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Oct 28th, 2010 at 02:44:54 - Super Columbine Massacre RPG (PC) |
It is day three and final day of my three 30-minute sessions of playing Super Columbine Massacre RPG for PC. Once again the game is very unethical and it does make you ask important ethical questions to yourself. In the end the character is fighting demons and monsters in hell, which shows that they got themselves what they deserved. There is no way they were going to heaven after taking so many innocent lives. Though I do believe in the theories and experiments that were performed on the human beings on how one superior human being acts on its inferior if given all the freedom they want and if laws didn’t exist. This must have been on the killer’s mind probably when he killed those innocent kids. It was an infamous experiment that was performed in 1971 known as “Stanford prison experiment” that was conducted by Philip Zimbardo of Stanford experiment where he recruited a group of students to perform the roles of ‘prisoner’ and ‘guard’ to study the psychological effects of human beings in general if given the power to do whatever they want and taking away the laws from society. After all we all are animals with brains and know how to use it. That’s why we are superior in animal kingdom. So, as far as the game is concerned in order to play it there should be some sort of age verification before downloading the game because it can have a very bad effect on the young children especially to those who are between 12 to 15 years of age as they find blowing people up cool and they admire violence and bad guys. They think that it is badass. What they don’t seem to understand is that they are only undergoing development of their minds and if they play these kind of games in that age they will have a negative impact in their decision making once they get matured and adult. In the video they interviewed a teacher who said she had young students cheering on the bad guys in the game. This proves my point on the negative effects of the game on young children and that it should be kept away from them. I think that the creator has really put in his efforts to show the world that the Columbine massacre was really wrong and tried to educate the people that human minds even work in twisted and crooked ways and that people need to go to psychologists.
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Oct 27th, 2010 at 18:56:20 - Super Columbine Massacre RPG (PC) |
It is day two of my three 30-minute sessions of playing Super Columbine Massacre RPG for PC. After talking with my partner in crime I moved on and found out that I can equip Marilyn Manson CD and the Doom game to Eric to raise the stats. I stopped at the water fountain after getting past the hall monitors and got a lot of information about Denver’s water and the difference between hard and soft water. Moving on the bombs I planted failed and so now I was on the killing spree. It was interesting that every kill was a generic student. No one had any names. I think this shows how killers don’t think about people and do not show any mercy towards them in real life, which is being conveyed through this game. It makes us think was it moral to put a player in the position of killers in this tragic game? I would have to say that it wasn’t moral at all. It did not create sympathy to any of those guys. The game pretty much tries to make us revisit the situation that must have happened in those killings and nothing more. There is an on-going debate since several years that should violence be considered worse than showing bare and naked scenes in the movies? Especially after watching “The Film Is Not Yet Rated” in the class and after playing this game I strongly believe that violence is far more under-rated as a threat than sexual content to public. People don’t understand the effects of too violent games like Super Columbine Massacre RPG and how their children minds are affected by playing these kinds of games. So, moving on into the game I was engaged in mostly one-sided fights with the kids running around the parking lot. I increased my stats every time I killed someone and I think it helped me kill people later on a lot easier.
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Oct 26th, 2010 at 19:45:45 - Super Columbine Massacre RPG (PC) |
Today is day one of my three 30-minute sessions of playing Super Columbine Massacre RPG for PC. The main characters in the game are Eric and Dylan. At the beginning of the game the player has to go through the doors and then he goes to a basement where he finds a black leather bag full of weapons, which he has to collect. After collecting it he meets up with a guy and the guy tells him rest of the details like planting bombs in the cafeteria and all different kinds of dirty work. Throughout the game the player observes obscenity in the behavior and a frequent use of foul language. If we look at the ethical and/or moral perspective behind the game there is no whatsoever. Throughout the game the text is very hard to read and so by skipping texts I wasn’t really sure what my mission was. Anyways moving onto the mission I had to walk through the parking lot and enter the hallway of the school/college. I had to pass through the hall monitors and I had to make sure that they don’t catch me or else I had to start again from the entrance of the hallway. I must have got caught like 20 times and then I finally move to the next door. By the way Machinima rates this game as number 2 amidst the top 10 most offensive pc games. So, we can already make out that this game does not have any ethics or moral values behind it. This game revisits the shooting that took place in 1999 and gives us a feel what must have been going on the mind of that killer and can be considered more realistic than most other games of that time. So, moving on I really had a hard time in planting the bombs and I finally managed to go the parking lot and got the weapons from the back of the trunk of the car. Dylan is my partner in crime and we talked about how we needed to kill as many people as possible.
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Oct 5th, 2010 at 02:09:46 - Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas (PS2) |
Today is the third and final session of playing GTA :San Andreas and summing up all the things that I did in the game, it is the most unethical thing that I have done till date. Shooting people, stealing their cars, double crossing them and killing them is no way of getting respect in one’s real life even though you are told to do that. On the other side you have to do that in order to survive in the game and living a hustler’s life. The question is why would you do a job where you have to make enemies when there is a way to do it by making friends? It’s the way you look at the problem rather than dealing it monotonously. Speaking of ethical terms it is legal and ethical to steal cars and kill people in GTA society thereby gaining respect whereas in the real society that we actually live in it is the most unethical thing to do. If that would be the case no one in the real world would be safe right now and there would be no law and order in the society to control psychopaths and killers. But that is not the case in the real world and that is why we are sitting at our homes without the fear of getting killed or mugged. I personally think that the ethnicity or the race has nothing to do with the violence in the game compared to real world. In the real world it could be a Chinese person doing same things to society too. In the game if you commit a crime your wanted level increases and you are busted or wasted and finally justice is served. Same is the case in the real world if you do bad things you are going to be arrested and given punishment accordingly. Talking about health during game play it is gained by eating which is again similar to the real world and lost by getting beaten up or shot. Honesty and truth are again one of the most important virtues in a human being’s life which once again the game has displayed them as both sides of the coin by being loyal to CJ and betraying him by his own friends. I found it quite similar to the real world where you can be closest to your friends and count on them whereas you are farthest from them once the lie to you and betray you. The politics played in the game is again similar to the ones played in real life. And finally last but not the least: Family and religion. Parents are the main influence on a kid’s life. He/She cultivates the behavior of his father/mother when he/she grows up and acts accordingly towards the society. No religion in this world teaches or tells the person to do bad but in fact it teaches the lesson of peace for the mankind and people are using it the wrong way in today’s world, which is kind of sad. So, in the conclusion I would like to say that the game has been designed pretty realistic except the fact that it would be unethical to do most of the things if you do in your real life and is only meant for entertaining purpose whereas it attracts the attention of the people to make correct choices in ones own life by highlighting the wrong things done in the society such as drug trafficking, prostitution and killing people for materialistic pleasure.
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