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S.T.A.G.E. on 15 September 2013
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Scisca said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:

GTA3 wasnt that bad of a game but for its time it was very mature. GTA today would most likely push the envelope even further in violence, sexual language kids shouldn't hear, misogynist statements against women, nudity, drugs and more in  cocktail to the point where kids beome desensititzed to it. Desensitization is why you no longer can scare a child any longer and the horror genre has gone down the shitter. You don't need to be the best director of a scary movie but today the genre has no chance any longer. The demands of violence, sex and drugs has grown to a rate where people need to see movies like Saw or even Hostel to even cringe. To make them even squirm they need visceral stiumli. What scared our parents fails to scare us. We can watch people die in real life because of it.

Most parents and old school pioneers of the war against videogames have made ridiculous arguments against videogames. I just so happened to have studied disensitization and just like rated R films and Videogames, they desensitize children to the point where the industry has to search for answers in how to shock people further. Children force themselves to grow up and again react less to stimuli before their time, therefore forcing the industry to go on defense.

In conclusion, our parents are more emotionally sensitive than we are.


Pure BS. The old horror movies didn't scare us because they were brutal, there was almost nothing brutal about them. They worked on what's scariest - fear itself. It's not the zombie that's scary, it's the threat of a zombie appearing when you don't know when and where it'll happen. Horror movies nowadays are made by idiots who think that blood and violence is scarier than the fear of the unknown, the fear of... fear. In fact they just can't make a movie like that, cause they have no idea about making horror movies, so they just put mindless violence and call it a day. If anything, these movies are disgusting not scary, so they have nothing to do with making you scared and it's no wonder they don't scare anyone. Also trust me, no movie or game will prepare you for the sight of a real dying man.

Also, I hate when some "educated pricks" talk this crap about us being exposed to so much violence, that we need the "innocence years" and that we live in sick and violent times. Do they know the first thing about history? We live is such peaceful and pacifistic times that it's probably bad for us. When has it been better? 70 years ago during the II WW? When you had death on every step, dead bodies in the streets, you never knew if you were going to live another day or hour even? My grandparents grew up in such a reality and they are normal people, they are the ones that get scared much easier than kids nowadays accourding to you. And earlier? I WW - ever more brutal. Earlier? There were constant wars, constant fighting, murdering and raping, little children were working whole days, nobody cared about them, often even their parents didn't care about their lives that much. And now some "wise scholar" goes on to tell me that we live in brutal times and that a video game or movie can destroy a person's psyche. Desensitization caused by a game? God, have we become weak pussies.

What the hell are you babbling about? I never said old horror movies didn't scare you because they were brutal. I stated that kids were desensitized to the fear at such early age, so brutality became the construct used to create shock value since society no longer responded, thus the rise of movies like SAW and Hostel. Long gone are the days of Jason and Freddy Kreuger or before that Psycho and Dracula when movies were at their psychological extreme and never let you see a thing, but rather let your imagination take effect to the harsh outcomes of situation. Of course no movie can prepare you for the sight of a real dying man. You're bolstering my point but instead of understanding the early effects you're jumping to the extreme. I know quite a few military servicemen and have spoken to them on the issue. I never went to that extreme.

I am talking about the desensitization of media, not war and actual murder. Never did I bring about that point. You're just frustrated by the fact that it does exist. The people going on about how kids will go crazy with guns because of videogames, thats nonsense.