Blame the Game

"A game where one used a sword to slash at enemies was found in the killers bag." 
Does this mean that guy regards everyone he slashed an enemy?! OMG! This kind of act is irresponsible and just stupid... And because of him, games are getting all the blame... That's just not fair!

(ID #165515) Posted on 2008/04/02 20:41

reply to lostandfound's comment

Now thats wrong...

(ID #165516) Posted on 2008/04/02 20:42

reply to ブリーチ's comment

I that case, we should blame videogames for the extinction of fire-breathing dragons! Too many dragon-slaying games caused people to run around the world slaying dragons at random without any apparent reason! Yes, vidya gaems maeks ppl kill dragons for teh lulz!

(ID #165519) Posted on 2008/04/02 20:45

reply to Hangmen13's comment

lol loser...

(ID #165524) Posted on 2008/04/02 20:52

reply to HGY's comment

ha!i knew it...the moment i saw the headlines,i already knew that this is going to be another blame game and a stupid bowling for columbine senario.man,danny,the media is only coming up another excuse to cover up the responsibities of the parents and authorities.pls refer to my post on 'manga motive'. 

(ID #165530) Posted on 2008/04/02 21:00

reply to animefreak222's comment

why are there so many "Nice Boat" brothers and sisters out there? Lemme guess: The next child rape case will be associated with eroges, or kodomo no jikan.. T_T

(ID #165537) Posted on 2008/04/02 21:11

reply to Tiny Red Man's comment

No one in Kodomo no Jikan has been Officially raped : P

(ID #165688) Posted on 2008/04/03 05:29

reply to Afro Gunsou's comment

lol that's just sad. 

(ID #165541) Posted on 2008/04/02 21:22

reply to Kazearashi's comment

I don't know who is more stupid, the guys slasing or the people accusing the game as being the motive...

(ID #165542) Posted on 2008/04/02 21:23

reply to Evil King's comment

me thinks the stupidity level is evenly shared between the two...

(ID #165554) Posted on 2008/04/02 22:00

reply to BIGGU-gAi's comment

definitely the same level.

(ID #165691) Posted on 2008/04/03 05:47

reply to BeLe's comment

I don't know...I have a very strong urge to stab the morons that blame violence on video games, but I don't think I'm stupid. :P

(ID #165746) Posted on 2008/04/03 07:26

reply to CyruzDraxs's comment

Me too.

I do own the game but I've no intention of killing people, just yet... 

xD

(ID #165827) Posted on 2008/04/03 10:47

reply to theplayster's comment

i'll blame Virtual On for getting me into Mecha

then i'll blame Morning Cartoons in Australia then Afternoon cartoons in the Philippines and Korea for getting me addicted to anime

and i blame Card Captor Sakura for getting me into Anime Health Sites 

and IDOLM@STER for buying very nice decorated Planes on Ace Combat 6

whoever bought the game in the 1st place is the one responsible

parents fault they bought him a violent game

(ID #165556) Posted on 2008/04/02 22:05

reply to Hyun-Bin's comment

"If we don't blame the game, we will make less sensation. Just blame it then."

That might be the mass media's thought. >_<

(ID #165557) Posted on 2008/04/02 22:05

reply to Benjamin Takeyo's comment

No one wants to take responsibility for what they did, like parent like children, and possibility politicians. That is why the fabric of social morality breaks down.

(ID #165728) Posted on 2008/04/03 07:04

reply to Vinsuality's comment

Don't worry.  The next time I kill 9 people I'll sell all of my video games first and put a bunch of porn on my computer so they can blame that.  ;)

Seriously idiotic.

(ID #165560) Posted on 2008/04/02 22:15

reply to Atrus's comment

Glad that he`s not playing shooter game.
Imagine him shooting people with a AK-47

(ID #165562) Posted on 2008/04/02 22:22

reply to Rokku's comment

its called "cheok sei mau" (in cantonese, please pardon my spelling)
its literally translate as catching the dead cat - which means finding something or someone to take on the blame

(ID #165567) Posted on 2008/04/02 22:37

reply to ornehx's comment

An excellent analogy for this sort of shortsighted scapegoating.

