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Malenko:

--- Quote from: koolmoecraig on August 07, 2008, 08:50:38 pm ---Of course the kid was crazy but don't try and tell me that these kinds of games have no effect on children.  It's not a perfect world and not everyone is created or raised equally(parents obviously deserve some of the blame but only to a certain extent). Games like this can have a real effect on kids.

A 30 second commercial has been proven over and over again as effective in influencing adults and childrens behavior.  It's laughable to think that an undeveloped/under-developed child wouldn't be influenced at all after playing these games for however many hours they take to complete.

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but that is what is debatable. I played Super Mario Bros as a kid, I didnt go around jumping on turtles, seeing how high I could jump on a flag pole, or grab flowers expecting to shoot fireballs. Even when I was young I could tell the difference between real and fake, what I can do and cant do, and most importantly what I should and shouldnt do.

I will give you the fact games arent the same as when I was a kid but I was only like 14 when Mortal Kombat came out and while I was certainly awestruck at how cool and realistic the game looked I never once thought I could shoot ice out of my hands, teleport, or rip someones head off. I did think it would be cool to drop into a split and punch someone in the balls, but I never tried it.

The one major reason I dont believe the hype about video games being the influence that they are claimed to be is the fact its so one sided. All you hear about is idiot kids doing something they shouldnt then blaming a game the ESRB says they shouldnt be playing in the first place. As I said before, once a kid grows up to become a lawyer because of Pheonix Wright, or a surgeon because of trauma ceneter,etc,etc then I'll start to believe

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: koolmoecraig on August 07, 2008, 08:50:38 pm ---It's laughable to think that an undeveloped/under-developed child wouldn't be influenced at all after playing these games for however many hours they take to complete.

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If it weren't a game, it would be a movie, a TV show, a book, another kid, a billboard, a rock... something would be influencing that kid.  You can't ban everything just because there are a few people with mental problems.

AtomSmasher:
I agree to an extent that little kids shouldn't be playing M and AO rated games for the same reasons I don't think an 8 year old should be watching an R or NC-17 rated movie.  Parents need to enforce the video game ratings as strictly as they do the movie ratings.

On a similar note, according to the FBI, the juvenile violent crime rate is at a 30-year low, so it's not like games like GTA have caused an epidemic of violence among the youth.

Dartful Dodger:
The military and police use images of people for target shooting.

A round target is just as good for practicing your aim, but they use images of people to numb the shooters senses to shooting people.

I've said this a dozen times already, I went to school to be a game programmer I wanted to write the next best fighting game.  In college I was a news report on how a couple of 5 year old boys kicked a 5 year old girl unconscious in the snow and left her to die.

The boys were play power rangers, it happened in some overly sensitive country and they immediately pulled Power Rangers.  At first I thought that was nonsense, but then started thinking about it and realized that these 5 year olds were just imitating a kids show.

After that I changed my dream.  I love to play these games and they are protected by the first amendment, but I didn't want to be the one who created a game that indirectly caused a cabbie to lose his life.

RayB:
Yeah, as a kid I had a friend who always wanted to wrestle, thanks to him watching WWF (pre name change). So what? He also watched hockey and there's fighting in that. Should we ban hockey and wrestling? OR should parents be required to take parenting classes and freakin BE PARENTS ?????

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