Survey: Videogames and Violence (for a class)

[havass]

1. Age:
16
2. Gender:
Male
3. How often do you play videogames?
Every day nowadays, since it's my holidays and I just finished my GCEs. Time is what I have.
4. What genres?
Everything, actually. Platformers, Racing, RPGs, Fighting, Shooters, etc. Mostly Action-Adventure.
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing)
Rage quit only when my teammates are idiots, my team is severely outnumbered, or the other side is hacking. Apart from that..only the occasional curse when I do something stupid that I otherwise could have avoided.
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller)
Ah..nope. Not that I can recall. I'm not a very violent person, even though I spend most of my time playing rather violent games. Irony, no?
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions)
Nada. I do sometimes curse again when recounting it to my friends though, but that doesn't make me angry.
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions)
Zilch.
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior?
When the situation calls for it, ie. Telling idiots to go away. And using progressively more colourful words if they don't. Actual physical violence, on the other hand..almost never.

Thank you very much!
Benvenuti. *bows*

 

[WanderingFool]

1. Age: 22
2. Gender: Male
3. How often do you play videogames? 2-3 hours every few days.
4. What genres? All kinds, recently FPS
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? More than I would admit online... Nah, hardle ever, mostly never.

 

[MoD1212]

1. 22
2. Male
3. Usually once a day up to from 1 to 4 hours
4. RPGs, Fighters, action adventure, puzzle and tower defense
5. I curse at everything that pisses me off including losings in video games
6. I haven't thrown a controller since i was like 10
7. No
8. No
9. rarely ever

 

[Arkhangelsk]

1. 16
2. Male
3. Used to play several hours a day, now plays ten hours a week maybe. More if I buy new games.
4. All genres, from shooters to puzzle games to horror to JRPG's to RTS. Although I don't play western RPG's.
5. Yes, a little.
6. When I was a kid, yes, I would throw the cartridges against the wall. Not as of late though.
7. No.
8. No.
9. Never

 

[Deathkingo]

1. 19
2. Male
3. At least 4 hr a day
4. All
5. Yes
6. Nope!
7. Nope!
8. Nope!
9. Not very often.

 

[AngelOfBlueRoses]

1. Age: 17
2. Gender: Male
3. Depends. Usually if I'm not in a dry spell for games, I can do 20+ hours a week. Right now, I'm going through GTA: San Andreas and playing that every hour that I can in between college work.
4. All genres except fighting, racing, and sports, but my favorites are RPGs and Shooters. Brawlers are good fun, too.
5. Not really. When I get frustrated over a game, I don't swear or ragequit. I'll gently set my controller down and go to Kongregate for a few flash games or watch something on Hulu.
6. Never! That's a fifty dollar controller there!
7. While thinking about them has never caused me anger, they have caused me to become airheaded.
8. Not once.
9. Depends on what you mean by violent. Does playfighting with a lover count? Probably not. If not, never. I'm not a violent person; more altruistic than I am aggresive. I'm a non-confrontational person.

 

[cystemic]

1. Age:17
2. Gender: Female
3. How often do you play videogames? nearly everyday, couple of hours maybe
4. What genres? rpg, fps, action/adventure
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? definitely, if i had to compare it it would probably be like having to do a team assignment and then realising that everyone on the team is a useless douche. I've never ragequit, only rageplayed and I do swear a gratuitous amount when provoked.
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? I only harm couch cushions, controllers are expensive .
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? Probably.
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? I think I am generally more open to violence because I play games but I've never actually punched anyone or anything.
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior? I don't, if you can't solve your problems through discussion, organisation or compromise, you're not exactly very smart.

 

[Death God]

1. Age: 17
2. Gender: Male
3. At least once a day.
4. Mostly RPG and FPS
5. A few times when my hands were sweating from playing too much and it cause my character to do what I didn't want over and over again.
6. Once or twice when a major glitch happens and I have to restart.
7. No.
8. No
9. Never. I try to be a pacifist but I will tell you off if you are making me mad.

 

[Foolishman1776]

1. Age: 29
2. Gender: male
3. How often do you play videogames? a lot
4. What genres? FPS, RPG, FPSRPG, etc...
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) Gran Turismo 2 made me gnaw on my contoller in frustration, otherwise, 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? Well, I'm not exactly sure what you're asking here, but if your asking how often I employ violence to solve problems? Never.

 

[Manawa]

1. Age:
23
2. Gender:
Male
3. How often do you play videogames?
Every day for 1-4h, but sometimes I just can't get myself in mood, so I'm taking break for month or so.
4. What genres?
(j)RPG, Deathmatch FPS, Action&Adventure, RTS, turn-based strategies, old-school platformers, multidude of arcade games, occasionaly fighting (Tekken, SF).
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing)
Hell yea
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller)
Yup. Every single one of my controllers at least once saw my room from birds eye while being on collision course with wall.
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)
No.
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior?
Not once. Actually, I never was in a fight. Strange, huh?

