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| Acmlm's Board - I2 Archive - General Gaming - Do your parents take video game ratings seriously? |
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Do your parents take video game ratings seriously?| This poll is mostly focused on M rated games. | No, they don't care. |
78.8%, 26 votes | Yes they do. |
21.2%, 7 votes | Multi-voting is disabled.
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fabio Chuck Level: 45  Posts: 51/1479 EXP: 629903 For next: 30261 Since: 07-02-05 From: Somewhere in Texas Since last post: 7 hours Last activity: 7 hours |
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My parents do care what kind of video games that I buy. This mostly occurs with M rated games. They used to not care until I tried to buy Resident Evil 4 for Gamecube at EB Games when it first came out. One of the guys that worked there said I needed a license to prove I was 17 or older. I had to bring my mom into the store. Once the guy told my mom what the game contains, my mom called my dad and he said no because the game contained blood and gore. It's ridiculous on how these games are rated sometimes. Take games with foul language. I hear more foul language in school every school day than an entire video game yet I still can't buy a game with foul language. One more thing, I saw GTA San Andreas in the news today and I had to hide it under a bed because it has a M rating with enough reasons to make it on the news. My parents let me buy when it came out because they didn't care but since they were watching the news, I assumed they were going to ask me if I had this kind of game so that's why I hid it. Anyone else had this problem? (edited by fabio on 07-13-05 11:33 PM) (edited by fabio on 07-14-05 01:50 AM) |
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Sokarhacd Ball and Chain Trooper Resistance is Futile You Will Be Assimilated Hab SoSlI' Quch Level: 61  Posts: 1480/1757 EXP: 1799888 For next: 76708 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 4 hours |
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| nope, not even slightly...not even for my 10 year old brother, hes played every game I have, GTA and the likes, my parents could really care less, although I would imagine any game with explicit nudity or a game based around nothing but sex and everything they wouldnt let me buy/play. | |||
alte Hexe Star Mario I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night Alive as you and me "But Joe you're ten years dead!" "I never died" said he "I never died!" said he Level: 99  Posts: 4586/5458 EXP: 9854489 For next: 145511 Since: 03-15-04 From: ... Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Moved. Yes, they do. And I ensure that the rest of my family does, too. |
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Sokarhacd Ball and Chain Trooper Resistance is Futile You Will Be Assimilated Hab SoSlI' Quch Level: 61 Posts: 1485/1757 EXP: 1799888 For next: 76708 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 6 days Last activity: 4 hours |
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the only reason my parents dont, is because they believe that violence in video games is not influential to anyone, and its just the person playing cant tell if its right or not..so yeah, I like how I can play almost any game  |
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Colleen Administrator Level: 136 Posts: 9268/11302 EXP: 29369328 For next: 727587 Since: 03-15-04 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| They don't care because I'm 22. XD But also, I've always been mature for my age so if anything they would have just supervised what I play. I do know one 8-year old who plays GTA: SA, and that's not cool. :\ Edited:: because GTA  A isn't out yet  (edited by Ziff on 07-13-05 11:54 PM) |
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| Not in the slightest. I think the shit died for them when I was five, so they could basically care less if I went out got Monster Party at the time or not. | |||
Lord Rahl Snap Dragon Level: 43  Posts: 765/792 EXP: 544657 For next: 20389 Since: 03-15-04 From: Temple of the Winds - Training Room Since last post: 43 days Last activity: 7 days |
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| My dad doesn't care what I play, seeing as I'm 19, I'm more mature than my sisters put together, and I know the difference between fiction and reality. | |||
The Guru of Furu Ninji Level: 26  Posts: 189/240 EXP: 90642 For next: 11633 Since: 03-18-04 From: Cali Since last post: 4 days Last activity: 7 hours |
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| Back in the day I had to hide my copy of Mortal Kombat from my parents, and I also was wary of playing Xenogears infront of my parents because, well, it's kinda crazy. But nowadays, my parents don't care, cause well, I'm out of their control now. And yes, RE4 is crazy violent, but also an amazing game. | |||
Anya The Exile Ultima Mezcla de Yin Yan Level: 98  Posts: 5066/5337 EXP: 9530313 For next: 124040 Since: 03-15-04 From: South Florida Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 2 days |
