender: Male
3. How often do you play videogames? Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
4. What genres? RTS and Shooters. I play others but those two are my prime.
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing)I'm a calm person but I love to crack a few curses or trash-talk.
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller) Never.
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions) No, in fact they've made me happier.
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions) If this time when I tried to re-enact the opening of Splinter Cell:Conviction counts. I wasn't myself at the time >.>
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior? Very Rarely. even when my younger brother punches me I take them.

 

[SecretAlienMan]

1. 22
2. Male
3. roughly 3 hours per day
4. RPG, adventure, sandbox, strategy
5. Yes, swearing and then eventually rage quit (primarily caused by JRPG's and sometimes
Starcraft)
6. Yes, I shake the controller violently and sometimes punch a pillow
7. No
8. No
9. not often

 

[Shadowsole]

1. Age: 17
2. Gender: female
3. How often do you play videogames? 20- 40 hours a week
4. What genres? Rpgs mostly (of anykind) or stratrgy, I'll play anything though
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing)I have quit because a game is furstrating me but not really rage quited before
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller) Not seriously.
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions) Not seriously
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions) again not seriously. I Have occationally hit something when talking about at hard or annoying part of a game but thats just being fun
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior? twice a year? I'n those really big fights that happen? at least seriously. I hit my friends alot (They know i'm Not trying to hurt them)

 

[Shock and Awe]

1. Age:16
2. Gender:Male
3. How often do you play videogames? Very often
4. What genres? All of them, mostly Shooters, RPG, and 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) Threw a few controllers, never anything else.
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? Very rarely

 

[4484448444844484]

1. 18
2. Male
3. Daily
4. FPS, racing
5. no
6. no
7. no
8. no
9. never

 

[Bravo 21]

1. Age:15
2. Gender:Male
3. How often do you play videogames? Usually 4 or five times a week
4. What genres? Stealth, Shooter, both first person and third
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing)on very rare occasions
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? fairly infrequently, i will use foul language if someone is being a jackass, or if im feeling irate. I have also been in a few fights, either with my brother or with people at school. Most conflict im my life however, comes from sports, particularly rubgy and soccer.

Hope this helps

 

[Adventurer2626]

1. Age: 22
2. Gender: Male
3. How often do you play videogames? I'm hardwired to my computer. (5-30 hours a week)
4. What genres? (MMO)RPG, RTS, FPS
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing) RPG (due to internet/computer errors/crashes; seriously, my computer is lucky I haven't hit it with a baseball bat yet), FPS (I don't get violent just hyper and faux-Tourette Syndrome)
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller) Nah. Just the occasional fist pump of victory or feet stomping/flailing of defeat.
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions) Well...at one point I'd been playing Left4Dead so much with my roomates a montage of zombie-shooting was burned into my retinas. Actually that's not that violent but it was a negative side affect of too much gaming.
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions) Nope.
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior? Outside of what I mentioned: never. I think I must have a rage singularity in my torso somewhere. Every time I get mad without a punching bag or something around logic reminds me of the consequences of rage-breaking things. I'd either have to buy a new thing or go to the hospital and neither are that appealing to me.