Your Thoughts on This Please.....

[fitz19d]

+1 to waryward, SA and Sharpie. (Damn said previous 3 posts and already got like 4 others after it.)

Understanding the entire context rather than just the clip is kinda important.


Was supposed to be a level to make you sick/upset during and after. You are at no point actually forced to shoot any of the civilians.
Problem I have is there are those retarded kids out there lobbing frags and giggling as they shoot up everyone they could. But the game didn't do that to them, they were already ate up by parents not parenting, etc. Same parents that take their kids to see something like Human Centipede or something else probably mentally scarring.

[DD977GM2]

It's just a video game!!! None of my older boys took it for anything more then a video game

[Fmedges]

I shot as many civilians as I could in that level and it never changed my morals and who I am as a person. I'm tired of everybody blaming everything, but Whois actually at fault. I enjoy video games and it lets me escape reality for a while, but after I turn them off I resume my normal life. Sometimes bad things just happen.

[Ashton]

I shot them allllllllllllllll. Didn't have any urges to go on a murder spree killing children. Let alone anyone. Now I'm going to go play fetch with my dog.

[bryjcom]

Its not really about this particular example. Its about the culture of violence that has engulfed this nation.

Why do you have a nation like Switzerland that MANDATES that half the population be armed with an full auto weapon and have so few crimes, yet have an American society armed almost as well and have so much crime?

The answer is "Culture"

[Monky]

First off.. you aren't allowed to buy that game unless you're what? 17? I got carded when I bought it .. and standing in line in front of me were a few different dads buying it for their kids, w/ the kid there..

It's a video game. If people can not seperate reality from fiction well then.. there is more going on in their fucked up head than a video game. I wasted every single mother fucker on that level... why.. because they're pixels on a screen. I've diffused and stopped nuclear bombs from going off in the games, even saved the life of the president..

I've never played a game, a fps, or GTA style and thought.. 'I'm so going to do this IRL, it's so bad ass'

[Sharpienads]

I shot as many civilians as I could in that level and it never changed my morals and who I am as a person. I'm tired of everybody blaming everything, but Whois actually at fault. I enjoy video games and it lets me escape reality for a while, but after I turn them off I resume my normal life. Sometimes bad things just happen.

I shot them allllllllllllllll. Didn't have any urges to go on a murder spree killing children. Let alone anyone. Now I'm going to go play fetch with my dog.

I remember the warning at the beginning of the game and thought "Who wouldn't want to play the level if they have to warn you about it to begin with?"

If you don't like the level, the game, or the message it might send, that's fine. You can choose not to play that particular level or not play the game at all. Or choose not to let your children play it. I fully support that. In fact, I commend it. But I don't think CoD or video games in general have anything to do with shooting sprees. I think for a lot of people (not necessarily people on this forum) it's just a convenient excuse for what happens when parents don't parent. I remember when I was a even more a child than I am now, my dad would let me watch shows like Beavis and Butthead with the caveat that as soon as I started acting like a dumbass, I wouldn't be able to watch the show anymore. It taught me to be responsible for myself, that no matter what I saw on the TV, I alone was responsible for my actions. It also taught me that with rights and/or privileges come responsibility.

Although, now that I think about it, I think it was more just an excuse he came up with so he could watch it as opposed to being a learning opportunity for me.

[spongejosh]

I remember when I bought the first Grand Theft Auto when I was 13. The gaming magazines were full of articles about people wanting to ban the game. I spent hours driving around and running over "civilians". I played all the GTA games since as well as tons of shooting/war games I think I turned out alright. I surely haven't killed anyone in real life or have any desire to.

If you ban violent video games you'll need to also ban any violence in movies and on TV. Hinckley shot Reagan to impress Jodie Foster, should we ban Jodie Foster movies? Broken people will continue to be driven by other means even if all violence is pulled from entertainment. Religion is responsible for more deaths than video games.

[Irving]

Although, now that I think about it, I think it was more just an excuse he came up with so he could watch it as opposed to being a learning opportunity for me.

My dad wouldn't let us watch it when we first got cable. But I caught him watching it in his bedroom by himself one night after I was supposed to be in bed already. Jerk.

[blacklabel]

I think that the effect of violence in video games, movies, music, etc. is over stated. I think that the parenting and the environment can have a much stronger impact on the likelihood of a person acting in a violent manner. The solution to fixing this problem starts in the home.