(ID #165569) Posted on 2008/04/02 22:46

reply to Martin Wandering's comment

shouldn't it be *seik sei mau*???

(ID #165572) Posted on 2008/04/02 22:53

reply to BIGGU-gAi's comment

Then that would be eating the dead cat. :)

(ID #165575) Posted on 2008/04/02 22:57

reply to MavericK's comment

And you wouldn't want that now, would you?

(ID #165581) Posted on 2008/04/02 23:21

reply to lostandfound's comment

i dont like fur in my mouth....

(ID #165585) Posted on 2008/04/02 23:31

reply to ornehx's comment

well i could be wrong but thats what the guys @ work use to say most of the time...

(ID #165595) Posted on 2008/04/03 00:04

reply to BIGGU-gAi's comment

i could be wrong but thats what the guys @ work say most of the time...

(ID #165599) Posted on 2008/04/03 00:15

reply to BIGGU-gAi's comment

i could be wrong but thats what the guys @ work say most of the time...

(ID #165605) Posted on 2008/04/03 00:31

reply to BIGGU-gAi's comment

i could be wrong but thats what the guys @ work say most of the time...

(ID #165607) Posted on 2008/04/03 00:35

reply to BIGGU-gAi's comment

i'm soo sorry...
something is wrong with my connection to dc.com...
every time i post a comment the connection gets cut... so i end up posting multiple post...
sorry guys...

(ID #165610) Posted on 2008/04/03 00:41

reply to BIGGU-gAi's comment

"C..Co..Co COMBO BREAKER~"

Had the urge to say it XD

(ID #165804) Posted on 2008/04/03 09:46

reply to SG's comment

I don't want to comment on that one... Always the same, with utterly sick people using a convenient and very controversial motive for their actions. They just deserve jail for the rest of their lives. Period.

(ID #165577) Posted on 2008/04/02 23:08

reply to D_Blade's comment

Recently such people have been popping out like lungfish after a long drought... I really wonder what was wrong with the parents for the to NOT know that he was gonna get such a violent game, and if the dude in the shop who sold it to him was blind and all. His young, impressionable mind must have been hoping to collect plenty of yellow essence -_-

(ID #165579) Posted on 2008/04/02 23:12

reply to radical anime fan's comment

Check out these two stores I interestingly enough was reading befor this post. They are about the stigma of video games.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_142/3052-The-Myth-of-the-Media-Myth

Reviewing rhe world as a MMORPG.

http://www.metafilter.com/70365/The-Myth-of-the-Media-Myth-Games-and-NonGamers#2063862

(via boingboing.net)

(ID #165590) Posted on 2008/04/02 23:47

reply to Queen Jade's comment

See, this is why we robots should rule the world.  We'd stop this stuff in it's tracks.


Video games would only be for the robot ruling class.

(ID #165810) Posted on 2008/04/03 10:08

reply to FMPhoenixHawk's comment

Playing a videogames to a child may cause violent when playing it.Im a gamer also but not a sadistic person that can kill peoples, I can't blame those gamers but i guess should know that how be balance to a child to understand a play games that no violent and gory stories..

(ID #165591) Posted on 2008/04/02 23:49

reply to jowy's comment

If you can't distinguish between a game and reality, you fail. And did the boy bought the game himself or did the parents, cause I can't really see how a game of this caliber is from 3 years and up. 

I hate when these things happen, they always blame the game first. 

(ID #165614) Posted on 2008/04/03 00:46

reply to Timotei's comment

That's so BS.
I wonder what will the media say if they only found text books in his back. Will they blame the text books then? =/

(ID #165626) Posted on 2008/04/03 01:27

reply to gurugurutrex's comment

Well the media-s are plain dumb. This is quite common thing nowdays, when someone go on a killing spree the media says - ooo he was watching hentai - this was the reason, ooo he was watching anime with killing inside - this must be the reason, ooo he was playing games with killing in them - this must be the reason. The reason is not in the games, anime or something else of this kind. The problem is in the person's brain, if you are a psycho you can snap even if you play Mario Bros or watching some Disney movie. The media is just searching for a hot news, its easy when you blame somebody else

(ID #165630) Posted on 2008/04/03 01:30

reply to Sauronu's comment

Lol what a joke, they basically got the same cards the North American media uses. What if I cause an accident and have F1 2001 in my pocket they'll blame that instead of my poor driving skills (or the other person's) on some old game? Wonder what they would say if I had Puzzle Quest and beat people with a box. I bet they would be puzzled finding another reason to blame games.

