true, I'm no longer a die-hard FPS hack and slash fan, but back in the good ol' days of Golden Eye they were my favorite. I still enjoy Halo and Halo 2. I played a lot of Unreal Tournament when I was in college too. I think that the fact that if I died I'd re-spawn in a few seconds is what kept me from getting angry at the game, it wasn't as if I was going to have to start all over again, or at least from my last save point, if I died. With other games if I didn't remember to save after I got that last item, I'd have to go in and do it all over again, and that's whats frustrating.

And I totally agree, these games heighten aggressive tendencies momentarily. I'm not still angry in half an hour, and by the next day I barely remember I was upset at all. I'm not saying that violent games or even the games that get me all frustrated and angry cause any kind of long term anger/violence problems. I believe one must be predisposed to that kind of behavior for video games to have any kind of effect in the long term.