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My parent(s) don't care, well for one, I am old enough to know the damn difference, and two, I have been doing this since I was 4 years old.  But I do take it serisouly at my job, and sometimes its fun to turn down a minor who wants GTA: SA. Oh yea, I am so mean.  *ahem* Anyway, its my job to "card" minors who want M games, hate me or not, I don't care. I'm not loosing my job cause you have a panic attack over a game you can't buy at the time. Go somewhere else, they might not care.Sometimes I get kids in the store who are with their parents, but their parents have no clue what the game is about, and are happy once I tell them. Sometimes they know about it anyway and appricate that I am letting parents know, and some are shocked to see that their kid(s) will undermind them and try to get a game like that. Honestly. its all about teaching the kids at home the difference, and many are too lazy these days to do as such. |
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Karadur Fire Snake  Level: 48  Posts: 974/1192 EXP: 786444 For next: 37099 Since: 11-02-04 From: Chatham, Ontario, Canada Since last post: 1 day Last activity: 15 hours |
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For me, not as far as I can tell, although given that I'm 20, they've probably realized it's up to me to decide whether to play a game that's known to be violent or not  The most violent game I've played (out of both PC and Gamecube games) with one of my parents watching would have to be GTA: Vice City (or possibly Carmageddon 2, but I haven't played that in a long time). I tried to stay on the road, and away from the people walking along the sidewalk, until they left. The only game my parents have ever refused to allow me to play would be Conker's Bad Fur Day. We were at Blockbuster, there were several copies of the game on the shelf, but my Dad said "no" when he saw the note on the corner of the box. However, I've played it almost to the end on the computer I remember quite a while ago, before we even had a computer (imagine that), they were getting concerned about us playing violent games, and started questioning us at supper time about whether we'd ever played Duke Nukem 3D, Doom, and other games of the sort. I can't get the former to work on our current computer, but Doom will. I can't say I've run into any experiences with being nearby while an obviously underage kid is trying to buy an age-limited game, which I find rather unfortunate, because I can see it being rather funny when their parent(s) try to buy the game, then find out that it's inappropriate for their kids. So in all, right now they don't care, but they used to... sort of. |
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DarkSlaya POOOOOOOOOOOORN! Level: 88 Posts: 3815/4249 EXP: 6409254 For next: 241410 Since: 05-16-04 From: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 8 hours Last activity: 5 hours |
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| They never cared ? It's almost as if I asked for a game in this manner: "I want this insanly violent game, with lots of blood and sex, mind buying it for me?". This was a few years ago, now, well, I buy whatever I want by myself. |
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NSNick Laidback Admin Level: 85  Posts: 2933/3875 EXP: 5895841 For next: 2699 Since: 03-15-04 From: North Side School: OSU Since last post: 9 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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Originally posted by Anya That always got me. Sometimes kids would even lie about what the game was to get their parent to buy it. Sad. And as for my parents, my mom never cared, and I remember playing GoldenEye with my dad when I was young, so . |
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| I think mine cared until I hit an age of. Oh let say 12? And I played violent games since before, but none compares to... let say GTA3. Hehe, I played GTA and GTA2 back in the day. Hell, GTA wouldn't be conisdered that violent today but back in the day. Oh boy... the media was all over that game.  |
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Yoronosuku Bullet Bill YORO 4 GOD Level: 32 Posts: 296/502 EXP: 194954 For next: 11488 Since: 01-06-05 From: hailing from Oyamazaki, Kyoto Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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| My mommy took away Mortal Kombat when I was 9, but only because she did not want my little sister to see..she is a gamer herself and plays so many different kinds, so mom does not care too much what I get because she has usualy played it before me, anyway ^^ (even though she might as a joke give me a hard time for buying a 'stupid' game. The BSX machien comes to mind, xD) | |||
Tamarin Calanis We exist. Earth exists. The universe exists. Do we really need to know why? Level: 59 Posts: 660/1802 EXP: 1672751 For next: 377 Since: 07-12-04 From: The gas station on the corner... Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 5 hours |
