FAQ Interactive, Are Video Games Good? A Non-Gamer's Perspective

FAQ Interactive, Are Video Games Good? A Non-Gamer's
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The argument as to whether video games are good or not is
perhaps one of the
hottest debates today. There are smart, well-educated,
well-meaning people
on each side of the debate.

As a non-gamer, I have an interesting perspective bring to
the discussion -
I'm a non-gamer who views video games favorably. Why? Allow
me to explain.

Probably the largest complaint against video games is that
they encourage
violence. Perhaps they do. But I think that they are only a
part of the
picture. Playing a shooting game on your computer does not
and can not by
itself create a murderer. There are many other factors
involved. In my
experience, the gamers that I know are certainly not
violent.

I believe that playing violent video games may increase
violence only if and
when other factors are present. I feel the same about
violent movies, which
I generally do not mind. Take, for example, Gladiator or The
Patriot, both R
rated for violence. After watching those movies, I had an
increased hatred
of un-needed violence. They did not make me violent.
Instead, they
re-enforced my belief that cruelty is wrong, and violence
should be avoided
if possible.

Another argument against computer and video games is that
they are
sedentary. Kids who play them often end up overweight, lazy,
and unskilled
in other ares of life. Well, that may have some truth in it,
but that can be
said about lot's of things - including a desk job! I believe
that the key is
balance and moderation. Just as running marathon every other
day would be
detrimental to your health, so is playing too many video
games.

Before I close, let me explain why I am a non-gamer - it's
because I'd
rather go hunting or fishing that play a game about hunting,
shooting,
fishing, etc.

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I almost completely agree with you, I'm not a gamer today
but I was a
moderate gamer during the late 80's and 90's.

As you, I don't think that playing violent games does not
increase
violence, in fact, if you compare the units sold of games
such as
Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty against the violent actions
motivated
by them I'm sure that the conclusion will be that there is
no relation
between both issues.

I preferred playing (and still like) simulators but I also
enjoyed
(and enjoy) shooters, hence I played Castle of Wolfstein,
Doom, Doom
II, Quake, Quake II, GTA, GTA 2, GTA 3 and now I steal my
wife some
minutes a week to play COD 4. I'm totally opposed to weapons
and I
don't think that I'm a violent person (or at least not more
violent
that before playing  ).

In fact I think that the games we can can enjoy now are very
good to
avoid violence, they are very real and you can see all the
damage,
destruction and pain that those acts carry with them, I
think that
some years ago it was not the same and you could not
appreciate the
hard life of a soldier (just take Operation Flashpoint or
COD 4) and
the effects of a war.

What I think is that the media has to publish something,
they earn
money making news where news do not make themselves, so, if
one
individual takes a knife and kills one another and there's
the fact
that this former guy played COD 4 a week ago the media will
say that
COD 4 is the "factor".

The other arguments, where, as you say, I  have a desk job
and have
some extra pounds (not many) that I didn't had before I
began to work,
and I played computer games much more than know, as you say,
balance
and moderation is the key.


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"=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Manuel_Molina_Pascual?="
wrote:
> I'm not a gamer today but I was a
> moderate gamer during the late 80's and 90's.

Aargh !
Please move subject from advocacyfreebsd.org to chatfreebsd.org Thanks.

-- 
Julian Stacey: BSDUnixLinux C Prog Admin SysEng Consult
Munich www.berklix.com
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