Games Britannia: "Joystick Generation"

The third part of Games Britannia covered the rise of video games. There was no issue whatsoever in the event, but one game had made a great carmageddon (bad pun) that day. The game was called Carmageddon, where objectives are none but to run over people and pretty much destroy everything in your wake of death machines. It was an issue to a lot of people due to the fact that games were considered to be a part of education (this was discussed in my older entries). The game was censored, and had to replace the humans with zombies and blood to oil slicks. It was amazing to see how seriously it was taken back then (and that games today are pretty much that; if not more violent). This game, despite its infamy, is probably the reason why people blame video games for the majority of violent acts in the now. Another game worth mentioning in this case would be the infamous Grand Theft Auto. It is a game where basically you become your own person, in another living world. Yes it is a free roaming game, meaning freedom to move anywhere and do anything, and to kill anyone. As how violent it would seem to be, GTA has been a great time waster for me, that whenever I played GTA, I would only walk around town, steal some cars and kill some people. As a lot of other people would see it, the game is an epitome of violence and act of crimes present in today's world, however, to all those people (and my mother), I would say nay. These are games that people can release their stress and madness into, if they so want to kill; they can do it in the game instead of the real world. People who commits crime when inspired by video games are people with mental issues, therefore, neglecting them of the normal society which was supposedly a place where they belong (pfft). People such as myself, enjoy killing in games, enjoy gore and violence in games. In fact, the more violent and punishing the game is, the more enjoyable we find it to be; however, we are very nice people with heart and mind, and will not subdue to the temptation of crime in real life? (just kidding). In a serious note though, these "violent video games" are no more than a different world of fun for us normal people and it would be best to leave it at that.