my mom HATES violent video games

[I Love Lamp]

You say you are mature for you age?

Show me your maturity by explaining why millions upon millions of children your age and younger deal with starvation, death, mutilation, war and being forced to fight in wars, while you complain because cant play a video game (a completely luxurious use of disposable income).

Show me your maturity by accepting a parants (or any other authorative figures) decision on an ultimately frivelous issue without trying to change their minds or loop hole the decision.

Show me your maturity by taking the time, energy and resources you have put into a video game, and invest those into bringing food to the hungry, shelter to the poor, company to the lonely / outcast.

Be careful when you claim maturity, because you may be held to act as a mature person, and not as a thirteen year old.

 

[Jumplion]

I really find a lot of this ironic, I mean, most of us complain so much when parents don't pay attention to the big letter on the box with the ESRB.

And yet, we always have some people going "Why won't they let me play M games!?" and hoping that their parents will ignore those ratings.

There isn't much to really say that hasn't been said in the past 10 pages (that and I've only read the first page), but regardless you should be grateful that your mother cares enough about you to actually read the damn label. Most parents would just toss the game to the side 'cause it keeps the damn kids busy.

If you are as mature as you claim, be a mature person and talk with her. Don't whine to her that you want to play what she considers "violent videogames" as that only pushes her opinion even more about what those things do to you. Talk with her, discuss a plan for you to get what you want while also appeasing your mother. If she trusts you enough she will probably let you play the games you want to. Hell, maybe she'll find that it isn't as bad as it seems.

It doesn't mean she doesn't have a point, a kid your age (13 apparently) admittedly shouldn't be playing M games, but it all depends on the kids and the parents themselves. I've played M games since 12 I believe, so long as I don't take them too seriously my dad says I can play whateverthehell I want.

Anyway, just talk with her and work something out, I'm sure she'll listen if you're mature and sensible about it.

 

[Hollock]

If your mom won't let you play, she'll never listen to you. Parents tend to think "I know better than my child just because I do" so good luck

You're 13. You shouldn't be playing M-rated games. What she did was right as a parent.

Wait until you're 17, then you can play.

M is for Mature, not adult. If he can tell its not real and won't try to reinact the game in real life then he should be able to play. I've played M games since I was 6, yet I'm one of the least violent people I know

Same here, only I've been playing Mortal Kombat since I was 3. How is it that you seem like an all around good guy, but your mom still doesn't trust you? This is reminding me of this guy I know. But that's a story for another thread.

 

[Adzma]

Why do we give a damn what you're IQ is?
You're 13. If she said no, then it's a no.
Complaining about it will only make you look more immature.

Yup.

Why is this thread still going? You're under age, she said no. End of story. If you wanted her to buy you alcohol and she said no would you still persist? Of course not. Like I said in my eariler post, it's people like you who give Michael Atkinson fire behind his words that Australians getting an R rating will only allow kids access to violent games.

 

[Deleted]

It seems to me she has something against the game itself. Maybe her friends who are also mothers told her that the game is bad and if she lets you play she'll look like a bad mom.

OP my suggestion is to get into a serious talk with her and be a man. Tell her how its just a game, and that her reasons for hating it (as shown in your OP) are contradicting and hypocritical. If that doesn't work, I'm sorry to say but there's nothing you can do short of killing her. But I don't suggest that.

Also to all the people in this threas saying "wait 'till you grow up", just shut the fuck up. You were a kid too and this guy may or may not be immature, we'll never know. So stop being a cold reader and 'knowing' whether or not he deserves to play.

 

[Mr. Tibbles]

People can ***** about anything, besides she is your mom and she is going to so what she wants. I live half way around the world from my mom and I am in the military. But none of that changes the fact that she doesn't like violent videogames. You are a kid and she is doing what she thinks best for you. So boo hoo hoo you cant play and its hampering your wonderful social life that is based through a videogame. Oh the horrors of being 13.

 

[BlueOnBlue]

Hurray for one less squeaker on a microphone online? Anyone with me?

... just being honest.

