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[CrazedLlama]

We all know that there are a couple of games out there that can pull out the violent side in us... However, some people's violent side comes out when they're banned from playing a certain title. This was also the case of a Halo 3 fanboy, who punched his mother and a sheriff's deputy because he wasn't allowed to play Bungie's blockbuster. Parents told the boy that it was time to go to bed, after a long session of Halo 3 play.

However, the game's hardcore fan refused to do so and the parents took the DVD out of the machine so he couldn't play Halo any more. The boy started searching for the game, tearing the place apart and punching his mother in the process. After finding the DVD, the enraged kid went back to his room, locked it and started playing again. In the meantime, the police arrived at the scene and managed to cuff the fellow, but only after some serious struggle.

How's that for a game addiction? This time there's no reason to blame Halo 3, Bungie or Microsoft, but rather the lack of socializing and the way we become addicted to media products. The boy was turned over to juvenile authorities and he'll have to face charges of battery (both domestic and on an officer). We've all yelled at our parents when it was eleven o'clock p.m. and we were still playing some Final Fantasy title, while they were constantly sending us to bed. However, the sane thing to do is apologize and hope that they'll give you back the console's power cord, DVD or CD in order to play the game once more.

This goes to show that gamers can become as addicted to videogames as some people are to drinking or smoking. Will we ever see a label that says "May cause addiction" on the back cover of gaming titles?

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Halo-3-Fan-Attacks-His-Mother-and-an-Officer-69752.shtml

[NGPixel]

careful, Jack Thompson is coming!

[CrazedLlama]

Lol whos that NG?

[Spide®™]

I remember one time, my mom said to let my younger brother play on the amiga 500, for 1 hr, so i went out side and smashed the mouse on a rock, i regretted it, as it also stopped me from playing lemmings

[l3lueMage]

People have issues, and so do you spider. What if I smashed you with a rock.

ya thats what I thought.

[Spide®™]

Excuse me ? , this was an amiga 500 mouse, like a pc mouse, not a real mouse ffs
and yeah i was a bit younger back then, when the amiga 500 first came out, i dident hurt anybody
fiscally, and in the end i ended up hurting my self, coz i couldent play on the amiga 500 no more, till i got a new mouse

[l3lueMage]

Hey technology has feelings too and you sqiushed your brothers dream of playing for 1 hour! xD

Edited by l3lueMage, 02 November 2007 - 05:08 PM.

[Spide®™]

True, i felt bad for that, thanks for bringing back the memory of guilt lol joking

Dang it i was band from the amiga for a month , i learnt my lesson lol

[α∂αмяoss]

The debate of gaming being a possible addiction is a long one. But it's only the odd case every now and then. Whereas with smokers and binge drinkers, there's stories on them everyday.

[CrazedLlama]

Rofl you owned that mouse Spidy!

Yes Gaming is a addiction, but there are methods to control like having a G/f and going outside.

[SebLev]

bah people get way to worked up over nothing... people need lives seriously... halo sucks anyways

[Bug]

That's terrible. The other thing they didn't mention was the age of the fan... could have been some child going through the rough stages of life Everything might have got a bit too much for him

Edited by Bug, 02 November 2007 - 10:10 PM.

[SebLev]

I don't care what stage of life hes at... still no F****** excuss to hit his mother and a cop... I've had a rough life myself and I still never complained like half of these F****** emo's out there are doing... people flip out of the stupidest thing these days... kids are way to spoiled in the first place these days...

/rant

[α∂αмяoss]

lilman, on Nov 3 2007, 03:20 AM, said:

I don't care what stage of life hes at... still no F****** excuss to hit his mother and a cop... I've had a rough life myself and I still never complained like half of these F****** emo's out there are doing... people flip out of the stupidest thing these days... kids are way to spoiled in the first place these days...

/rant

I think kids need to learn to earn the money themselves, instead of spending all their parents money. That's what I have to do ...

[U1]

I got it and played it for 5 mins, i don't see the big deal about this game, its pretty pants if you ask me.

[α∂αмяoss]

You have to be into the storyline to actually like the game, otherwise it's pretty lame ...

[rc69]

Zero.Dub, on Nov 3 2007, 02:46 PM, said:

You have to be into the storyline to actually like the game, otherwise it's pretty lame ...

I have a friend that has never touched the halo campain... couldn't tell you who sarge was... But he loves matchmaking. Personally, halo is the only game i play anymore, everything else got boring once it game out...

But this isn't a debate about whether or not halo is fun, it's about some kid who's messed up in the head.

My 2 cents: I've played things like halo all my life (the semi-violent stuff), and i may not be the friendliest person in the world (other reasons for that), i don't go around hitting/shooting/wanting to hit/shoot anybody. I believe if people had a half of a brain in their head they would be able to understand the difference between a game and reality... But unfortunately the world isn't what we expect it to be.