Comments on: What parents will do when their child wants a mature video game

By: Fletcher

Fletcher — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:02:36 +0000

VP isn’t a bad game. unless you hate things like simcity, then you most likely just wont like it.

By: aj

aj — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:47:11 +0000

My mom will be sitting next to me playing GTA IV and laugh hysterically when i kill a hooker… you know why? we know its JUST A GOD DAMN GAME lol

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:10:46 +0000

my mom does all 4.

By: Jdog

Jdog — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:53:28 +0000

SO true I just got F.E.A.R 2 she looked at the ratings and said ok and after the first curse word she said ‘OMG TURN THAT CRAP OFF’!!

By: Someguyz12

Someguyz12 — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:59:45 +0000

Man, isn’t that the truth.

By: Wownik

Wownik — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:43:52 +0000

As much as I dislike children, not all children but just the little bastards which just happens to be most of them, anyway, as much as I don’t like kids, its the parents who really need to be shoot. Screw them all if they wanna buy a Mature rated game for their young kids, let the kids grow up a fucked up degenerate of society who runs the chance of killing you in return for buying you that game for them in the first place.
Lesson being: If your a parent, learn be one.

By: MrsGLaDOSfanlulz

MrsGLaDOSfanlulz — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:30:19 +0000

12 year old Andrew has that game WTF?? I wouldt let them if i was in charge.

By: scott

scott — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:27:12 +0000

Im in the same boat. My parents allowed me to watch R rated movies when I was young, they even recorded some R rated movies that were on HBO and stuff for me whenever I was young, like Robocop and such.

It all really depends on how you raise the kid, and if you think they are mature enough to play or watch such things. If you got a hellraiser for a kid, yeah, it makes sense not to allow them to play such games. If you got a kid that knows right from wrong, and understands its only a game/movie/etc., then allowing them to watch or play such things are ok.

By: scott

scott — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:17:46 +0000

what griffin says.

No matter what you do, you put signs for that up, and parents wont read them. And even if they do read them, some of them are so whipped by their kids, they will buy the game anyway.

By: aylagriffin

aylagriffin — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:12:19 +0000

Probably not a bad thing either.

By: aylagriffin

aylagriffin — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:07:05 +0000

The only problem is: People don’t read signs.

By: Livvy

Livvy — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:06:24 +0000

there is another, probably much smaller slice for ‘Argue with each other about the appropriatness of said video game.” Another graph could be made for ‘How often Mom/Dad win arguments about the appropriatness of said video game in relation to age of the child.’ The first nine years of the child’s life, mom always wins. Between the ages of 10 and 13, Dad wins about half the time. After 13, Dad wins most of the time.

By: C'est Moi

C'est Moi — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:35:06 +0000

If I was your brother, I think I’d strangle you. Mind you, I am neither twelve nor male. Messing up the game progress is a terrible thing to do. Imagine you’ve been working on a painting for a month, then your brother came and smeared paint all over it, making it unsalvageable. Would you think that’s funny?

By: C'est Moi

C'est Moi — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:31:48 +0000

. . . ever hear of the term “learning”? Reading will benefit a child in the long run much more than video games will.

By: C'esy Moi

C'esy Moi — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:29:05 +0000

I think the test would be an excellent idea.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:27:41 +0000

I don’t care if you think I am weird for liking my brother’s games! I don’t actually PLAY them!!! I just mess up the progress or screw up the profile. LOL! I am not goth if that is what you are coming to. XD I am just a regular teenager that always gets tortured by her 12 year old brother… THAT is the reason why I like to mess up my bro’s games! I am not goth or emo. I just don’t like pink. (the color and the person) XP

By: Jam Jar

Jam Jar — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:22:20 +0000

YOU LIKE GEARS OF WAR??!!!???!!! Isn’t that against girl code?

By: Unknown

Unknown — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:20:59 +0000

My brother got in so much trouble after he asked me to drive him to Game Stop and buy him a game. Too bad I didn’t know it was Gears of War! I got in some trouble too for driving him there but my brother got grounded for 3 weeks! Finally I can use his games!! LOL!! Before I get a video game or movie, I look for it on youtube or on the internet and look for the reviews and comments. It helps! I almost got Viva Pinata but I asked one of my bro’s friends and he said it was stupid. I am a girl that can drive FYI.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:26:15 +0000

Hrm… I never really had any of those happen to me. My parents were incredibly lax when it came to me buying video games (and I turned out fine… well, relatively fine); the only issue would be whether or not I could I coax them to drive to the store and buy it for me, haha.

To be quite frank, I was never intensely affected by M games.

Except for Doom.

Jesus Christ Doom scared the crap out of me.

By: No

No — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:09:10 +0000

How about one that says ‘buys it,no problem’ ? I got GTA and that kind of shit back when I was 8 i think.

By: Cole

Cole — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:59:02 +0000

What’s the difference? Except for biographies, they’re both fictional (or non-fictional) stories meant to entertain you and take you away from your real life. Only in video games you have options and can play the same game through several times and make it a different story each time, using your own imagination. You challenge yourself strategically and develop your hand-eye coordination. A lot of games take about as long to get through as a book too, or much longer.

By: Cole

Cole — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:50:28 +0000

There’s only so much one person can be responsible or another. At some point people need to start taking responsibility for themselves and stop blaming others. And there’s only so much nurture can do anyway. A person can have two kids and raise them totally the same way and one goes on to rob a bank and the other goes overseas to help orphaned children in some slum. So did the parents fuck up or were they exceptional? And if we can blame our parents for every fucked up thing we do, can’t they just blame their own parents for fucking them up so they’d fuck up raising you, and so on and so on?

