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Guys have you seen it? It looks so different :O I'm gonna buy 3 copies of it for each platform. What do you think? How many copies are you going to buy?
Wow, looks like you have a lot of cash to spare.
Looks different. But...
I'm confused, you said you wanted to buy all three ports, now you're saying you hate them. Oh man...
First, video game play is active whereas watching TV is passive. People learn better when they are actively involved. Suppose you wanted to learn how to fly an airplane. What would be the best method to use: read a book, watch a TV program, or use a video game flight simulator?
Second, players of violent video games are more likely to identify with a violent character. If the game is a first person shooter, players have the same visual perspective as the killer. If the game is third person, the player controls the actions of the violent character from a more distant visual perspective. In a violent TV program, viewers might or might not identify with a violent character. People are more likely to behave aggressively themselves when they identify with a violent character (e.g., Konijn et al., 2007)
Third, violent games directly reward violent behavior, such as by awarding points or by allowing players to advance to the next game level. In some games, players are rewarded through verbal praise, such as hearing the words "Nice shot!" after killing an enemy. It is well known that rewarding behavior increases its frequency. (Would you go to work tomorrow if your boss said you would no longer be paid?) In TV programs, reward is not directly tied to the viewer's behavior.
Doom and Mortal Kombat came out 20 years ago. Students that played these first violent video games in high school are now about to hit middle age. My brother and I first played them in grade school and we’re both now professionals with graduate degrees. In these last 20 years society has not collapsed, youth delinquency has not skyrocketed, and the biggest challenges we have faced have had nothing to do with popular media.
Video games do provoke a range of emotional response – frustration, anxiety, elation, even sadness. But the same can be said of every other form of media out there – novels, movies, music, comic books, the list goes on. And just like movies and novels, the best video games are the ones that elicit the deepest response.
In the end of the day, a video game will not kill a person any more than a movie or a song or a book will. Each of these could tip an unstable psyche over the edge but it will be the gun in that person’s hand that will allow them to slaughter indiscriminately.
Those are voiced out opinions.I have been a gamer for 25 years, starting in my youth. I’ve been exposed to excessively violent games since the age of 13. When Columbine occurred, I was in high school. Unfortunately, my friends and I were targeted as “the type” simply because we played the same kinds of games. According to the media, I should be a prime candidate for studies like these. However, I have no desire to own or use a firearm. I have a strong background in pacifist ideology. I also enjoy the fantasy of gun violence in games, like the majority of my peers. On occasion, particularly in competitive shooters, emotions can run high. It taps into a part of the brain that brings out the same kind of unsportsmanlike conduct that you might see in professional sports. But when we’re done, it’s back to reality. We cool off. It’s just a game. We see similar effects on ourselves playing relatively benign competitive games like Mario Party (essentially a board game), or even Tetris, which involve no guns or violence to speak of. Emotional maturity makes a big difference. If we are to study violent behavior with video games, they should closely measure one’s physical and mental well-being overall, and monitor other stressful or emotionally challenging activities in their lives. Violent games alone don’t create mass murderers, or there would be millions of killers on the street right now. If the perpetrators of Columbine didn’t have Doom, they would have made their plans using other tools. I would not be surprised if studies show that playing violent games are detrimental to those who have certain mental conditions…and that younger players are at greater risk because they are still maturing. Playing violent games could expose symptoms of more serious problems, but the games are not in themselves the disease.
I can believe most of this.While some studies suggests physiological arousal, increased anti-social behaviour and aggression-related feelings and thoughts, many experts argue there is generally a lack of quality studies which can be relied upon and that the video game industry has become an easy target for the media to blame for many modern day problems. 12 13 14
In a study conducted by the US government, the conclusion states that violence in video games is not linked with aggressive tendencies and that other factors are at play. 15 In fact, there are many benefits one can get out of playing games including its capability to help players deal with stress and anger. Surprisingly, in spite of the studies showing contrary results, some researchers are still continuing to argue that gaming is dangerous.
Rest of the box: My first box denies that. Did you even read it?First, people may think: "I play violent video games and I've never killed anyone." This fallacious reasoning is a good example of how the "availability heuristic" coupled with the "base rate problem" (Kahneman & Tversky, 1973) distort reasoning. People have great difficulty judging influences on events when the base rate probability of the event is very low. It is not surprising that people who play violent video games have not killed anyone because very few people kill anyone. For example, fewer than 6 people per 100,000 are murdered each year in the United States (U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2010). It is very difficult to predict rare events, such as murder, using exposure to violent video games or any other factor. However, murder is the most salient violent event to most people; so when they don't have "available" in memory cases of people playing violent games and then murdering, they ignore the base rate of murder and conclude that violent games have no effect on aggression.
StoPCampinGn00b hasn't say a thing about the entertainment he gets from CoD (has quoted though). I would've liked him to catch onto this:I fooled you. I were trying to catch CoD fans.
