I’m working at an unnamed games retailer and I actually said this to a mother who was preordering the game for her son who looked to be around seven or eight. She just stared blankly ahead, said “oh” and continued with the preorder.
Some of the parents that come in are concerned with getting games that are appropriate for the age group of their children. When they’re looking for gifts for a 6 year old I steer them towards the Lego or Mario games because it ain’t right for a goddamn child to play an M rated game. The vast majority of parents though just want to make their kid happy and they’re why I fear that the next time I go to the dentist he’s going to be upset with me for grinding my teeth.
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And yet, next time a kid goes on a murdering rampage, they’ll blame video games! hooray for no accountability!
When I was a kid, I didn’t understand why I couldn’t play some video games, watch certain shows, or movies. Now that I have a greater perspective for the world, I understand why. But I think parents just let their kids do whatever they want so they don’t have to keep an eye on them.
See, this is why I bought my six-year old a DS. There’s very little rape on it!
Here play some Gears of War little Timmy, it’ll teach you all about human anatomy and how easy it is to cut open with a chainsaw. ^_^
Kids used to play cowboys and indians. One of them HAD to be the bad guy. How is this any different?
To be fair, I’m told that it’s not the first level (rather, well into the game) and the scene is skippable.
Mind you, I think such a scene is probably BETTER, content-wise, than the rest of the game; it at least forces you to think about what you’re doing, whereas standard military fare actively discourages you from putting thought into the ethics of mass murder.
I am of two minds. The first agrees completely, 8 years old is a bit young for a game like MW2. The second says that by the time I was 15, 16, I had seen everything I was going to see in a M game. 18 seems a bit excessive, can’t hide the world from your children forever.
Not that surprizing, I hear about this all time time in southern news, they then proceed to blame everything on it.
Gotta love the fact that our video games are parents scapegoats for when some kids goes on a school shooting. All the while, the same parents that blame the games, buy them for their own kids. I’m 20 years old, and I don’t have murderous thoughts, or do I?
I always suspected you did Trevnor.
1. Stage 3 is the Airport 1 I believe.
2. At the beginning of Campaign mode, it prompts the user TWICE whether they want offensive concent (referring to that stage).
3. I beat the game and is freaking awesome.
4. PRESTIGE!!! WOOO! The goggles work great, with infrared and stealth mode (stealth displays different wavelengths of light, eg: infrared is greyscale, leds retain their original color since thats how they work)
5. Kids should have limited access to violence and the naughty
Side point: Kids in highschool now are messed up
All city kids now are messed up because of messed up parents. It’s the way of life. Don’t want a messed up kid? Well there’s this thing called parenting them for gods sake. Yugh. I hate dumb parents.
I watched an employee try for ten full minutes why she shouldn’t buy Grand Theft Auto 4 for her eight year old. Ranging from the basic “Ma’am this is M rated are you aware” to “Do you understand you can have sex with a prostitute and then murder them to save money and also execute people begging for their life?” she just always look down at the kid and shook her head and was like “Well you know he wants it”
Then we all have to deal with kids like that when they turn into the most obnoxious adults….