Games and anime are just too easy to blame since nobody really stands up and theres more enemies then defenders. Blah

*sighs*

(ID #165640) Posted on 2008/04/03 02:03

reply to Ghostly Substance's comment

It seems like they always blame games for motives for killing these days...

(ID #165652) Posted on 2008/04/03 02:58

reply to Akiba-Kid's comment

This is just stupid. The whole concept of videogames making people go around killing other people. If it were true, then when Pacman was made, I dont remember hearing news that people are running around the streets trying to swallow other people for points. 


Seriously, it's stupid news like this that takes the attention away from the real issues. How about finding a way to end the war? 

Or, eben better, if the whole videogames thing is true, why not just have military recruits play games like CoD4 all day long, it'll be so much cheaper than actual training. >_>0 

(ID #165654) Posted on 2008/04/03 03:03

reply to Wave Rider's comment

next time I go on a killin spree, I'll be sure to pack "Reporters: The How-to" kind of books. Let's see if they have the guts to blame reporting for random violence. 

(ID #165660) Posted on 2008/04/03 03:18

reply to laughingman's comment

Wow!!!!! Who would have though a kid goes around killing 9 people just because of a game. I wonder what the boy said when he got caught. It's still pretty sad, being influenced by a game and going outside and killing whoever the kid feels like.

(ID #165661) Posted on 2008/04/03 03:20

reply to Rin's comment

Wooooooaaaahhhh!!! Beside the game what was the kid thinking!!! Where were his parent when he is out killing random people!!!

(ID #165669) Posted on 2008/04/03 03:46

reply to Hakushaku's comment

thats as bad as me playing Final Fantasy 7 then going out to blow up a power station! utterlly pointless but i must admit games are becoming too violent for their own good

(ID #165674) Posted on 2008/04/03 03:59

reply to Neocoyo_the_one's comment

Same old, lame old news... 

Western media blamed the FPS game DOOM for the Columbine Massacre (the killers played DOOM a lot before slaying people). 

Fox News blamed the RPG game Mass Effect for inciting/encouraging porn to young teens (The player character can fall in love/engage in a menage-a-trois with a human/alien female).

Its no different in East-Asia. Another thing is that eastern media can be as über-dumb as their western counterparts, when it comes to reporting that video/pc-games harms kids & leads/encourages crime. 

Had a question about this in my las exam paper, and my answer is & will always the same: with no conclusive evidence that video/pc-games harm or corrupt children in any way, then the only problem lies with the parents & society in general. The kid is always a victim to the circumstances he/she lives in & goes through. There is not enough evidence to suggest otherwise.

Bottom point: no proof, no conclusion. 

Im not surprised, but i pity the boy for going berserk. I guess he has a tough time ahead... 

(ID #165676) Posted on 2008/04/03 04:10

reply to AnimeRookie's comment

Bah, this type of news don`t deserves much atencion, they can see all they want if this made them happy, but the fact is people continue buy and play games, and this stuff are simply that, foolish stuff. I said.

Anyway, true is sad this things happens, and people still think that games are bad, and made serial killers...

(ID #165686) Posted on 2008/04/03 05:20

reply to thefrikking's comment

Wow this is the first time I have heard Japanese news blame games for anything. Well that's not true. Didn't they  blame Dragonquest for making people skip work and school to buy it? In any event, looks like Japan is taking notes from American senators on how to start a witch hunt!

(ID #165697) Posted on 2008/04/03 05:58

reply to cowboy4eva's comment

Now if the fool went around stabbing people with a stylus then maybe I could see where they were going with blaming the NDS game...