I recall someone saying this and me responding to it just on this page so I will again (copy and paste for the win?)

Trust me I hear my fair share of 10-year-olds that won't stop talking on Uncharted 2 mp. My voice started lowering when I was 11, it doesn't even crack anymore, and in general I'm not a very talkative person (and I don't even have headset to hook up to the ps3 as an added reason for why your comment doesn't really apply).

 

[BlueOnBlue]

It seems to me she has something against the game itself. Maybe her friends who are also mothers told her that the game is bad and if she lets you play she'll look like a bad mom.

OP my suggestion is to get into a serious talk with her and be a man. Tell her how its just a game, and that her reasons for hating it (as shown in your OP) are contradicting and hypocritical. If that doesn't work, I'm sorry to say but there's nothing you can do short of killing her. But I don't suggest that.

Also to all the people in this thread saying "wait 'till you grow up", just shut the fuck up. You were a kid too and this guy may or may not be immature, we'll never know. So stop being a cold reader and 'knowing' whether or not he deserves to play.

Tried that already, with a good four our long conversation about why the game is violent, and what the plot represents, where I did in fact a few times show here that her reasons didn't really apply, followed by her saying she would reconsider and research the game a bit, but she didn't.

Well unless she asked someone at her work, which in that case she probably just got more of the crappy propaganda about how violent games hurt youth, and that the game is the most violent game available, when in reality comparing it to other M games it's not very graphic (the only real exception I can think to this would be where Soap throws the knife into Sheperd's eye), and in reality there are quite a few T games which are just as bad if not worse then mw2.

 

[mickey711]

It seems to me she has something against the game itself. Maybe her friends who are also mothers told her that the game is bad and if she lets you play she'll look like a bad mom.

OP my suggestion is to get into a serious talk with her and be a man. Tell her how its just a game, and that her reasons for hating it (as shown in your OP) are contradicting and hypocritical. If that doesn't work, I'm sorry to say but there's nothing you can do short of killing her. But I don't suggest that.

Also to all the people in this thread saying "wait 'till you grow up", just shut the fuck up. You were a kid too and this guy may or may not be immature, we'll never know. So stop being a cold reader and 'knowing' whether or not he deserves to play.

Tried that already, with a good four our long conversation about why the game is violent, and what the plot represents, where I did in fact a few times show here that her reasons didn't really apply, followed by her saying she would reconsider and research the game a bit, but she didn't.

Well unless she asked someone at her work, which in that case she probably just got more of the crappy propaganda about how violent games hurt youth, and that the game is the most violent game available, when in reality comparing it to other M games it's not very graphic (the only real exception I can think to this would be where Soap throws the knife into Sheperd's eye), and in reality there are quite a few T games which are just as bad if not worse then mw2.

Okay, so in one of your earlier posts you claim that she believes you're mature enough to play Modern Warfare 2 and it wouldn't affect your behavior, yet she apparently has a problem with the level of violence present in the game? I'm sensing you two have communication problems. You're still confusing 'then' with 'than', by the way.

 

[Gorrister]

Rated games are rated for a reason!

I'm not naive enough to believe that videogames turn people into violent, car stealing, gun-toting maniacs, but at the same time, I believe that kids shouldn't be exposed to excessive violence because dude, they're kids. They should have a least a little time to have some kind of innocence before they cram a load of blood and bullets down their throats and end up empty and hollow like the rest of us right?

 

[BlueOnBlue]

It seems to me she has something against the game itself. Maybe her friends who are also mothers told her that the game is bad and if she lets you play she'll look like a bad mom.

OP my suggestion is to get into a serious talk with her and be a man. Tell her how its just a game, and that her reasons for hating it (as shown in your OP) are contradicting and hypocritical. If that doesn't work, I'm sorry to say but there's nothing you can do short of killing her. But I don't suggest that.

Also to all the people in this thread saying "wait 'till you grow up", just shut the fuck up. You were a kid too and this guy may or may not be immature, we'll never know. So stop being a cold reader and 'knowing' whether or not he deserves to play.

