Gaming Violence Study Guinea-Pig Speaks Out

ViRGE writes "HomeLAN Fed has an interesting article up about the experiences of one of their writers being involved in a gaming violence study. What did they find? 'With the set-up of these games, whether the researchers did it intentionally or not, the violent games that I played anyway were set up to be frustrating to play.' Maybe games aren't as destructive as we once thought, and it's the lab techs that are?" Clearly, an incompetent mouselook technician doesn't mean an unfair rap for all violent games, although the piece does make some good points about creating a fair context for these studies.

Comments

Re:Sensitivity is to high?

[psilosopher256]

Find a Boomslang Razer mouse. It's not optical, but it has on-the-fly sensitivity adjustment, and its highest sensitivity is excellent for FPS games. They're a bit expensive, but if you're looking to boost your game this mouse is your solution.

Re:Sensitivity is to high?

[Silh]

Well, in the orig. Quake there was the m_pitch and m_yaw settings which could be easily changed/scripted. Having not kept up extensively with more recent games, I can't say much about them, though many seem to reduce the response appropriately when one zooms in.