Violent Video Game Makers Get to Defend Themselves
By Andrew on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007 at 12:11 AM PST In Game Companies, Games Industry, Sony
Good for them. The makers of the God of War series stood up for themselves and put the violence of the game into context.
That’s really all we need is context, people. Parents should explain to their eleven year-old that violence in video games is not real, just as grown-ups who play the game should get a job.
So as long as we all just realize these few, key contextual issues, everyone should just get along. Jack Thompson and Don Phau can shut their stupid mouths, and we all can just play games in peace.
Thank you for your time.
Don’t hate on “grown-ups” just because they play video games. People who grew up playing games not at an arcade but in their living room on a Nintendo or a Sega Genisis are adults now. In 5-10 years we will start to replace the old babyboomers (who still believe rock music is the devil’s work and that seeing a nipple on tv will make you go blind) that are in charge now and then this whole debate will go away.
And they all said A Men
I disagree entirely. Violent video games have been scientifically proven to increase aggression. Knowing that it isn’t real does not counteract that. Besides, I think teaching our kids that it’s fun to kill (real or fake) is wrong.
We need to get to the fact that parents need to take full responsibility for their children. We live in an age where parents blame everything but themselves. If you don’t like the violence in the games then don’t buy it for them. If they go to a friends house who does have the game then get after the parents of the friend. It doesn’t matter how much that little kid cries don’t give in. If my mother told me I couldn’t have it I didn’t get it. Those that blame the video games for their children’s behaviors are probably the same people that blame cigarette companies for giving them cancer, when they were the ones buying the cartons.
@anonymus
That is complete and utter nonsense!!…There are no SERIOUS STUDIES which make such claims!!!
Crawl back under whatever rock you have come from!
Tell us where these scientific studies derive from, o’ anonymous naysayer.
All I can say is, I can either kill people in a game, or in real life. Choose one for me.