| OoSnap said: Okay maybe I'm out of the loop because I quit gaming after the SNES era but then got back into it when I bought a Wii several years ago. I thought about buying a 360 but that was until I downloaded a lot of demos on a relatives' 360 to try out. Call me 'weak sauce' all you want but I couldn't stomach all the vulgarity, violence, morbidity a lot of the games offer. Quite honestly I was disgusted and shocked of what I saw. The realistic graphics made it all the more worse. Violence was in games was cool when I was a kid when Mortal Kombat came out, which was very controversial, but now I'm a grown man and I would actually feel embarrassed to play like Dante's Inferno or a game where you have a chainsaw as an arm. Seriously, is this what many kids are playing these days? How can low brow stuff like this pass as entertainment these days? Have people lost their decency, morals and basic sensibilities? Is this the type of garbage teenage boys are feeding themselves with hours a week? Have people become so desensitized that they don't even blink an eye to it anymore? Then I hear stories from friends that most kids online curse you out and talk trash with harsh expletives. Surely America is declining. One thing for sure I would never allow my kids to have a 360/PS3. I wouldn't allow them to touch with a 20 foot pole. |
For what I have bolded in your post, I agree 100%. I cannot stomach all of the senseless violence in a lot of the video games. I know that there is a lot of 'conflict' (wars, currently they are more numerous, or we are just more aware of them since we are older) in our own world, but there always doesn't have to be conflict in the media. Even some movies are like that at times; movies I can't stand are horror (sorry folks, not my cup of tea). Heck, I don't even consider firearms to be the classic weapons; swords, axes, lances, etc. are more so. One shot with a gun in real life can cause a fatality, but so can other weapons, it's just for where you aim 
I think that E rated games are more mature than M rated ones. I would not even allow my own children (once I have some) to even play such violent games. Violent products wouldn't be allowed in my household, and my girlfriend would agree 100% on this as well. Though, she likes horror games but I don't...lol
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