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Does Violence Draw Gamers To Games?

A study suggests, maybe not.

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  • Date 1/20/2009 10:17:29 AM
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Tada : LVL 42: VP 5: said:

Tada

-2 votes NegativePositive

296 days 4 hours ago...

Here`s the study is anyone feels like they want to pay 20 bucks to read something they already know

http://jar.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/23/1/55

Mr6Sozac : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

Mr6Sozac

2 votes NegativePositive

296 days 2 hours ago...

i for one love the realism of violence in some game
that is just an element that appeals to me
i hate over the top gore
also rated T combat games really piss me off(except BF2)X_X

raithios : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

raithios

3 votes NegativePositive

296 days ago...

previous generation parents = stupid

tones_420 : LVL 29: VP 3.8: said:

tones_420

0 votes NegativePositive

295 days 23 hours ago...

Yeah, try showing this to a Christian Evangelist

Red Heaven : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

Red Heaven

0 votes NegativePositive

295 days 2 hours ago...

This is good to hear some old white people say this:

-Because gamers have been saying it for FUCKIN` years!!!-

Phanto : LVL 42: VP 5: said:

Phanto

0 votes NegativePositive

294 days 3 hours ago...

I like realistic FPS games. I am not interested into exaggerated and unrealistic gore and blood. But trying to edit out the blood and death animations just makes the game unrealistic and stupid.

Even if your opponent "teleports" back at spawn when you "kill" him, all you really do is skip the death animation. At the end of the road, you`ve still shot someone in the game.

Will the sight of fake digital blood or the sight of a 3D model of a dead body collapsing on the floor make me a more violent person? I strongly doubt it will.

Pyranique : LVL 18: VP 2.7: said:

Pyranique

1 votes NegativePositive

291 days 18 hours ago...

When the violence is over exceeding reality people do not relate to it at some point. It can actually have less impact.

Take a game like `Bully`, a watered down GTA,... nothing more. School kids might actually try to reproduce the shit thats in that game (set a garbage can on fire, ring the alarm, throw a frisbee on the roof, beat up the fat kids).

Seriously, I doubt that after playing GTA you will actually steal a police car, go downtown and kill hookers with the flame thrower.

Venomousvole : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

Venomousvole

0 votes NegativePositive

290 days 2 hours ago...

for an adult male gamer the violence is just gravy. delicious gravy.

Batman! : LVL 41: VP 4.9: said:

Batman!

0 votes NegativePositive

287 days 5 hours ago...

I agree. I`ve known this for years. Why do they think nearly half of the top 10 games in sales figures each year are non-violent? Also many of the violent ones are rts with minimum gore/violence or they`re J games and have no blood at all. Examples: Soul Calibur 4 and the FF series.

In my opinion no matter how gore filled and violent a game may be, if its not a fun and engaging game, people wont play it. Or they`ll play it for a bit and when the novelty wears off they`re done with it.

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