Topic: Why overly gruesome, sexual, or profane aspects of games aren't needed.

I think it is because parents are not allowed to punish the kids since the study show that they get aggressive behaviour in the past. But how we can discipline kids?

I never said it increased crime! I said it was stupid and unnecessary.

@SomeBitTripFan There's no point to upping a game's rating with content due to difficulty or themes that are hard to understand. It's just pointlessly putting stuff in. And there are also reasons it's a bad idea too. There are people under 17 who will be able to reasonably grasp some of those themes, and being 17 and over doesn't do much to ensure someone understands them, nothing at all actually. So the idea of upping the age rating just to up the age rating is stupid. An example of a game that didn't do this, as it had to reason to do so, is Dark Souls 2. It's very difficult and whatnot, but it's still rated T.

@Jaz007: I agreed since the same people who is underage going keep playing regardless the rating is bump or decrease.

I completely agree with you. Games shouldn't have any swearing, over the top gore, inappropriate images, etc. And I rely don't understand why developers put so much of that kind of stuff in their games, my reason being that there are people (Myself included) that will not buy a game because it has that kind of stuff in it, but are there people who aren't going to buy a game because it doesn't have anything like that in it? I don't think so. So wouldn't developers make a few more sales if there games are clean? Furthermore, what happened to filters. I remember when this was becoming more common, a lot of games had filters that turned all the bad stuff off, but I never seem to see those anymore. Then there's the point that some games are pretty much centered around this stuff, like GTA, and how it wouldn't work if it was clean. That's a problem though. If your game requires swearing and violence and stuff, that's just messed up. Personally, I really like some of the ideas in GTA. An open world, run around, explore, do whatever you want, but then it just gets too dirty. It really is a shame that so many good games and concepts are ruined by junk like this.

Really well put.

Unfortunately correlation does not equate to causation. Any two trends can be shown on a graph and be said to have some relation to each other.

Well all I saying that gruesome, sexual, or profane aspects of games is probably needed for people to cool off. I rather have them playing the games than going out role-playing as an gangster.

@Jaz007: I'm not saying to M specifically, but more-so, yes, T. I did say children (in terms of 3-11ish year olds).

Now hold on, Ninja, there might be something worth considering here! If all this ultra-violence in games is quelling the urges of those who'd otherwise participate in illegal activities, wouldn't that make it useful--even necessary--to our society? That still leaves the profanity and sexual aspects (which, in my opinion, aren't necessary in most cases), but you should at least consider this before deciding that all games with gruesome aspects should dial it back.

@shaneoh: Yea, I didn't like the statement they made there. I trying to prove that crime rate decreased over time for each Grand Theft Auto game releases but this graph didn't work. Now I trying to prove that the crime rate do not increased for each Call of Duty game releases. I can't find an article that actually proven that crime rate have an decreasing relationship with Grand Theft Auto game releases. Its does exist somewhere and I'm not talking about some forum either.

I agree it is a great tool as an outlet. Just as long as people can tell the difference between reality and fiction, and not blur the line between the two. I agree that there should be a limit, but I believe that 99.9% of games fall within that limit.

Edit: I do know the study you were talking about, all I'm saying is that it's possibly a coincidence, but then maybe not

Games have always been violent or have had sexual and suggestive themes. GTA was on PS1, guys. The same concept has always been at play, in one way or another. Violence always seems to have been more common, as far as I can tell, though.

Clearly, as indicated by these two graphs, the sale of Tropicana Pure Premium Not-From-Concentrate Orange Juice is an important factor in the decrease of property crime. Nothing like some orange juice to prevent you from breaking into a house.
http://www.pepsico.com/Annual-Reports/2000/images/charts/trop...
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Was stuff like this in any games before the late 90's?

@SomeBitTripFan: I better buy some! XD

@Mickey I do agree that violence can help quell frustration, can do the opposite, but it just depends on the person. I do think that over the top ultra just shouldn't be done. On the subject of profane language which I also agree shouldn't be used, hearing the words a lot isn't gonna help you not say them. It simply won't happen, it can only make you more likely to say them. I don't really think that one is debatable.

Yes and as well sexual contents but it is not very common at all. I can't find any evidences on profane though.

Splatterhouse is an example of game before late 90. (1988)

It's the same as drinking or looking at porn.