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MARCUSDJACKSON on 26 April 2010
lestatdark said:
chocoloco said:
Watching my five year old nephew playing better at Manhunt then me. (Sniff) I taught him so much.

And this is why there's so much controversy when games like Manhunt are released. 5 year old's should even't look at this game. 

 


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MARCUSDJACKSON on 26 April 2010
Kasz216 said:
One time I was walking through the local arcade, and there was this kid hogging the street fighter 2 machine with a couple of friends watching as he beat some younger kids.

So i'm walking by, I decide hey what they heck... i'll play a round.

Some other kid literally says "Don't do it... he's REALLY good." I really just kinda laugh and say "I'll be ok, it's only one token."

Sure enough, i beat him in the first round... pretty badly. He gets angry second round... I actually beat him with a perfect. He and his friends storm off like some kind of bad kids movie. Funny thing was... I didn't even really want to play Street Fighter for more then around... so I just asked one of the kids if he wanted to take over my game... and I left the street fighter machine to the younger kids. Funny stuff.


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MARCUSDJACKSON on 26 April 2010
lestatdark said:
chocoloco said:
lestatdark said:
chocoloco said:
lestatdark said:
chocoloco said:
lestatdark said:
chocoloco said:
Watching my five year old nephew playing better at Manhunt then me. (Sniff) I taught him so much.

And this is why there's so much controversy when games like Manhunt are released. 5 year old's should even't look at this game. 

 

Not if your goal is to raise an assasin!

I know you're trying to be funny and probably you just wanted your nephew to have a good time while gaming with you. 

But these are the cases that then lead to games being discriminated and nitpicked in the social media.

Anyway, i'm not trying to impose anything on you, you do as you see fit. I just think that manhunt isn't a game for five year olds, no matter how "well" they deal with it. Children of that age have no psychological development to discern reality from fiction, so there is no way to determine what he will learn from them.  

Truthfully, he only played the game for a minute and it was a younger brother who gave him the controller, but I dont think that short of exposure would harm a child from such a short experience.  

Yes, adults sould keep very young children from great exposure to such violent games. Yet, the media would complain about certain games just to make an interesting story or arguement to get viewers. They really don't care about the isssue they just want viewers/money.

I am a psychology major and I took developmental psych were they talk of this and I think short exposure leaves little signigficant results to a young developing mind. Still I'm no expert.

We better not seriously derail this guy thread. LOL

I agree when you say that media exposure from this kind of issues is more about viewers/money than actual concern. Unfortunatly, that sometimes has backlashes to some gaming markets, especially here in Europe, where some countries even go to greater lengths to ban those type of games.

In your case, a short exposure will most likely not leave even a slight recordation for the child, I had thought that he was allowed to play a great session of it, so i'm sorry for my previous comment

Also, as Xbbjf9s has put it, violent video games aren't the most violent experience a child could have. There's lot of violence in today's world, and most of it isn't even put into a physical manner. Psychological abuse and forms of conditioning are severely more damaging to a developing mind than any video game.

I'll take your advice on not derailing this member's thread any further I just think that this issue should be debated more often, as the only time we hear about it is when the media does a biased "study" on it.  

Well were keeping it alive for him so I'm sure he wont mind. I don't know if this topic has been discussed recently in a thread, but it is certainly worthy of reflection by all grown gamers.

America only bans nudity and sex as we tend to be more prude than the average European (danm puritans!), but for whatever reason violence in massive quanities is not taboo or hardly questioned. I could understand it would suck not play great games like gear of war and others.

I was purposely trying to get reactions out of people by making up something that I really wouldn't promote, but at least it created an interesting discussion.

The most unfortunate of people experience domestic abuse, gang violence, or ethnic or religous persecution in there everyday lives. This will have a much greater impact than any amount of violent came play exposure would provide. So I would really never encourge exposing children to violance, but the effects are minor. It has been shown in psychology that exposure to violent images creates more aggression in children that see more violance. Yet it is only a coorelation not causality and also could mean more agressive children watch/play more violent media.

 

Europe and America are the polar opposites on this matter. While, as you put it well, america has no problem with violence per se, here in Europe it's abhored.

Everyone's afraid that somehow the next Hitler, Franco, Mussolini, Salazar, Stalin and whatnot, will rise thanks to the exposure to too much violence, even though kids nowadays are amongst the most violent children I've interacted with. Not because of the easy access to violence, but because of the lack of morality or pure, simple education by their own parents.

