Comments on: Do video games lead to violence?

By: joey hendrix

joey hendrix — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:50:55 +0000

i have this game and it is called gta4 but if you are sick enough
to go round shootin peoples faces off like my freind(im quite concerned hes coming round my house on friday ) you need help but if you are a violent person you might be effected i mean films these days there mental like black christmas,saw,saw2,saw3,saw4,hostel,the strangers. they are all sick rank films i cacked my pants a black christmas iaint seen the rest

By: palot

palot — Sun, 18 May 2008 18:39:03 +0000

This is a very common debate in our days but in my opinion it should not be as common as it is. I think that the people that do things to imitate the characters of the videogames are crazy people, I have played this type of videogames and I have never thought about doing things as kill people. The problem of these games is that you have to difference the reality and the fiction.

By: Sugar

Sugar — Sun, 18 May 2008 17:20:22 +0000

The debate about media violence effects would be over but by the end of this decade they had become a preferred childhood leisure activity, and adults responded with concern about the possible effects of the games on children. They have been the subject of debate and censorship, due to the violence for example. I think that educational video games can be excellent teaching tools for motivational and learning process reasons. But, it also may make violent video games even more hazardous than violent television or cinema. In my opinion the problem is that there is a new generation of ultra violent video games beginning in the early 1990s and continuing to the present with a large amount of children and youths actively participating in entertainment violence. However, I agree with some experts who said that violent video games affect only a small fraction of players.

By: rantamplán

rantamplán — Sun, 18 May 2008 08:18:49 +0000

I don´t think that this kind of games are the only ones responsible for violent behaviour among young people. In my opinion, the aggressive behaviour of a person can be the result of a mixture of factors: biological or physical, emotional, educational, family environment, their own experiences all their life long etc. It´s true that there are people more “predisposed” to this sort of games. I´d say that people who are already aggressive tend to choose this kind of entertainment as a way to “release” their aggressiveness (like a therapy) but I also think that only an adult can distinguishes between fiction and reality perfectly.
As regards Xil says about children who learn to enjoy with violent things I´d say that this idea is not new; 30 years ago boys already played with guns and swords, they fought among them and made horrible experiments with insects and little animals. By nature, boys are more aggressive than girls and, to my mind, it´s good that they release their aggressiveness by playing.
And finally, I´d like to say that there have always been people who have confused reality and fiction, even when videogames didn´t exist (how many children died when they tried to fly after watching “Superman”?). So, as Bob Dylan sang: “Times are changing” and as a result of this it also has changed the way people interact with the environment; but, although apparently the world is different in essence people haven´t changed as much as we think

By: Chiquilla

Chiquilla — Sat, 17 May 2008 20:48:41 +0000

When I was a child, most of the videogames I played with were starred by Sonic and Mario Bross, remember them? They were “good people” who didn’t kill anybody (perhaps some alien) for getting their objectives (save a princess and things like that). When I played “police and thieves” with my friends, and it was my turn to represent the thief’s role, I was aware of the fact that I was not the good one, I was going to be captured (at least police should try to do it), as my behavior wasn’t the best one/ or the one supposed to be.
So, what has happened in these last few years? Nowadays the main character of many videogames is someone who uses violence to get their objective, which is normally something related with violence, for instance be the one who was killed more people in the fewest time or getting more guns to kill more people.
At least in Spain, and I suppose than in other countries too, no one wants to be accused of having brought their children up in the wrongly way. That’s the reason why videogames companies are always being blamed.
I don’t think it’s video games’ fault; in fact, I do understand, those companies. If that product is the best seller why on earth are them going to abandon such a successful product? It would be nonsense.
From my point of view, the fact that leads more to violence is parents who buy those products to their children. Parents, who instead of explaining their children that it’s only a game and that those behaviors are not permitted, start laughing when they hear their children saying they’re the best killer in the world.