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| Doom 64? Got it when I was 11. I didn't play it much at the time, though - Mom and Dad, however, played it quite a bit. The game made mom sick, but that's because all games with a first-person perspective do... GTA: San Andreas? Yeah, I have that... Halo 2? Mmhm. Goldeneye? It was the result of a game loan (other kid moved), but yeah, I had it. Played it with dad sometimes, until he got tired of losing. So yeah, my parents don't really care. They do notice the ratings, but I think they realize that I know the difference between games and reality so they aren't worried. |
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Yoshi Dude XKEEPER STOLE MY CAR KEYS Level: 79  Posts: 2488/3271 EXP: 4572680 For next: 6787 Since: 03-15-04 From: give me a number folks. Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| They didn't when I was little, and they definitly don't now. I rarely played violent games, but when I did have them rent some from the store or whatever, it didn't matter. I think the worst thing I played (as a kid) was Duke Nukem. When I lived with my aunt for a while, I drew a "scary" picture for Halloween on Mario Paint. Being nine years old I'm sure it was stupid, and all I did was edit the premade Mario-riding-Yoshi thing to make them frighttening or whatever. But my aunt was furious, because she didnt want her 3 year old kid to see and get nightmares. I would care. I would not allow my child to play GTA or anything like that. |
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Xeolord - B l u e s - Power Metal > All Level: 81  Posts: 2661/3418 EXP: 4884196 For next: 108653 Since: 03-15-04 From: Yeah Since last post: 15 hours Last activity: 15 hours |
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| THEY DID Seriously, my dad goes by the age thing like you have to do it or somebody will nuke your house. For instance, I couldn't buy Goldeneye until I was 13, hence the Teen rating. And only until last year when I turned 17 did my parents stop caring about it. When I was younger I'd always be able to convince my mom to let me buy M games, she'd always question me though "Now what's in it?" and I'd just show her the rating at the back and what it shows. Seriously, it used to piss me off. Not like I was never tricky though. I've had Vice City since it came out, and I've bought plenty of other M games in the past too, when my parents wouldn't have allowed it. They also have retard people telling them things like, you can pull enemies eyes out, and rape girls in the GTA games ... yeah. It's sad though, because videogames don't effect me at all. I played Doom when I was 5 years old, I played Resident Evil in 4th Grade, and so on, and am I shooting people at schools or whatever? No. I don't know why my dad took the ratings so seriously, it's retarded and ridiculous. And yeah, he was entirely the same way about movies. Thank god I'm 17, christ. |
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cpubasic13 17 years old now. Time to buy some M rated games by myself! Level: 54  Posts: 1233/1346 EXP: 1206934 For next: 26936 Since: 03-15-04 From: Blame my parents, Eddy Since last post: 2 days Last activity: 1 day |
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| My TV and sound system is right by my door. Loud. And I am playing Conker: Live and Reloaded... with the Potty Mouth option on. Tell me my parents care. I have been playing M games since... well, we first got a SNES. One of the first games that me and my brother got were Super Mario World and Mortal Kombat 3. Me and my brother played more Mortal Kombat 3 multiplayer than anything else. My parents know if a game is violent or not, or whether it has language in it also. They don't care. They know we are more mature than everyone our age. Other parents go strictly on ratings while my mom trusts us and my dad doesn't care, for the fact that he could play it. (Quote from my dad playing GTA: VC) "I'm beating up a blind man!" So, yeah, it's all good. (edited by cpubasic13 on 07-14-05 01:45 PM) |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 5750/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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My parents don't even know what kinds of games I buy. They realize that I actually have the brain power to realize that killing someone in a game isn't like killing someone in reality.  |
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Tamarin Calanis We exist. Earth exists. The universe exists. Do we really need to know why? Level: 59 Posts: 661/1802 EXP: 1672751 For next: 377 Since: 07-12-04 From: The gas station on the corner... Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 5 hours |
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Originally posted by Zeogredthat was T? Huh. Coulda sworn it was M. *slaps forehead* if my memory's this bad now... |
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