Are video games too violent?

They even say 18+ when you start it :D

I do. And videogames are not too violent. Violence is bad as long as it damages in some way or another any being or their belongings. It's not inherently bad and portraying it in non-real enviroments is not execrable and should not be banned.

Lets all just play secrets of the magic crystal.

MEEEEE. More blood and gore, please. :D

Btw, nice SpaceChem avatar. :)

Yes. I find it very offensive, we should report it to PETA.

There's kinda violence in game but gamers wanna move away the real world.

bad rats - primitive game for primitive peoples

Yeah, but it's done because it's easy.

The problem is, it's incredibly difficult to have intelligent games as a result. Bioshock Infinite was brilliant, but even it was muddied by the violence since how exactly are you supposed to gain any semblance of moralism from a game where you play a psycopathic mass murderer?

And you play one in literally every game, so you're pretty much Osama Bin Laden if you think about it and it ruins the experience sometimes.

Well from what I've heard no person can actually enjoy Bad Rats ;)

Well, as a German I almost shit in my pants when I read the Dota changelog yesterday: added low violence content
Thank god, its just China, there heros must not have faces. Too violent! Nerf pls!

I know a game that has a lot of violence. It calls super mario bros. you even earn more points as much you kill poor Innocent walking mushrooms, turtles and flying turtles. my dog even had to go to a doctor to recover himself.

now seriously, I think games can only influence to violence if the gamer is a kid(or he still think like one) and this kid has a not stable family, like parents fighting each other, has no father or mother, or simply the parents don't care a little bit about him.

manhunt ofc...

I love my dog and take good care of her(she eats better than I do), but I'd happily kill millions of virtual dogs with a hacksaw. Cause that's what they are. Just models of something. Lines of code and pixels. If you think that's the same as the real thing, then you probably lack any moral guidance from other sources in your life. That's the problem with many children these days, parents just put them behind a screen and don't explain the shit they see.

Imho freedom in content creation is important and you should be able to go as violent/obscure as you want. It's up to the responsible parents and communities to regulate who gets to access it though. As a child in development shouldn't see too much crap.

If Bad Rats wasn't an abomination that nobody likes, it most likely would have sparked an outrage, but it didn't. It gets me thinking, when was the last time an unpopular game cause a reaction in media? Night Trap? Hell, remember the "adoption controversy" regarding Portal 2, when they must have been really struggling to come up with something?

never.

Nah

only a horrible person would enter a giveaway for such a horrible game.

I don't like killing (friendly) dogs in games, which is why I felt kinda bad the first time I did it in Assassin's Creed 3, and Far Cry 3 as well I guess, but honestly it's no big deal, and it's ridiculous feeling bad about a dog but not the thousands of humans I've killed in videogames.

I don't think games are too violent, bu I don't like that nudity is viewed as such an adult thing, but bloody murder isn't, it's one of the reasons I like Game of Thrones, I feel like the balance between nudity and violence is well done, and it's mostly in relevant places, except for some way-over-the-top scenes in season 2.

Even if they are, why does it matter ? Games can express whatever their developers intended. Same as movies or other form of media. Don't like something ? Don't play it :D Simple as that, there's no need to question tastes. Nor is there any need for censorship. In case you're questioning whether it's a good game or not that's fair (I heard it's pretty darn bad but I never played bad rats myself). Gl hf !

They portrait the world -sometimes with wanted exaggeration-, pretty much the same way books, movies, painting, etc do.
There are violent video games because we are violent.

Video games arent too violent. Real world is and games only depict that. No one notices brutality when watching tv news but only when they see something in a game? Why is that?

Really violence in media only affects you if you already have something wrong with you mentally, in wich case you're probably already doing some pretty weird stuff, like torchering your pet cat or something. Just an example, I've never harmed a cat, or any other animals, besides that bird I accidently shot as a kid with a BB gun, It rally was an accident, he flew infront of the can I was shooting at.

Games need more nudity if anything.