My plan was:
1. Get them to read my thread
2. Make them post "cool, me too "
3. By posting here, get subscribed
4. Then watch my post here, read my hate
5. Rage on me / explain why's CoD entertaining, cuz I don't get it
My CoD - playing friend (one of them) said that it's this thing. The competition, the challenges, leader board etc. But fps isn't even a good genre for competition, compared to games like StarCraft II, that is built around eSports and player vs player gameplay with great observing.They're not aiming it to be fun, the only fun thing I can find from the gameplay is that you can shoot more people in a match than others. And it's sick.
Please don't try to modify others' preferences on life. They are decisions, and personal decisions are important. I hope you know I'm not discussing about you should stop playing realistic FPS, I'm discussing about the entertainment in CoD.My objective: To stop the hate and to make others understand why people like Call of Duty.
That was a controversial campaign mission designated by the "terrorist" who would rise in the next Infinity Ward Call of Duty in the future. You control a US agent, to learn the enemy plans.
I live Hishe
You know jondrean, I'm also interested to read SCN's reply. Will it be defensive? or will it ignore the said topic? This is gonna be good. *grabs popcorn*
I don't hate any at the moment, but I keep my mouth shut when I do.It's stupid to "hate" any video game, really. Why? It's a freaking video game.
I think anyone over 30—or even those with real responsibility regardless of age— realizes priorities change, and things like this are such a fucking non-issue in life. I'm not saying most are not mature enough to understand this....well, yeah. I am saying that.
Get a grip, and just enjoy what you enjoy, and let others enjoy what they enjoy. Couldn't be simpler. There are so many important things to complain about. Video games are not one of them.
As a side note, I'll be picking up MW3 next week. I have to buy an import version, since I'm in Japan (and paying a bit more, I might add.) But I'm excited to see what Infinity Ward has done now. My biggest hope is they fixed the MP connection issues that plagued the PS3 version of Black-Ops. Even still, I'd be happy to just play the Campaign. CoD games are such great mindless diversions.
What? All I was saying is what happened in that scene. I also simply stated that I have no passion for Call of Duty anymore, but I think it is still a quality game. My cousin is an RPG player and free world player, he used to enjoy Call of Duty as a pro. Had fun with a clan for over 2 years on the PC. He dislikes RTS games, and would not join any WC3 game online that was not hero based. That doesn't upset me (I get disappointed of course), because he did not express the hate that would make the fans less happy in enjoying their games.So do you think it is entertaining?
Your post puzzles me. You ain't gonna say I made that wall of text for nothing?
Fanboyism is an act where you protect ego of your group (CoD player base/community in this case) to the point where it counter attacks any criticisms and denies them, even if they're true... "Ignore all criticisms and believe they are false."
Do you feel like "this is the game" when playing CoD? Does a game published by InfinityWard/Treyarch attract you more than game published by other companies?
Did you know your memory can wipe out criticisms about brand you strongly prefer / you're fanboy to, even if it'd be true?
In other words, I knew from beginning a person that is attracted to a brand can't accept what I'm saying. I'm such a douche... (This is one reason why you should be the third guy at my fanboy scenario thread, it wouldn't be fully up to you what you'll answer)
However, I can google more stuff to respond to your possibly great sources if you want. Let's make gigantic text walls together ^^
Yes jondrean, I agree with your friend. I have my self laughing at my self trying to complete odd challenges, having a mic out with the enemy laughing at the kill cam, Call of Duty had the biggest factor in competition because it is basically you and the team work like a squad. You can't just run up straight to the middle contested flag (A control point) by your self with a machine gun. People focus on character stats as much as people study counter units in Warcraft. That is why I love Call of Duty. just a good ol' team game that requires you to think. I actually think it's cool that you think this game is realistic, other communities rage at how CoD has lower quality graphics, and how the game plays to arcade style. Luckily, you aren't an FPS gamer (Or so I think) so you wouldn't compare this to other games.My CoD - playing friend (one of them) said that it's this thing. The competition, the challenges, leader board etc. But fps isn't even a good genre for competition, compared to games like StarCraft II, that is built around eSports and player vs player gameplay with great observing.
@chobibo Of course gore and blood is nice, that's the reason I enjoyed Diablo 3 like no other game ^^ It was awesome. But when it gets to first person view and to the real world, it's not funny.
Please don't try to modify others' preferences on life. They are decisions, and personal decisions are important. I hope you know I'm not discussing about you should stop playing realistic FPS, I'm discussing about the entertainment in CoD.
It's your decision to play CoD, I can do nothing about it. I were still discussing about the entertainment in CoD, not hate.
@jondrean looks like the ignore topic at hand is being played here dude.
Yet you bothered to write a text wall about CoD haters...Honestly, I'm lazy to answer later arguments. I'm just having fun playing Call of Duty at my house.