I didn't answer the last one honestly. I *have* had the urge to commit violence after a session of online play. Not because of the game itself, though. Just wanted to give the asshats and ragequitters a shot to the mouth.
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The penultimate question is a bit tricky. After playing quite a few of these new military FPSs, I suddenly got the whole military hardware-porn fever. Weapons are intriguing and fascinating, both from a primal and an engineering viewpoint, but I'd never even consider owning one. It's inconceivable to me since I'm a tame little puss-... I MEAN, pacifist. Plus they're highly regulated here. It's a bit like how being obsessed with Roman conquests doesn't make you pro-slavery.
But the answer to the question is "yes", I did get enticed by the whole gun nut thing. Don't know if it makes any difference or helps the poll, so forgive me if I'm being superfluous.
But the answer to the question is "yes", I did get enticed by the whole gun nut thing. Don't know if it makes any difference or helps the poll, so forgive me if I'm being superfluous.
I legally and technically can't own a gun (at least not as a general private citizen in any relatively built-up area unless I've got a small farm or am in the police) of any sort (though if I jump through enough hoops, I can purchase a paintball marker which I can't practise with in my own yard, I have to go to a licensed field to use it), due to Aussie laws post-Port Arthur Massacre in '96.
I use FPSes and Diablo/II as ways to detox and let off anger in controlled amounts (been doing so since I was 5 or so in DOOM on Win3.11), so I haven't left a game deliberately pumped up with anger. Any time I leave a game with bloodfire in my veins is due to the a-holes in the damn game, so that's a side-effect of playing online MP games.
Technically I do have a set of weapons, the same set every human in the history of mankind has had - Hands and Feet. But since they are part of being a human, it's a touch hard to legally class them as weapons without prior training to use one's body as a weapon (in which case, it'd be impossible to enforce that law and it'd become useless rather damn quick).
^ Fun.
I use FPSes and Diablo/II as ways to detox and let off anger in controlled amounts (been doing so since I was 5 or so in DOOM on Win3.11), so I haven't left a game deliberately pumped up with anger. Any time I leave a game with bloodfire in my veins is due to the a-holes in the damn game, so that's a side-effect of playing online MP games.
Technically I do have a set of weapons, the same set every human in the history of mankind has had - Hands and Feet. But since they are part of being a human, it's a touch hard to legally class them as weapons without prior training to use one's body as a weapon (in which case, it'd be impossible to enforce that law and it'd become useless rather damn quick).
^ Fun.
hehe the last one was funny ever felt to do a violent act after ehmm I answered yes 'cus I would more than once been angry at the game computer (computer crashes more than the game/s itself) and reaaaally would like to blow stuff up with, because you get some crazy ideas like "that would be fun/cool/awesome.. to see/do". but never done any harm to anything after wards (computer and keyboard/mouse doesn't count ;-) I usually just feel relaxed ;-)
Well, I seem unable to hit the submit button, though that may be an issue with my browser. Some of these forms don't like chrome... I'll try again with firefox. **edit** it worked with firefox, Survey complete.
There were two questions that I answered somewhat against the spirit in which they were asked, though.
Firstly: there is no game that portrays violence realistically. The closest I've seen is the original Rainbow Six, and even that was stylized.
Second: after detailing the number of weapons I own (including a firearm collection) and my training with them, I had to answer "Not Really" to "If you play FPS games, did playing FPS increase your interest in real life firearms to the point where you were seriously interested in purchasing one?", because I was into real firearms long before I was into FPSes... I fired my first .22 years before Wolfenstein 3D was released... and no game like it influenced my decision to be a gun owner in the least. I knew I'd be one when I was five.
There were two questions that I answered somewhat against the spirit in which they were asked, though.
Firstly: there is no game that portrays violence realistically. The closest I've seen is the original Rainbow Six, and even that was stylized.
Second: after detailing the number of weapons I own (including a firearm collection) and my training with them, I had to answer "Not Really" to "If you play FPS games, did playing FPS increase your interest in real life firearms to the point where you were seriously interested in purchasing one?", because I was into real firearms long before I was into FPSes... I fired my first .22 years before Wolfenstein 3D was released... and no game like it influenced my decision to be a gun owner in the least. I knew I'd be one when I was five.