Too much blood!

Sensitive-Kid: Wow, I did it. Dad, look how I killed that beast.

Anti-Guy: What’s that? That’s horrible so much violence and blood everywhere. I don’t want you to play such a violent game.

Calming-Wife: Dear, there is so much violence in the movies, on TV, in the books. Beside, this is just a game.

A.G.: In the game the kid feels that he is doing the actual killing, the next step is to do it in real life.

C.W.: Kids have been playing pretend game for thousands of years. They pretend to be baseball players, little parents and also knights and warriors. They know that this is a game. All the psychological researches didn’t find any relation between playing video games and actual violence.

A.G.: But, look at all the blood and the bodies all over, this is not a sight for kids. They don’t have this in a pretending game.

Tech-Kid: Most of the games allow the tuning of the gore. You can set the level to the minimum and the bodies will disappear once you kill the beast, and there will also be no blood.

A.G.: Really, I didn’t know that. But still why the games are centered on killing all the time.

T.K.: Beside the pretending side of the game, that mom knows much more from being a psycholo-therapist, the killing of enemies is just the symbol of solving the puzzles in most games. The games are usually a combination of puzzles that some of them reward you with needed items, but some others of killing bosses. It is just a way to make the game more interesting and surprising.

C.W.: Don’t just take a short look at the screen and say it is too violent. Try to sit with us, and play a while, and you can see if you think that it is really so bad as it seems at first glance.