Comments on: Are Violent Games Harmful?

By: Johnny grim

Johnny grim — Sun, 17 May 2009 19:13:46 +0000

i just turned 17 and i love video games and most of them tend to be violent and gory to the extreme and im as violent as a peace loving hippy in bunny slipers

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:52:46 +0000

Sorry that this is not really pertaining to this subject but please email me on this. Should Half-Life 1&2 be rated M? I am a 14 year old and was wondering. Thank You

By: Mike Anderson

Mike Anderson — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:48:16 +0000

When you are a carpenter, everything looks like a nail …

Thing is – if you are looking for a blood-soaked, horror-ridden, vulgarity-dense experience full of characters with ‘troubled pasts’ and so on … you will find only M games.

When I look at my play habits, it is very much populated with T and M games, and has been since before they had ratings. It is just the stuff I prefer to play. That doesn’t obviate the fact that there are loads of great non-M games.

By: Jonnthan Steder

Jonnthan Steder — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:56:50 +0000

Allthough i still think that when Halo 1 first came out it should have been rated teen

By: Jonnthan Steder

Jonnthan Steder — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:54:37 +0000

I agree with more with the Wampa King,,,,,he has a very good point

By: Mike Anderson

Mike Anderson — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:51:52 +0000

I disagree – Dark Forces, Jedi Knight series, Knights of the Old Republic, all of the Neverwinter Nights stuff, Temple of Elemental Evil, and many more are ‘T’. And if you look at the ‘best reviewed games of 2008′ list from Joystiq you’ll see that the vast majority are *not* M.

There are loads of good M games, but there are loads of great non-M games. But for X360 centric teens, it seems like all the world is a M game their parents won’t let them play …

By: The Wampa King

The Wampa King — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:40:29 +0000

I’m sure some will agree with me, but the majority of better games are M. Gears of war, CoD4 and WaW, Dead Space, Far Cry 2, Half life 1 and 2, Gears of war 2, Persona 4, TF2, Counter strike, Halo 1, 2 and 3, etc.

By: Jonnthan Steder

Jonnthan Steder — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:44:22 +0000

To my understanding of this situation, is that games can be violent and cruel in many was…..but that is why there is RATINGS on many games. For example, when i play halo 3 online and i hear 5 years old playing the games, it makes me wonder. If the parents are concered with what games there kids are playing..why are the buying these games for there kids. Dont get mad at the games……many games that are out today are based on what is happing in REAL life. So what i am saying is that, if games are harmful, then dont play them or lets kids play them.

By: Brenna

Brenna — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:40:05 +0000

You might want to get your facts straight. Of all the school shootings….only one kid actually said he played video games.

Just some food for thought.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:42:39 +0000

Im 12 and my mom thinks that i will become a lunaitic if I play mature rated video games but im only asking for games with no drugs sex or achohal and ive been begging for 6 years because Im to old for kiddish games and I have every Teen game Ide like wich is not very much I used to play gta 3 when I was 6 and I was fine and I am very mature for my age do you think I should be able to play mature rated games with just blood gore and voilence and possibly bad language?