Does Fallout 4 make kids more violent?

Post » Sun Dec 06, 2015 5:01 am

Just saw some disgusting F4 videos on Youtube and raised the question should this kind of stuff be disabled, eg how you can remove clothing off characters and torture them? I love the game don't get me wrong but maybe they should make corpses lootable but so you can't move them.

Here's an example of the crap I am talking about; removed

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Astargoth Rockin' Design
 
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Post » Sat Dec 05, 2015 10:11 pm

I guess this dudes IQ is less than 1.

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lexy
 
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Post » Sun Dec 06, 2015 5:07 am

No, there are disturbed people out there and likely in a population as high as we have in the world your going to have to get used to the idea that not everyone is sane.

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Breanna Van Dijk
 
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Post » Sat Dec 05, 2015 8:23 pm

No.

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koumba
 
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Post » Sat Dec 05, 2015 6:48 pm

It's probably more of a conduit than a catalyst. This guy needs a job.

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Kat Lehmann
 
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Post » Sat Dec 05, 2015 7:54 pm

I remember before Fallout 4 and indeed all video games, nobody was violent to anyone, ever.

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April
 
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Post » Sat Dec 05, 2015 1:40 pm

This is not a fault of the game and no I do not think that Fallout 4 makes kids more violent. People like the guy who made that video are sick in the head. Games don't make people like that. A mixture of genetics and his environmental upbringing made him like that. People like that will find all sorts of ways to live out their sick fantasies. Censoring everything so that it makes it impossible, for those kinds of people to live out their sick fantasies, is an impossible task. It is an unfortunate fact of life that sick people like this exist. There is not much you can do about it other than arrest and prosecute them when their sick fantasies spill out into real life. As much as I hate all the invasion of privacy and surveillance that has come about in our digital age. This is one area where persons such as this could be monitored. Other than that until he actually breaks the law I really do not see what can be done.

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Stace
 
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Post » Sun Dec 06, 2015 3:29 am

This guy needs a shrink actually. I've seen more disturbing videos in Skyrim. Either way, no it doesn't raise any questions imo. It's fine the way it is.

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Skivs
 
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Post » Sat Dec 05, 2015 1:46 pm

When I see a kid trying to build a mini nuke, I'll get concerned. Until then..

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james tait
 
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Post » Sat Dec 05, 2015 4:55 pm

Yes,games make people violent,hence the mountain of research and proof out there...oh wait,there is no serious evidence of that?My mistake.

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sharon
 
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Post » Sat Dec 05, 2015 5:44 pm

If kids are playing this game, their parents done something wrong. At least here its for advlts only.

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Emma Parkinson
 
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Post » Sat Dec 05, 2015 7:39 pm

When I was a kid, comic books made kids more violent.

If your predisposed in that direction, any outside agency might trigger a reaction.

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Ryan Lutz
 
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Post » Sun Dec 06, 2015 4:34 am

People have been doing that with the Sims... just saying... It's not the games, it's the people playing the games.

unless you want them to read "Catcher in the rye" instead.

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Alyesha Neufeld
 
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Post » Sat Dec 05, 2015 9:06 pm

only if Fox News is to be believed

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Robyn Howlett
 
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Post » Sat Dec 05, 2015 10:26 pm

Han shot first! ...

So did that raider probably... Selfdefence...

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No, violent games do not create violent people.

No normally intelligent healthy advlt fundamentally change their basic morals and view on other people due to a game. The impact of a game, gets far outweighed by the impact of real life and people around you, who give input in the directly opposite reaction.

A very small minority of advlts have mental, physical and/or possibly social problems, who can make them susceptible to the influence of games, movies, books, music, poetry and so forth.

We should not rework our society to cater to this small minority, more than we should rework all our street signs to cater to the most nearsighted people.

We should instead, become better to treat and help people with mental, physical and/or social problems (and the nearsighted, never forget the nearsighted!).

Kids are more easily influenced, which is why we have age guidelines.

However, if I were a parent and eg. my 12+ year old, could not handle playing a mature rated game, even with my support as a parent, then I would rate myself, as having failed in my parental duties.... of preparing my kid for advlthood.

EDIT and PS: I'm not too worried about this guy. As most people, he is probably quite capable of distinguishing between a game and reality.

Yes, it is sick... to treat a real human being as that. However, this is not a real human being.

If you think so, it is You, who are mistaking fiction... with reality...

Something to think about...

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Angelina Mayo
 
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Post » Sat Dec 05, 2015 11:04 pm

Video games made kids violent, movies made kids violent, comic books made kids violent, rock and roll/jazz/metal/Bach made kids violent.

Heard it all before.

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Far'ed K.G.h.m
 
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Post » Sat Dec 05, 2015 11:36 pm

There are PG-rating systems in place for these things. Fallout 4 is obviously not appropriate for young children, not only because of the violence, but because of the complexity of many of the issues it presents.

Just because parents can't supervise their children, media producers shouldn't have to censor content aimed at a mature audience.

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Damian Parsons
 
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Post » Sat Dec 05, 2015 10:29 pm

Reading penny dreadfuls is way worse.

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Post » Sat Dec 05, 2015 5:30 pm

GTA makes this game look like "Billy the Ghoul's Exciting Adventure to the Super Duper Mart With His Best Friend, Sole Survivor!" Written by Piper. Illustrated by Virgil. Complete with a scenes of Billy talking to an aging Deathclaw and petting a friendly Yao-Guai between its ears.
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Post » Sat Dec 05, 2015 11:30 pm

The uploader most probably just need some attention.

Pitiful man.

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jadie kell
 
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Post » Sun Dec 06, 2015 1:56 am

Games don't make you violent. Killing Animals and Eatng them makes violent. Also when you look at human history: Nazis - Didn't had Ego Shooter Games - IS - Don't Play Games. Someone who Plays games has no time to be make violent things in real life. ^^

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michael flanigan
 
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Post » Sat Dec 05, 2015 11:08 pm

Yes, totally. I feel an indelible urge to go slaughter super mutants since I've been playing this game. Can you point me to some?

Seriously, I think the extreme paranoia spread by Faux News has caused more murders than the influence of video games. And we're not censoring them.

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NAtIVe GOddess
 
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Post » Sat Dec 05, 2015 1:58 pm

No.

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Luna Lovegood
 
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Post » Sat Dec 05, 2015 5:28 pm

Its always disappointing to me when people buy into this for even a second.

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Talitha Kukk
 
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Post » Sun Dec 06, 2015 1:08 am

Wait what? Farmers and cooks are the violent people?

Are they mistaking cows, pigs, horses, sheep, kangaroos for people?

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