XxChaosxX : I wouldn't say you made an ass of yourself, but it is always good to verify sources so you don't make a mistake like that again. Now you know for next time.

I understand the worries of the original poster and Columbine was a horrendous thing, BUT video games are a new art media and condemning a video game for social commentary is like condemning a movie or song.
But I think that it's far less violent than many of the popular video games out now. I've seen it in a Let's Play and it was made in the style of older RPGs with no effects from attacks and such.

It is Such a Crappy Game... Even I have made Games better looking and more Violent than that... I understand that The Purpose of the Game is to Antagonize But still... There are a lot of worse games than that.... Like for Instance... "Rapelay" or "That one Neo Nazi Game..." or "Torture Game or what ever the hell its called"... Games just reflect the views of the creator... No more, No Less... And I'm Sorry if it offends you. But the best thing to do is to push it out of your mind... Forget it ever existed...

Ss4gogeta0 : It isn't the content that Chaosx was calling inappropriate. Sure, there are games where you do a lot worse. The issue is the fact that this puts you in place of something that actually happened, and his opinion was that it is very disrespectful to the victims who were killed in this school shooting, or the ones who lost their kids and loved ones in the event. We know there are games with worse content.

I hate games like this. I really don't care if this guy had seemingly good intentions. Passing it off with a game mimicking a real life event in which you commit mass murder is ridiculous. If I was family to the victims, I'd extremely angry.

rcarter2 : same could be said about games based on WWII or Vietnam... as I said before, The best defense is to "forget about these games"

Ss4gogeta0 : well the difference in games about vietnam and ww2 is there arent missions to kill innocent civilians.
rcarter2 : you mean she,not he. =p
Hoochman : true. Heres a curve ball for people then.
Cod mw2, the airport massacre level. Is that wrong or is it ok because its not real?
Or if it was real would it be ok cus the guy you play is trying to bring the rest of the murderers down?
Where do you place the line?

thenumberone : Yeah, I've heard of the cod level. I always skip that level every time I play. I don't have a major problem with killing in video games. It just rubs me the wrong way to have to shoot up innocents in video games unless it is purely comic book type stuff.

thenumberone : Yes, I did mean she

I know this is a touchy subject and all, but that isn't the only video game that features a school shooting. There's a more recent game called School Shooting 2012 North American Tour and it was on the news. It caused a major controversy and it was removed. It kinda is like the game you guys were referring to, and there are gameplay clips on the internet and specifically YouTube using the two points of Yes/No reasons to play/delete the game. Currently, the site that you can play this game is offline.

I heard about this future game release a while back and meant to post it here. Can't remember the name, and I am likely to get details wrong. The game is loosely based off the Left Behind book series. This game has elements of real time strategy and Age of Empires style game play. A big part of the game is getting groups of Christians banded together to fight nonbelievers and those deceived by the Anti-Christ. These are supposed to be "Converting battles" where you are encouraged to convert first, but take lethal action when necessary. I am a religious person myself, and I find that to be a poor  message to send out to people and just further reinforces the negative perception of Christian people. Your thoughts, XxChaos?

It actually took a while for developers to make war games set in the middle east

Yeah, jerks will be jerks. People that make games riding on others' misery disgust me, and especially in a way like this. I don't think there could be anyone heartless enough to find pleasure in a game like this. What if someone made a game on 9/11 and you played as the planes flying into the twin towers? I don't think anyone would want to appreciate that.

Games are entertainment, its when you take them too seriously is when you need help. Like like the one guy who said he would bomb or shoot up Best Buy for not having his Call of Duty game that he preordered.

Someone70 : You want to see 9/11 in action? Check out the intro to this game I think you have to press Z for it to start but yea watch as a bomb flys into the twin towers.

https://www.vizzed.com/playonlinegames/game.php?id=2863&system=sms&name=Global-Defense

No, I don't think you're overreacting at all. It's really absurd that someone would do something like that, don't they have any respect for the dead? It's really insensitive to the survivors of the Columbine Massacre, and to the families of the people who lost loved ones because of it. But unfortunately people like this use our nation's constitution to hide behind, it was created to protect the rights of the people, not to protects abominations like this. It's just as bad as making fun of 9/11, it's offensive, and should not encourage people to make more horrible games like this.

While many will see these games and other media created to reflect past bad events.  One way to look at the game and such is that it gives a new point of perspective on the event.  In order to truly understand any tragedy such as this we must look at both sides of the situation.  Games such as this are a good way to attempt to show how it took place, why it happened, and what we can do to prevent such a tragedy from occurring again.   By using these games, we learn how to watch out for potential similar problems, as well as the many ways we can better defend ourselves.  Do  not just look at them as reenactments, look at them as a learning tool to better stop massacres from happening.   Do not shut your eyes from the truth, every thing has a dual purpose.  See how it happened, see the facts, and then see how it could have failed.

XxChaosxX : I have a follow-up question.

Does this horrible video game extend into movies and pop culture?  Do you feel offended when you see movies like Saw or Hostel that are made with the intent to allow people to watch torture and violence for the sake of torture and violence?

Are all shoot-em-up video games bad since you're killing humans and war isn't something we should emulate?

What are your thoughts about that?

I'm kind of half n half on this subject. Do I think it's inappropriate? On some level. But then I'd have to say a lot of other shooting games are inappropriate. I don't play those kinds of video games. I honestly think it's up to the individual. If it doesn't bother them, well then they will play it, if it does bother them, they won't play it. So in a sense it is inappropriate in my opinion, but so are a lot of other games if you think about it. I think the point is, don't go do it for real just cause you do it in a video game. Then that's a different story.

warmaker : Let me try again to explain my feelings about this in a different way. I am not personally offended by this game. How could I be? I wasn't part of Columbine. I am offended for the families who went through this tragedy. I put myself in their shoes. What if, say, my younger sister were in a school shooting and lost her life. Then a couple of years later someone put out a video game called "Super Grayson County High RPG" in which the named shooters were shown shooting up the school. For me, that would be a person taking the death of my sister and her friends and making a name for themselves off of it. It would highly offend me and make me sick.

No I don't believe the movies like Saw and Hostel are inappropriate because the people in those movies are just characters. Just like games such as Grand Theft Auto. The people killed in those games are just made up characters. The shooters in Super Columbine RPG are Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold just in digital form. The people they shoot don't have names which lessens the blow. However, imagine if the mother of a child killed in Columbine were to come across that game online. It would tear her to pieces to know that such a game exists. That is the main reason this game disturbs me so much. If you kill off a made up character in a game/movie it's just a made up character. No one is going to be terribly hurt by the character's death. But if you use a real tragedy and use real people's names and appearances in a game it is going to hurt people.

I feel the same about games such as the ones mentioned above like the game where you play as Lee Harvey Oswald and kill JFK, and the game where you crash a plane into the twin towers. Games that become famous off of a real tragedy shouldn't be played.

War games are different. I guess a war game could be considered offensive by people whose families are in the war now or people who were in a past war. I don't know. My grandfather was in Vietnam, but a game about the Vietnam war never offended me. I don't understand myself why I feel differently about war games. Sorry I can't give an answer to that question.