 

[The Hairminator]

1. 18
2. Male
3. Almost Every day
4. Mostly FPS and RPG.
5. Yes. If you're already frustrated when you play a competitive game, you're bound to suck at it and become even more frustrated.
6. Once when I was doing a boss fight in a Runescape quest, and my connection went down. I died and lost all my shit. I yelled out the Swedish equivalent of "fuck" and punched the wall- but that's it.
7. I don't think so, although it's possible.
8. Haha, no.
9. If violent behavior is with the intention to hurt someone- then never. I obviously fool around a bit with my friends etc. but otherwise I try to stay clear of fights.

 

[Jelly ^.^]

1. Age: 18
2. Gender: Male
3. How often do you play videogames? Several times a week
4. What genres? DOS games mostly, so a lot of RPGs and simulators
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? Not really. It takes a fair bit to make me angry, and I think I'm above being insulted by 1's and 0's.
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? What in the hell? No, peripherals are expensive.
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? Not particularly
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? No.
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior? No, haha.

 

[Iron Mal]

1. Age:
19 years
2. Gender:
Male
3. How often do you play videogames?
A hell of a lot, practically all the time
4. What genres?
Shooters, RPG's, RTS's, Survival Horrors, Hack and Slash...effectively every genre except racing and sports
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing)
I do swear a lot but I don't really get angry, I'm just a very sweary person
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller)
No, I am a very passive and peaceful person.
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions)
Again, 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.

Thank you very much!

 

[Zakarath]

1. About 1,500,000 Earth years.
2. Asexual
3. For approximately 16.59% of my total Life-Hours
4. Pseudoreality Simulators.
5. Yes.
6. Without a physical form, it is hard to be physically violent.
7. Reality simulations which projected a high magnitude of deaths in Protected Multiverse Sheafs have been a cause for anger.
8. Yes.
9. Approximatley once every 213.75 Life-Years. (Last incident: Engineered implosion of universe Tau-0x5519DELTA7: Hostile Casualties: 1; Innocent Sapient Casualties: 2.43x10^19)

Glad I could help with your survey!

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

(Would you mind terribly if i didn't answer all of them and gave you some info instead?)
1.19
2.Male
5.I feel Irritated if i can't finish a level, but i just suck it up and try harder, or lower difficulty. However, may i point out an observation? when i play games with a lot of swearing in it, i find myself swearing more in normal conversation. as in, when i was playing GTA4 i was swearing WAY more than i should have been, or normally do. i don't emulate violence though
6.You can't throw a keyboard, so.....no.
9.Not often enough. And i don't mean that in a sadistic way. it's just that fighting, in general, is a lot of fun, if you're doing it for entertainment. and while i DO believe that games actually SUBDUE the urge for violence, it's not the same thing.

 

[EvilMaggot]

1. Age:
19

2. Gender:
Male

3. How often do you play videogames?:
18 hours aday... tho depends.. if im not planning anything ^^

4. What genres?
every kind there is... yes i got a huge variety

5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing)
irritation... if a certain thing is bugging me.. like God of War 1, in hell where you had to effng jump on something that rolled... but then counted to 10.. and tried again and got past ^^

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)
ehh...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 im a lover not a fighter ^^

 

[nomzy]

1. Age:
16
2. Gender:
M
3. How often do you play videogames?
~30-40 hours a week
4. What genres?
RPGs, FPS, RTS and everything inbetween.
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them?
Only multiplayer games like CoD
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them?
Very rarely
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?
Almost never

 

[thom_cat_]

1. Age: 18
2. Gender: Male
3. How often? Pretty much every day (few hours?)
4. genres? Mostly: FPS, Music (Audiosurf ftw!), and whatever minecraft counts as.
5. angry? A little pissed off sometimes, but for because of violence, but usually repetitive buggy or fucked gameplay. I swear all the time though, so that doesn't mean shit.
6. physically violent? nope
7. angry when not playing? No? That'd be silly!
8. physically violent when not playing? Nope.
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior? Never, unless provoked or attacked sufficiently.

 

[David_G]

1. Age: 14
2. Gender: Male
3. How often do you play videogames? - Very often, not now though, because I'm low on them
4. What genres? - Anything really, but if you want to get specific, WRPGs and RTSs
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? - I wouldn't call it often, but I do engage in violent behavior, though it's totally unrelated to videogames

 

[C117]

1. 18.
2. Male.
3. Every day.
4. Any genre, though I prefer action games.
5. Yes, mainly platformers make me lose my temper. Or that one time in Super Smash Bros. Melee when I died after playing 15-minute melee for 14 minutes...
6. No, that's just plain stupid.
7. No, why should they?
8. Nope.
9. Well, I train karate twice a week, but it's not like I go around beating people up just because of it.