Gamer's Voice

[Knails]

@Full Metal:
It still is a serious topic and addin your thoughts bout your StreetFighter-life style is not a constructive subscription anyways. I don´t think that this topic really is meant to be to discuss about if gaming creates killers but to state your mind accordin it. And sayin "I look like Ken but I am more like Ryu" doesn´t help anyone - especially not yourself. So pls stick to the topic a bit at least or leave it. There are enough joke threads you could have hijacked with dat.

Yeah don, Stick it to him.

[FullMetal_old]

I wouldnt or you'll get a

[Pogue Mahone]

I as always told that you should never believe what you read but with news/gossip obsessions rising we seem to be a factory of sheep following the mass media engine as though it were god.

Everything has it's time and place and games are certainly here to stay.

Good post BBloke

Journalists and critics have highlighted a section of the game known as the 'airport massacre', and created a huge buzz about it's unneccesary violence. Unneccesary it may be, but this is just a game.

Throws up the debate whether their should be a line they do not cross ? Rape, Killing children, torture for example

[Toco]

im a little late on my post on the subject but correct me if im wrong but video games are more or less an interactive movie, they all have there storys, themes, protagonist, antagonist, ect. now look at movies like saving pvt ryan, u see guys laying on the ground with there insides hanging out and yet they show it in social studies classes (at least in canada), why because they are realistic and historicly accurate. granted games arnt generaly historicly accurate but generaly speaking hollywoods gore and fx beat a games, as for the violence, look at quinton terrintino movies or really any action movie these days all mindless violence. now please someone tell me how games could be worse then movies

[Knails]

Throws up the debate whether their should be a line they do not cross ? Rape, Killing children, torture for example

Film has gone to all to those and received critical acclaim for doing so.

now please someone tell me how games could be worse then movies

Because Rupert Murdoch and his ilk says so apparently, and unfortunatly in our little world Money is Power

[Pogue Mahone]

Because Rupert Murdoch and his ilk says so apparently, and unfortunatly in our little world Money is Power

Video gaming is a multi-billion industry. Whether these morons like it, violence in games is here to stay.

[YamNivek]

I'm afraid its just gamings turn.

In the 50's and 60's it was Rock and Roll turning the kids into devil heathens.

In the 70's and 80's it was Movies poisoning the young minds and provoking them to do terrible things.

In the 90's and 00's it gamings turn. It is coming to a head though as most taboid papers are doing small game reviews (usually in the back sections). I'm in doubt that MW2 is derised in the front pages and then given a 9/10 in the review bit.

Senesationalism sells papers and broadsheets are finding less and less sales (with the advent of the net and instant news) so a massive headline saying VIDEO GAME TRAINING KIDS FOR TERRORISM is exactly the thing that will make people pick the paper up.

It doesnt matter that the level is no doubt showing the depravity and cold heartlessness behind terrorism. Even with the game having an 18 rating, these small details get overlooked as the media will exploit every negative angle to provoke such a response as to make you buy the paper.

The headline GAME SHOWS TERRORISM FOR THE COWARDACE IT REALLY IS & IS FUN TO PLAY FOR OVER 18's ONLY will sell about 3 papers.

If 4chan was to come out in the mainstream papers then the Daily Mail readers will actually die of shock. That place is wrong but yet funny in the context of annonimity!

[Sharp Dagger]

[Toco]

alone and friendless please, you guys are my friends

[Thanatosgratus]

I wouldnt or you'll get a

As they say Fixed