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Re: The Effects Of Violent Video Games

rajiv sharma — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:35:01 GMT

Children spend a great deal of time with violent video games at exactly the ages that they should be learning healthy ways to relate to other people and to resolve conflicts peacefully. Because video games are such good teachers, it is critical to help parents, educators, and policy-makers understand how to maximize their benefits while minimizing potential harms.

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Re: The Effects Of Violent Video Games

rajiv sharma — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:28:22 GMT

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Re: The Effects Of Violent Video Games

Audio Android — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:03:02 GMT

"I think that violence in video games are very bad for children, it has a lot of influence. When children play a lot of videogames with violence in it, they will be very agressive too. This is caused mainly, by the missions in the game which are very violent, and you are the hero, when you kill somebody."

Yeah itz wiKid init. Especially in 42inch Hi-Def. Mmmmmm Chainsaw-tastic :D)

Re: The Effects Of Violent Video Games

Yu-Han F — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:21:12 GMT

I think that violence in video games are very bad for children, it has a lot of influence. When children play a lot of videogames with violence in it, they will be very agressive too. This is caused mainly, by the missions in the game which are very violent, and you are the hero, when you kill somebody.

Re: The Effects Of Violent Video Games

Eliska Dobson — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:15:44 GMT

I really don't think that bad leanguage is necessary, but how can we expect people on not to use it on games if the games very often contain bad language too! I don't think that games should contain too many rude words.

Re: The Effects Of Violent Video Games

Audio Android — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:13:05 GMT

Yes, Eliska - the language used and what is said. It's generally four letter words used in as insulting a way as possible.

(The Xbox gamer demographic is a very narrow one, centering around adolescent males)

This culture of dumb offensiveness isn't helped by the kind of titles which do well on the Xbox.

- As for how these games actually effect our minds, I think we really need to rely on research.

This whole issue is certainly going to become bigger over the next couple of decades, as technology takes us to the point where the lines between what is 'virtual' and what is 'real' become more and more blurred.

But then it wont just be 'games' - all kinds of 'virtual' experiences will really start to test our 'virtual' morality !

Re: The Effects Of Violent Video Games

Eliska Dobson — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:02:25 GMT

Do you mean the way other online players speak? I suggest that violent video games are ok for adults who don't get as carried away as children.

Re: The Effects Of Violent Video Games

Audio Android — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:16:23 GMT

One thing I will say though, I can't spend much time on Xbox live - because the way people (mainly males below 25) talk to each other is unbearable.

Very aggressive. Very insulting.

The American kids are bad enough, but in my experience the English are worse.

Alot of 'kids' do forget that these are JUST GAMES.

I also very much take issue with Microsoft's (and other publishers) policy of generally only releasing big explosion, lots of bullets, war / violence type titles.

The Japanese have a much healthier & creative approach to playing games and game design.

Re: The Effects Of Violent Video Games

Eliska Dobson — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:51:36 GMT

Very well argued :). I must stress that I do not thik that people who play violent video games are violent. Not at all - my husband is on his Playstation all the time ...

I just do not understand why it is so popular and I suppose that I never will :)

Re: The Effects Of Violent Video Games

Audio Android — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:45:04 GMT

Eliska,

There could quite easily be a case for humans being more 'suggestible' when being passively absorbed in watching a film. The metabolism slows, the mind is soft - and impressionable.

I dont know - as Stefano says we should rely on research - and afaik there is none conclusive.

I've done my own research though, having always been a gamer.

I know this is more about the effects on children - and I'm all for parents observing the Age Rating, but I've played the most violent, materialistic, Gory, shocking games out there - & I'm a peaceful, vegetarian - I try in every way I can not to encroach upon the freedoms of any individual man, woman or beast !

Because - video games - are just a little part of life, just a movies are just movies, music is just music - games are just games ;-)

Havn't there been times when convicted murderers have sited particular songs/tracks as triggering their crimes ? - but I think we can all agree - its not the fault of the songs !

Re: The Effects Of Violent Video Games

Stefano Augello — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:26:44 GMT

I'ld generally be against censorship, but I recently saw an ad for a videogame set in africa, where you're invited to kill and slaughter people, using a machete like in the infamous civil war in Rwanda, and that is just wrong. I still don't think there should be a legal ban, but it should a matter that concerns an individual moral judgment, and the way society can affect that judgment via education and information.

Apart from that, are there any reliable and scientifically-sound researches on hte impact of violent videogames? If we don't have any, I'm afraid any opinion on such a complicated subject is not particularly significant, and risks being shallow and paternalistic.

Re: The Effects Of Violent Video Games

Eliska Dobson — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:20:26 GMT

:o) Good point!

Re: The Effects Of Violent Video Games

Eliska Dobson — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:18:58 GMT

Sorry, I did mean GTA :)

I know what you mean about the films, however I think that there is a big difference between passively watching a film and actively killing people in a video game. Yes, you are right that you only move pixels around on a screen, however the games are so realistic nowadays that they make it feel very realistic!

Re: The Effects Of Violent Video Games

marcus evans — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:40:01 GMT

No I think GTI is a fair call. Have you seen the people that drive the ones with the neon lights underneath and the huge spoilers on the roof? Like a creature from doom in a Burberry cap.

Re: The Effects Of Violent Video Games

Audio Android — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:41:07 GMT

"(like GTI for example, which I find really horrible and abusive)"

Do you mean GTA ?

Shall we ban violent films as well ?

When you play a video game you do not kill anyone - you move pixels around on a screen.

When you watch a film the actors are not killing anyone either. But still you sit in a trance and take it all in.

Much more influential on the habits and learning patterns of our youth - is the example set by the behavior & moral codes of our 'leaders' & pinnacles of our society.