Survey: Videogames and Violence (for a class)

[Ciartan]

1. Age: 18
2. Gender: Male
3. How often do you play videogames?
All the time
4. What genres?
Everything
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing)
Yes, many many many times. (HoN, that fucking blacksmith gets me everytime with fucking 4x multicast, FUCK!)
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller)
Yes, too many times, doesnt happen anymore tho.
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions)
Yes
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions)
No
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior?
Never. Im really not a very violent person, ive never really been in a fight or anything.

 

[tombman888]

1. 16
2. Male
3. 40 hours a week or so
4. RPG, FPS, JRPG, Platformer, RTS, MMORPG, TPS
5. A few rage quits and a bit of swearing (worst offender is Super Meat Boy.... damn that game)
6. Not the controller, but i punched down hard on the armrest of one of my chairs once.
7. No
8. No
9. um... my last fight was like 8 years ago. And If someone's being a dickhead i use my mind and tounge to tell them to get lost.

 

[koriantor]

1. 17
2. Male
3. 3ish hours daily
4. RPG, Shooter, Puzzle, RTS
5. Yes. Many a times during starcraft.
6. Yes and no. Anger from starcraft, but at a loss as to what to hurt. I need everything around me, so it's hard to be violent. So, I'm violent to say... a pillow, but not much else.
7. Nope
8. Nope
9. Never

 

[gizunt]

1.17
2.male
3.about 3-7 hours a day,depends on mood.
4.FPS,Racing(like burnout),RPG.
5.Yes,both swearing and rage quiting
6.maybe slaming the controller on the desk(not to the point of breaking though)
7.no
8.no
9.little fights for the laughs with friends, nothing too serious.

Glad To Help.

 

[Strathclyde]

1. 21
2. Female
3. 10-15 hours/week
4. MMO, RPG, Shooter
5. Maybe minor swearing? Nothing more than normal when the game gets frustrating
6. Nope.
7. Not at all.
8. Nope.
9. I don't.

 

[DuctTapeJedi]

1. 22 (almost, only 2 days left)
2. Female
3. Ten(ish)hours a week
4. RPG/adventure
5. Maybe a little swearing, quietly and under my breath
6. No! Although, this could be accounted for by my cheapness. I don't want to have to pay to fix/replace anything.
7. Never
8. Never
9. Also never

 

[vaderaider]

1. 14
2. Male
3. Every day for about two hours
4. Mainly rpgs.
5. Lots of swearing and grunting.
6. Never
7. No
8. No
9. Never

 

[KindlySpastic]

1. Age:
21
2. Gender:
Male
3. How often do you play videogames?
Something like 15 hours a week at most.
4. What genres?
Everything but Strategy games and Simulators.
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing)
Once in a while. Not too frequently.
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller)
I think I've hit the tabletop a few times.
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions)
No.
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions)
No.
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior?
More or less never. I might occasionally hit a friend playfully on the arm or something, but that's about it.

 

[Ithera]

1. 29
2. Male
3. Every day.
4. Mostly FPS and RTS I also ejoj certain "sport" games ex-(Blood bowl) and turn based strategy.
5. Oh yes, most certainly.
6. No, my tools have been spared my aggression.
7. No, My failures do not affect the real world.
8. No
9. I am not a violent person. Though that may change with sufficient provocation.

 

[eatenbyagrue]

1. Age: 22
2. Gender: male
3. How often do you play videogames?: more than 40 hours a week
4. What genres?: RPG, RTS, FPS, Action-Adventure, one or two fighting games and whatever the hell DOA Xtreme 2 is supposed to be
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing) Yes.
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller) No.
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions) No.
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions) No.
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior?: Very rarely, unless you count yelling at people as "violent behaviour".

On a side note, what would "violent behaviour caused by people playing videogames" (as in "other people" and not "you, yourself") count as?

 

[Berserker119]

1.15
2.Male
3.Couple hours a day
4.Every kind
5.All the time
6.It happens
7.Once or twice
8.Only once
9.I used to do it all the time, but I've gotten it under control now.

