I know, I know the last thing we want is to not have a good time. I was going to put a lot of my opinion into this one, and tell you why I felt the way I did. I am just going to keep it simple and see how you feel about it. Here we go... WEEEE
I try to read PSM and Gamepro about every month. Most the times issues are exciting. Well, I decided to pick up EGM the other day. Usually this magazine don't appeal to me, but with all the GTA hype I wanted all the information I could get about this game without searching on the internet and reading lame blogs.
As I started reading threw this magazine, twice they mentioned they don't like to talk about politics. Well, I run into my first sign ofthem being political, but it's a reoccurring thing with video games. That is video game violence. They were talking about how so many people play video games and how really there isn't much violence from the gamer crowd. So therefore games don't cause kids to get violent. Which I can agree with. I doubt some kid is going to play GTA: San Andreas and start getting gangster on everybody and shooting his town up trying to clean the streets then finding some rapper to kill so he can get a fancy mansion.
I flip to the next page, and they start talking about how 6 out of 7 games released in so many X months are "Military" style games. This guy tells us to wake up because before we know it our youth is going to play these games and join the military. So America needs to "wake up" basically saying we are going to be brain washed to join.
Then I read on to an article with David Jaffe the creator of the God of War games. He proceeds to talk about how he wants a game where you are in Iraq and when you put your eye in a peephole you watch American soldiers beheading people, etc. Because, that is what is really going on over there.
Yeah, this is long, and it might bore you, but how does video games not make someone violent, but makes them join the military?
How many 11 year old kids are going to read this magazine and think his brother/dad/cousin is going around chopping peoples heads off?? I am guessing and hope to God we aren't purposely killing innocent people or chopping heads off.
So I begin to wonder, is this new wave of people really brain washing our youth?? is it so much the right-wing conspiracy anymore as it is the liberal left sucking our youth in with brain washing to be anti-military, ?
I hope this came off alright, I think I might have A.D.D.