really you let your kid play THIS

[Outright Villainy]

I guess it's really common for people to underestimate young people as they get older. If I think back to when I was 9, I played plenty of violent games: the first gta, Goldeneye, and I saw terminator 2 when I was 6. 9 is definitely old enough not to get warped by any game bar manhunt.

 

[fgdfgdgd]

I just turned the legal Canadian age to purchase M games last November (seventeen) and I've been playing them for twelve years. Kids nowadays are desensitized to everything these days anyway; I wouldn't worry too much. If he goes and shoots up a street, throwing chicks in his car and curb stomping old women, claiming that Saints Row influenced him, THEN you can blame video games.

or rap videos, those seem to work too.

 

[Yeslek Ssomllur]

Once I was standing at a midnight release for Left 4 Dead 2 when this 40-year-old woman walks up and stands in line behind us. I'm like "You a Left 4 Dead fan?" and she says "Oh, no. I'm getting it for my son's birthday.
"Hmmm." I said. "How old is your son?" "He's 8."

This pissed my friends and I off. So for the next half hour we talked about the game loudly and graphically.
"You know you can pop zombies' heads like pumpkins?" "Yeah, man. I love it when I get a good pile of bodies going in front of my S.A.W!"

After a while she said "Is all this true?" To which we replied in the affirmative. She left the line and thanked us.

Truth is, most parents don't know what their kids are playing.
It's rated "Mature" for a reason, motherfuckers.

After she left we went back to jeering and booing at the people in the Assassin's Creed 2 line.

 

[Turing]

Truth be told, I think a lot of people overestimate the effects "mature" games have on kids. Or maybe rather underestimate childrens ability to tell the difference between games and real life.
My own example being that I've had some sort of gaming medium, or several, at my disposal for as much time as I ever wanted, since I was 5.
Of course, this was back in the late 80's- early 90's so games weren't as photo-realistic, but on the other hand there wasn't any sort of parental guidance rating either.
Whatever came on those goldmines of cracked game compilations that my father bought back then I was welcome to play, as long and intensely as I wanted to.

Of course, working in gaming retail today its always a hoot when you tell parents "Yeah GTA, its mostly about stabbing hookers, ramming old people with your car and shooting cops". The look on their faces, its priceless.

In the end, I don't think there's anything wrong with games, its people thats the problem

 

[kilativ15]

Meh

 

[SilentCom]

I don't really mind if an underaged kid plays a mature rated game as long as they are mature and allowed by their parents. Also, their parents better not blame the game if the kid does something stupid.

 

[The Gnome King]

I was at my swimming lessons and there was this 9 year old in my group and I was talking to him and all of a suddon he say's what are your favourite games mine are call of duty modernwarfare 2, grand theft auto vice city, call of duty modern warfare, gears of war 2 and saints row 2

im thinking WHAT THE HELL YOUR PARENTS LET YOU PLAY THESE GAMES. I mean really I think I need to knock some sense into them

What is your view on this and have you met any kids who really shouldnt be playing certain games like these

Why? The evening news has us bombing other countries and killing countless civilians in real life. Any TV show I've seen on primetime can be more violent than this.

I read some pretty sex-and-violence heavy books when I was 9 years old and it didn't scar me.

What's the problem?

 

[Phrytar]

I was at my swimming lessons and there was this 9 year old in my group and I was talking to him and all of a suddon he say's what are your favourite games mine are call of duty modernwarfare 2, grand theft auto vice city, call of duty modern warfare, gears of war 2 and saints row 2

im thinking WHAT THE HELL YOUR PARENTS LET YOU PLAY THESE GAMES. I mean really I think I need to knock some sense into them

What is your view on this and have you met any kids who really shouldnt be playing certain games like these

Why? The evening news has us bombing other countries and killing countless civilians in real life. Any TV show I've seen on primetime can be more violent than this.

I read some pretty sex-and-violence heavy books when I was 9 years old and it didn't scar me.

What's the problem?

Having recently finished Black ops, I can assure you that stabbing a soldier's neck all away into the brain (Executive Order mission) is a much more violent sight than what they show on the news regarding, for instance, the crisis in Lybia. However, the argument "I've seen worst" is a poor one.

OT: I think parents should keep a close eye on what their kids do or watch. However, that doesn't mean over parenting. I'm not a parent yet, therefor i can't say for sure that's an easy task. Regardless of that, i would assume that explaining to a child what is real or not is a very good step in a right direction. Keep in mind though that you can't really reason with a child until a certain age. It's the same reason why they don't teach philosophy in elementary school. A kid can't completely grasp abstract concepts and mature matters.

 

[The Gnome King]

I was at my swimming lessons and there was this 9 year old in my group and I was talking to him and all of a suddon he say's what are your favourite games mine are call of duty modernwarfare 2, grand theft auto vice city, call of duty modern warfare, gears of war 2 and saints row 2

im thinking WHAT THE HELL YOUR PARENTS LET YOU PLAY THESE GAMES. I mean really I think I need to knock some sense into them

What is your view on this and have you met any kids who really shouldnt be playing certain games like these

Why? The evening news has us bombing other countries and killing countless civilians in real life. Any TV show I've seen on primetime can be more violent than this.

I read some pretty sex-and-violence heavy books when I was 9 years old and it didn't scar me.

What's the problem?

Having recently finished Black ops, I can assure you that stabbing a soldier's neck all away into the brain (Executive Order mission) is a much more violent sight than what they show on the news regarding, for instance, the crisis in Lybia. However, the argument "I've seen worst" is a poor one.

OT: I think parents should keep a close eye on what their kids do or watch. However, that doesn't mean over parenting. I'm not a parent yet, therefor i can't say for sure that's an easy task. Regardless of that, i would assume that explaining to a child what is real or not is a very good step in a right direction. Keep in mind though that you can't really reason with a child until a certain age. It's the same reason why they don't teach philosophy in elementary school. A kid can't completely grasp abstract concepts and mature matters.

I personally would let my children play what they want - making it taboo just increases the allure - but then I'd talk to them about the difference between fantasy and reality, the consequences of violence, etc.

As for what they show on TV, maybe what they show isn't extreme enough. If we're going to bomb a country I want Americans to see the charred remains of the children we kill when our "smart bombs" hit the wrong targets, personally.

But in a Time magazine, they show just that in a few issues - burned and charred children as "collateral damage" in a burn ward.

I'd say that ranks up there with disturbing to the 9 year old mind - a bombed and charred kid in a burn ward - to plunging an imaginary dagger of pixels into an imaginary brain.

I suppose this is why people are free to parent their children how they want, though.

 

[godofallu]

I hate parents that let their kids play games like these for 2 reasons.

1 I have to deal with them on XBL.
2 It's fucked up for a parent to let a kid play GTA

Seriously you wouldn't let them watch porn, but banging hookers in GTA then beating them to death with a baseball bat in order to get the money back is no biggie? Dumb.

 

[Gill Kaiser]

When I was 10 my parents tried to stop me playing Mortal Kombat. I went around school getting people to sign a petition stating that it was normal and non-harmful to do so. They succumbed

 

[coolman9899]

Meh

can you please stop necroing threads please

,bloody annoying