Why are people so eager to cry out loud when they see their rights endangered and sneak away when it comes to responsibility/moral for the group, their family or the community they live in? Yep, responsibility/moral is boring, takes discipline and cuts off a whale of fun - and fun is sooo important - easy fun, fun without going through trouble. Fun at all costs... (Why should I care about others? I want fun!I and I alone. I want to play this game now - and if I don't want to spend my money on it/or age rating interferes: I get warez - gah) - and the leisure industry responds: more violent games... Neverending cycle.
Because it is comfortable to them. Blaming others is one thing, taking responsibility is something different, even if it concerns their own
children.
Fun. Yes, fun is important. I wanna play this game now with all blood and gore, and I don't want anyone restricting me from buying it. From other hand I don't want to see children playing it. What impact do have violent games on kids?
Maybe there is no noticeable influence now, but maybe that violence will come out later, in 5-10 years?
Violent games will be published as long as there is demand for them. And I can assure you the games are becoming more and more violent as industry is moving forward and games become more and more realistic.
Weird example:
in SOF1 you could shoot off 8 parts of the body, in SOF2 - 18. I may be wrong about numbers.
It may help if there is parental lock/violence control in the game, but again, parents should use it. Do they? I have no idea.
Rating slows down spread of violent games, as publishers are always planning target wider audiences, rating limits this.
Theese are my thoughts. I hate to see rating systems, and I hate to hear that small children are spending hours and hours without parent's care, watching spammy TV programs and playing bloody games. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />
Kiya, and we can discuss and discuss this endlessly, as, ratings are very general. At what age person can be allowed to see blood? After his psychics, his mind becomes stable? I assume it is somewhere at 18, right? But, people are very different from each other, one is more sensible to stresses, to pressure, so it is 22 or 32 for him. How to handle it then?
I think you will answer, at least rating helps those below 18. And you are right, as there is no answer at the society lvl now, this again should be solved in smaller cells (families).
