When is a game considered "too violent"?

no such thing as too violent

only not violent enough

Depends.

Too violent to exist, meaning that it should be banned outright? Never. I've no objections to them having age restrictions on them or even certain stores not wanting to sell them if they were against it. I think adults should ultimately be able to decide what's right for them.

Too violent for me? Well I'm a wuss, so anything that's not fluffy kittens.

When cute kittens die :'(

when a little boy drops the soap :/

Governments should not limit the amount of violence and gore in games, just let the people themselves decide what to play. Sadly, countries like Germany and Australia have been banning or censoring a lot of games. And parents should think about what games to get for their kids. Don't know what the game is about? Just watch a trailer or read about it.

Things that are too violent for me? As long as animal killing is not included, I'm fine with it. There are exceptions for that though, such as the Hellhounds from CoD.

A) Never
B) Never!

I don't agree with many games and what they have in them so I just don't play them. No one can stop people from playing them so you can't do much in this system of things.

When you could shoot a cat and see the head splatters everywhere.

Simple answer to both: NEVER
On the other hands PEGI or other ratings should be not broken as it is often now by minors buying games not suitable for them.

Nothing is really too violent for me; people afraid of something being violent just want to bury their heads in the sand and pretend such things do not exist. I doubt I have seen and heard it all, but nothing really shocks me anymore.

I have had respectable conversations with people who casually talk about rape as a weapon of war. Looked into a mass grave. Seen people burnt by White Phosphorous. Listen sometimes daily to people who talk about rounding up ethnic groups and putting them in work camps. Some would like to have slavery back. Makes me sick to my stomach but it is the world we live in, I am not going to pretend it doesn't exist.

To me, I think it gets old having stuff pop up with violence for the sake of violence, not to add anything to the game or the atmosphere whatsoever. Generally, I don't see a problem with "over-violent" games, as long as there is a point to the violence.

Never!

The real answer is that what is "too violent" is what is politically expedient to be for some Concerned Politician.

when they have sex scene those are always 18+

When I look away

a game is too violent if contains RAPE. thats all.

a game is too violent if it has violence in it.simple

When you live in Germany. That's about it.

Too violent for me?
Hard to tell, I'm one sick gal when it comes to fictional violence :D
Until it comes to pulling one's teeth, that is. So some sort of dentist simulator would be too violent for me I guess O.o

Too violent for the general public?
Despite what I said above, I can totally see games like Postal, Manhunt and the likes could be a bit too much for some folks out there.

Never.

Probably when a kid dies but I haven't seen that in any game yet.

when the game makes you twist your guts, and you draw the "this is going to far for me" line.
So it's a purely personal. i wouldn't play a game where you HAVE to kill human or human-like kids in order to advance on your quest/story etc.
but i have no problem in using some NPC's arm as a hammer to hit other NPC... and then eat their corpses (New Vegas is hell of a game)

Ask the german censorship, for them is every game to violent. I'm a german and i can say, we have censorship in all things, games, movies, books, comics, musics, animes, mangas, tv, radio, internet and believe it or not toys.

When I download it and it explodes my computer as an improvised explosive device. Or I buy it boxed and the disc Oddjobs my nuts off.

But yeah, I'd probably be more worried about overall realism in a game/the gaming experience, because do we end up losing the ability to distinguish between fantasy and what's real? Then all the violence you're discussing here goes into real life because people can't tell the difference anymore. Scary concept.