Forums → Games → Do you think violent games encourge kids to commit crimes?

i always knew games are fake so i agree some kids try to immetate it and they get killed.happended just around my town recently a kid took a car and killed himself.he was 13!what i wonder iz what his parents were like.hhhm it depends on the player.

it would depend on the age of child...... i swear...... O_o if a 20 yr old played a very violent game, i doubt it would have any effect on him.. if a 5 yr old played it, he would probably influnced

I don't even know if a five year old would understand it.

i really dont think t has an effect. most of the time people who do crimes because they saw it on a video games are mentally challenged people. most people are sane enough to understand the difference between reality and a game. ive bee playing m games since i was 9 and i never thought of copying anything i saw in the video games.

video games dont do anything. if a kids gonna copy a game theres already something screwed up in their head. games are not to blame.

some times it does. if a child is exposed to this kind of violence at an early age, he or she learns to get used to it. children should not be able to play video games only if they do not know how to control their anger.

not at all most people can identify the line between fact and fiction...life and gaming

it doesnt really depend on the game, it depends on the person.
I've played plenty of violent games and i cant even bear to kill a spider.
i could play violent games every day for the rest of my life and i doubt i'd get any more violent.

other people however may be encouraged by it, but if you ask me those same people would be influenced just as much by violent films and literature, but you dont see as many people blaming those for crimes.

I have noticed on a day I do not play video games I am less angry than a day that I do play games.

some games yes,but games like halo just becuase the character has a gun =\\ i think not,a game like GTA could provoke violence though in my opinion

i also agree with gman,somtimes games calm me down instead of provoking violence

When I said angry I ment "irratable". I am more "irratable" on a day I play video games.

I don't think it has an effect yes I think kids do stupid things because of video games and movies but violent games dont really have an effect i play violent games and i dont do anything bad whereas my sister plays some pony game and she's almost in juvi(so it deoends on the game)

No I think they kill for many of their own reasons

I really don't believe they do. I'm 18 and I've been playing games since I was three. The first M rated game I know that I was GTA3 about a week after it came out, and I'm pretty sure that I played M games before that. I believe that it depends on the child's mental state and, possibly, on how they were raised. I don't really think that anything else matters.