Do Video Games Make You Violent? An In-Depth Analysis

Nevermind,I found it through google images,Bulletstorm on topic,games do not make me violent,period.

$10m to decree that if you are mentally unbalanced its probably not a good idea to play games that depict killing.

Add that to the list that already includes smoking pot, taking acid, watching porn and most other exciting American activities.

There, I just wrote their executive summary for free.

Yeah I've always been very reclusive, can't wait to get back to play Unreal or later Half-Life.

I'd agree CoD players tend to be more violent, but I generally associate CoD players with douche bags, they were douche bags before they got the game though.

I agree that video games and violent movies CAN cause a short term increase in aggresive actions. Mainly because we are violent creatures. BUT we are also creatures who THINK. That being said, I personally blame the parents if they let thier children play the violent video games. Ive been playing video games since pong. Guess what, I havent gone out and killed anyone. Never had the thought "Hey maybe I should shoot up some place". In fact, I use the video games to curb my violent nature. I know what im seeing on the screen is not real. So I feel no shame or remorse in blowing away that zombie with a shotgun. If the parents chose to not accept responsability for the fact that they plop their children in front of a TV instead of dealing with them, then thats on them. My parents raised me right. They taught me right from wrong and the differences between real and fake.

Video games? Nah, not in my case. I suspect the only thing that would provoke a violent reaction from me is if I am -- or if anyone I love is -- physically attacked. Fortunately, the chances of something like that actually happening are highly improbable, given present circumstances. I am very thankful for that.

I play a lot of video games -- and most, if not all, of the games I play have rather vivid depictions of violence. But I have never physically harmed anyone in my life -- not even as a child, I think. To me, games are what they are -- games.

I pray I never have to be in a situation where actual violent action against another person is necessary. In all honesty, and all jokes aside, I don't think I'd do very well under that kind of pressure.

Techgamer,

Please re-read what you have posted. Where did you go to school? If this is what happens when someone devotes their life to gaming we're in trouble.

Just a bunch of garbage!

I can save them the money right now. Let’s look at the data, to see if there is a strong correlation between violent video games and violence in real life:
Using COD as an example, which sold more than 5.6 million copies, 4.2 million in the U.S. and 1.4 million in the UK within 24 hours of going on sale. And after six weeks, it made over a billion in sales (Wikipedia). This is only 1 video game. If there was a direct correlation, then there should be a huge increase in violence worldwide. But overall, violence seems to be going down (just based on news articles worldwide e.g. Stockton, CA police report a slight decrease in violence, GPD (Greenville, MS) reports decease in violent crimes in 2012, etc. – I’ve read several other articles in different cities stating a decrease in violence).
Video games are the latest scapegoat of a broken system. There was a time that it was thought that ‘violent’ music leads to violent people. Then it was violent movies and now it’s video games.
Besides, I used to play Duck Hunt for hundreds of hours, and I never felt any animosity toward ducks.

People should stop giving so much credit and realize that there are people out there who are more violent and angry than others. Scream 1 quote : "Movies don't create psychos. Movies make the psychos more creative." Same thing goes for video games lol.

I think the content of this whole editorial is pretty understandable perhaps because of this:

GTA IV influenced felony. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/regional/item_sZtcRgsjGwMGQ8xNtWJSwI

Crimes will be committed regardless of whether games are played. Games only influence the style of how crimes are committed. If the person by nature is not violent, the game will have no influence.

Wasn't there a similar thing about music making people violent? How did that turn out?

If the things you see and hear have no affect on you, why do companies spend billions on ads?

If pac man makes me violent, I wasn't aware of it.

Ridiculous, look at the history of mankind. Wars as far back as we have recorded history. Especially look at the last century, Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot and so on. No video games there. The world now is an armed camp. Look at Africa today, Hutu against Tutsi, warlords cutting peoples arms and legs off for intimidation, no video games there.
Violent video games are a product of a violent species, not the cause of violence. We have the cart before the horse on this one.

Maybe true, but todays video games sure don't help.

Agreed, nor do movies or TV today help the situation like in action movies (which I love) in which the hero is blowing away people left and right and cracking jokes about it (body count in Arnie's 'Commando' with jokes). I'm just making the point that the entertainment we make reflects who we are not the other way around. It has an effect though, just like advertising as someone mentioned

I fail to understand why anyone would see this as not true.

I take it you've never had a conversation about humanity with 21st-century hipster?

I agree with the champion of blood sport but when they make maps like in MW2 where you murder innocent people in a airport that aint right.