 

[nyx15]

1. Age: 21
2. Gender: m
3. How often do you play videogames? every day
4. What genres? mmorpg, FPS, puzzle, card game?, rpg, action... a lot of different ones
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? many a headshot has evoked a curse
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? punching my mattress once or twice when really annoyed
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? only when I remember how to do that one puzzle I was stck on for hours the night before
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? nope
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior? very rarely

 

[Superior Mind]

1. 23
2. Male
3. At least three times a week.
4. All sorts. RPG/Action/Shooters mostly.
5. Yes. Swearing is common, frustration ocassionally. Never flipped out.
6. Never the gameplay although some bugs, (games crashing,) or my computer crashing have pissed me right off. Haven't broken anything but some of my equipment may be able to say that they've been abused.
7. No.
8. No.
9. I'm an army reservist so I guess every time I do that stuff. I'm not a terribly violent person. I've been in fights before but I can't remember ever starting one.

And you're welcome.

 

[Karhukonna]

1. Age:
21
2. Gender:
Male
3. How often do you play videogames?
Depends on work schedule, but at least five times a week.
4. What genres?
I like action/adventure, shooters and RPGs. Pretty much everything except puzzles, strategy and racing.
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing)
Not really, no. Losing sometimes causes me to quit playing and go do something else, but I'm not really angry about it. I'll also think/say "damn" when something doesn't go right, but only if there's someone in the room with me.
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller)
Heh, I totally busted my Megadrive II when I was a kid, but that was just it, me being a poor loser as a child. After that, nothing violent at all.
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions)
Not really, no.
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions)
Again, no.
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior?
I'll spar occasional with my uncle. I used train jujutsu and karate, but I quit a while ago. I don't have a problem with using violence to defend myself, or to just horse around with the guys. That's not saying I go berserking downtown all the time, I just don't have a problem with violence.

 

[MindBullets]

1. 20
2. Male
3. Often, but not all the time.
4. A wide range of genres, but mainly FPS.
5. A bit of swearing, but only in frustration, like when a game crashes unexpectedly when I'm winning, or if the game is ridiculously hard. (e.g. that Kaizo Mario romhack.)
6. Most I've ever done is squeezed the crontroller angrily, and that was when I was fairly young and immature. Never broken anything.
7. Never.
8. Never.
9. Pretty much never. I'm quite timid.

 

[Smeg_head]

1. Age: 14
2. Gender: Male
3. How often do you play videogames? Perhaps 2 hours every second or third day?
4. What genres? First person shooter, puzzle/physics and Real time strategy
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? Not in recent memory
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? Nope
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? Nope
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? Nope
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior? Not very often, only in self-defense

 

[Durgiun]

1. Age: 18
2. Gender: male
3. How often do you play videogames? 2-4 hours a day.
4. What genres? Action, action-adventure, first-person shooters, western RPGs, JRPGs, sanbox, point 'n' click, survival horror, action horror.
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing) Yes.
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller) Yes, under ten times in my entire life.
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions) Never.
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions) Never.
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior? Never.

 

[TilMorrow]

1. Age: 17

2. Gender: Male

3. How often do you play videogames?: Try to every day.

4. What genres?:FPS, RPG, Action, Platformers, Puzzle, RTS, etc.

5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing): I do sometimes swear when ever the game cheats me or if I start dieing at 100DPH

6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller): Nope

7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions): Nope

8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions): Nope

9. How often do you engage in violent behavior?: Never. Unless you count shouting when trying to talk to people from a long distance away.

 

[linkzeldi]

1. Age: 14
2. Gender: Female
3. How often do you play videogames? Alot. At least once every day if I have time.
4. What genres? Platformer, Action, Action-RPG, RPG, J-rpg, puzzler, Shooter, Beat em Up's
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? They've made me frustrated, not exactly angry. I do tend to rage quit and swear though.
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? No.
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? Not really.
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? Not really.
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior? Never, I'm a passivist.

 

[cahtush]

1. Age:
15
2. Gender:
male
3. How often do you play videogames?
about 5 days a week
4. What genres?
rts, pokemon and a little bit of fps
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing)
not really, just a bit frustrated on annoying parts. and i dont swear (no im not religious im an atheist)
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller)
no
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions)
no
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions)
no
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior?
never