Do you think Video games have gotten too violent?

Now a days a game without any form of violence is a rare thing. Back in the days of mario and pac man there weren't any kind of violence and games were fun to play. Games like GTA does effect the kids in a bad way and example of this is the incidents in which kids shoot each other in real life.

yes!! You are absolutely right,the most of video games are getting inspired from the action movies,or they are game version of well known hit action flicks, and hence they are violent in nature,and also getting more violent with times.But I am concerned about what effect they bring on the minds of the kids. What do you think??

I can remember when people thought Mortal Kombat was too violent. The games today make Mortal Kombat look sweet and innocent. The problem is that as soon as someone comes out with a game that gets labeled the most violent or shocking ever then someone else feels like they have to try and top it. To answer your question, yes I think they have gotten too violent. Why do people think something has to be gory and sick to be fun? I must be in the minority though because it's market driven...violence sells. If people would stop buying the ridiculously senseless violent games then companies would stop focusing on making their games shocking and spend more time focused gameplay.

Yes, game companies are making money from what society produces. We live in a violent world, why not market that to people who might just kill a computer character and get it out of their system instead of killing someone in real life. I don't play those kinds of games, I don't want to become desensitized so that real life looks like a video game. I choose not to play such games, but I think they need market it during other TV shows besides the ones that kids watch.

yes, way too violent. There is even a video made available to the public that has to do with ethnic cleansing producing by white supremists.

Video games have been too violent these days. Role Playing Games with x-rating and 18+ rating have extremely violence in their act and Characters are tend to kill their enemies in each level. These acts can disturb younger people minds and can develop an immaturity in them. For example, my aunt's son, he's just 8 years old and he's addicted to these games. He knows every weapon name and the places where to shoot to kill a person. He doesn't have to know about these things upto an age of matured behavior but its very immaturity in him to know these at that age. Somebody have to take this into serious and act upon this.

Yes, especially in RockStar games, no violent no game. Nowadays game without violent hard to get famous.

I think that the world have gotten more violent than ever. Games are just reality's mirror so I think you can have right about this. Cheers and happy myloting.