Of all the games that I've seen listed here, I have 20 of them and many more that they haven't listed. I watched my first horror movie when I was 10 ,Friday The 13th Part 3. I just turned 35 and have played and still play games that continue to make society cringe.
I just recently played all 3 Modern Warfare games back to back. My girlfriend went on a business trip so I made a weekend out of it.
I have a career, friends( not gamer friends either) and a reasonably active social life. It never made sense to me how someone could go out and do the things I've seen in games and movies.
Rational average Joe types like me aren't affected by this or the media's influence trying to make freaks out of all of us who like a little gore and destruction in our digital lives.
Movies and games are entertainment. Parents need to make sure that what they put into their kids won't effect them in a negative way. My mother knew way back when that I was a horror buff and didn't see anything wrong with it because I knew even as a child that this was entertainment. Key word entertainment not something I treated as gospel truth to as how the world really was or that I should become a "killer".
If a parent chooses to let the kids watch movies or play games with adult level material and the kid starts to emulate that then there's a problem. Basically what I'm trying to get at is if it looks like it's going to be an issue stop it in it's tracks. If it doesn't look like a problem let kids be kids and go into little fantasy worlds of slaying dragons and being G.I. Joe.
