In the last class we have talked about how it's not true that game makes people violent. But it is undeniable that game does influence our mind, especially to young gamers.
Humans are vulnerable to influences. Where, when, how long, and with whom you spend time with are the factors that shape you. It is a common knowledge that kids are faster learners, therefore, the easiest ones to be influenced.
Now, this game may influence you to be violent, or develop a hero worship for Amaterasu and make you worship deities in the end.
When I was young, I really like to play games and watch anime. People said that I was not a good girl--selfish, insensitive, etc--and they are right. And as I get older, I finally realized why I was not good.
Some characters from the games are badass characters and of course, they do badass things to prove that. As a kid, I knew those things are bad, but after a while, I begin to think that it is okay to do those bad things. Why? Because those characters do it, and it makes them look cool! And it's worse when those badass characters are the main character! As a kid, I just innocently tried to follow their example, and found out in a hard way that reality doesn't work that way.
Years later, I took a look again at those games and animes. I was surprised that some things are not the same as I remembered. Those characters that looked super cool before are just another human with bad and good qualities (some times just too plain bad and good). Strip them away from their, for example, super power and you'll find another human, that you may like or not like.
The point is, that children have limited ability to understand things completely because of lack of knowledge and experience. Violent games like Counter Strike, Call of Duty, etc don't make people violent right away, but they're not making good influences to children, assuming that they do play it for a long time.
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6 comments:
I must half agree with you but http://www.mopo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/theESRB-FINAL_1272413516.jpg
is I want to say. Does this mean that ESRB people are the most violent people in the world? You do mean that games influence you when you were a child and as you got older you just realized that all of that just so wrong. In my opinion, games like the other information resources can affect human minds, but not develop their character. How you receive and perceive information is different things, mostly children do not know what they perceive. Even at some point I thought that Mickey mouse was an evil bad-ass after watching "Fantasia". Kids just don't know what they get. If people old enough they kill people after played certain games, I would say exactly as professor said "Mad people just mad"
Yeah, there should be quite a few people played or watched people play erotic games in our school. Are they all perverts ? LOLs.
I do think violent games have bad influences on kids. When we first came to this world, each of us was like a piece of white paper with nothing writing on. All they know about what's right and what's wrong comes from their parents, their teachers and the environment they are living in. When playing games, not only kids but also every gamer would throw themselves into the virtual game as if that's the world they are living in. I think that can explain why people who have an relatively unhappy life are more vulnerable to get addicted to games, because they are strong in the virtual world. So do kids. When kids are playing a game, they are completely drawn into the virtual world that anything happens in this world should be the way it is. After coming back to the real world, they can't clearly distinguish which is the virtual world and which is real. What would happen is that they may become aggressive as they did in the game, because that's the way how they win and become stronger. Of course I do believe that family environment is an important factor whether violent games would convey bad influence on kids. As far as I was concerned, the first time I played Counter Strike was when I was 11 years old. Maybe it's because I'm a girl, I wasn't affected by the game at all. But some of my friends whose parents are divorced and didn't do very well at school got really aggressive and were involed in fightings all the time.
Here's a link I suggest everyone to take a look at
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/family/11/03/healthmag.violent.video.kids/
sorry, i forgot to attach the other one
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16099971/
actually this is interesting, as i googled "how game influence our mind" the subject of the research is always a child. In my opinion, a child still cannot differ real world with the game world and they can be easily affected, but as we get older we know that game world is unreal so what occurs in the game stay in the game. Well, maybe the problem is recent games made to be similar to outside world so sometimes people cannot distinct them anymore. I can be proved wrong though.
As I was said, those gamers who are not kids, maybe they are having an unhappy life, like single-parent family, both parents are not around and so on. They are not loved and cared by their family. They feel hopeless and disappointed about the real world. But once they get into the games, they become strong and they'll get loads of friends in the virtual games who actually can at least talk with them. That's why so many brat teenagers are so into games so addicted, and are not willing to come back to the real world to fall into the cold reality again.
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