And before anyone starts talking about the naval yard shootings and GTA, remember when gun movies like Predator, Commando, Cobra, Missing in Action, and the like played in theaters? Remember the movie Kick Ass? Aren't they promoting gun violence, too? And cable TV? And the news showing shootouts live from the scene? And TruTV showing murder whodunits? You want to go after video games when you have so many other displays of violence on the TV every day? And in the newspapers and on the web, too?
Let's get something straight. If games made gamers violent, you'd have 12 million inmates just because of Diablo 3 alone. We're not. So shut up about games causing violence. Games are just interactive fantasy stories. If a person decides to go do something violent, it's their responsibility, no one else's. If you have to blame anyone or anything else, BLAME THE PARENTS. Blame them for teaching the kid poorly, blame them for living in a crappy neighborhood, blame them for not paying enough attention to the kid, blame them for not loving the kid enough, blame them for leaving guns within easy reach, blame them for teaching them to hunt, blame them for bringing the kid into the world in the first place.
If you can't place the blame on the parents, don't blame video games, because video games don't do anything until a parent lets their kid play them. Parents are required to teach their kids to act peacefully within society. If the kid grows up and decides to say "screw the rules", the parents can't do anything to stop that person, and that person has made the decision on his/her own. If a game provides a fantasy that a person turns into a reality, the game is not at fault if a person acts out that fantasy. Nor is a movie, a book, or any other fantasy media. Everybody's been yelling about personal responsibility lately - where is it now?
@Alves_19 The guy was messed up in the head. Even if he didn't have access to the ship yard, he'd have found someone else to shoot. If he didn't have guns, he would have strangled them, stabbed them, or some other grisly act. Mentally ill people can do anything because they don't care (and possibly don't understand) about the consequences. It's not GTA5, it's pure insanity on the shooter's part...and didn' t the shooting occur before the GTA release? Get off the guns and the games, people. Come back to reality.
Leave it to foreigners to try to tell us a bunch of BS. Listen, Clegg, quit talking about violence in GTA and start talking about violence in Syria (who doesn't have GTA). Get your nose and BS unevidenced opinions out of our games, and get back to helping run the UK, moron. And go get our research before shooting your mouth off and looking like an ass.
@yourdem1ze @VarietyMage Nostalgia is the feeling that exists when something good is remembered. Diablo 2 I remember with nostalgia. Diablo 3 is a game I remember with scorn, disgust, and a feeling of the loss of a good franchise because the developers broke the franchise probably permanently. And I don't wear glasses...I don't know what you're smoking, kid.
Unless they fix the Diablo franchise (if they split), they will still lose money (and maybe go bankrupt). Nobody wants to play crap like Diablo 3 - we wanted Diablo 2 with some modifications, not the steaming pile they served us.
@3v1LR0n1N @VarietyMage Like I said, I won't buy hand-helds just for those games. My PS3 (and eventually a PS4) are sufficient enough platforms for SMT games. If they want my money, they can port the game (up the resolution and add some stuff to it in the process). Call it SMT xxx Ultimate.
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