Violent Video Games

[Dauss]

This is a topic I'd seen falling in popularity after a massive surge during the "Hot Coffee" incident.

But now, with arcticles coming up like this, and this... I fear this topic is going to be making a comeback.

So, once and for all Newgrounds, what is your opinion on violent video games?

Are they the vile, "Murder simulators" Jack Thompson wants them to be? Or are they a way to take your daily aggrevation out on segments of code and animation?

Seeing as I've been playing video games since I was about 5-6 years old, I'm going to have to say no, I truly believe Jack Thompson is a dopshit out for personal gain, and nothing more.

Well, what's your two cents?

[ATIFunkFire]

dopshit! I'm gonna use that word today.

[HappyCheeseGuy]

if violent video games are banned, movies should be banned as well. WHat Jack Thompson fails to realise is that:

a) Violent crime has actually dropped since the release of GTA 3
b) It's rated 18, and people under that age shouldn't be playing it
c) It's the parent's fault if they let their kids play it.

[Jedicommander]

so what i play halo and i do not get the urge to kill alines or humans

{aliens} Mexicans

[thewarriorsrok]

read both the artiles, and both are full of shit
"its no fanciful `gee"? (second article)
I`m tired of these old fuckers blaming video games for peoples decisions.

[test-object]

Contacted at his home Monday, Thompson said one mission of that Grand Theft Auto is for the player to plant a bomb inside a mall, similar to the situation Saturday at Wal-Mart. Thompson has appeared on many national TV shows, including "60 minutes," where he spoke out against violent video games, particularly Grand Theft Auto.

yuk... these things disgust me... If I play NFH a bit too much, I am not going to put eggs in a microwave... A lot of these so-called "numbers" are invented. Enough psychiatrists that say videogames do not do such things as saying your child to make explosions.

[Shadow-XII]

I think Tim Buckley said it best.

[benzine]

The company’s who produce these games give it an 18 certificate, its not there fault neither is it the games fault its self if impressionable youths play them.

[ViniMGS]

That's crap man. If you want you kill someone, you kill. The videogame doesn't says: Have fun killing today!

[Phantom-45]

At 11/29/06 08:04 AM, Jedicommander wrote: so what i play halo and i do not get the urge to kill alines or humans

{aliens} Mexicans

fuck you man

[Shadow-XII]

At 11/29/06 08:36 AM, benzine wrote: The company’s who produce these games give it an 18 certificate, its not there fault neither is it the games fault its self if impressionable youths play them.

Exactly. They're rated R13, 16 and 18 for a fucking good reason. Parents who ignore these warning signs have only themselves to blame.

[Myst]

I've actually listenned to a conference at the MIGS 2006 with a certain M. Bateman. His theory was that video games would actually serve as a way to express the human's natural tendency toward violence since society tries to isolate it since our childhood, contrairy to previous generations.

In any case, I have high, very high doubt that anyone will be able to ban violent videogames especially in the USA. In such a capitalist world, there's not a chance in hell that an industry as prolific as video games would have half of their product banned.

[MagnusTheRed]

At 11/29/06 08:34 AM, Shadow-XII wrote: I think Tim Buckley said it best.

Yeah, he's about right. "Ignorace causes violence". It sure fucking does, the ignorance of fuckwits who blame video games for violence makes me want to kill people more than the games do. I've actually notice myself getting more angry and violent since I stopped playing games... and I'm past that puberty shit, unlike most of NG. Maybe I should open up F.E.A.R and blow some generic clones in half with a shotgun.

I just hope not too many people take these faggots seriously, if violent games get taken away, there will be fucking riots, gamers won't stand for that shit. They'll learn the hard way, that violent games reduce violence, in that case.

[HappyCheeseGuy]

At 11/29/06 08:31 AM, test-object wrote: Contacted at his home Monday, Thompson said one mission of that Grand Theft Auto is for the player to plant a bomb inside a mall, similar to the situation Saturday at Wal-Mart. Thompson has appeared on many national TV shows, including "60 minutes," where he spoke out against violent video games, particularly Grand Theft Auto.

yuk... these things disgust me... If I play NFH a bit too much, I am not going to put eggs in a microwave... A lot of these so-called "numbers" are invented. Enough psychiatrists that say videogames do not do such things as saying your child to make explosions.

I'm not a particullar GTA nut, but I really don't remember planting bombs in Malls :/

Does anyone remember this, or is Jack Thompson complaining about people in Scotland, wearing kilts and drinking single malt whiskey while making hateful steriotype remarks?

[SirLebowski]

I believe if somebody is going to murder, it's not because of a video game but because that person is mentally insane.

[Toax-Eye]

adiction is the problem i think not the voilence

[NGBLOWS-YES]

As much as they say it's from the video games, they have no reason to want to "take them off the shelves" that would be like taking off movies because movies cause people to do things as well. There is a rating on the box, it should be the parents, they should get charged for buying kids who are "under age" a higher rated game.

