Survey: Videogames and Violence (for a class)

[instantbenz]

1. Age: 23
2. Gender: m
3. How often do you play videogames? 15 hrs a week
4. What genres? shooter, mmo, adventure, racing
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing) often
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller) in the distant past one time, but after damaging that I wanted so badly I decided that was bad
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? (ex. thinking about them affected your actions) nope, game's over when I turn the console off
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? rarely if ever

 

[mageroel]

1. 18

2. Male

3. Used to play every day, since I've got a girlfriend... Maybe once or twice a week.

4. All of them, including racing games. Oh wait, not all, I dislike sports games.

5. Swearing, hell yeah. The ending of PoP:T2T made me swear a lot... After about 30 times trying to beat the boss on the hardest mode, I finally beat him. Feels good.

6. No, but I have once considered throwing my controller out the window.. Didn't do it though, wasn't nearly pissed enough for that and what use would it have?

7. Affecting my actions, yes. But not in the harmful way, more in the way of how to find value in myself, to be more confident about myself.

8. No.

9. Does Kung Fu count as violent behaviour? Otherwise no. And I do Kung Fu sometimes with my brother, as a fun pastime.

 

[ultrachicken]

1. 14

2. Male

3. Twice a day

4. RPGs, FPS, TPS, Action, Stealth

5. Yes.

6. I haven't managed to do any real harm to my controller. The worst I do is throw it against a cushion.

7. No.

8. No.

9. Never.

 

[bl4ckh4wk64]

1. Age:
16

2. Gender:
Male

3. How often do you play videogames?
Pretty Often, I try to squeeze in at least an hour a day.

4. What genres?
Depends on what mood I'm in. If I don't want to play multiplayer, I play RPG's mostly Mass Effect. If I want to play an intense multiplayer, I play Nazi Zombies, Company of Heroes, or Bad Company 2. If I want to screw around with friends, I play FPS's.

5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing)
Depends on the game, in the intense ones I don't actually swear or rage quit often, but when I'm just messing around and people use cheap things to kill me (i.e. noob tubes, knifing, some random glitch that somebody found) I get angry and swear, the only time I really rage-quited was because I was trying to play 3rd person Team Tactical in Mod Warfare 2, and it kept bringing me to either boosting lobbies or those infinite kill glitched games that I refused to play.

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)
I don't really think about games when I'm not playing them, and the only times I do is when I'm planning strategies with my friends. So that would be a no.

8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions)
As I said before, I don't really think about them when not playing them.

9. How often do you engage in violent behavior?
Not often. Then again there are many things I do that release steam, like working out or going shooting at this range we belong to.

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

1. Age: 18
2. Gender: Male
3. How often do you play videogames? Daily
4. What genres? RPGs, FPSs, RTSs and MMORPGs. Abbreviations ftw.
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.
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? Very, very, very rarely.

 

[SniperMacFox]

A generic freshmen year course at college, for the project we have to confirm or debunk a social myth and my group chose "Do videogames cause violence?" One of the points we're trying to make is that they do cause temporary anger, which is one of he reasons why they have a bad stigma, but do not cause gamers to become violent.

Very interesting, best regards with it.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/105788-Research-Review-Finds-No-Conclusive-Link-Between-Games-and-Violence
You may be interested in this article that was posted a little while ago, it was a review credated by the Australian government into the same subject.

 

[CleverCover]

1. 19
2. Female
3. Every other weekend
4. RPG, Fighter, FPS
5. Yes
6. Yes
7. No
8. No
9. I don't.

Good luck with the project.

 

[DanielDeFig]

1. 20

2. Male

3. Depends. Can go weeks without having (or taking) time to play games. when i do however, its for 3-6 hours a day.

4. RTS (Total War series) and Western RPGs (Bioware), for PC. Action/Adventure (God of War), JRPGs (Almost any of them) and some platformers (Ratchet & Clank), for consoles.

5. Frustrated and irritated, rarely angry. I don't swear that often, have been known to do so when playing games (where fluency of language being sworn in is proportional to the level of frustration)

6. I have squeezed a controller/ mouse really hard and clicked at the speed of light to relive frustration. Otherwise, no.

7. Not that i can remember. Can remember having moment of clarity of how to et through frustrating part after quitting a game, and feeling stupid/angry with myself because it was a simple solution in hindsight (isn't that true for non-game stuff as well tho?)

8. Nope, Never. Unless you count waving my arms around in a silly self-reenactment of Kingdom Hearts or Dragon Age combat (try it, it's fun XP!).

9. Never. I think i have punched another person a total of two times in my lifetime, and the most recent one (14-15 years old) was straight in the chest and not very hard. I can throw a fit of rage just like any other person, i just make sure not to harm other people or even objects.

