Possitive or Negative You Be The Call

[BlueWolf72]

Positive or Negative You Be The Call is our first article for PWNED.com and we wanted to ask our members what they thought. Some of you PWNED your heart out and well others just had no desire to tell us how they felt.

In today's world two things are true. You are getting PWNED or you give the PWNAGE. So we asked our registered users how they felt about the video game industry getting blamed for people's actions and the aftermath that ensues in some cases. Lets face it, no one's blamed Frogger for jay walking. Lets not even get me started on Pitfall. I have yet to see this game get blamed for rope or vine swinging. Video games, as a whole, are a source of entertainment. To some they enlighten and to others it is a escape of boredom. Read more!

[Nyghtshade]

I think its a bunch of crap that people blame the games their kids play for negatively influencing them. Parents just don't want to own up to their own failings and lack of attention to what is going on in their children's life. There is a ratings system for a reason. It is up to the parents to make sure that their children are playing appropriate games for their age. The kids may learn some of what they are doing from a game they are playing and shouldn't be, but in the end they probably learned most of what they are doing from their own parents.

I play a lot of games on XBL and am constantly having to put up with a bunch of 10 to 13 year olds being obnoxious towards me because I just violated their whole team. If I had been that way to anyone when I was a kid I would have gotten the crap kicked out of me by my parents and I'd never see my console again except maybe the few bits and pieces that were left after they destroyed it to teach me a lesson. I'm not saying that is the correct way for a parent to handle their children but neither is completely avoiding this issue entirely and having absolutely no control over what is going on. Somewhere in the middle is where things need to be.

Games themselves are not to blame for what is wrong in this world. It is up to each individual person to learn from their experiences and act in a way that is both respectful of the other people around them and responsible. Just because I enjoy stealing someones car and running over pedestrians to start a police chase in a GTA game or that I seriously enjoy sneaking up behind someone in a FPS and slowly taking aim at the back of their head before I pull the trigger so they can see it all in the kill cam doesn't mean that I am going to go out and do either in real life.

[G-Mazing]

Very true sir all your words are true. However not everyone is like us....(smart). As Gen x gamers I think we have a different attitude toward the industry and how it affects us. I do think there are stupid people out there that are very susceptible to mass media or marketing or certain things like that nature( video games) which would most likely make them do things that mimicked there favorite game. I can recall often me mimicking several games, or movies. I think the only difference is the individual person. I am very happy with the ESRB they do a fine job. Now I just think there needs to be stricter laws and regulations that might not let those "GTA" style games fall into the wrong hands.