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And then there's that sequence that seems to be a prerequisite for every modern warfare game now where you're in a bomber supporting infantry units by firing ludicrously big shells at ground targets who have absolutely no possibility of hitting you. Watching blips on your radar representing someone's son or husband disappear with a plop as someone in your earpiece congratulates you and laughingly points out the remaining ones who are running for their lives. I mean, ####ing hell. Once you discount the possibility that this is supposed to be dramatic or challenging then we are left with the conclusion that this only exists for the masturbatory power fantasy. It just creeps me out is all.
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This has got to be the stupidest thing that I've ever read, and probably the basis for most of the arguments made by the anti-gaming brigade out there.
Games are not murder trainers, they're certainly not trainers for future soldiers for the most part, I wouldn't want to go into battle with half of the idiots that I play video games with.
While they have a point that someones husband or brother or blah blah blah dissapears they fail to add in only to respawn again to rejoin the game.
They're not dying, they're certainly not fleeing in terror, there's no video game out there that that parlays the terror of an artillary strike or bombing run or the crack of the sniper rifle.
With the exception of a few sicko's that think that these games are some kind of simulation of real life I say get a life.
Your not killing people, your basically sending a string of 1's and 0's at an image made of 1's and 0's.
As parents there is certainly a responsibility to not use video games as a convienient baby sitter for hours on end. Maybe there's a responsibility for you to watch these games that your kids for example are playing and have a discussion about real vs not real.
But its easy and convienient to blame the programmers and publishers to cover for your shock that you didn't know that your kid or husband or whatever was playing Call of Duty for 8 hours straight.
But out of the millions and the Crunch says millions of video gamers out there, there's probably far less then 1% who have some kind of desensitivity to violence, the rest know that there's no connection between video games and real life violence.