What I do when I play GTA 4 is go on rampages. It gets my anger out and it's fun. But after I heard about the batman movie shooting, I felt guitly for a few days and didn't play it. Seemed tasteless or something. I'm over it now, but IIN?
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Just so long as, when the game it put down and you walk outside, you are fully aware that those people walking around you are people, with lives, families and feelings, and not groupings of pixels in a video game. If you can't, then you have a problem.
That being said, I've been stabbing hookers since I was about 13 and have played violent videogames for even longer. That doesn't mean I'm going to go on a real life shooting rampage though.
Also, he studied neurology, I believe, which points to the possibility that he believed he had a problem and was aware of some psychological issue.
Anyway, I believe it's normal for feeling remorse, but try to remember it's only a game :)
It would be a problem if you felt no guilt about anything at all and just did anything you want, regardless of how it may affect others.
If you want to stretch it, you could say that it's a good thing that you feel odd about playing GTA after the shooting- it proves that you haven't been desensitized to violence by video games at all.