no such thing as too violent
only not violent enough
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If you are letting your children play a violent game you really need to question whether it was right for you to have kids in the first place.
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+1 I really don't understand the people who willingly go out and buy these kids violent games then complain that their children are playing them...
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Equally silly are the ones who demand a game be banned without actually understanding what it is about.
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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.
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I have edited the question now as I am now interested in on both of them questions. Thanks
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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.
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There is no violence-ban in Germany..the only banned Games in Germany are those with Nazi-Symbols and any kind of pedophile content. All others are just rated not to sell or advertised to younger people. If publishers decide to sell to 12 year old kids and remove scenes and alter the blood to something green, it´s their decision .
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When you could shoot a cat and see the head splatters everywhere.
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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.
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Exactly these things are all around us on a daily basis. If I ever had kids I'd much rather them act all this stuff out in a videogame rather than in real life. But hey that's just a personal opinion I guess
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isn't that half the problem? by presenting it ina morality and consequence free format, doesn't that desensitise people to the awfulness of these things, "hey, dead bodies!" "ignore it, they're just headshot, no proper guts and gibbing, now pass the RPG..."
I just get worried that as the games become more violent and appalling and sadistic to represent "the real world" those subgroups which causes these things in the media, whether gangs or militias or survivors in war torn areas, get both ideas to replicate and ambition to do that little bit better - to upgrade the unimaginable... and that strongly alarms me.
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Maybe if the game had disclaimers? Such as "DISCLAIMER: This game was made to allow players to experience things they should never do or tolerate otherwise. Elements depicted in this game such as violence, rape (etc) are wrong and should be treated with disdain in real life."
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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.
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So I take it games like "Postal" aren't really your thing then?
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a game is too violent if it has violence in it.simple
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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Question is in the subject
EDIT: UraniumFalconPunch raised a interesting question.
When is a game
A) Too violent for you?
B) Too Violent for the public and should be banned?
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