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"Are Games Becoming Too Violent?"

We have a lot of wonderful games on the Xbox (or the lesser of our species have them on PS2 or GameCube) happy games - something to cheer you up, excite you or calm you- but don't you think that things are getting out of hand with the more adult, violent games?

OK, it's adult, 18+, but the advertisers show in game images, magazines and websites show in game images of decapated humans, people mutilating each other and in the case of The Punisher, heads being drilled or sawn (or fed to piranahs etc.). I find it distressing to see but I've grown hardened to it, but what about kids or unstable people - do we want them to see it?

OK, we have the likes of Halo and GTA, but the worse you get to see is a bit of blood and a scream. Not humiliating disembodying. I mean you must be seriously disturbed to want to invent these kinds of game - let alone want to play them. What happened to the time where you could turn on your computer and relax by kicking a ball around, racing in cars, playing as a comical dragon or bandicoot? Just tell me your opinions. I'm not anti-violence, just I think game designers/developers have taken the violence too far.

I think that children have to see these bloody things as it gets them used to all the violence that goes on. if they dont then they will be even more socked when they see it in real life.

Peace.

Yeah, they are becoming violent. But that does not mean that you can't play innocent games...

You are just taking it a bit too much. Let the sadists (Mr. Crossbob, are you reading?) play all those extra-violent games and then, let them commit suicide.

But then, Halo & GTA - they are just artistic ways of violence. They are different, just like vulgar porn movies and Ket's nude shot in "Titanic" are different.

Mouth watering...

I have it on good authority that Mario was responsible for the crusades.

LOL!!! Hitting old grannies is nothing compared to what's possible in the game although that's kinda missing the point.

Grand Theft Auto's always been a scapegoat for 'the appaling violence in games' but the way I see it, no matter how many deaths are blamed on the games, if someones going to go psycho with a shotgun then it goes far deeper than some polygons on a screen.

I went into Gamestation about a year ago to buy Grand Theft Auto:Vice City and the bloke started telling my mum how she shouldnt let me get the game because it is violent and you can hit old grannys with baseball bats. I still hate that bloke today!

I mean, just because you can play a game where you shoot people or hit people round the head doesnt mean you are going to do it in real life. I know, however much i played the game i wouldnt go and hit a granny round the head with a baseball bat.

Tiltawhirl wrote:

> You won't be saying that when the doctor's removing a blunt object
> from your cranium, all because little Jimmy got his hands on a copy
> of Manhunt.


This is what I meant. Cor, my friend and I were sneaking off with our dads' 18 games when we were little. I mean we were barely in double figures before we were running people down with cars and gunning gangsters on GTA. I have a good sense of right and wrong and can resist the urge to go bananas with an uzi (the fact that I don't have one is another issue, but thats beside the point!). My friend however is a thug, and quite frankly will be arrested one day if he doesn't change his ways. This, unfortunately is the case for todays yob culture. (AT LAST! A REASON WHY YOB CULTURE IS ON THE RISE!)

spoonbeast wrote:

> just slap on an 18 sticker and if kids still get their hands on the
> games then its someone elses problem.

You won't be saying that when the doctor's removing a blunt object from your cranium, all because little Jimmy got his hands on a copy of Manhunt.

BAN DIS SIC FILFTH!!11!!

But as Pumpkinist said, if you don't like it don't play it.

hippyman wrote:
> What happened to the time where
> you could turn on your computer and relax by kicking a ball around,
> racing in cars, playing as a comical dragon or bandicoot? Just tell
> me your opinions. I'm not anti-violence, just I think game
> designers/developers have taken the violence too far.

But you still can....?

Extremely violent games are like extremely violent films - they exist, if you don't like them, don't play them.

Provided that gamers can tell the differenc between real life and fictional there should be no problems as to why games can't get more violent. Look at movies they get more violent or maybe some of the more nasty horror movies?

just slap on an 18 sticker and if kids still get their hands on the games then its someone elses problem.

hippyman wrote:
> (or the lesser of our species have them on PS2 or GameCube)

A-ho-ho.