Then there are those of us who grew up in the 50's-70's before there were computers, much less video games :-) But I played a mean game of "cowboy and indians" when I wasn't playing "Army" with my brother's soldiers or "Tactics II" http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1574/tactics-ii

I think every generation has its "violent" games, it's just the thoughtless ease of violence, because of the speed of some modern video games that is a problem. We'll always have poor people (so it says in the Bible) and I assume we'll always have violence and societal "problems" and having role playing games is not, in itself bad, it's when the role one likes to play or gets use to playing is the "bad" guy and he doesn't "lose" necessarily.