Originally posted by Joopson
i played doom when i was 4, doom 3 when i was 13, GTA since i was 11, Mortal kombat my entire life, and pretty much every other violent game, and i turned out alright! i dont stab people, its just that you have to realize the games are fake, and they are not a problem................they are more fun though!:attn: :attn: :attn: :attn:
cheers
-andy
wow dude your one brave person compared to me.
i cant stand doom. its freaky as hell. (the game is based partly on hell).
i mostly play RPGs and stuff. i play some 1st person shooters like halo, but that is no where near has intense as doom or hitman.
my mum has this newpaper article that he had kept since 2004 about the effects of videos games that it had on one guy. (i wont write the whole thing cuz its kinda long)
THE parents of murdered schoolboy Stefan Pakeerah yesterday led a mounting clamour for violent computer games to be banned.
Giselle and Patrick Pakeerah's 14 year-old son suffered an horrific death at the hands of a 17 year-old Warren Leblanc, said to have been obsessed with the game Manhunt.
The hammer-and-knife killing mirrored scenes in the ultra-violent game.
Manhunt was withdrawn from thousands of stores yesterday after the Dixons Group and specialist retailer Game decided to stop selling it. But other shops will keep it on sale, and censors claimed they have no power to ban Manhunt or similar games such as Soldier of Fortune, Unreal Tornament, GTA, Mafia, The Suffering.
Mrs Pakeerah, 36, said: "it is no good saying these games are marketed at adults. everyone knows young chilldren get there hands on them. They are circulated at school. They did a psychiatric test on Leblanc and found he was perfectly normal. In some ways that makes what he did even more inexplicable and frightening.".....
video games do have some effect on me (i admit it), when i was 13 i watched my older bro play half life 2. i loved the graphics and physics. but the one think i esspecially disturbed me were those crazy monkey/hyena/zombie ppl in ravenholm. a few months later he got the game again (he didnt finished at that time) i didnt really mind those zombies anymore. but games dont have enough influence for me to get nightmares :blush: . lol.
thats my side of it. they do have a effect on sensitive ppl. (like i was when i was 13).
but ppl like joopson. i guess nothing happens!!
A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice!!
Last edited by 13th_resident; 25-04-2006 at 04:40 PM.