The Violent Video Game Debate

[Rainbowhawk1993]

It's been a very touchy issue ever since Wolfinstine 3D and Doom were first released. Are these games really building up killers in players?

My parents are very concerned about me when they see me or learn that I play things like Time Crisis and Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. The say that they see me as a caring nice boy who is cares for the life on this earth and uses the bug-vac to take spiders out of the house alive. But they don't see why I would want to play a game were the reason is to shoot other Humans. And even when I get out of a very heated game of StarCraft, they say that the game changed me.

Well, the way I see it, the boy who saves the spiders and takes on virtual Nazis can be the same person.

I have a relative interest in popular T-M games out there but I only have an interest in titles that are interesting and exciting but not too all out.

Examples of game I have interests in are:

-StarCraft
-Infamous
-Uncharted
-Halo
-Tom Clancy titles
-Deus ex
-Medal of Honor series
-Mass effect (Although I've only see this game vaguely)

But I don't have interests in others:
-Grand theft Auto
-Gears of War
-Bioshock
-Duke Nukeum Forever
(and even though some of them are T)
-Call of Duty

The ones I have interest in have good settings, stories and gameplay. But I think the ones I don't have interest in seem too over the top for me.

What separates MOH from COD is that MoH's theme through each game is about the soldiers who go in and risk their lives for others.

Here on this site, mostly all of us are here because we believe in understanding, wanting to protect others and want peace in the world. But we talk brought up discussions about Splinter Cell Conviction and Halo Reach. And from what I've seen, this site also has a collection of Mass effect Fans as well.

So I as a question to everyone: Why do you like these games and do you think they create dangerous amounts of violent behavior in everyone?