 

[SwagLordYoloson]

1. Redundant
2. Manly Man
3. All the F***ing Time!
4. Manly Games!
5. All the F***ing Time!
6. All the F***ing Time!
7. All the F***ing Time!
8. All the F***ing Time!
9. Only on Tuesdays! But on Tuesdays All the F***ing Time!

 

[Bat Vader]

1. Age: 23
2. Gender: Male
3. About 10-15 hours a day.
4. FPS,RPG,MMORPG,RTS
5. When I fail a mission more than twice or I keep getting killed by an enemy I will usually start to get angry and start swearing.
6. When I get really frustrated at a game I will sometimes smash my controller on the arm of my couch.
7. When I think about a game that frustrates but I am not playing that game it does not make me angry.
8. No.
9. Besides playing violent video games I don't engage in violent behavior.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

1. Age: 26
2. Gender: Male
3. How often do you play videogames? Several nights a week
4. What genres? RPG, RTS, FPS
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing) Sure
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? Rarely except in the controlled environment of a fencing strip.

 

[MattyDienhoff]

1. Age:
20
2. Gender:
Male
3. How often do you play videogames?
Daily.
4. What genres?
FPS, TPS, RPG, driving, simulation
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing)
On rare occasions. Almost always in multiplayer.
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller)
When I get really frustrated I pound my desk.
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?
Rarely if ever. I can't remember the last time I did anything you could characterize as violent, except for the aforementioned desk pounding.

 

[nickyv917]

1. 19
2. Male
3. 4 or 5 times a week
4. Action, Puzzle, Platformer, Sports, Racing
5. very occasional swear, otherwise no
6. no
7. no
8. no
9. never

 

[doctorgirlfriend]

1. Age: 24
2. Gender: Female(!)
3. How often do you play videogames? Daily
4. What genres? RPG, FPS, casual
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? Not to the extent you speak of, no.
6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? Mario Kart. Yes.
7. Have games ever made you angry when not playing them? No.
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? No.
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior? Never?

 

[FudgeNukem]

1: 20.
2: Male.
3. As often as I can. Many variables: school/time off, TV, computer, etc.
4.1st&3rd Person Shooters. Large variation, but a decent chunk being Shooters. I played Mirror's Edge and Heavy Rain. Let's put it that way.
5: Oh, hells to the yeah. You got NO idea.
6: Yes, sometimes, but not often. A little more so lately, but I AM playing Medal of Honor Multiplayer (Almost maxed out Sniper class. Last one and I'll be done with it).
7: As far as I can remember, no. Usually done raging a while after I finish or take a break.
8. No. THAT I know for sure.

 

[Reshkar]

1. Age:
18.

2. Gender:
Male.

3. How often do you play videogames?
Occasionally, depends on the mood.

4. What genres?
RPG, RTS & FPS.

5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing)
Rarely, I'm used to say 'fuck' when I keep dying on the same mistakes.

6. Have games ever made you physically violent when playing them? (ex. harming the controller)
Nope, never happened.

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 happened, I'm determined to find a more subtle and neutral way.

 

[uchi mata]

1.17
2.male
3.a few hours a day
4.FPS, 3-person shooters, RPG, horror
5.sometimes
6.no
7.no
8.no
9.on Tuesdays and Thursdays I do judo and on Mondays Wednesdays Fridays I do Muay Thai so if that counts almost everyday

 

[Nieroshai]

1. Age: 20
2. Gender: male
3. How often do you play videogames? Every day if I can
4. What genres?Nearly every kind imaginable; very diverse tastes
5. Have games ever made you angry when playing them? (ex. Rage quit, swearing) Define "angry." Annoyed yes. Furious, no.
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)Not in the slightest
8. Have games ever made you physically violent when not playing them? (ex. thinking of them affected your actions)Not in the slightest
9. How often do you engage in violent behavior?I almost never engage in aggressive behavior. That which I do engage in consists of vocal arguments with my uncle who thinks I've never done anything worthwhile in my life. And in said scenarios, he's usually the only one yelling. As for martial arts, I practice kung fu every day as a form of meditation/exercise.

 

[Crystal Cuckoo]

1. 17
2. Male
3. I go to an internet cafe with friends for six hours once a week, and play about four hours a day (hey, I just finished school, I'm allowed to unwind).
4. FPS (TF2, CS and CoD), RPG, MMO (WoW), platformers (Zelda, Mario, Sonic)
5. Yes, Pokemon will do that to you (How does an Entei run from you when it's asleep?)
6. I may have squeezed the controller fairly hard when Sonic's homing attack didn't work for the tenth time on the final boss in Sonic Adventure.
7. Never.
8. Never.
9. Never.

 

[Rappletek]

1. 23
2. Male
3. At-least 4 hours a day
4. Any
5. Of course they have made me irritated when something doesn't succeed, gamers like to win and you don't always win.
6. No that's idiocy, then I'd have to buy a new controller/what ever other thing
7. No
8. Never
9. Rare to never