By: Kristian

Kristian — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:04:07 +0000

….You bastard!

By: SickleYield

SickleYield — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:00:17 +0000

Duh.

A good chunk of us childless adult gamers are plenty annoyed at the folks with kids who want to remove OUR access to games. It’s not like WE’RE the ones responsible for the ten-year-old playing GTA4.

By: Snickers

Snickers — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:20:03 +0000

How about getting the kid to read a book instead of play video games?

By: purpletabby

purpletabby — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:53:15 +0000

That’s typically what bad parents say. And then their kid does something completely fucked up and they say, “I didn’t raise him to act like that!”

By: Johanna

Johanna — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:48:51 +0000

This reminds me of a parent that freaked out on me when I worked at Blockbuster over Mononoke Hime. He demanded his money back because it was too violent for a cartoon. He didn’t understand when I explained that is was Anime, and its a whole different ballpark from Disney or Looney Tunes. I also had to show him where the rating on the box was. It’s sad when you have to babysit the parents.

By: McFate

McFate — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:43:28 +0000

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/12/boy_killed_mom_and_shot_dad_ov.html

By: Destin

Destin — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:48:28 +0000

Lol, fail.

By: The L

The L — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:03:46 +0000

Amen! I don’t have kids yet, but when I do, all my heavy-metal CD’s, R-rated movies, and mature video games are going in a locked safe until they’re old enough for such things. If I decide to get cable, I’m using the parental controls.

IMO, kids need to feel, at least for a while, that the world is a generally nice and happy place. Sheltering can be taken too far, but it should be done to some extent, just to keep from scarring your kids.

By: The L

The L — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:58:18 +0000

…And for the censored versions of songs that kids aren’t likely to listen to in the first place. “Waif Me,” anyone?

By: The L

The L — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:56:48 +0000

That’s because “video games are for kids, so how bad could it be?” A lot of parents don’t realize that almost half of gamers are adults, and that video games, like movies, range from totally innocuous to “this has explicit sex and is gory enough to give an ADULT nightmares for a week.”

There need to be huge signs pointing out that game ratings are just like movie ratings, and have analogous content. For example, using US ratings:

E = G-rated movie
E10 = PG-rated movie
T = PG-13 movie
M = R-rated movie
AO = NC-17/X (if you get this for your 8-year-old, you have serious mental issues)

I mean, yes, there are signs about game ratings, but from what I’ve seen, they’re usually small and don’t include the tie-in to more familiar movie ratings.

By: jluve82

jluve82 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:52:20 +0000

Who says that just because you child plays violent video games, you’re a bad parent? It depends on the child and their ability to tell the difference between real life and a video game. If the parent is doing their job properly, they should have nothing to worry about.

By: The L

The L — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:51:21 +0000

My parents wouldn’t let me and my bro get mature games until we were in our teens and ready to handle it. And even then, we weren’t ready for Eternal Darkness *shudders*

I’m still not sure what my parents would say if they knew my (now-grown) bro has a copy of GTA4…

By: sally

sally — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:50:06 +0000

I really hope your kid is above at least 12 or so…
Seriously~ would you get them porno?
Or a vaporizer?
Sheesh.

By: jluve82

jluve82 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:48:57 +0000

I could never get it to work right. How exactly and I supposed to please that chick?

By: PeachyKat

PeachyKat — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:38:11 +0000

My big brothers grew up blasting the hlle out of each other in Quake and Doom but they never murdered me and they aren’t in the State Pen today. AMAZING! I admit there are some limits to video games (rape is NEVER funny\fun, for example), but video games are just a way sometimes to exercise our old primeval desire to just blast each other with big a%% guns.

By: Blayze

Blayze — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:26:17 +0000

How about we just send her to hell without the fucking part.

By: Kristian

Kristian — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:25:50 +0000

…..Ehh, slight rewrite, otherwise ripoff!
And just two coments above!

By: Elobart

Elobart — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:21:02 +0000

She is a prominent member of the PMRC, calling for the sensoring (/ban) of violent video games…
We also have her to thank for the “parental advisory, explicit content” mark on CD’s…

By: mgherring

mgherring — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:21:32 +0000

Speaking as a father and video game fanatic, if you have a vested interest in your kids, you will do the research on what you’re buying for your kids, or playing in front of them. I have many late night Gears 2 sessions because there’s no way I’m playing it in front of my kids. It’s about priorities. If your kids are your priority, then everything else to do with them is also.

By: Mat

Mat — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:49:09 +0000

I get the impression that a large chunk of the people complaining about parental responsibility are those with none who have other vested interests (video games themselves).

By: Nomnom

Nomnom — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:41:00 +0000

It would cut down human population.

By: Kaiboo

Kaiboo — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:53:08 +0000

Best. Game. Ever.

By: Athanar

Athanar — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:03:45 +0000

Maybe the test would cut down on welfare spending?

By: Athanar

Athanar — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:01:20 +0000

Each parent should judge it based on their own child or children. Some kids can handle those things, some can’t, and some just shouldn’t.

By: Brix

Brix — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:52:45 +0000

hot coffee anyone??

By: SGK

SGK — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:09:55 +0000

Exactly. I mean I’ve been watching R rated movies since I was 5 and I don’t have any violence issues or crude sexual behavior. Even if your kids don’t have a clue what they are watching, it still doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is if they think it’s okay.

So you watch it or play the game with your kids and reiterate that “now this might be fun in a game, or cool on screen, but it’s a horrible thing to do in reality”

By: SGK

SGK — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:06:58 +0000

Indeed.

By: SGK

SGK — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:06:17 +0000

Quite frankly if I was the parent, I don’t think I’d care. Unless my kid was like 4 or 5.