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What sucks? your comment makes no sense.

And just as a side note, it may just be me, but where have all the comments from the previous topic gone.

I don't see all the stuff that was written on violence in video games.

What I meant was that it sucks that the topic has fallen flat, and the other comments are on pages 2 and 3.

Henley - ahaha yeah every chance he had to blackspot games he did, i see it just the same as a graphic novel, novel or movie. Games are a way of telling stories no matter how graphic they are.

That is a fair comment. But I would say that unlike a movie or novel you don't get the same interactivity with the story. In most games considered violent these days the player is given the choice as to how he/she commits that violence. For example in FPS's do you use your secondary weapon or your primary weapon, or one of the multitude of other devices at your desposil. I would conclude that this interectivity in general has a greater effect on the player than a movie or novel. Though I am not on the bandwagon that games turn people into mass murderers.

your allow to believe that, but how many people can you count that have committed a crime based on a movie or tv show? There are more there was even a reported case of some guy getting a sword and walking onto a highway and started swinging it at cars (referring to the matrix movies here).

Sure games can be violent this is part of the charm, the same thing goes for graphic novels or action movies... if you had a movie with no action... or shooting it wouldn't be an action movie,

same thing goes for games, depending on what you have the player doing it will be different for each game. Handling a rifle in real life is much harder then the games make out to be (i lived on a farm for most of my life i can comment on this), so saying that games TRAIN people to shoot others is just silly.

Its like saying Micheal Jackson teaches people to molest children because people like him... lol :P (possibly a bad example)

I don't think violent games turn people into mass murderers either, but it is something that some people believe. Seriously, it took me a while to ingrain that into my mother's brain.

ahaha yeah every chance he had to blackspot games he did, i see it just the same as a graphic novel, novel or movie. Games are a way of telling stories no matter how graphic they are.