Of coarse it does.

This is why society NEEDS video games. Without them, all us horrible, murdering/thieving rapists would be doing our villainous acts out in the real world.

There's a reason it's called roleplay.

While I do not think that doing bad things in a videogame means that someone will do them in real life, I do question whether they're still a "good person"

Personally, at least, I usually tend to avoid killing or stealing in a video game if the person was not actively intending to do as such to me, and generally even avoid the revenge card. It becomes progressively harder the more humanized they become, too. A random civilian in GTA IV? Sure. The moment they say something that simulates emotion, like a distresses "I'm too old for this..."? Yeah, feel horrible inside. The Whodunit Dark Brotherhood quest in Oblivion, too, made me feel rotten because the last person I had alive refused to think I was the murderer, and he tried to break down the door to save the both of us. And I had to murder him.


I actually though the exact same thing.

Even though I found the Dark Brotherhood really fun in Oblivion, I could not bring myself to be a Fiend in New Vegas.

Joke?... I hope?

This is essentially what I was going to say. I am fundamentally a 3rd person role player. The characters I create are very different from me, not only in their actions but in their core philosophies and motivations. It could very easily be likened to writing a character in a book, or playing a character in a play. One need not be a murderous cannibal to play Titus Andronicus. It's a role. It's not you.

That said, for those who self-insert and play as themselves, I always wonder how they can stomach joining the Dark Brotherhood or Caesar's Legion.

...... what would I possibly be joking about?

Fine, fine. You know how the internet can be, though.

That depends... on many things.


Short answer no.

This sounds like something Jack Thompson would ask...

I don't think little kids are cruel and malevolent if they play cowboys and Indians...

Make-believe =/= Real Life

You may be right.But anyway we can pick the "Christian god as an example" of a Deadric Prince way of think.Like:
"He Killed Billions if not Hundreds of trillions of animal creatures,as well hundreds of milions humans.And yet,he doesn't give a [censored]."

Not really sure what you're saying here, but stay away from religion unless you want the mods to come get ya (it's against the rules).

I don't even know what I'm reading...

I'm not insulting the christian religion.I'm apling that the same way of "How a Deadric prince thinks/works" can be applied in the real world.And that the real world "gods" from all the religions can being seeing in the same way.Homever,no one thinks like "me"So i'm going respect that, and also i don't want get banned.

Yes. Infact, studies have shown that involving oneself in the participation of simulated enactments of violence cause not only violence in the real world, but the studies say that it makes you a bad person. No really, that's what it says, and they weren't even testing for that.



















Happy New Years mate

I'm not that dramatic. It's not like I enjoy hurting people, it's just the law of the jungle.
P.S. about the biology thing... Well, I oppose animal testing so I think a shady science lab is a great place for rapists and murderers to make up their sins: testing shampoo and vaccines.