of course they'd say that, it's their main source of income.
I think video games DO encourage violence, just as much as gory action movies did in the 80's and 90's. they make war and death "okay" to the younger people that play them. Younger and younger people are being exposed to violence and vulgar language in the video games their parents blindly buy for them, and it does encourage them to be more violent in thought and in speech.
the thing is, that 95% of the people that play these games don't actually ACT any more violent with people, because they're smart enough to know there are consequences for their actions, and even if they do act on them, it's usually not too bad (a fistfight, or just yelling at each other). It's the tiny percentage of whack jobs in the country who can't get proper help for their condition, and then they steadily become more and more violent, and one day they manage to get their hands on a gun and shoot up a school.
the issue in this argument is better gun control laws (not just stricter ones) and make it easier for people who are mentally ill to get PROPER medical help (that's not just shooting them up with drugs and hoping they just sit in their room looking at pretty colors all day)
It would be kinda suicide to say that they do in his position.
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EA's Army of Two sequel is among the firm's upcoming shooters[/quote]
Wait, wasn't the new Army of Two a reboot? I might be nitpicking here, but hey, this is journalism.
[QUOTE=Fingers!!!;39425810]Wait, wasn't the new Army of Two a reboot? I might be nitpicking here, but hey, this is journalism.[/QUOTE]
A "reboot" for a game that came out 3 years before? That's feckin' stupid
[QUOTE=Fingers!!!;39425810]Wait, wasn't the new Army of Two a reboot? I might be nitpicking here, but hey, this is journalism.[/QUOTE]
Not a reboot. It even has Salem & Rios from the previous games serving as the "experienced intel guys"
[QUOTE=Fingers!!!;39425810]Wait, wasn't the new Army of Two a reboot? I might be nitpicking here, but hey, this is journalism.[/QUOTE]
Franchises need to fuck off with this reboot stuff
[QUOTE=Schmaaa;39425801]of course they'd say that, it's their main source of income.
I think video games DO encourage violence, just as much as gory action movies did in the 80's and 90's. they make war and death "okay" to the younger people that play them. Younger and younger people are being exposed to violence and vulgar language in the video games their parents blindly buy for them, and it does encourage them to be more violent in thought and in speech.
the thing is, that 95% of the people that play these games don't actually ACT any more violent with people, because they're smart enough to know there are consequences for their actions, and even if they do act on them, it's usually not too bad (a fistfight, or just yelling at each other). It's the tiny percentage of whack jobs in the country who can't get proper help for their condition, and then they steadily become more and more violent, and one day they manage to get their hands on a gun and shoot up a school.
the issue in this argument is better gun control laws (not just stricter ones) and make it easier for people who are mentally ill to get PROPER medical help (that's not just shooting them up with drugs and hoping they just sit in their room looking at pretty colors all day)[/QUOTE]
95%?
I'd personally put that at 99. There are a lot of video game players. The number of people who play video games, ratio'd to the number of violent acts in which could (somehow) be directly, and factually connected back to the act of playing video games leads to an overflowing vat of [I]"What the fuck are you really trying to prove?[/I]. It's an impossible calculation none the less.
Any level of violence in which you categorize under such a "catastrophic" level is never, in any situation caused by [I]one[/I] factor. There are always a host of contributing factors - in most cases being mental illness and/or past life experiences (nurture, traumatizing life event(s) ect). These play the most significant rolls due to how fucking scientifically, factually, PROFESSIONALLY proven they are in mentally debilitating one self.
Ignorantly throwing a subject in which has no personal or social value to oneself, under the fucking bus before franken-fucking it back together, slapping a shiny lemming hushing tax onto it, and finally selling it back to the people who had [U][I]no control[/I][/U], or [U][I]fault[/I][/U] in the pressing issue at hand to begin with; is one of the most pathetically counteractive, run around idiocies I have ever heard. I guess when the vast majority of the country is either disconnected from the situation, or just fucking [I]out to tea[/I] they fail to understand what [B]their[/B] government is implicating, and under what means the implication is set under.
tbh tho fucking twits all of em.
[QUOTE=Trogdon;39427573]Franchises need to fuck off with this reboot stuff[/QUOTE]
Shouldn't the devs fuck off with the reboots?
[QUOTE=zombays;39427423]A "reboot" for a game that came out 3 years before? That's feckin' stupid[/QUOTE]
Its a reboot in name only.
As in, same universe setting, just different playable characters.
I love how EA says it, its all "WELL NO SHIT THEY WOULD SAY THAT"
But I can guarantee that if this was Valve, everybody would be lining up to suck Gabe's dick.
[QUOTE=Skyward;39429086]I love how EA says it, its all "WELL NO SHIT THEY WOULD SAY THAT"
But I can guarantee that if this was Valve, everybody would be lining up to suck Gabe's dick.[/QUOTE]
same with any company. It's common sense to defend your product, any company on the planet would do the same, I wasn't saying it was a bad thing, just that it makes perfect sense for them to do it.
[QUOTE=Skyward;39429086]I love how EA says it, its all "WELL NO SHIT THEY WOULD SAY THAT"
But I can guarantee that if this was Valve, everybody would be lining up to suck Gabe's dick.[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't. Mainly because I hate waiting in line and that one's 10 miles long
If it wasn't a videogame that brought out violent behavior in you, it would have been something else.
It's not like when violent games started being made we had to deal with these horrible new 'murder' things that had never happened before.
I find videogames to be a stress reliever and don't cause violence. I also don't get the whole desensitization argument because nothing really prepares you for actually violence, unless of course you've seen it in the news.
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