Video Games: They Are Not All Bad

From time to time real life can be insane in a way also a few of the events that happens seem related to a video game. For instance, when it comes to winning whether is a discussion or a price as the situation goes do people understand the value or just to irritate their opponent mad. The game Super Mario seems amusing as well as entertaining but consider of what the next move in order is to win this game. Also, considerate of the next move you are going to make or the place you want to go. When kids play this game, their goal is to win and without noticing they are thinking seriously. Also, this game helps kids to multitask by pressing multiple buttons at the same time. Part of the skills that humans can take are, analytical thinking, multitasking including better eye

Another point supporting violent games is backed up by a study Journal of Adolescent Research. This study concludes, “Kids use games to experience fantasies of power and fame, to explore and master what they perceive as exciting and realistic environments, but distinct from real life, to work through angry feelings or relieve stress” (Casey). Another theory is that violent video games might cause guilt. Research shows that gruesome video games can induce a feeling of guilt that could have a positive effect on kindness, civic engagement, and prosocial behavior (Casey). By making kids feel bad, they may want to do something kind to feel better

Not all video games are the same, but that’s doesn’t matter because the violent one only receives attention from the media. For example, CNN covered a story on an 18-year-old gunman in Germany, they proceeded to accuse violent video games because the kid was a fan of first person shooter games. They then proceeded to talk about why they are bad and how there is a significant link between violence and video games. “Overall, the academy's summary of the results from more than 400 studies revealed a "significant" link between being exposed to violent media (in general) and aggressive behavior, aggressive thoughts and angry feelings” (Scutti par.6). They then proceeded to failing to defend why video games are bad by saying “He discovered that playing video games, no matter how

To start with, videogames can help kids improve their problem solving skills. In the game “killer” the students are allowed to shoot their enemy whenever they want, except at school safe zone. One of the students, Jake Protell chased his prey to the Newark airport. After recent events at airports guns are not allowed to be brought into the airport. instead. In the article “High-Jinks: Shoot-Out”, by Guy Martin, Martin states “Protell took a car to Newark Airport, found the victims before they passed through security, and dispatched them using two bathtub ‘squirt fish.’” By using “squirt fish” Protell was able to go near his target without being seen and shoot him with water. Since Protell was quick at thinking, he was able to shoot them before they passed through security where he would have needed a passport to pass through. He also followed the rule of not bringing firearms into the airport. If he did he might have been arrested for being thought of having a firearm. Violent role playing games also help with problem solving because they help kids make decisions under pressure. In the game Grand Theft Auto people can choose how they want their game to be played (sandbox). In the article “Do Games Like 'Grand Theft Auto V' Cause Real-World Violence?” by Erik Kain, he states, “We can drive through stop lights, mow over civilians, crash and die and start over, get in ridiculous gunfights and still

I chose this topic because I want to be a videogame designer and I wanted to defend my right to create what I want. Unfortunately, after researching this topic it is clear that it is no longer possible to say violent media is completely harmless. Videogames and television do have harmful effects on children and young adults. Research has been done since the 1950’s and almost all studies show clear evidence that media violence does cause increased violent tendencies, desensitization, and antisocial behavior – which is the same as sociopathic and psychopathic behavior, it does not mean introverted.

This is all coming to my final point - Video games have plenty of negative aspects to their existence. People with violent and dissociative tendencies can get lost in these bloody worlds and come out the other end worse off because of it. Video games let people live violence on a whole new level never seen before. That said, just because a few horrible people are inspired by a piece of media, doesn't mean that media is inherently evil.

Dylan klebold, Eric Harris, James Holmes, and Adam Lanza. What do all of these men have in common. To start, they all committed mass shootings killing or injuring from 20 to 84 people. According to Eric Kain in the article “Do Games Like 'Grand Theft Auto V' Cause Real-World Violence?” they all were described as being addicted to video games. Over the years we have all heard from one person to another about videogames being harmful, but are they right? Today video games are as bloody and violent as ever and their violence may be fueling the urges of crimes in the real world. Violent video games can cause harm in the real world and to the people who play them. From suggesting that violence is acceptable, causing aggressiveness in players, and being above all harmful to those with mental illnesses. Violent games as certainly causing a great deal more harm than good.