Unfortunatly, one can't shield children from those kind of exposures. It trully is a case of a Damocles Sword. One on hand, if we shield the children from the reality of the world, in the future as an adult, he/she would be underhanded in terms of social skills and wits needed to overcome or contour those kind of situations; and on the other hand, too much exposure to that reality would leave them with a dimished sense of responsability, if they are not properly taught and guided to distinguish right from wrong, what's necessary from what musn't be. 

The same principle can be applied to video gaming and every other kind of media. Myself as a child, I grew up playing Resident Evil, watching tons of horror movies and all sort of violent behaviour portrayed on interactive media. Yet, thanks to my parents uprising and guidance, I learned to compartmentalize each situation and learn from them in a positive way. 

Sadly, most parents nowadays don't do that, which is a major factor to the surge of violence amongst younger generations nowadays. 

i hope nobody else quotes this or it will get longer. all good points but we all haft to remember how old we where when we started. i was like 4 playing the nes and sega whatever. we started about as young as current gamers. but you haft to remember. if someones going to do something wrong or to hurt someone. they won't do it because they where influenced. thats not even an arguement. think about it. your in court. and you say i shot him in his head because i shot a game pixel in the head. that wouldn't even sound right in a court case. and the media is out of control. another good point made. this is like a peer pressure statement. somebody told me to kill him so i did it. most mentaly ill people don't get off on cases like that.



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Herbie95 on 26 April 2010
Bamboleo said:
chocoloco said:
Watching my five year old nephew playing better at Manhunt then me. (Sniff) I taught him so much.

A 5 year old child shouldn't be exposed to that type of content. Just saying...

 

Well I completed Doom 95 100% at the age of 3. With no adults there, and look how I turned out.



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restored_lost on 26 April 2010

1) number one resto shaman on horde ner'zhul(during WotLK Pre ulduar)
2) 1600 plus rating on shoddy battle for pokemon using hail stall, thats right....hail....
3) getting the arachnid laser in halo 2 and having so much fun lol
4) uncharted 2 platinum and 2.35 k/d ratio in multiplayer.



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yipee on 26 April 2010

Beating Sonic & Knuckles (first game I ever beat)
Getting my Charizard to LVL 100 in Red
Learning how to perform ATs in SSBM (Smash has become my favorite competitive game since)



Siosal on 30 April 2010
Xbbjf9s said:
Siosal said:
Beating Killzone 2 on elite without throwing the controller.

I'm dreading that so much, espcially after uncharted crushing mode.

I'll agree as the first Uncharted's crushing mode was harder than 2's. And Killzone 2's Elite mode was harder than both of them.



Skeeuk on 30 April 2010
Xbbjf9s said:
Skeeuk said:

beating thunderforce 3 and thunderforce 4 on mania setting without loss of life.


thunderforce?

yes thunderforce 4 + 4 are amoungst my best games of all time, they were megadrive shumps, and were difficult games indeed.

i doubt id ever have accomplishment like that again



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Dgc1808 on 30 April 2010

Killzone 2 Platinum / 100% - Beating Elite mode and getting into the top 1% more than half a year after the game released. Was so proud of myself that I got all the DLC trophies as well so that it would show 100%. If they make more DLC with trophies, I'll pop that game back into my Disc tray ASAP.

Demon's Souls Platinum - This wasn't easy...

Tekken 6 - Landing Miguel's only unblockable move which takes 5 whole seconds to come out on a friend of mine in a real fight. I'm not talking a noob, I'm talking about a guy that plays well with every character and has been enjoying tekken atleast 3 times more years than me. Funny part was, he was winning that round and about to get a perfect, he got cocky and tried to finish me off in style... Miguel's special 1 hit KO'd him.

God of War 3 - Haven't platinum'd it yet but finished it. I just never thought a game could be so epic. So many scenes where I just thought "Wow... is it possible to create a bigger bad-ass"? What other game let's you play tug-o'-war in hell with hades... and WIN!? I'm not gonna say much more since they game's less than a year old. It's not one of my favorite games ever but damn was it awesome.

Resident Evil 4 - Beat the game 11 times over but the one playthrough that was most memorable, enjoyable and I'm most proud of was playing Professional Mode from beginning to end with nothing but the basic starter handgun and a TMP [without stock].

Metal Gear Solid 3 - The first time I sat down in a room by myself and played the game from beginning to end. Just... wow.



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Siosal on 04 May 2010

/\ Unfortunately I do not have a net connection at home, so all I have are Killzone 2's offline trophies. Can't get anything other than those.

Played online twice at a friends house and I was surprised how good I was.