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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
When I read attacks on gaming by people who misunderstood the medium...
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IMHO, it's all bullshit, with games "promoting violence" and other such attacks. People who become violent after playing certain kinds of games probably have violent tendencies already, even if not playing those games. In that case, one should keep the those people away from games, not keep the games away from all people.
I played Carmageddon 1 and 2 a lot, back in the day, and I don't even own a car; not back then, not now, as I am not allowed to drive because of an eyesight problem. Still, it was great fun trying to splatter people over the sidewalk as far as possible, hitting several at once, and shoving other cars off the roof of a building (yes, you can drive on top of the buildings in this game) and seeing them explode in the streets.
I also played games such as Soldier of Fortune and Return to Castle Wolfenstein (the only shooters I liked back then), and I had great fun blowing people's limbs off, trying to hit specific area's such as blowing off the hand holding their weapon, and trying to get Nazi's to drop using a single headshot from a sniper rifle in RTCW.
One of the best parts in Dungeon Keeper 2 is the torture chamber, but I'd never torture anyone IRL. I think I just couldn't do it.
I never feel like doing these kinds of things to real people (ah well; normally, I don't, but there are exceptions
); not back then, and not now, so these games did not make me any more violent than I'd normally be, but they did provide me with lots of fun, making it possible to do things and commit amounts and types of violence that would be out of the question for me in real life.