What sort of computer games do you find most engaging? Why? What does it say about you? Why does computer game violence, mostly, not affect the players? Is there a level at which it does effect changes in people?
Personally, I find racing games, war games and sporty games the most engaging. I find that this is the case because they are the kinds of games (forms of escape) that I find the most interesting to me. I don't think that these games could be so exact in terms of what these games say about me.
I think that gamers, for the most part, are able to tell the difference between real life scenarios and violent game scenarios. I also think that the ratings system aids the way that gamers are affected. By the time the gamer gets to the age where MA15+ games can be purchased, they are at the stage where they can determine, for themselves, the reality of the game.
I do, however, believe that these kinds of games can change personalities. According to BBC News violent games do affect behaviour. A research team from the Experimental Social Psychology Department of the University of Missouri-Columbia in the United States has studied the effect of violent games on gamers and have found that gamers have become "desensitised".
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