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After killing kids and school faculty for a long period of time, I decided that my experience with Super Columbine Massacre was over. Walking around and killing anything that came in front of me became mindless and that is not a good thing. It also got me thinking about video games in general and how ethical it is for video games to have so much killing in them.
In games like Max Payne and Left 4 Dead the player must kill people throughout the game, whether they are dead (zombies) or the Mafia. In those games, I had no problem running around killing anyone that got in my way. In fact, it was fun to come up with strategies on how to survive or learning how to use bullet time. However, it felt morally wrong to play Super Columbine Massacre. It wasn’t just some game that developers thought would be cool to play; it is based off of the events of something that took place in real life.
I agree that video games can go too far, and that these days as long as you slap the right rating on them anything pretty much goes. However, when I was walking around the cafeteria after killing a bunch of people it brought me back to the day in 1999 when I heard about the Columbine shooting. I didn’t not like that feeling, it made me feel sick to my stomach. I felt like the video game went too far in being created at all.
The victims of Columbine should be respected and not have a video game made after their death. I understand that these developers might have wanted to get this idea out to the public about video games, or maybe shed light on a different part of the Columbine story.
I feel that it is ethically wrong to create such a game that is based off of horrific real events. However, some may argue that such games as Call of Duty was also based of off real events (WWII). It’s hard to argue this point, because it wasn’t just 15 kids that lost their lives, it was hundreds of thousands. However, I would argue that in Call of Duty they were basing a game off of a decision made by the country and that was to go to war. In the case of the Columbine shooting, it was a decision made by two kids who wanted revenge on being bullied.
Overall, I felt that the game made a good point about violence in general in all video games. Killing people in a fantasy world may be fun, but when bringing a story about innocent people who were killed just seems to take it too far.
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