@biteme_fanboy: Point is, the game got blamed for the kids actions.

In Assassins Creed 3 you lose if you kill ordinary people. The kid clearly has mental issues if he killed his whole family, the media always finds new ways to piss me off.

@dragonborn_ct:

This reminds me of the report about a little boy who found a gun in his house and shot his grandmother with it. They blamed Call of Duty...

dO.ob

Holy Crap

That's just stupid. Assassins Creed doesn't make you violent or want to kill people. Playing the where's waldo video game? That s##t'll make you violent.

Who cares that the game is getting blamed. It's a damn game.

The attention here should be on the ones murdered.

There is obviously something wrong with him, kids just don't play video games and go crazy.

Huh... Sorry, man I don't understand your post very well, at least the first paragraph.

there was just another extensive report on this story on Fantastico tonight in Brazil where they showed loss of footage of the game suggesting it was all but responsible. this does matter because games do get banned or censored (eg saints row 4 in Australia) preventing other mentally stable people from enjoying these games, which they have every right to do. it takes profits away from the game companies who put in a lot of effort making these games but more importantly as others have said, detracts from the real cause of the problems this child had and other children maybe experiencing if people focus primarily on games and not the fact that one report in the daily mail said "he rarely went outside" . these things will happen again if people don't pay attention to the real issues with young people

They blame games...they are stupid.

I'm not sure, but I think people were committing murder before video games were invented.

What a terrible thing. It's just so sad, all around.

As for blaming a video game, this is just media pushing a story. I wouldn't give it much notice unless the government in Brazil was taking the idea seriously, in which case -- make a lot of noise and ensure the real issue like mental health is taken seriously.

...Seriously?

O___O

"Nothing is true; everything is permitted"

Maybe the parents were corrupt cops and the kid is the only who knew about it and decided to do what ezio would have done.(This is a joke)

I don't even care anymore (about the video game blaming). It's a given and will always happen. Just ignore those idiots.

That's just sad! It's not like a Call of Duty player goes out and starts spraying people with a automatic or something. It's Assassin Creed were talking about here, what was that kid thinking? Definitely a psychopathic game freak.

I have read somewhere that the kid was talking about being an assassin, hitman actually. From what I can see, the kid was role playing and took it too far. His suicide was reality catching up. Tragic, but not the video game's fault, especially when Assassin's Creed honors order and heroism in a sense.

To be honest, most video games seem to be about saving people and helping the greater good.

Hey, I'm from Brazil. And this kind of 'news show' is far from being considered something to be taken seriously (still, their news anchor think we all do). In fact, the audience has reached the amount it has today due to a sketch in a comedy show, playing around with their violent-focused approach with no real knowledge about it most of the times. (Some people here say this kind of news show makes your tv bleed, heh)

Now, this case is being treated with more attention by other broadcasters, which considers the game only to take the responsibility off of it later by an especialist; a psycologist of some kind. The buzz mostly has been on how dumb this guy was for blaming a video-game. They don't say 'dumb' but, c'mon, we can read between the lines.

Imagine the look on the girls face when you two finish and she finds you at the side of the bed with eyes closed thanking an actor.

This is a horrible tragedy, but people need to investigate further into it, besides saying game was the cause of it all.

Blaming a video game for such a tragedy is just sad and pathetic. And such a thing just diverts blame from the real issues and causes here.

But this is not the first instance this has happened nor will it be the last.

The day an actual video game character comes out of the tv and kills someone, you have my permission to ban and kill it...Well only that particular game.

Yeah.. assassin's creed should be totally banned for this. And Gta. And Elder scrolls. And Dexter? No, Maybe TV and Psp? And the Pc's?.. forget it.. just keep the children in check damn it..

Its not the games fault. They made sure there was an age rating on the box, which is as much as they need to do. Its up to the people who are caring for the kid to stop him from playing games or watching material not suitable for his age group.

stupidity stupidity everywhere

For me personally, I have to know. If the games are truly responsible for horrible acts that are committed. I ask, why don't they look up the age rating?

They want to blame GTA IV for a crime a 12 year old committed but that 12 year old shouldn't even be playing a rated M for Mature game.

At the end of the day it starts at home. You want to blame the game fine but who bought him that game. Why even rate games if parent don't bother to follow them.

I'd love to have this discussion in person because I know I can't through my mobile device.

Video game themselves are never inherently bad, its always the customers. Lack of ability to cope with the game is the fault of the boy, and whoever his caretakers were. He probably shouldn't have been playing the game to begin with. To be honest, his caretakers should have more blame put on them than the boy himself.

There's plenty of people who play Assassin's Creed, and they're not mental enough to kill their family, commit suicide, and so on. Product isn't to blame.

I have Batman on my facebook page, does this mean when I get laid I should thank Christian Bale?

Rest in peace for the whole family (yes, the kid included). Blaming the game for this tragedy is stupid though.

Holey...man...

Remember how Osama Bin-Larden thought it'd be fun to destroy two towers back in 01?

Well you can blame Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 for that.

I remember when the guy in norway killed all those people, some people were actually blaming his addiction to world of warcraft. Unbilievable.

“Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock-n-roll.” - Shigeru Miyamoto

That's pretty much how most adult reporters think of video games, whether it's CNN, Fox News, or any news station, if it has anything to go with killing or simply turning on an Xbox of PlayStation it's instantly evil. People need to get with the times.

And sadly, that's what they do.

Blame the game, blame the music, blame the comic, blame the novel, blame the movie, blame everything except the murderer.

You can count the journalist above is pretty outdated and is jumping into conclusions. As far as he is concerned, its nothing more than a simulator with no story that lets you kill as many people as you wish. That is cause he is a sensationalist hack.

It's the same argument people use with guns; for some reason our society would rather blame an object used by the person as the reason behind the crime rather than blame the person themselves who is truly responsible.

Wait, Assassin's Creed 2 is a new fad among kids? It was pretty popular when it came out, but now? Did Brazil just get the game? But anyway, that guy needs to play the game. Ezio loved him family and was destroyed by their execution. The game even will fail you if you kill three civilians because "Ezio didn't kill civilians." It's tragic what happened, but blaming the game is ridiculous.

Stupid ass people like this deserve to die and burn in hell. Jesus don't want their dumb asses.

Last time I checked Ezio died happy with his family close by, he didn't commit suicide. Assassins Creed has nothing to do with what this kid did.

A 13 year old kid is being allowed to play a 15+ game

Is said to have mental issues that for some reason are not being addressed

Has ACCESS to a loaded firearm in his own house

And was disturbed enough to want to take the lives of HIS OWN family

Nice going, Ezio, this is all your fault!

Wow, first MK, then Quake and Doom, then GTA...now Assassins Creed..

Seriously, I think temporary insanity plea would do them more credit then blaming a video game...

Criminal psychologists must be on short supply over in Brazil :l

Of course, video games are root of all violent crimes in the world /sarcasm

Stay your blade from the flesh of an innocent

"I would not have drawn attention to us. I would not have taken the life of an innocent."

―Malik Al-Sayf at Solomon's Temple.

The goal of the Assassins was to ensure peace in all things. The Assassins believed that political assassinations and the death of the corrupt would bring peace and a true sense of security to the common people. Slaying innocents and civilian bystanders who did not need to die could spread strife and discord, in addition to ruining the name of the Assassin Order itself.

- from The Assassin's Creed Wiki

So in actuality, the games tell you NOT to kill innocent people.

yeah. there was violence in the world before video games even existed. Video games don't kill people. people kill people. :|

So like before video games were invented, was there like no crime or something?

What's up with brazil in general?