A question about parents and gaming...
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Well, I'm in my late 20s, but it was my mom that got me into gaming and supported my gaming all through the years. She trusted my judgment on what I chose to play, but I was also never really affected by ESRB ratings because of my age.
I'm not a mom yet, but I hope my boyfriend and I will have little gamers. While I'm not planning to be super strict, it's not like I'm going to buy my hypothetical 3-year old GTA either. I'll likely go on a case-by-case basis.
I'm not a mom yet, but I hope my boyfriend and I will have little gamers. While I'm not planning to be super strict, it's not like I'm going to buy my hypothetical 3-year old GTA either. I'll likely go on a case-by-case basis.
I love games, and I play them with my kids.
I used Soul Caliber 2 and 3 to teach etiquette, honorable gaming, and healthy social skills to one of my kids and it worked well. I confiscated another one's Xbox because it was a constant source of strife and family fights.
The family that plays together stays together!
I used Soul Caliber 2 and 3 to teach etiquette, honorable gaming, and healthy social skills to one of my kids and it worked well. I confiscated another one's Xbox because it was a constant source of strife and family fights.
The family that plays together stays together!
My Mum used to play Monkey Island 2 with me as she found it pretty interesting. But now she doesn't want to play any variety of game at all, which is rubbish.
It appears that in between your double posts, somebody managed to squeeze in a post, which is extraordinary.Takoto said:
I'm 14 and my brother is more strict than my parents as he says i'm not allowed to go on his xbox 360 and play GTA 4 but i think that's mainly just so i don't ruin his file or something.
My parents don't really mind what i play as long as they don't have to watch. My mum's a bit more concerned than my dad but she just doesn't like the sound of gun shots and screams through the house.
My parents don't really mind what i play as long as they don't have to watch. My mum's a bit more concerned than my dad but she just doesn't like the sound of gun shots and screams through the house.
My dad will let me play fallout and gears (provided the blood settings are turned down on gears, which considering my real life hobby of shooting pheasants and then collecting the mangled bodies to send to the butchers is a bit off) but refuses to have the DVD of Watchmen 'under his roof'
Wow, I made that sound a lot nastier than it is, didn't I.
Wow, I made that sound a lot nastier than it is, didn't I.
my parents censored me from violent games that were particularly realistic, but i didn't really care because often those games either scared the hell out of me or made me feel sick.
stuff like goldeneye was acceptable because of the lack of realism in the graphics. although i really was awful at that game anyway. admittedly i never actually owned it until age 14 due to other games i found more interesting being around, so that's probably why... wait, no it isn't. i'm still pathetic at it.
but stuff like resident evil and turok (as if i wanted to play them) were not allowed.
they don't care much about censoring me from anything any-more. i can do that fine myself.
stuff like goldeneye was acceptable because of the lack of realism in the graphics. although i really was awful at that game anyway. admittedly i never actually owned it until age 14 due to other games i found more interesting being around, so that's probably why... wait, no it isn't. i'm still pathetic at it.
but stuff like resident evil and turok (as if i wanted to play them) were not allowed.
they don't care much about censoring me from anything any-more. i can do that fine myself.
I was playing mature games when I was 7.
(am now 15) I haven't killed anybody so.
They do have some stuff to say about GTA 4, but they pretty much let me play any game, any day.
(am now 15) I haven't killed anybody so.
They do have some stuff to say about GTA 4, but they pretty much let me play any game, any day.
My parents let me play anything when I was younger, but they made sure I knew the difference between fantasy and reality and that what happened in the games was just that, a game.
My parents don't care. I'm pretty sure they figure that if I was going to go out and commit crimes, I certainly wouldn't be doing so because I play violent video games. That's ridiculous.
Something like this. My parents know that I will 99% of the time avoid the games like that so they trust me to choose something appropriate for myself. When I was younger (3 - 10) my parents would not buy bloody games, and if they did, they would keep it in places that I could not get to it.Doom_bringer58 said:
You go through the entire series with a gun participating in a bloody war against aliens who are out to kill you.LordCuthberton said:
If you cannot understand how that is violent, there's a problem.
Is that violent game harmful? No. Provided you have the rationality to understand that it -is- violent and the sufficient nature to understand that doing is outside of a video-game environment is anti-social.
However, if you cannot understand that it is violent in the first place, that IS actually a problem.
Im 13. My mom doesn't care what I play. Although she took my xbox away during the summer; so I would "go out and socialize." But whatever, summer is over in ten days anyway for me. She was with me when I bought GTA IV, COD 4, Gears 2, Halo 3, Fallout 3; etc. And she didn't care.
Oddly enough I did a lot more socializeing with my Friends on Live that the people I hang out with IRL.
Whatever, alls well that ends well; seeming as I found an old copy of Kotor 2 in my basement for no reason. (I think that I bought it in like 05 and could never get past Peraugus because I had a stupid(er) 9 year old mind.)
I don't have a dad, (first one died, second one divorced) so I guess thats why she doesn't really care what I play. And I'd rather not have any games during the summer then compared to people I know that can only play their games on the weekends and stuff like that.
Oddly enough I did a lot more socializeing with my Friends on Live that the people I hang out with IRL.
Whatever, alls well that ends well; seeming as I found an old copy of Kotor 2 in my basement for no reason. (I think that I bought it in like 05 and could never get past Peraugus because I had a stupid(er) 9 year old mind.)
I don't have a dad, (first one died, second one divorced) so I guess thats why she doesn't really care what I play. And I'd rather not have any games during the summer then compared to people I know that can only play their games on the weekends and stuff like that.
I generally had a free reign after I discovered things like GTA: Vice City. I just had to ask nicely and then I got what I wanted. Now I personally prefer to get them myself though.
My parents don't mind me playing anything at all. My mom will sometimes comment "I don't like that game" like she'll comment about, I dunno, a SAW movie (or any other crappy all-gore movie). I played Hitman when I was 12, the 3D GTA games at about the same age, and I turned out fine. She even asked me, very politely and genuinely interested, about the sex scene in Mass Effect, which she witnessed.
My fatehr doesn't play any games, but enjoys watching me play and commenting on the graphics and some featuers he thinks are cool ("Oh, you can team up with people? That's great"), while my mom loves World Of Goo, Peggle, and is totally addicted to Plants Vs Zombies.
My fatehr doesn't play any games, but enjoys watching me play and commenting on the graphics and some featuers he thinks are cool ("Oh, you can team up with people? That's great"), while my mom loves World Of Goo, Peggle, and is totally addicted to Plants Vs Zombies.