Comments on: Rated M for Minors

By: B1G TOBACC0

B1G TOBACC0 — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:54:46 +0000

I thought this too, but no, my sister is 100% against pixelated violence for her kids, and won’t even let them play offline halo. But she let’s them watch horror movies because “they know it’s not real.” WTF?

By: deora

deora — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:33:33 +0000

you see THATS why i want to be a gamestore clerk

By: NiVeKeR14

NiVeKeR14 — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:25:51 +0000

It’s a sad state of affairs we live in now, but just think, in 10-20 years it’ll *practically* be a non-issue, because by that time, all the kids that grew up playing video games will be well educated on the matter to deal with their kids.

By: Trixie

Trixie — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:39:28 +0000

Personally, I think there is a huge difference between COD and Halo 3. The violence in Halo 3 is more like a cartoonized, non-graphic nature. My son is 7, and he plays on XBL, but isn’t allowed to have a mic, nor is he allowed to have the other players voices come through the tv speakers. And…unlike some other 7 year olds, he doesn’t cry when he loses…he simply plays again. I am not comfortable with him playing much COD: World at War though…the violence is very graphic and real looking with blood splatter and losing legs in grenades.

In addition, he knows that he isn’t allowed to even load Left for Dead or Gears in the drive whatsoever. These games are way too intense for kids under 12 or 14.

I guess my point on this is that parents need to know their kids. Some kids are more mature at 7, than others. There is no set age where suddenly the violence and intensely scary images are acceptable. :P

But I will admit, common sense doesn’t always go hand-in-hand with parenting. And games are no different than movies with the same types of issues…parents take their kids to movies that they probably shouldn’t be seeing either. Ok, off my soapbox.

By: BerserkerBarage

BerserkerBarage — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:51:36 +0000

@ Das…

Put the number to the local CPS on speed-dial!!!

My Exec. Dir. just bought her 12 year old a 360 this past Christmas. I actually helped her get a really good price on one. However I warned her that a good amount of the more “popular” game titles for the 360 are rated M for Mature. She said she knows and that she knows about the ESRB. Which is a step in the right direction, but I can already see her caving in and buying her son a copy of either COD or Halo. Which I guess explains why there are *so* many <18 year olds on both games. FPS seem to attract them like drones.

~B.B.