I am from the age of playing games from hanimex, atari, apple, wolfenstien, doom, quake, etc. Vice City to now GTA San Andreas. Never before did I think it effected the way I thought until the GTA San Andreas copy. Because of my previous experience I had the view that playing games wouldnt effect my kids
I actually used to sneak into a pub when still in primary school to play space invaders and pong when they first came out.
I think the difference now compared to then is the realism of the games it is harder for people especially children to distinguish that the experience is not real and so I believe it has more effect on them. Like being in a situation where there are aliens is foreign compared to the cities and people in GTA.
Difference between movies and games is the interaction where I think conditioning will have a more significant effect if you are interactively controlling the characters compared to passively watching it on TV. Generally you more effectively learn something while doing it compared to reading how to do it.
I agree if we raise children right they should be able to distinguish these things thats why they shouldnt be conditioned that this is acceptable behaviour in video games while they are being raised.
My opinion is that game makers should have some responsibility in what they produce. To me it is what should be the level of responsibility and consequences.
If a game is found to negatively effect X% of the society should they be a punishment and what should be the punishment.
My opinion is the whole "Coffee" incidents shows that something is out of whack. ie its okay to kill police officers but not to have sex with girlfriends.
My situation is similar where because I am in Fiji we drive on the left side of the road, I have to remind myself which side of the road I should be driving on and have feelings of crashing into other cars
I used to be one of the people that always thought games were not linked to anything but personally the GTA San Andreas after affects have changed that opinion
I think what happens is when you get totally immersed into something and repetively do something it may change some of your learned responses
Bad thing though is my kid when he watches me driving he is asking why am I going trough red lights. I know I shouldnt let my kid play it but they like driving the cars and last week was the first time in my life my kid lied to me about stealing money. It could be just bad co-incidence that after 1 week of purchase a kid steals and seriosly lies for the first time.
I now know why it is bad parenting for letting an eight year old play games rated for 17 year olds. I just hope in does not badly effect them in other ways
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I am from the age of playing games from hanimex, atari, apple, wolfenstien, doom, quake, etc. Vice City to now GTA San Andreas. Never before did I think it effected the way I thought until the GTA San Andreas copy. Because of my previous experience I had the view that playing games wouldnt effect my kids
I actually used to sneak into a pub when still in primary school to play space invaders and pong when they first came out.
I think the difference now compared to then is the realism of the games it is harder for people especially children to distinguish that the experience is not real and so I believe it has more effect on them. Like being in a situation where there are aliens is foreign compared to the cities and people in GTA.
Difference between movies and games is the interaction where I think conditioning will have a more significant effect if you are interactively controlling the characters compared to passively watching it on TV. Generally you more effectively learn something while doing it compared to reading how to do it.
I agree if we raise children right they should be able to distinguish these things thats why they shouldnt be conditioned that this is acceptable behaviour in video games while they are being raised.
My opinion is that game makers should have some responsibility in what they produce. To me it is what should be the level of responsibility and consequences.
If a game is found to negatively effect X% of the society should they be a punishment and what should be the punishment.
My opinion is the whole "Coffee" incidents shows that something is out of whack. ie its okay to kill police officers but not to have sex with girlfriends.
My situation is similar where because I am in Fiji we drive on the left side of the road, I have to remind myself which side of the road I should be driving on and have feelings of crashing into other cars
I used to be one of the people that always thought games were not linked to anything but personally the GTA San Andreas after affects have changed that opinion
I think what happens is when you get totally immersed into something and repetively do something it may change some of your learned responses
Bad thing though is my kid when he watches me driving he is asking why am I going trough red lights. I know I shouldnt let my kid play it but they like driving the cars and last week was the first time in my life my kid lied to me about stealing money. It could be just bad co-incidence that after 1 week of purchase a kid steals and seriosly lies for the first time.
I now know why it is bad parenting for letting an eight year old play games rated for 17 year olds. I just hope in does not badly effect them in other ways