Originally Posted by Mr. Matt

I agree with the first part, not the second. I have incredible reactions since playing such games - and I've not played any since July last year, really, when my computer broke, so they seem to be long-lasting.

On the violence front, I have never once had an urge to kill people since playing my first violent first-person shooter. I certainly haven't actually killed or attempted to kill anyone. In fact, I've only ever even been in a fight once, which was self-defense on my part (high school - youth politics become more inexplicable than ever, glad to be out of the confusing place).
If anything, violent games provide a release for any sort of pent up anger or inherent violent feelings some people may have in real-life. You meet someone particularly annoying, you can take your frustration out on some computer pixels. Without such a release the less self-controlled people may resort to punching walls (that's reserved for when your computer breaks, lol) or even people. Now they have an outlet.

There have always been muderers, always been violent people. Wife beaters. Rapists. Even the odd nutter in a religious cult that requires some sort of sacrifice. It seems like a new phemonemon because newspapers have only been around in the last 100-200 years reporting them - if computer games explain the recent crimes, what explains spurts of violent crime before computers were even invented? Computer games, as movies before them, have become the excuse.
I think that if ever there was a case of someone actually being directly influenced and driven to kill someone because of a computer game, that they must be incredibly weak-minded, unrestrained and susceptable to suggestion anyway, and something would have triggered such activities if computer games hadn't been around.
Scape-goats, that's the only role computer games play in crime, so far as I can see.

EDIT = Welcome to GF, BTW, Muddy; I've never seen you before anyway :thumbsup:

Originally Posted by MonsterMuddy

thanks for welcoming today, i mostly kinda hung out around the Call of Duty forums, I agree with you about the fps as a oulet for excuses, what about the internet, where anything can be found (by thoroughly searching) like how to make a home-made bomb and stuff.

Originally Posted by AegenemmnoN

god, i just got back from playin BF1942, and man, i wanna KILL SOMEONE!!!!

j/k :lol:

my reflectses are pretty good, maily due to FPS.... but on the killing thing, you have to be really stupid to let a video game infleunce you do do anything you see in it....