Violent Video Games

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel into the distant future, or fight off bad guys and win the girl? Video games have millions of variations, varying from the casual gamer playing, Mario to the competitive gamer playing something, such as Call of Duty or Halo. Playing video games has many effects on people, it can induce, rage, joy, sorrow but most importantly pleasure. Video games have the ability to bring such emotion and can really envelope someone into the setting and storyline. The imaginative minds of video game developers can have brought people into the far and distant galaxies of the future or even into the military that no one sees today. Millions of people in today’s world believe that video games promote behavioral and domestic violence. Video games have a large connotation of being a pleasurable experience and something that relieves stress. “Video games don't just provide relief from emotional pain. They can also help those who are suffering from physical pain. Psychologists at the University of Washington developed a game that helps hospital patients suffering from immense physical pain by using an age-old mental trick: distraction” (Gallagher).

People undermine the overall potential of video games, they can do many things that people don’t understand and better yet, take for granted. Not only one of the things that video games can do is help relieve stress but they can also, improve motor skills and vision, reduce stress and depression, along with drastically improve your decision making time. “Most video games require fast reactions and split-second decisions that can mean the difference between virtual life and virtual death. Cognitive neuroscientists at the University of Rochester in New Yor...

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...at violent video games or television shows promote and cause violence. People under any general circumstance play and watch media, no matter what type it may be, as a form of relaxation.

Although there have been findings in recent events that people that have done violent acts against others, have played video games under the shooter genre, there are still countless more people that have yet to act or even think in that form of psychotic thinking. The norm of people that have had violent outbursts against a large amount of people, have been proven to have had mental and cognitive disabilities. People have for years turned to violence in media to relieve their stress or tension, rather than do something under pressure from the outside world. Over years humans have involved themselves in different forms of media for relaxation and leisure, not promotion of violence.