Violent video games cause dangerous and, aggressive thoughts to appear, and may make people act out in violent ways causing them to become harmful to their surroundings. In addition to making the player aggressive, violent video games are also linked to criminal activity. According to the article, "Do Games like 'Grand Theft Auto V' Cause Real-World Violence?", “The Aurora shooter, James Holmes, the Sandy Hook shooter, Adam Lanza, they’re all described as essentially being addicted to video games” (Kain 1). Becoming addicted to video games, like these people, can reflect in actions, making gamers dangerous. On top of causing aggression playing violent video games, “Increases the likelihood that a person will commit a violent crime, like murder or assault” (Carey 1). Playing violent video games is harmful to the player and, their surroundings because they can have sudden outbursts causing harm to others. Video games, especially addictive, and violent games, are linked to criminal activity and, make people addicted, and harmful.Some people think that if they distract children with enjoyable video games it will cause them to be too distracted to do anything else, like violent behavior.

In 1976 the arcade game "Death Race" was released based on the movie "Death Race 2000". The objective of this game was to use your car in order to run over fleeing goblins. This video game was so simple but had so much controversy behind it that it led to the first study on the physiological effect of video games on the human mind. Ever since Death Race, video games have continued to make huge advances in order to create an almost endless amount of possibilities on what you can or cannot do in a video game. Since the first video game was introduced, the gaming industry has seen a huge spike in the popularity of violent video games. Not only have they become more popular, but they have also become significantly more realistic. So realistic,

In recent years there have been plenty of cases of music, people, games, etc, being used as scapegoats so authorities can jump to conclusions about violent events and blame these as the main reason for such an event to take place. To give people an answer that may not even have any supporting evidence. Nowadays violence in video games is up to the level of killing people as the norm with many popular titles having this apart of the game. In many games that is the one of the main features that add together to create the game. Some game titles that include violence and killing are ‘Call of Duty,’ ‘Halo,’ ‘Grand Theft Auto,’ ‘Mass Effect,’ ‘Battlefield,’ ‘Counterstrike: Global Offensive,’ and ‘Doom.’ All of these games main storylines include the need to attack and kill to progress forward (Mainly with guns). But does this create a bad effect on people? Is this making people more likely to be violent? Even kill in real life? This is the particular ethical issue that violence in video games is having. The argument to prove if video games are really a cause of anger and if they cause a more aggressive and again violent person just by playing. In the world there are over 1.2 billion people that play video games, which is about 44% of the online population (comScore data cited by Spil Games). With majority of games including some form of violence, ranging from being very gentle lego fights to full on gore and guts in 18+

If there were no violent video games, would it just be that people turn to other entertainment mediums such as movies and still cause these brutal outbursts. They are a runaway train heading on a course of utter brutality and destruction. A study was published in the United States showing that only 12% of people in a school of misbehaved pupils causing or taking part in aggressive behaviour had an interest in violent video games while 37% “exhibited an interest in their own writings, such as poems, essays or journal entries”. In addition to this, the idea of using different media sources as a scapegoat is not new. In the 1950’s comic books were blamed for violence and that was verified not to be the case. So it is the same story just a different media getting blamed.

Others may argue the fact that videogames don’t harm anyone outside the game. Considering the facts of murders and school shootings with the potential cause by video game playing, the stakes are high that video games are truly a danger to others. Just as in the article “High-Jinks: Shootout” this school is contributing to make this simulation as realistic as they can. The school has students contributing to fight to the death, by ‘killing’ other classmates for a earnings of money. Not only is this provoking students to act out, also a reward earned for such violence creates a harmful outcome in the students minds. Though this game only consist of fake weapons and or water guns, this game can also be very dangerous. The game takes place in the environment including others who don’t participate in the games. At one point a student gets to the point of chasing down a student to the airport, and as there overall motive to ‘kill’ the student there were after. These students are now using bath toys, later they can be overcome with the idea that violence is just a game, continuing in some kind of upgrade to a real weapon. Surely with this idea harm can come to others. Let alone the environment is too realistic. By being under that influence that the violence is game, this can be harmful to those teens. The issue is especially relevant today, because the games are more realistic and bloodier than ever, and because most american boys play them at some point. A psychologist at Brock University in Ontario found that longer periods of violent game playing among high school students predicted a slightly higher numbers of such incidents (schoolyard fights with peers) over time. This can show the impact that can be made on others in the same environment as the violent video game

Video games, are they bad for you? Research shows video games don?t have a negative effect on teens such as making them more violent, cause addictive tendencies, and shows how efficient the rating system is.

There are many issues when dealing with the two sides of this debate. Those who claim violent video games don’t harm society sometimes get their information from what they believe to be expert advice; many times this advice comes from “experts” hired by media industries. “The media industries spend so much money on trying to convince the general public that there is nothing to worry about,” says Craig Anderson, who was interviewed on “Violent Video Games and Other Media Violence”. “The media industry is very worried about its profits and will do almost anything to protect them.” People should also consider the times a violent video game was just the push some crazy kid needed to kill someone or do something crazy.

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