I haven't played Postal, but both Bully and GTA are great games and it's not the violence that makes them great. GTA was the first free roaming game I played with such a massive environment, I was blown away. And Bully isn't even that violent / shocking, other than the name. That's not to say that the violence had nothing to do with the success of GTA, but it's certainly not the reason the game was great.I don't think games cause violence. I do, however, think games like Bully, GTA (3+), Postal, etc (about any "omfg i r gangstah lol i r shoot ppl do drugs go to hookers yaaaay") should be banned, just because they fail and only count on the 'shockfactor'.. Without this shockfactor, the games would blow.
As a student of the sciences, I feel stung by your barbThank god for scientists.
Oh Maj, I only made that comment because I didn't need a scientist to tell me that the brain reacts differently while playing violent video games verus a game such as Tetris. =PAs a student of the sciences, I feel stung by your barb
Actually, during vacation, I played quite a bit of Tetris DS in my free time.I wouldn't be surprised if there were short term effects after playing Tetris either. You might not be more aggressive or prone to eat people, but you might think more logically than you normally would for a short time after playing the game. Or you just might try to put random shapes together in your imagination.
nahHitler for example was very violent, did he play too much Doom or Wolfenstein in his youth? Wait...those didn't even exist in that time. This is just a load of bullcrap, and I'm not even going to bother reading that article.
I don't approve of hitting your kids considering I've been on the receiving end of such punishment many a time. While it might be effective when trying to show a kid that killing animals or hurting people or mooning everyone they see is wrong, it shouldn't be used for stupid things such as children crying or not doing what you say exactly as you say it. Then again, you shouldn't give your children too much control since they're constantly testing your boundaries. This is a concept most modern parents fail to understand. They usually choose between the light and dark sides and forget that Luke Skywalker used both.
Hitler was a victim of bad parenting and was probably schizophrenic (which probably resulted from the bad parenting). I saw a case study on the psychology behind Hitler and, although I think Freud was an idiot, they used his teachings to map out Hitler pretty well and there was evidence to support most of their claims. But again, Wolfenstein must have really ****ed him up.
Last time I checked (or accidentally saw...), violence has been going downhill ever since the inception of video games. It gives us an outlet to relieve ourselves of some kinds of emotions and allows us to indulge in fantasies we would otherwise not indulge in (or fantasies that some might actually realize, like killing people you meet in bars and then cutting them up for dinner).
Lol I was just going to refer to the exact same thing xDAnd what about the video games that the christians and catholics played during the inquisition and the crusades?
Did you call me some kind of outer-planar evil ?Yes, it's up to the parent to decide what their kids are allowed to play, and I firmly believe that the brain-dead X generation has absolutely no concept of what their kids are bringing home to play, but no matter who is at fault I still find it ridiculous that everyone is so ready to team together to fight this garbage as though it were some outer-planar evil. Like Zeonix.
THANK YOU! My god! There isn't much more to say. "I bought my kids a game where they go around robbing people, having sex with then killing hookers, stealing cars with a half assed story line AND NOW THEY'RE VIOLENT! I want games banned because I'm retarded"If I weren't at work right now, I would be able to refute things and state my case more plainly, but at the end of the day it's this simple:
Don't censor my games because Momma McStupid doesn't give enough of a crap about which Automatic Babysitting DVD Rom she buys at the Automatic Shut-Your-Kid-The-Hell-Up Machine Store.