Sreynith Sam
January 29th, 2017
Literacy 3
The Power of Role Playing Game with Simulated Violence
Can role-playing game revolutionize young teens into new creatures? The key is depending upon on your perspective, but what you’ve only conscious about is that role-playing games with simulated violence these days are being utilized as amusement for teens. These imprudent games are establishing players position and offered the duty for them to assassinate other players in a way to gain victory. It ferociously provokes kids to murder others and be intemperate. “Willis Cohen was finally killed through no fault of his own.” This is being utter in the “High-Jinks: Shoot Out” by Guy Martin, 2009, and it clearly shows that without executing or causing anything inconvenience, the contenders still being kill by another team. This reflects that these perilous games are instructing the kids to use pistols to put others to death and influence them that violence and killing people is acceptable for their society.
Do kids know the consequence of killing people? Kids who are playing a role-playing game like “Killers”, are only be engrossed in massacred people for money. This traumatic game did not show the repercussion of the game since the players can just get away from it after killing people. These kind of games are narrating them that violence and murdering people are allowed for them to commit. This could eventually lead a great precarious to their community and affect their own future as well. “[…] Protell, now a junior, recalled, as he paced Pierrepont Street, three water guns shoved inside the pocket of a hoodie.” During the game in the Brooklyn Heights, this young teen was able to disguise the weapon without being obscured by others. Should this kid be learning how to sneak gun at a really young age? Think about that! We all should be aware of how treacherous those pistols are. As parents, you shouldn’t be encouraged your kids to learn and hide that kind of equipment. At this age, kids are being taught to use those kinds of peril stuff in the game, think about the future, don’t you think they are going to hand out this kind of atrocious skill into reality for their own dominance?
While kids are playing those type games, they can also confused the citizen who lived around those area. Are those people got any some sort of dangerous weapon or they just playing a game? Let think about this deeper! What if you thought that these kind of kids are just playing a game and they come into your house, who’s know what they are going to do to you and your family. They might threaten you or could conduct to further violence like killing. “At 10:30 p.m. on a Wednesday, three of the four seniors, armed with Walgreens-issue water pistols, staked out Cohen’s house in a blue Toyota minivan.” Cohen and his family might be aware of this horrendous act, but what about their neighbors, they might think that those kids are having cruel intention to come into their community. This is really confusing! Role-playing game with simulated violence could really cause a negative impact in the community and that is leading to further brutality.
In some other ways, kids had also gained a positive benefit from it, such as developing their critical thinking skill in which they have to plan a clear strategy to beat another team and increasing their concentration skill as they tried to shoot other players. In “High-Jinks Shoot Out” also stated that “The call had been engineered from a remote computer by a squad member with prodigious hacking skills.” This demonstrates that kids are trying to contribute their knowledge to this game in order to solve the problem that they are struggling. However, this is just a small part of the game but the big picture of this game is still involved with violence that makes them become aggressive.
Imagine watching your kids using guns but not a real one, in a purpose of killing somebody intensively, how do you feel about that? I know that what all parents want to see is that their kids are having fun and be interactive with others when they play games. Despite this, role-playing game with simulated violence shouldn’t be on the list of kids games as it incentivizes kids to take vicious action in real life. Think about the ramification that this abusive game will bring to the kids and the future of this entire world. Even though different kids get different affections from it, but as a whole, this games still have an influence in inducing the kid’s minds to kill other just for their selfishness. As parents, you wouldn’t want this ruthless game to be a barrier for your kids to go to the beautiful world in front of them, right? So, what should you do? Start to think about it now! Don’t wait until it too late because your kids future is depending on your decision!
Works Cited
Martin, Guy. “Shoot-Out.” The New Yorker. The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2016.
“The Perilous Impact of Violent Role Playing Games: Position Paper.” Stories From The Authors Of 8, May 21, 2015.
Nandi, Walker. “Why Role-Playing Games Are Perilous.” Figment Fiction
