I’m not sure how aware people are these days of the effects games have on kids, young adults, and adults themselves. In fact, I wasn’t aware of it until this past weekend.
It was a Saturday night on the good ol’ Xbox 360 playing Call of Duty 4 (possibly the best game ever made). Three of my friends and I had a clan match against four of my other friends who were much better and at a higher rank than us. The game type was Hardcore Search and Destroy and the winner was determined by a best out of three. Being the underdog, our clan was nervous and doubtful that we’d win.
First round, the score was 4-1, us winning the first round. The entire online room went ballistic. The other clan, BARCODE, started talking a bunch of smack talk about how lucky we were and that they weren’t trying. Of course, a few of my friends talked some smack back and got the whole room rowdy. Once a game of friendly combat came into something serious.
Round two, the score ended in 1-4, us losing the second round this time. It was now overtime with the score being 1-1. After that round, more negative comments flurried the room. Again, as the underdog, our clan became even more nervous.
Finally, it was the last round. The one who reached 4 match wins would win the clan match. The first match belonged to ours as we took each of them out one by one with lucky grenade tosses and random shooting. The second round then became theirs as it was one person left vs me alone. I took a nervous jerk with my gun and missed my shot and died in the aftermath. Third match, we won as we played a real safe game by staying back and defending the bomb. Before we knew it, we won the last two matches and won the clan match. Happy and surprised, we said “Good Game.” However, as for the other clan, they immediately left the room angered and frustrated.
It’s apparent that they didn’t have a good nights rest as they had just lost a humiliating match against a lower ranking clan than their’s. Then, they began to threaten us by saying they’d beat us up and bring guns to school. Even though we knew they were lying, it still felt uncomfortable.
So, it’s apparent that games can make the evil come out of people whenever they lose. It’s sort of like online bullying in chat rooms and ect. Nevertheless, gaming is dangerous both mentally and physically, but mostly mentally.
