Just read a story about some teens being arrested for plotting a Columbine style attack on their school. The news story was good until this phrase....
What the hell does that have to do with anything? I wish they would stop blaming video games for this stuff. You can see way more graphic stuff on the big screen and on TV....
Norman also mentioned bullying and said investigators had learned the suspects liked violent video games.
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Video games have just gotten to the point, via shaders, where stuff actually might look a tad bit realistic. But most, if not all, violent FPS games are when you are acting as the good guys beating down a ton of aliens, or you are a SWAT team, or an Army ranger team, etc, etc.
I think the video game industry has done well at improving the settings in which FPS's are played. None that I've played, with the exception of GTA series, promote gunning down everything and anyone. Usually you have a set of objectives in a military type setting or you are fighting your way out of something as in Half Life series, Doom series, and Farcry. Tom Clancy games are totally military based, the Total War series are historical based, and most other games are RPGs where everyone knows it's fantasy.
How can they blame these games when our TV's show far more than I've ever seen on a video game? I just bought NFS: Most Wanted and it's awesome but that doesn't mean I'm gonna take my Eclipse out and ram it head on into a cop car.
