...so you take your daddies gun, go to school and shoot them all. And after that some nutty a-hole is gonna propose a theory that there is a direct connection between Quake, Doom, Unreal etc and your behaviour.
YEH RIGHT ! :)
What do you think ?

No

No!

I'm about the least violent person I know. I wouldn't get into a fight unless someone else starting hitting me first. I have no pent up angst. On the other hand, occasionally, I like to play Soldier of Fortune, knock the weapons out of the enemy's hands, then walk behind them as they cower and execute them. Does this mean I want to do it in real life? Far from it. Here's the thing...really violent people probably love violent games. It's not a shocker. On the other hand, 98% of the people who play violent games are pretty much non-violent. Of course, I grew up with Apple ][ and Nintendo graphics. I didn't see greusome graphics till I was about 14 or 15. I still don't think it'll make someone violent...maybe less shocked by violence, but it won't change their attitudes. Well, I'm off to play some UT.

Jman

quote:Originally posted by IL96:
...so you take your daddies gun, go to school and shoot them all. And after that some nutty a-hole is gonna propose a theory that there is a direct connection between Quake, Doom, Unreal etc and your behaviour.
YEH RIGHT !
What do you think ?

I recall reading an article about a test someone did to prove this was not true.
He had two groups of people in separate rooms. One group he gave an anti-videogame-violence pamphlet to read for an hour. The other he made play a "violent" videogame for an hour (can't remember which game though).
At the end he gave them both the same psychological exam. The group that red the pamphlet exibited suprisingly many violent tendancies and the gamers had nearly none.
I had a good laugh off of it.

actually, it might just be the adrenalin flowin but after 3 hours of CS i do get a bit cranky or at least a bit less patient within a 5 min period

I read that article, and it was interesting.

Anyway, I don't think that they make me any more violent, and i've been playing doom and stuff for a long time. No, i think that it is the stupip people who refuse to believe that they are wrong who cause my violent tendancies.

Anyway, i find those games a form of anger management. Nothing gets stress out like imagining blowing whoever's got you pissed off head blown half off by a shotgun 2 inches away.

No - don't think so..

Finally got a replacement keyboard after I broke my old one after a bad game of TFC

Most people are amazed that I play games like Quake and such, because everyone I know can't imagine what I would be like if I we're actually mad!! I'm pretty incapable of getting angry. I've never hit a person, and I've never been in a fight.

Once in the 7th grade some kid punched me in the face, I said, "Why the hell did you do that?" And then my friends beat him up, rofl! I didn't do a damn thing, nor did I plan to. It was kind of neat seeing my friends gangbang him though, he just got the wind knocked out of him, and he was left there to cry under a tree for a while, lol!

But anyways, I'm the least violent person you'll ever meet. But there was a time when I used to play 30+ hours of Quake2 a week. To this day I have to get a fix of Quake, or some 3rd person shooter at least once a day, but it certainly has nothing to do with me being, or someday becoming a violent person.

It's all about the individual, I think some people are inherently "screwed up," and will lash out at people under alot of different circumstances.

PS: I did get mad once. Me and some buddies were floating out in the lake with a few beers on some innertubes, and one of my friends without an innertube tipped me over out of mine while I had a beer in my hand!! Basically I lost all my precious beer in the lake, and I was THIS close to hitting him. That was the only time in my life where I've come close to taking violent action.

Moral of the story, never touch a man's beer.

Although it is very impossible to prove that playing violent video games causes violent behaviors when not playing those games, one should take into consideration that there is a direct correlation between a culture full of violent stimulants and violent acts from those who are stimulated. Where else in the world have any of you heard of stories in which kids younger than the age of 18 shot their classmates for the sole purpose of joy? I haven't. This assumption, however, is simply based on a correlation.

In one word: no

Violent games are a lot of fun yaddayaddayadda but I never felt like I was really killing someone... games aren't that realistic

Not yet...

I believe another way of stating your questions is this: If Flight Simulators train you to fly, Are First Person Shooters trainers for a mass murdering shooting spree? I say NO...it may look sick to people that dont play them, but comon there are not many other THEMES that can be used for great action games on todays computers!!

quote:Originally posted by Grizzly:

Moral of the story, never touch a man's beer.

The is SO true Grizz...so true.