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Originally Posted by Stuart C
The industy will, for a simple reason. While most people agree that violence in films and TV does not provoke violence in society, I have read that there is actually some doubt as to how true that is. It *is* true (IMO) assuming kids are taught the difference between right and wrong.
Another area of doubt is caused by the difference between feeling like you are *doing* something and watching it happen. Now matter how good the graphics, sound and force feedback joypads, when I am playing using the input devices available today (joystick, joypad, keyboard, mouse), I don't feel like I am doing what is depicted on screen. Combine this belt thing with the Wii remote (or any motion sensing controller) and it would be entirely possible that people will feel they are doing something (that is the idea behind it).
Combine that with a child whose parents idea of good parenting is to dump the kids in front of the Wii/PS3/Xbox360 and let the kids do what they want, and you end up with a load of kids who are actively encouraged by their console games to attack random people and they'll have little or no idea that it is wrong to attack people.
This isn't an attack on games specifically. I love computer games (even violent ones), but someone does need to control the level of violence present.
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A well written post.
I think that the age rating systems need to be more taken into account (by the shops selling them and adults buying them).
Parents need to be better educated about what games they should and shouldnt be allowing there kid's access to and like some do already game developers need to make eaiser options for parents as to content control within games. In alot you can alreay change the colour of blood, remove it all together, turn off bad language etc etc.