Violence brings Violence ?

There has never been a game banned in the US, when MK1 came to consoles Nintendo decided to have the 1st game censored and then all the other MK games on the Nintendo consoles are uncut.
 
yautjared said:
No, violence is something linked to people personality .....
I saw Jaws and all Friday the 13th movies, along with The Exorcist, when I was 8, and I never ripped out someone else spinal column because of this exposion to violence, hehe !

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This precisely hits the nail on the head.
 
yautjared said:
No, violence is something linked to people personality .....
I saw Jaws and all Friday the 13th movies, along with The Exorcist, when I was 8, and I never ripped out someone else spinal column because of this exposion to violence, hehe !

XD :D
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This. I've been watching scary movies and playing violent video games since a very young age and im not violent at all. I've been playing mortal kombat since i was 4 or 5 and have rented every possible gory movie and im doing fine. Violent Video games/Violent movies are a poor excuse for people who are mentally ill and cant control their actions. Negative thoughts have entered my mind but i dont dwell on them or act them out. I have a strong conscience that keeps me stable. I know the difference between right and wrong...and it feels like im rambling so i'll stop now
 
The Australian government is making me violent by banning MK games.

I wanna uppercut their heads off, just like h.Smoke in UMK3. :)
 
This is a topic that I find to be a hypocritical scapegoat by many politicians and family-content watchdog groups (take a sec and ponder about both of these groups and their vested interests in bad mouthing video games). The reality is that this is is all due to a huge amount of ignorance by policy makers (many of which have never played a video game), and these so-called watchdog groups who depend on casting a faux-real-world significance to video games in order to exist and make money. You may come across so-called studies linking violence to video games from people that want to make a name for themselves, but these are all flawed, research-lacking reports simply publish to exploit the consumers of the aforementioned groups. The reality is that video games are therapeutic, hence why we play them after work or school to relax, not to take pointers on how to properly light someone on fire or execute a COD style raid. As far as states like California that often lead these calls for regulations, if I recall correctly, they had a certain Governor that was known for what kind of movies exactly? Even Kindergarten Cop had a good amount of violence in it and I don't recall people boycotting these films.
 
It's rated M and is meant for adults, if you're worried about your kids playing it then monitor what they play and be a responsible parent. The game industry needs to improve with their advertising though, advertising an M rated game like dead space with the slogan "your mom will hate this" does nothing to help our side of this argument.
 
We live in an age where we unfortunately have an incredible number of parents that don't do any parenting. Children are raised by the TV not being taught right from wrong and don't have a line of communication with their parents. This is one of those cases where parents pass down the buck of the responsibility of raising a child and then blame others for their own shortcomings.
 
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Bottom line you should know if your kids are mentally stable enough to play M rated games and not go on a rampage afterwards. The ESRB is just a guideline for PARENTS, meaning its the parents' responsibility in the end. But then when someone's kid actually goes on a bloody rampage, they blame it on the industry. That shit should not be allowed to exist. Im gonna bring up a recent time in the Toronto area where a kid ran away from home because his parents took his xbox away. The kid hid in a tree in the forest because he knew a search party was there and he accidentally fell off the tree and died. Microsoft was scared shitless during this period and same with Rogers, the internet provider. Companies should not be in fear of that, its ultimately the kids' stupidity and the parents' fault for not knowing what their child was like and limiting his gaming time in the first place that led to this incident, not the industry.

For people to say "M rated games arent for kids" is just ignorant. Kids do know how to separate reality from fiction, however some kids dont and its usually the obsessive gamer kids who cannot. Therefore, limit your damn child, otherwise shit like this wouldnt be a problem in this world.
 
In this day and age kids learn stuff faster, You have kids in pre-school that be cursing like adults and talking about sex like they know about that...I mean its alot of teenagers that are getting pregnant at a young age and if you ask me babies dont need to be raising babies...the point is kids these days are not as innocent as society make them out to be and IMO parents should know what there kids are getting into
 
Society and Violence = old partners ..... unfortunately

You can see in mankind history, so, since old times, violence and cruelty taken to the extreme level, always, ALWAYS existed : before and after Christ .... Internet and videogames timeline and time existence, compared with all mankind history before, is just a milisecond "on History" ,comparing with all events that took place before , hehe ......

In times where there were not Internet and videogames, mankind and society were always violent, it is now, and , always will be .....

Hypocrites that put fault and make a simple videogame "guilty" in order to justify violence, are the same people who carries a weapon inside their car, and , can kill someone in a traffic struggle .....
 
Jezusjuice said:
I think there's alot of good conversation on this site, if your too "mature" then leave.
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Now youre just being immature because he just made a comment, he didnt say he didnt want mature conversation. Dont cause an argument for no reason please.
 
I disagree with those that say that this topic does not need to be discussed. As you may be aware, there is current legislation being proposed to "censor" violent video games by greatly limiting the sale to minors. Basically this means, that games like COD, Battlefield, MK and others like it would not be able to be produced since they would not meet the profit margins necessary to justify making a new game. The other option would be making T rated games and I don't need to go over how much we complained about a certain T rated MK.
The truth of the matter is that video games are now the major form of entertainment and like all technology, the ones making the legislation are far behind the times and make decisions based on second hand information. As gamers and consumers, we have to educate those that have the power to take our games away from us (see, Australia Ban) before the decisions are made.
Just because this is a more mature subject doesn't mean that we should shrug it off and dismiss it.
 
Lets keep this civil guys, theres no need to ask other members to leave if they disagree. This isn't an argument, just a simple debate and we're all entitled to our opinions regardless of whether others agree or not.
 
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