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Young Boys and Video Games
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Posted By:
AtomicMoose
Nov 21, 2004
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Long time reader, first time poster....
Here is a news story about boys recreating a video game, and killing themselves. Halo (the video game) fans are outraged, and want this rumor dispelled.
_XBOX365 News
Thoughts anyone?
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Comments
Myst
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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 | 02:19 AM
I have been unable to find this on any news site. The only place I find this article is on the Xbox site which makes me wonder if it is authentic. However, it wouldn't suprise me given what I did find in my search, it seems Grand Theft Auto was blamed for two teens killing a man and wounding one woman http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/3680481.stm)
Back to the article on the Xbox site if it is authentic, one statement made by the mother gave me a clue as to what this whole blame the game thing is about. She is gearing up for a lawsuit and I quote
'It's a disgrace what these companies get away with these days,' said Rupert's mother, bravely fighting back tears. 'Everybody knows that these games turn children into bloodthirsty maniacs, so why don't the government step in and stop me from buying them for my children?'
Why did the government need to stop her, why didn't she just not buy the game?!! Give me a break, blame everyone but themselves |
Maegan
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Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 | 10:50 AM
All games have ratings on them! Just like movies. And just like movies you have to be at least 17 to buy an M-rated game. IF a location sold an M-rated game to someone underage, the parents need to report that. My brothers slip bad games under my mom's radar, b/c they're both old enough to buy them. They just hide them in a drawer so my mother doesn't find them if she happens to be near the game console while they are out.
My child is not old enough to play games...but my husband is very into his X-box. I have asked that he not play violent or bloody games when the baby is in the room. She may not be watching yet for entertainment...but she still sees it. I don't want her earliest memories of her father to be gory & violent. My husband may have to move the X-box into another room soon, as it is, he can only play the gross games at night. (I don't like to watch them either!) |
Hairy Houdini
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Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 | 05:09 PM
I've noted a measurable effort by religious groups using what they claim is incontrovertable evidence provided by social scientists, to dissuade parents from buying "violent" video games. I doubt that these groups have much complaint with Military toys. I usually try and read in some agenda-laced hypocrisy by these groups, and I usually find it. "Having said that", I do object to the content of some of the games, but as Maegan points out so well, these games are rated. The groups opposed to these games screamed for the rating system- they got it- but now it's not enough. Another case of nosy busybodies attempting a salvo in The Culture War by taking choices away from adults under the guise of protecting children. As to whether the claim of game-induced suicides is a hoax, well...the true basis for self-murder is obviously much deeper than a response to violent games. Kids who kill, or commit suicide, have much greater "issues" (I loathe that term, but I have issues) than video games. These young people may respond to an imagined verbal slight, a percived insult, etc. People who are sick don't need another germ to make them sick. They are already ill. |
Maegan
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Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 | 10:38 AM
I did once read an article about some guys who 'test' the games. They're adults & their job is to play the video games & they tell the creators how they could be made better (whether better is bloodier, easier, or more violent is relative). One of the young men mentioned that sometimes when he's shopping (for groceries) he thinks he hears a grenade rattle across the ground in the same fashion that it does in a particular game. Or he'll hear someone yell or scream...but it's not someone in the store, it's the sound FROM a video game. Once, just out of the corner of his eye he could swear he could see the 'enemy' round a corner & throw something at him. He even flinched.
He tried to get some of the other players to agree with him, but according to the article they either shrugged or said they didn't know what he was talking about. |
Ozymandias
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Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 | 02:45 PM
Game testers test for bugs in a game, not testing for what the game is missing. They test things like if there's an area where you'll fall through the floor, and other glitches. They do not tell the game makers wheter it needs to be easier or more violent. Most of what they do is doing things repetitively (like running around on one area) to see if it ever does anything strange.
Also, where was this article? What was it in? |
Ikariam
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Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 | 09:06 AM
That article is just silly and disturbing |
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