Violent Games Survey

[ElNeroDiablo]

I legally and technically can't own a gun (at least not as a general private citizen in any relatively built-up area unless I've got a small farm or am in the police) of any sort (though if I jump through enough hoops, I can purchase a paintball marker which I can't practise with in my own yard, I have to go to a licensed field to use it), due to Aussie laws post-Port Arthur Massacre in '96.
I use FPSes and Diablo/II as ways to detox and let off anger in controlled amounts (been doing so since I was 5 or so in DOOM on Win3.11), so I haven't left a game deliberately pumped up with anger. Any time I leave a game with bloodfire in my veins is due to the a-holes in the damn game, so that's a side-effect of playing online MP games.

Technically I do have a set of weapons, the same set every human in the history of mankind has had - Hands and Feet. But since they are part of being a human, it's a touch hard to legally class them as weapons without prior training to use one's body as a weapon (in which case, it'd be impossible to enforce that law and it'd become useless rather damn quick).

^ Fun.

 

[Fooz]

filled it all in

 

[Aesir23]

Just filled it out. Now I'm off to go play Red Dead Redemption, shoot (mostly) harmless critters and sell their skins.

 

[daystogo90]

sorry can't do your survey..wanted to ..maybe u will put up a new thread

 

[King of Wei]

Filled it out. Good luck with the paper.

 

[gNetkamiko]

I've completed the survey. I wish you the best of luck on your paper, sir.

 

[Goldeneye103X2]

Done and done.
Cool survey, bro.

 

[XDravond]

hehe the last one was funny ever felt to do a violent act after ehmm I answered yes 'cus I would more than once been angry at the game computer (computer crashes more than the game/s itself) and reaaaally would like to blow stuff up with, because you get some crazy ideas like "that would be fun/cool/awesome.. to see/do". but never done any harm to anything after wards (computer and keyboard/mouse doesn't count ;-) I usually just feel relaxed ;-)

 

[loc978]

Well, I seem unable to hit the submit button, though that may be an issue with my browser. Some of these forms don't like chrome... I'll try again with firefox. **edit** it worked with firefox, Survey complete.

There were two questions that I answered somewhat against the spirit in which they were asked, though.
Firstly: there is no game that portrays violence realistically. The closest I've seen is the original Rainbow Six, and even that was stylized.
Second: after detailing the number of weapons I own (including a firearm collection) and my training with them, I had to answer "Not Really" to "If you play FPS games, did playing FPS increase your interest in real life firearms to the point where you were seriously interested in purchasing one?", because I was into real firearms long before I was into FPSes... I fired my first .22 years before Wolfenstein 3D was released... and no game like it influenced my decision to be a gun owner in the least. I knew I'd be one when I was five.