VanityGirl said:
I'll be the party pooper here.
When I was young, the worst game I had was Mortal Kombat. If you know anything about the first 3 Mortal Kombats, you'll know they weren't exactly realistic.
Now a days, games are pretty realistic. I'm not saying your 9 year old brother will turn into a psycho killer, but I am saying that the games have a rating for a reaon. I mean, maybe your brother might repeat some of the language he hears, which (judging by your lit of games) could really get your ass into trouble.
It's mostly what your parents want in the end though. Honestly, I suggest you buy a game like Halo (it escape me how it got a M rating), Halo has little to no harsh language and you're killing aliens.
It now has an MA rating, actually.
Kiefer13 said:
As long as he understands the difference between a game and real life, sure, they're completely fine. I was playing games like that at his age, and I'm not emotionally unstable and susceptible to going on killing sprees.
I concur with that statement. Make it clear to him that they're just games and even though he probably already understands that, there's still a tiny margin of kids that go psycho due to such misunderstandings, and even if you disregard those kids as extreme cases, you DO NOT want him to adopt anti-social behavior from playing online.
Honestly. Online play will probably influence him the most because it is there where (If you let him) he interacts with actual, relateable people, who may treat him kindly, will probably hate him for his voice (Not to mention the attitude towards video games which his impressionable mind will begin to take from such exposure) and he will be treated (If my guess is right) quite poorly.
However, there is no need to censor him from actually playing games, as long as he is able to make the distinction (Which he likely can) from video games and reality, because the games themselves probably won't influence him that harshly anyway.
