Violent video games worked for me!

Minnesota Daily ^ | 10/1/04 | Bobak Ha’eri

[Crazieman]

To date, I've probably brutally murdered a hundred thousand in Counter-Strike alone. Not including any of my other games.

[qam1]

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[Bogey78O]

I often would steal cars in GTA:VC and run over pedestrians. Occassionally I'd steal the car then stalk and brutally murder the person I took it from. Sometimes I'd get the sniper rifle and "wing" people only to finish them off after they tried in vain to run.

Never hurt anyone in real life. Not even a puppy.

[RandallFlagg]

I still haven't played Doom 3.

*sobbing*

[Bogey78O]

It's pretty fun. It's like Half Life if Valve was a bunch of Satanists.

[Brett66]

I've racked up over 100 frags in one online game of UT2004. I must've killed almost 100,000 so far.

So far I've supressed the voices in my head.......

[Dan from Michigan]

I've played these games my entire life.

I didn't start shooting people because of Wolfenstein(The first "Doom"). I didn't start sleeping with hookers because of Leisure Suit Larry. I didn't rip heads off because of Mortal Kombat or Street FighterII.

They are all fiction.

Although I have to say that the one liners in GTA Vice City, Redneck Rampage, and Duke Nukem 3d are still hilarious.

[kenth]

Occassionally I'd steal the car then stalk and brutally murder the person I took it from.

I preferred the golf club for that...

[6SJ7]

Carmageddon! Now y'r talkin' real mayhem!

[struggle]

This dude doesnt even mention GTA:San Andreas, the most awaited video game this year, coming out Oct 25th. Combining Los Santos (LA) San Fierro (SF) and Las Venturas (LV), it will represent the whole of the state of California.

The main character is a black gangbanger, a big difference from the Tommy Vendretti slickster Italian type. This game is about 5-6 times as huge as the previous GTA games. You guys want to see how bad ass this game is?

www.rockstargames.com/sanandreas

[silent_jonny]

Finally--the truth. I've killed roughly a billion lifeforms playing video games and I've never--not once--had an urge to kill anybody in real life. If anything, video games are what keep me sane.

[silent_jonny]

I'm waiting for San Andreas, too. But Metal Gear Solid 3 is higher on my list.

[DocRock]

Gaming is a multi-billion dollar per year market. Many of our future warriors are in training right now and don't even realize it with games like the DeltaForce series, Battlefield 42 or my favorite, Desert Combat.

[Nowhere Man]

I often would steal cars in GTA:VC and run over pedestrians. Occassionally I'd steal the car then stalk and brutally murder the person I took it from. Sometimes I'd get the sniper rifle and "wing" people only to finish them off after they tried in vain to run.

Never hurt anyone in real life. Not even a puppy.

I also like to play "Carmageddon II" where you hit peds and try to take the other cars out. My favorite cars are the 1956 T-Bird and the 1963/65 Buick Riveria. B-) Anyhoo, other games I like on the Playstation are "Army Men 2 - Air Assault," "Final Fantasy VII," "Final Fantasy VIII," "Lunar - Silver Star Story," "Syphon Filter," "Road Rash Jailbreak," (where my tagline comes from) and "Twisted Metal." Army Men 2, I love the bug hunt using the helicopters, especially the bumble bees, I love how they just disentigrate when you cut loose on them. Syphon Filter 2, I like the head to head mode you can have with a buddy, one time, we engaged in a knife fight and we both cut our throats at the same time and died. B-) The Final Fantasy games are cool too, love the anime look and the storylines. Video games do provide a good way to release pent up frustration, especially when you deal with the general public everyday like I do.

PC wise, I like Diablo II.

[silent_jonny]

Syphon Filter fan, eh? What did you think of Syphon Filter: Omega Strain? I HATED it. And I say that because I love the first three SF games, even SF3, which was a bit of a disappointment

[Byron_the_Aussie]

Throw into the mix a $100 million lawsuit filed by attorney Mike Breen, who is representing the surviving families of three students killed by Michael Carneal, a 14-year-old Paducah, Ky., high-school student who by all accounts was obsessed with violent video games, opening fire on his classmates on Dec. 7, 1997.

[Mr. Silverback]

The first things I bought when I got my first paycheck (which was a humongous four-weeker because of a misfiled tax form) were a disk drive for my Commodore 64 and a copy of Gunship. I remember on a lot of missions (especially the Vietnam scenarios) I'd come across a formation of trrops and just perforate the crap out of a whole battalion with that big front cannon.

I guess it did ruin me though. To this day I have a strong urge to machine-gun terrorist scumbags. Yep, musta been the video game...

[Reeses]

People against violent video games see them as perpetuating the human disposition for war making. If only they could suppress violence there would be more money for social spending, on themselves. They misunderstand the nature of man.

[struggle]

Yeah, it comes out in Japan first and there has been quite a big ruccus about it. Metal Gear Solid 2 was an ok game, I simply beat it really quickly and sold it back though. I'm still playing GTA:VC. I'm hoping MSS3 will turn out as good as it looks.