[lolomfgisuck]

Both.

Violent Video Games can breed violence if you, as a parent, don't do your job and teach your children the diffrence. You can't use GTA as a baby sitter and expect your child to just figure out the diffrence between reality and make believe on his own. When a kid plays a game, goes crazy and hurts a bunch of people in society because of it... it's not the video games fault. It's the parents fault for failing as parents. Not teaching their children the difrence between right and wrong. Not paying enough attention to notice early warning signs of their children getting a little too envolved in the game, and not censoring your children in the household insureing that they're ready for massive violence in games or cutting down their game time to insure that it doesn't over run their life.

You wouldn't leave your 5 year old in front of a big screen TV playing "The Texas Chainsaw Massacure" all day... so why do we find it exceptable to leave them in front of GTA?

At the same time, there are millions of people that play games like GTA all the time and don't ever even consider hurting other human beings. You just don't hear about that on the news because it's a non-story. Is it really fair to us to have games like this pulled from shelves? Is it fair for 3 million people to suffer because 5 morons commited a crime?

And what about that crime? Who's to say that the crime was actually commited because of the game? Who's to say the kid isn't just a criminal and uses the game as an excuse to keep himself out of jail? After all, crime has been around since the begining of civilization... violent video games, on the other hand, are relativly new.

[Slapdamonkeyaz]

There stuides "Suggest" not "Prove.

So fuck them.

[HandsomePete]

Video games in Japan are more violent, and they have less violent crime. Americans are just violent people. Quite frankly, video games probably prevent thousands of murders every year when people get it out of their system. Furthermore, when's the last time you heard of a fat, pimply gamer committing mass murder? It's simply a crusade against an unreal evil to make some impotent old white man feel good about himself. He's a douche, end o' story.

[Dangerous-D]

screw jack thompson I saw we all go down to florida with out guns and hunt him down

[NinjorSnake]

Those PC wusses just want to spoil our fun..

[NinjorSnake]

I've been playing games since I was 2!

[36Holla]

Most of the time, the people who are saying that video games cause violence have never played the games they're talking about. Therefore their opinion on the game isnt that valid. They get all thier info from some assisstant who plays the game and still cant get it right. And at times I feel they are more concerned about this than more important issues. "We could try to fix the national debt...but trying to ban video games seems so much easier" Seriously we shouldnt even begin to take them seriously until they've actually played the game, and even after that, I doubt Id be able to do it.

This is why I hate Hillary Clinton

[sellerdoor9]

fuck those articles. theyre only out to promote hysteria. its that kind of shit that leads to people voting for media opinion

article 1

"What we showed is there is an increase in emotional arousal. The fight or flight response is :activated after playing a violent video game," Mathews said.

There is an increase in emotional arousal... wow thats fucking madness. what would happen if you read a book, watched a film or even open your fucking eyes.

" Asselin said Jack Thompson, a Massachusetts attorney who for the last 20 years has made it his mission to battle the entertainment industry about adult-rated products for children, called to ask if the boys had been playing Grand Theft Auto."

i might be wrong but ive read that article twice and not once does it directly say that the bombmakers were inspired by grand theft auto. Infact it goes on

"Contacted by telephone Monday, Thompson said there have been a number of similar incidents around the country blamed on Grand Theft Auto."

You could blame anything on grand theft auto ffs. it doesn't mention anything about wal-mart fucking up the us games market. vanilla box

i hate shit like this..

[Aivi]

I will give you an acknoladging reply, When..You tell me what your signature says good fellow...

[Manyacknextsdoor]

in my opion i love vilolent games there so much more fun then some parcheesey game that thay have out there i mean as long as im killing in a game and not in reality whats the big deal!so i say let the companys keep making them there worth it. it keeps ppl from going crazy and doing it for real.

[Lord-Sonx]

At 11/29/06 07:55 AM, Dauss wrote: Well, what's your two cents?

but i lvie in scotland , we dont have cents :(

those americans and their media craziness

[Polend]

Notice that no one seems to link the fact that we have the "right to bear arms" in America as the reason that we have more gun murders than every other country COMBINED.

[thenakedchicken]

If you give a 12 year old a grand theft auto game if CAN be bad. I'm in a year with 12-13 year olds (im 12) and some of these people would play a tony hawk game and try to pull off a japan when they've never boarded in there life. These are also the people who find out about racisum and are the people who say FUK J00 I IZ 2 WH1T3 FOR DIZ BITCH! on the bbs all the time. They will go and try to make a bomb. BUT!!! There are kids like me who get it and can handle it. We're smart enough not to beat someone with a hammer. I love the GTA games, so do some people I know of my age but you MUST KNOW YOUR KID! Also, video games like this just make people express the anger they already have, if they were completely unexposed and emotionly distresed they'd turn into serial killers. In a sence, stuff like this can even be a tiny bit good for them.

Just kiding, im going to go play franks adventure and try to buy some coke for a naked picture of someone