The Most Violent Video Games of All Time

adeelarshad82 writes "Switzerland and Australia already feel that violent video games are an issue, and in June the US Supreme Court will also take matters in its own hands. Revisiting some of the most violent video games made over the last couple of decades shows exactly why this is such a huge concern." Warning: this slideshow contains imaginary violence.

Almost all video games are extremely violent.

[olsmeister]

Otherwise, it wouldn't be an escape from reality, now would it?

Happens to every new media

[gman003]

Pretty soon, we'll be seeing stuff like "most violent blogs of all time" and "webcomics are destroying our youth". Just as soon as the mainstream media catches up with this decade.

Slashdot & Censorship

[CajunArson]

Remember everybody, anyone who suggests that playing violent video games 18 hours a day everyday might have any negative consequences what so ever is obviously a deluded Christian fanatic who just wants to censor everything. Censorship is evil!
    Also please be sure to remember that talk radio and Sarah Palin are so evilly powerful that they single-handedly caused the shootings in Arizona even though the shooter didn't even listen to talk radio! (it was the evil permeating waves). Finally, remember that if any school child even hears the word "God" used in anything other than a derogatory manner or even sees a Bible that isn't being desecrated, that school child will forever mentally scarred beyond comprehension. Censorship is good!

    No, I don't take all of the preceding comments seriously, but Slashdot is strewn with +5 insightful mods that do state all of those positions seriously... and sometimes in the same post.

The real motivation

[Anonymous Coward]

Violent video games make ME uncomfortable. Therefore, nobody should be allowed to make or play them.

Most laws that forbid civil liberties are based on this thought process, though they all have completely different ostensible justifications.

Idiots...

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Video games are among the best ways yet invented for keeping children from using the television to watch the news, an action which exposes them to a seamy world of corruption, pestilence, brutal exploitation, slavery, lust, violence, and savage, inevitable, death.

The idyllic gameworld, on the other hand, offers a few PG-13 "situations", some morally unambiguous violence, and a world were death is a temporary setback.

Video games are protecting the children!

Religion makes ME uncomfortable

[mangu]

Violent video games make ME uncomfortable. Therefore, nobody should be allowed to make or play them

I don't like people who talk about their religion to me. My solution? No, I don't want to ban religion. I just avoid it. Don't go to church, avoid people who talk about religion.

Even though thousands of years of history prove that religion motivates people to perform the most atrocious violence, I'm not proposing to ban religion.

Therefore I cannot understand why people want to ban games without even presenting credible evidence that games cause any harm.

Re:Happens to every new media

[Zocalo]

The scary thing is that you are probably right. Just about every form of media has been banned censored at some point; from the Catholic Church's removal of genitalia from countless statues, destruction of paintings depicting nudity, through the censorship of books, comics, music, films and more recently video games for being too graphic/suggestive violent. There have already been (mostly voluntary) attempts to get websites to rate their content for target audience ages, so I'm pretty sure it's just a matter of time before it becomes a legal requirement somewhere in the world. Right now, I think it's going to be a toss-up between Australia and the USA who gets there first.

This post rated PG for use of sexually orientated wording.

Re:Religion makes ME uncomfortable

[Jackie_Chan_Fan]

Aggression or Frustration?

They are very similar when it comes to gaming, but neither make you a murderer, unless you have the capacity to murder.

Losing your job is frustrating. People have murdered their boss or taken it out on someone. Shall we make firing people illegal?

ALL competitive sports, which are GAMES.... are both frustrating and generate aggression.

Games arent always fun. It shows a lack of intelligence by anyone to think that a challenging form of entertainment will be blissful. A challenge is frustrating at times.

Perhaps the problem is the human condition, and not the stimuli that we chose to blame this week.

Cancer is frustrating. It will make you angry.

A broken car can make you angry. Injustice can make you angry... Republicans can make you angry, and Democrats can make you lose hope in politics.

Re:Idiots...

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Special mention should probably be made of the "SVU" sub-genre, which combines all the vices of its conventional TV Police/crime ancestors with a relentless undercurrent of the most transgressive flavors of sexual violence currently available.

You pretty much have to resort to import-only, often not even available in English, Japanese stuff to get close in a video game context. And pretty much all of that is cartoon/animated, rather than FMV live action...

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Re:Slashdot & Censorship

[shutdown -p now]

Slashdot is not Borg. There are different people here, with varying political, philosophical and religious outlooks. That's why you can have several "+5" comments in a single story which disagree on key points - so long as those points are subjective and not factual.

Re:Slashdot & Censorship

[anti-pop-frustration]

>Finally, remember that if any school child even hears the word "God" used in anything other than a derogatory manner or even sees a Bible that isn't being desecrated, that school child will forever mentally scarred beyond comprehension. Censorship is good!

Congratulation. You've just equated separation of Church and state with censorship.

I wish Christians in America weren't such an oppressed minority with no voice (apart from several media empires) and nobody to represent them (apart from the whole Congress).