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Nebetsu
Posts: 1385/1574 |
Me and my dad play Mortal Kombat together sometimes. He loves that game and can whip me at it any day. |
Ran-chan
Posts: 10580/12781 |
No, they don |
Eval
Posts: 63/93 |
My parents don't care about what game I buy. I buy the games by myself and
I don't have to tell them what I buy, and besides I'm 19 now. I can buy whatever
game I want.  |
Colin
Posts: 9316/11302 |
I wish my parents had been stricter about movies.
I remember seeing things as a little kid that never needed to.
My friend in Spain ended up watching Caligula with his father since he thought it would be educational.
Boy, did he have some things to explain to his boy after that.  |
Rainbow Yoshi
Posts: 352/496 |
Meh I don't I hate critics if thats the case. |
Kyoufu Kawa
Posts: 1833/2481 |
Normally, I don't buy games at all. In fact, I invested in a GBA flashcart purely because I could earn it back by downloading the games to play on it for free.
I didn't start actually buying my games until the NDS. And so far, there's only one game I am not allowed to buy as far as my mom's concerned: Project Rub.
It's because my sudden lack of love life has severely damaged my mental health, and my mom thinks Project Rub won't help.
Gotta lose ten kilograms of body weight to -earn- the damn thing. |
HyperLamer
Posts: 5805/8210 |
YD brings up a good point... Violence may not be a huge issue but it's generally good to keep your kids from seeing a lot of gore. Or sex for that matter. Honestly, I wish my dad hadn't had the stuff laying around everywhere, maybe I wouldn't be such a pervert now.  |
Surlent
Posts: 928/1077 |
I'm 24 and think I should know myself what I play. My mother never cared too much about games, on the other hand I was already older.
About Doom64 ... that game made me sick, but not from the violence but from the camera swinging, which went up and down with every step. Couldn't go more further than level two (you may laugh, but really it was that way). I also wouldn't play a game if there was no option to turn the camera swings, no way.
About violent games, I never was really interested in these. Since I mostly play RPGs I didn't encounter them. I always preferred Street Fighter over Mortal Kombat, since the fatalaties even were boring for me.
On the other hand these scenes are more funny than serious; the most violent games I have are Jets N Guns (small pixel blood when you finish off floating humans), Diablo II and maybe Starcraft Broodwar - so really nothing compared to games like GTA and other ones.
If I had children I rather would talk to them about violent games, when they got interested in these. Forbidding these without any explanation might just make them even more curious to get the game - something forbidden; I could use the term "Pandora's Box" for that, except a violent game alone can't bring violence to person's minds as I think.
In no extreme causes, such as an eight year-old boy who got GTA, why should not the father maybe take time to play with his son a little more; maybe a two player duel via LAN ? |
Yoshi Dude
Posts: 2504/3271 |
Originally posted by Zeogred
And yeah, he was entirely the same way about movies.
Thank god I'm 17, christ.
I wish my parents had been stricter about movies.
I remember seeing things as a little kid that never needed to. I'd think about it and get a lot of nightmares. I couldn't help it. More than once my dad offered to take me to some nice animated film in theaters, and then drag me to his stupid violent thing. People's bodies or heads getting crushed is what got to me the most. I clearly remember a few movie scenes where I had to look at that. I still think about it.
So maybe that's where that comes from. I'm an obedient kid, but I could've done without a lot of images I had to deal with.
Or maybe that's just me.
I'd play friends' fighting games as a child and never be affected, but this one enemy from Super Wario Woods made me cry. I don't remember how, I think he made a mean face.
Bleh. |
Riku
Posts: 289/1239 |
No, ratings never mattered. I was playing God of War when I was 11...... |
Colin
Posts: 9303/11302 |
AO... That depends what the legal age for porn is, to be completely honest.
Diablo isn't really THAT gory to begin with... dark theme, yes, but nothing over the top. |
ClockExplosion
Posts: 20/46 |
Let me tell you this: my mom watched me play Vice City, laughed at me, and proceeded to tell my grandmom about how much I suck at driving in the game.
They're fine with it. And, I'm 18, so I can buy anything but AO, I think. |
HyperLamer
Posts: 5772/8210 |
Originally posted by Havoks
i played doom when i was 7 and i want to kill people
It doesn't count if you already thought that way before you played the game.  |
Bella
Posts: 1554/2962 |
My parents dont care. They would buy me and my sister any game we want..well when we're not broke like they bought GTA: VIce City for my sister for her birthday (her 13th birthday I think it was) and let us rent San Andreas but when we were younger I don't think they cared either but I didn't care too much for Mortal Kombat..it scareded me  but that was then |
Sukasa
Posts: 1266/1981 |
My parents don't seem to really care, because for the msot part I never feel like getting most M games, and secondly, the one I have is diablo. My mom let me get it because the guy at staples said it was nonviolent, except for a few random things that were rare, no blood splatter or dead stuff. She fell for It, and now I have diablo. |
Chris
Posts: 599/922 |
My parents never cared on what kinda game I played during my younger ages... They never even took the time to even look at those ratings when I was yonger. I'd always sit there and play 'violent' video games; don't get me wrong...I still do, but then again, I'm older now. |
O.G.
Posts: 114/169 |
my parents cared when i was like five or six, and i was telling them all about mortal kombat for the Genesis. now, they really don't care because im 17, and they dont have to come with me to buy games. they do sometimes come to see what i am playing trying to act like good parents...
I even brought my xbox and copy of Doom 3 to school to use for an example of how violent video games are harmless and are just a new version of cowboys and indians, and my mom was cool about me doing that. |
Private Adamant
Posts: 473/551 |
Ah, yes, the story of "my" Goldeneye game.
Let's call the two supporting characters Guy A and Guy B. Guy A is two years older than me, and Guy B is one year older (or, well, 4 months, but he's born in November and I'm born in February, so...). Not sure how old I was. 11 or 12, I guess.
Anyway, Guy A has Goldeneye. Guy B borrows the game from him. We play the game at both his house and my house, loving it. Some time after he gave it back to Guy A, I got to borrow it. My parents knew I was borrowing "James Bond", and were okay about it... until my mom caught a glimpse of the TV when my brother and I were busy gunning down each other. She had no idea it was a violent game rated 15+ (even though the Bond movies have the same rating... logic and my mom doesn't work very well together). Anyway, I was ordered to take it back, but since Guy A wasn't home at the time, I ended up giving it to Guy B so he could keep it for the time. A week or so later, Guy B brough the game over to my house to play, and left it there. It's still here today, 7 years later or so. I'm sure Guy A doesn't even remember ever owning that game.
Goldeneye isn't even that violent in the first place.
Other than the Goldeneye incident, there's nothing to report. Not many games are rated 18+ over here anyway, and games rated 15+ weren't really that common (or at least not on the N64) until after I turned 15.
Perfect Dark was rated 18+, though, (No idea why. The far more violent Turok games are only 15+), so I had to pass that one up.
My parents DID buy me Conker for Christmas the year it was released, but it was 15+ over here (at least in some stores.. Conker's release was rather odd over here, with it originally not being released, but as stores started importing it from UK the ban was lift... something like that. not sure myself, I just know that the game went for about 150$ at first, and was really hard to find anywhere).
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Chronosphere-X
Posts: 209/268 |
Mine don't care. I've been watching videos that were 18 when i was 7, I turned out good. I think its because they think it doesn't influnce people. The violence is ok, and the language used. They think i'm gonna heard and see it all anyway, so why not sooner? |
Havoks
Posts: 102/121 |
i played doom when i was 7 and i want to kill people |
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