Tried that already, with a good four our long conversation about why the game is violent, and what the plot represents, where I did in fact a few times show here that her reasons didn't really apply, followed by her saying she would reconsider and research the game a bit, but she didn't.

Well unless she asked someone at her work, which in that case she probably just got more of the crappy propaganda about how violent games hurt youth, and that the game is the most violent game available, when in reality comparing it to other M games it's not very graphic (the only real exception I can think to this would be where Soap throws the knife into Sheperd's eye), and in reality there are quite a few T games which are just as bad if not worse then mw2.

Okay, so in one of your earlier posts you claim that she believes you're mature enough to play Modern Warfare 2 and it wouldn't affect your behavior, yet she apparently has a problem with the level of violence present in the game? I'm sensing you two have communication problems. You're still confusing 'then' with 'than', by the way.

Sorry about the then and than thing, anyway I think she just has a problem with the game itself or the fact that it's M, not really the violence. I believe the cause for this is most likely misinformation from other parents or adults at her work.

 

[blankedboy]

iq:134

Ha! Mine is 137!

 

[Pendragon9]

Sorry man. But this is just a responsible parent listening to the rating on the box.

 

[Master_Fubar23]

hi guys I have a problem, my mom completely hates violent video games especially if they are rated M. I'll explain when my mom got me a ps3 for christmas i got mw2 two days later (buying it with my own money i might add) and she was fine with that next day she shows up while im playing and requests to see the game so i proceed to show her, not even after watching for 5 seconds she says no, and tells me to take the game out and give it to her then she goes and returns the game. the next day I ask her why she did that and she says she doesn't want to talk about it and threatens to take the ps3 away entirely if i ask again. about two weeks later i spend some time thinking of a few things i could try to use to justify me being allowed to get the game (by this time she has allowed me to get uncharted 2 which has amazing single player and very good mp but it's just not mw2) so i go to her and we have a good 2 hour long conversation on why the game is violent. At the end of it she says she will look into it and research the game. I ask her about it 4 days later and shes shut tight about it again threatning to take away the ps3 and by this point i had already disproven her claims that the game would make me violent or desensitized so when i ask her why she just says you know why. so that night i compiled some videos off youtube one showing some clips one from a t rated fps, battlefield: bad company and then one from a mp match in mw2 and i didn't tell her which was which and she said she would buy me the one that was mw2 but not bad company after i told her what the next two clips where and picked two very similar clips to the first two the only difference now she knows which is which, not even 20 seconds into the mw2 clips (which at this point the only thing that has happend is the person walked around a bit shot a bit and missed then got killed) she says it's too horryfying to watch. I've also tried getting her with the bandwagon "it's ruining my social life because everyone has it and I don't" thing but it didn't work either. any suggestions guys?

Info on me:
13 years old, iq:134 extremely mature for my age, father has died, report card usually consists of all A's and possibly one to two B's maximum, not violent at all, very compassionate and understanding, follows rules, has never had more then one detention in a school year (usually from my cellphone being on in class or a teacher that just plain trying to find ways to get me in trouble.)

there is basicly nothing we can suggest to you. some people cannot be around those type of video games. like when i was younger i had my starcraft n the expansion. my mom took away starcraft since it was the disk in the comp at the time thinking it would give me nightmares. thankfully i had the other disk put away since well i wasnt using it at the time. i played it for a couple weeks when she wasnt there and afterwards i told her exactly what happened and everything was fine. however now that im older n ya da ya da... my current girl friend cant be in the same room as me when im playing MW2. the explosions n gunfire makes her jumpy n actually scares her. so theres not much you can do...i suggest getting into stratigy games to if she says something about violence which u may point out 99% of games are violent in one way or another. check the esrb and it will say violence even on some E games but going back to the stratigy games...at least you could argue it helps with problem solveing and manageing resources which would help out later in life ie money wise. worked for me

 

[mickey711]

It seems to me she has something against the game itself. Maybe her friends who are also mothers told her that the game is bad and if she lets you play she'll look like a bad mom.