(ID #165715) Posted on 2008/04/03 06:47

reply to Ben-Ohki's comment

i've been stabbed by a stylus before, its not very fun

(ID #165719) Posted on 2008/04/03 06:51

reply to qingy's comment

Wow, 9 people? That's astonishing. Hope they didn't have the "sword stylus" that comes with the preorders for the usa version....

(ID #165716) Posted on 2008/04/03 06:48

reply to Karasu-kun's comment

Wow... so sad. And I thought the newscast in japan were at least a little bit smarter than Fox News.
Disappointing.
What about "blame it on japanese history".
I bet they would never do that, despite the japanese history having a far bloodier and more violent setting than some random game.

But hay, it's a trend. Games are to blame from mom spoiling the dinner to rain on weekends.

(ID #165720) Posted on 2008/04/03 06:52

reply to XSportSeeker's comment

So this, too, is like a late April Fool's joke? I looked on Japan Probe and on Japan Today and neither mention any kids killing anyone. The only killing mentioned is a taxi driver killed by some loser "champion of humanity" us navy semen or something. Oops, I mean seaman. *cough*

(ID #165736) Posted on 2008/04/03 07:09

reply to Karasu-kun's comment

This isn't recent. This happened maybe a week or so back. Look up on sites like Kotaku, they've got a bit of in depth coverage on this including some statements.

(ID #165741) Posted on 2008/04/03 07:12

reply to laughingman's comment

hey, guys. I just bought the game (literally). OH NOES I FEEL THE URGE TO KILL RISING?! 

(ID #165739) Posted on 2008/04/03 07:11

reply to laughingman's comment

I got the game recently too - its bloody awesome.

(ID #165744) Posted on 2008/04/03 07:19

reply to Danny Choo's comment

Is that game that good...good graphic??

Really...an urge to kill huh...wait a minute!!! You better not go crazy!!!!

(ID #165751) Posted on 2008/04/03 07:37

reply to Hakushaku's comment

I got a different game, Gundam 00 for the NDS.

I have the urge to eradicate everything that is evil...

You know, they should make a death note game on the DS where you can write down names >.> makes a better game to get blamed for mass killings...

(ID #165802) Posted on 2008/04/03 09:43

reply to SG's comment

"I see the blur of Humanity!  You must be evil!  Feel the wrath of my Trans-Am Exia!"

(ID #165836) Posted on 2008/04/03 10:55

reply to Barsona's comment

not another blame-the-videogame-coz-the-parents-can't-blame-themselves issue again >.>

(ID #165789) Posted on 2008/04/03 09:13

reply to Henry's comment

i agree, its really annoying when people always look for a scapegoat when its really the persons own decision which is to blame...and parents really should be more aware of their children's behavior especially when it comes to media. 

(ID #165796) Posted on 2008/04/03 09:25

reply to yam_roll's comment

"A game that simulates player killing people was found in this psycho's bag.  There MUST BE a connection."

Hoenstly, FAGS..

(ID #165832) Posted on 2008/04/03 10:52

reply to Barsona's comment

i agree.hope they dont ban any violence games just because of that incident...all of us will be sad...

(ID #165842) Posted on 2008/04/03 11:04

reply to X_BLAde's comment

Found this article...
http://kotaku.com/373408/team-ninja-reacts-to-kanagawa-rampage
Thing to note is that...he had that game in his bag cause it had recently been released (March 20). From the article...he sounded like he wasn't mentally stable.

(ID #165901) Posted on 2008/04/03 14:12

reply to unknown gear's comment

If he wasn't using a sword then none of this is relevant.  Damn media..

(ID #166044) Posted on 2008/04/03 21:47

reply to Dinn's comment

Its difficult enough as it is for me to kill virtual people in video games.  How can anyone bring themselves to kill real people?  

(ID #166673) Posted on 2008/04/05 05:54

reply to kousaka's comment

U gotta be sh!tting me, a kid went on a killing spree just by playin a game. god his parents must be stupid.

(ID #167835) Posted on 2008/04/07 21:46

reply to Ukotaku1991's comment