thats the whole point right there... parents dont know the games there children play... and i know this for a fact... there kid says they wont a certain game for x-mas or there birthday... or in general... and most the time if the parents have the money to spoil the child... he is going to get it... Now Parents are to blame atleast 75% with the friends.. no why? The parents may not be able to stop who the hang out with at school... but they can make an effort to out of school... taking time to actually meet who the child is hanging out with... and meet that kids parents before they just let them loose to run the streets with someone who may potentially get the child in a dangerous situation... or one that may involve crime... I believe alot of the crimes today have to do with peer pressure... Not just games... I believe if someone cool shoplifts something... and gets rewarded at school by attetion and rep... the more likely than not that a person who isnt as cool is going to go shop lift something.. am i wrong? But back to the parents... The parents should try and protect there children from such violence first off instead of b------- when there kid does something then trys to blame the game because its ESRB was way out of thats kids league anyway... and if the parents acctually payed attetion to there kids lives and spent time with them...(talking about the ones who commit hanous crimes) I bet the underage violence would drop substantially you wouldnt see as many kids joining gangs... shoplifting... fighting... doing drugs... ect.. But I do agree with the other posts, Ill make my point here. Some kids even though i said they should know the difference at the age of 7 & 8 of right and wrong still cant distinguish this even at the age of 17 & 18. They get so involved in the game that they start to live the game. Its like the controversy they had awhile back over the wrestling games which kids idolised so much that they would "play wrestle" and they cant distinguish that on tv the moves are fake. They would do these moves and either kill there friend or severly injure them. But then to they didnt know that the moves were fake. This brings back up the ESRB ratings. If im not mistakin the WWE games are rated T for teen. Now kids who usually play these games are all age groups. I personally, think that, these games should be rated M and be made hard for little kids to get there hands on because there has been so many cases of death and injury because of them. People may disagree with on this paticular subject but its my opinion. But back to the knowing from right and wrong, there was a case on law and order the other night. Dont know if anyone watched it but it was about this very thing we are debating. Some kids got so caught up in the game that they start reinacting it. They acctually killed a woman in the series and thought it was fun. Now cases like this, yes i believe the game has some right to be blamed, but then to gameplay should be regulated by parents to maybe 3 to 4 hours a day at max, this would give the kid time to study, which would mean that there wouldnt be such a decrease in grades, and that they wouldnt be playing all the time (10-12 hrs a day) and thus crossing the line of reality and fiction. Im finished till next time ~Z3N0
Still, games don't have that much effect. If the switch insn't present somewhere in your head, you don't nescisarily (spelling ?) become more agressive or violent. I myself play games such as God of War and watch shows such as Hellsing. And I do it because I actually enjoy the bloodshed and the violence itself. If I were to give my definition of "cool/fun/entertaining" one could even call me sadistic. BUT, I don't go shoot or slaughter people, I'm even a very peacefull person and I will probably never engage in any kind of fight even if other people try to get me to it. If you play a game, and you descide to kill and burn your entire family for no reason at all, just like that. Because you saw some kind of reference to violence in a game (because I have never seen someone kill and burn his family in a game yet when some crazy guy does it irl, people blame some videogame from GTA to DMC) Something has to be wrong in your head. If parents let a 4 year old play some gruesome game, it's clearly their fault if their kid gets a messed up vision of right or wrong, but I as a 16-year old would like to be able to buy a game like God of War or GTA anywhere and at anytime I feel like it without having to look for it in the pron-section (like they are thinking of handling it in the future if I'm not mistaking) or having to get my parents to buy it for me.
I to am 16 and i agree with you on the pron section thing... i only wanna go there for well.. anyway the thing is some kids arnt able to distinguish from right and wrong on there on. let me try and sum this up briefly. Say for instence a kid who has never been punished before age range of 4 to 8 (i know its hard to believe them never being punished..ba must be nice) anyway that would take away from there ability to know right from wrong they would think "o well, they do it on here... so im gonna go try it" were as a kid who has been beatin for what he does wrong would be like "wtf... this game is cool *looks over to the unpunished kid setting a blaze to the neighbors house* ... well, thats an arse whoopin... i better not try that" lol see what i mean.. i just made an idoit out of my self but there is logic behind it..
video games are not to blame AT ALL... If a person is, pardon my language for a sec, but if a person is f()cked in the head from the start, then weather or not they play a game before they do something wrong is entirely irrelevent... I'v been playing the most violent games since i was 8 years old to now(18) So thats = from Mortal Kombat : Annhilation on the SNES to FEAR and DOOM ON THE PC And i'll tell you right now - i'v never stolen, i'v never hurt anyone badly - i'v never needed to(sure i'v punched-on a fair bit but thats normal.. i'v never actually had to reallly really hurt an indervidual), never wanted to - don't fantasize about it - NOTHING! Heck - i even smoked dope for afew years, not as much as some but a fair bit none-the-less... And i'm still fine... It all comes down to the indervidual's temperament and how they were raised... If a parent sais : "He/She did it because of those bloody video games, bla - bla" Then the answer is simple.. It wasn't the video-games at all.. it was the action(s) the parent(s) took while raising their child or the action(s) the parent(s) didn't take... which made their son/daughter into what they were/are today... And then again - It can always be a psychological thing.. and in that case.. no-one is too blame We now live in a world where "someone" or "something" has to hold the blame flag I think its pathetic [end rant]
its all down to bad parenting really, here in england a few games where banned because a kid who played a game "Manhunt" where you run around brutally murdering people in the worst ways ever, brutally murdered another kid from what he'd seen in the game, and the mother had the balls to blame the game!!! it was clearly rated 18+ and oviously unsuitable for kids so immature and retarded that they would mimic stuff they see in games into real life. she said the game was a bad influence...then why the ---- did she buy the game for him in the first place?!?!... because parents always want omone to blame other than themselfs
Video games dont make kids go out and do unreasonable things. They need to be responsible and mature enough to take in what they are seeing and or playing and not go out on the highway and shoot people with shotguns cause thats what they do in GTA. Parents should teach their kids not to do things like this and make them learn how to make rational decisions.
lol here we go... video games dont kill people, retarded people who live them do thats my new saying...
Games are for free time for most people, but for others people take advantage and take it to a next level of gaming this a program going on, about progamer and people do get money out of it... so no Games arnt to blame
