Shooter Games: The Effects

No video games can influence anyone to do anything. If they can then that person has already been influenced by other things in RL anyways, and video games actually influence you in positive ways. It helps you take out anger in a game, and not in RL, it also helps build strategy and thinking skills. You can't blame someone causing a shooting on a video game. No matter how violent a video game is, it doesn't cause a normal person to turn crazy. People who are crazy are crazy to begin with.

 

GTA and those type of games are great fun, and I play them lots for the first few weeks of release. Though, I don't imitate it, since it's simply a game.

There are people who play games for fun and amusement (me), and others who sink into them and it becomes their lives.

Some people shouldn't be allowed to buy the game(s). Easy fix .

- Phatmat.

 

Thus is where responsibility comes in, You should know its a Video game and you shouldn't do it.

 

thats not exactly an easy fix b/c how do u regulate who can and cant buy games?

 

Yeah, it has nothing to do with it. If it has an effect on someone leading them to be more violent, that means they're messed up mentally, IMO.

 

i think every1 is gonna be affected

violence seriously affects the mind
one of my friend's friend committed suicide cause his character in a game died...,,, idiot

 

You should have a great enough grasp on reality, to know that a first person shooter, is just a first person shooter, and absolutely NOT real life. I know games in which you are a member of a gang, and you shoot other people and kill hookers to get their money doesn't mean you can do that outside of your console.

If kids don't have enough reasoning to know that this is just a video game, then they shouldn't be playing them.

 

Carmine, This is only true for kids who can't handle it.
The people who do end up shooting someone is the fact that they had something mentally wrong with their brain.
Games aren't the problem. Sometime, The child who start shooting has been picked on alot.

*Lord~Dante*

 

Well if you keep playing the game on and on without taking a break then it could lead to something bad in life.

 

actually in my local paper there was a store that wouldnt sell video games to kids that had bad grades. that means they had to show there grades everytime they went to purchase a game.

 

i play gta and saints row and im 15 and they dont got no effect on me (i am not no nerdy kid i play DB on my high school football team) but ocassionly i do get the wanting to hit some one that annoys me but i think if they really did effect children they would ban that type of game from being sold in stores

 

that statement is somewhat true. now i play paintball. and i own the field with smokebombs and paint grenades, as they're legal but not sold on the field so nobody else has em'

 

i play fps games a lot.. doesn't really affect me at all. im 20 years old. still goes to school. doing great on my job.. all that matters is self discipline that's it. it just depends on all of us.. in each individual. coz if u think this really affects you, then minimize your playing. not by taking such games away.. listen to forums too, they help a lot in knowing and learning stuff about the games..

 

+1 I do it all the time, but the problem is that you can't use cheats irl, like spawn a car to flee from the cops :|

 

tbh ive started playing shooting games since i was about 9ish on gta 1/2 and red faction but that didnt have much affect on me because gta as 2d and you dont really see much violence but kids these days playing on games like the godfather gta san andreas and halo is going to ruin there minds gta san andreas is pretty brutal with all the language and stuff kids are going to start thinking its ok to say "nigger" and swearing so i think that parents should really watch what there kids play and do something about it

 

Personally i play tons of these games and never think of doing it irl

 

I like to think that video games do not actually have a negative "side effect" on kids, or even teens, but how can they NOT have a negative effect when all the popular video games including shooting, murdering, robbing, mugging, killing, etc.

 

Your subconscious is pretty damn smart, it can tell the difference between CoD4 and real life. Every single aspect of reality that a simulation gets right, it will get another wrong, and your brain will skip right over what is accurate and latch on to what it knows is fake.
For instance, in a first person game looking down and not seeing your body, or seeing your entire body in a third person game. And life doesn't have a soundtrack and constantly repeating audio loops.
Life isn't stylized; people call things stylized because they are unrealistic in some way. So, taking that, one could say that every game is stylized. An interesting psychological experiment would be to turn the entire myth on its head and see how differently people would play in two completely different games that look the same.

edit: Violent games, movies, and tv shows certainly do play a large part in the American mentality, but that hasn't caused the level of violence, gang or otherwise, to go up, just the same way topless women in German orange juice commercials hasn't changed Germany into a society of sexual fanatics.

edit: I realize that I'm babbling, so just ignore this if it's irrelevant bullshit. I'm too tired to tell the difference.

 

i have been studying this also have you noticed the "boom headshot" effect?

 

i dont think all are affected either just a few..