the people who fight against games are bums and easily offended minor i mean god if they dont want to play it leave others that want to play it let them playDoes anybody else get mad when people rant on how games are too violent or too mature?
Video games make you more violent? I think not. Does a soldier come home from war, ready to go on a killing spree? Violent people are predisposed to violence before they ever pick up the controller. In many ways, video games help vent out violent tendencies that were already there, acting as therapy for people with anger issues.
I could go at great length about why video games do not make you violent, but this interesting Reuter's article lays out the facts more eloquently. Enjoy.
';New study finds that happy people can play violent video games and stay happy, but angry people should try to relax first.
We've all heard it before; violent video games make violent children. Years of study on the subject has brought us the message that violent acts are instigated by video games. Contradictory studies have found though that there is no connection between violent games and violent people. But as it goes with mass media, finding a vague reference (kid plays video game, then kills another kid with parents gun) to scare the viewer and or reader into paying attention pays off. Cut to commercial or ad, buy the new car, stare at the super model for a second and everyones happy.
A paper published in 'Psychology, Crime %26amp; Law' (just guess what it's about) claims that there is no real direct link between violent video games and real world violence. Though the paper published does contain examples from studies claiming there is that video game/violent acts connection, there are also a number of other referenced studies suggesting there is no link whatsoever. It's believed that these previous studies may have unfairly skewed the results, simply trying to determine whether or not video games caused violent acts in people. With only having 'Yes' and 'No' for answers, those studies couldn't be regarded as creditable.
This new study designed a test that would use 135 kids to measure violence and video games. Unfortunately, some of the kids were kicked out for violent behavior. In the end, 110 boys and 15 girls with a mean age of 14.6 years were given a test to determine their anger level. Once determined, they got to play Quake 2 for about 20 minutes (and why not Quake 4 I ask you?). Their anger levels were again measured after the brief gaming frag fest.
The researchers had found that 77 of the kids had no change in their anger levels. In 22 of the children, their anger levels nearly doubled, even though they had started at the near same point of those unaffected 77 children. But 8 of the kids who had started the test with a high level of anger actually had their anger levels diminish after gaming. Their anger levels in fact dropped to about the same level of those unaffected children.
The researchers then correlated these results with personality profiles of the 110 children. Those with a seemingly stable personality were largely unaffected by the violent video game. The remaining two groups of kids consisted of those who's personalties were less than stable. They were the ones who displayed violent tendencies after playing a violent video game.
This discovery brought the research team to a definite conclusion. There are two groups of individuals. The stable individual will be largely unaffected by a violent video game. But to the contrary, an unstable personality may be affected. It all really boils down to how a gamer feels before they start to game. Stable personalities who entered angry were actually relaxed after gaming. But unstable individuals who game angry can get even angrier. They were also careful to note that in two cases a couple of kids had their anger levels rise to levels that would be consider cause for alarm. So, that's about one in a hundred. This suggests that violent behavior is rarely triggered by violent video games. Ha, I knew it! Take that anti-video game lobbyist groups.
The authors of the study made it very clear though that their study shouldn't be considered as the final word on the matter. It's certain that countless groups will jump foreword to denounce these findings in favor of heir own. The link between age and aggression still isn't clear, it it's hoped that this study will be reproduced with other video games and gamers of different ages. I for one know that if were forced to play 'Barbie's Magic Dream Horse' for twenty minutes, I'd maim or kill the first person to look at me. Conversely, wasting some rush of zombies in 'Dead Rising' is something I will actually do with the intent of calming down. And it helps!
But to the research teams benefit, they decided to leave out a large collection of contradictory data from their resulting figures. Trying to correlate violent behavior and video games to hair color and date of birth serves no purpose, and only serves to confuse study findings. That's most likely the reason why so many studies in the past have failed, trying to find that magic button that would show a definite link between violence and video games.';
I don't care about the ratings. I'll buy the game if I like the game. Protesting against videogame violence is no use because violence will always be there no matter where you look.
the problem is the person who plays it, if they R normal they should realize that videogames R 4 fun so, playing a mature game should not affect them, like me.
yes i do because i mean tht people do not like it but i mean if they dont all so just stay playing them
I agree with the, you should watch your child part, definitely. Although, I don't think anyone should subject themselves to the amount of violence that many games have. I truly believe it makes people in general more violent.
exactly
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