I play a lot of controversial video games. To me, they're just video games. Probably in the eyes of God they're sin. I don't know.
But I guess if I had to pick a game I'd never play anymore it's gotta be GTA. Any game that supports the killing of cops, sex with prostitutes, gang leadership ...etc is not a game that a Christian should be playing. Or a game that I should be playing. But.. It's so fun!
I for one am all for blowing up starships, monsters, aliens, demons, but I never play sports games (not because they are evil, just not my bit) or games where it is really human on human. Grand Theft Autos, Hitman, Leisure Suit Larry, etc. I am not for killing other humans in that form. Also, I am not into wanting to play a game where I make my character have sex if that is not happening to me in real life, nor do things as in The Warriors or Rockstar's Bully. I just do not play those. Never have.
Now, I like horror survival games if I get my hands on one I want to try. I just completed Jericho. Swears, lesbians, and burping demons, oh my. But the factor of it bothering me was not so much as I am shooting demons and listening to 80s music on my radio. The ending was not great, but I know they left it like that for the squeal that just did not happen.
Anyway, years ago doing my batchlor's studies for a degree in video game design (which has done me no good), I did several reports on video games and violence. Politicians love pointing out how video games cause problems, but so can books and movies and long lines at Starbucks. You feed your soul with what you take in, in any media form regardless. But can not always blame media since it is the person's soul, mental sanity, etc that "play" a major factor. One report I wrote was about a mother whose son always played games in his room. She never thought of video games being bad so never questioned him. However, he was playing Hitman a lot. One night he did exactly what he did in the the Hitman game: he went out and stabbed a nurse to death 80 times. Another report I did was a guy playing GTA. Went into a police station, shot and killed some cop peoples, stole a police car on a wild car case. He then did the same exact thing in real life. He was in his 20s.
I do not support those types of games and would never want my own offspring to play them as well. The younger the mind, the more undeveloped it is. Not until a human brain is at least 25 years of age, has it matured, but still, the soul could take in sometime and life shall imitate art.
Some games it is okay to play the bad guy depending on the game that is. Like being a Deception!