OP my suggestion is to get into a serious talk with her and be a man. Tell her how its just a game, and that her reasons for hating it (as shown in your OP) are contradicting and hypocritical. If that doesn't work, I'm sorry to say but there's nothing you can do short of killing her. But I don't suggest that.

Also to all the people in this thread saying "wait 'till you grow up", just shut the fuck up. You were a kid too and this guy may or may not be immature, we'll never know. So stop being a cold reader and 'knowing' whether or not he deserves to play.

Tried that already, with a good four our long conversation about why the game is violent, and what the plot represents, where I did in fact a few times show here that her reasons didn't really apply, followed by her saying she would reconsider and research the game a bit, but she didn't.

Well unless she asked someone at her work, which in that case she probably just got more of the crappy propaganda about how violent games hurt youth, and that the game is the most violent game available, when in reality comparing it to other M games it's not very graphic (the only real exception I can think to this would be where Soap throws the knife into Sheperd's eye), and in reality there are quite a few T games which are just as bad if not worse then mw2.

Okay, so in one of your earlier posts you claim that she believes you're mature enough to play Modern Warfare 2 and it wouldn't affect your behavior, yet she apparently has a problem with the level of violence present in the game? I'm sensing you two have communication problems. You're still confusing 'then' with 'than', by the way.

Sorry about the then and than thing, anyway I think she just has a problem with the game itself or the fact that it's M, not really the violence. I believe the cause for this is most likely misinformation from other parents or adults at her work.

If her concerns are about the game itself, there's been considerable coverage of the game by various news outlets, which might have been the basis for her opinion. Modern Warfare 2 is, after all, quite controversial, particularly for the airport scene and has done extremely well in terms of sales. Seeing as she thinks you're mature enough to handle the game's content, this seems to be the most likely cause. You also mentioned that you told her you've already completed the game and have it saved on to the PS3 hard drive so you can play multiplayer, and she's fine with that. Which means that her problems are probably with the campaign. You haven't mentioned the "No Russian" mission, right?

But as I've said in a previous post, there are a lot of better games out there that don't involve shooting people. Modern Warfare 2 is one of the most overrated games in recent years, and the majority of online players are so insufferable I end up having to mute everyone.

 

[Bluesclues]

If your mom won't let you play, she'll never listen to you. Parents tend to think "I know better than my child just because I do" so good luck

You're 13. You shouldn't be playing M-rated games. What she did was right as a parent.

Wait until you're 17, then you can play.

M is for Mature, not adult. If he can tell its not real and won't try to reinact the game in real life then he should be able to play. I've played M games since I was 6, yet I'm one of the least violent people I know

Ratings are guidelines for parents. His parent is abiding by the guidelines. She is doing the right thing. When he is 17, she will let him play. She is one of the few parents who actually follows the ratings and uses them for what they're there for.

I think you should look up the word "guildlines" because I don't think it means what you think it means.

 

[Bluesclues]

Sorry man. But this is just a responsible parent listening to the rating on the box.

The rating on the box is just a suggestion. It doesn't mean [ghostly wail] "If you let your kid play this he will become the next Ted Bundy or Charles Manson and you will go to the 9th circle of Hell because you are a shitty parent!" [/ghostly wail]

Honestly if your kid goes through the trouble of maturely finding logical reasons for him being able to play the game, I don't see why it's a problem...unless he starts wearing a grass suit and sharpening sticks and throwing them at people's eyes. Then it would be a problem. But if that happened I don't believe he'd be intelligent enough to do any research in the first place.

 

[Bluesclues]

Tell her you're writing a report on World War 2 for history class and need to play Modern Warfare 2 as research.

Modern Warfare 2 is called Modern Warfare for a reason...it would make more sense for him to say he need World at War for that.

 

[Bluesclues]

You say you are mature for you age?

Show me your maturity by explaining why millions upon millions of children your age and younger deal with starvation, death, mutilation, war and being forced to fight in wars, while you complain because cant play a video game (a completely luxurious use of disposable income).

Show me your maturity by accepting a parants (or any other authorative figures) decision on an ultimately frivelous issue without trying to change their minds or loop hole the decision.

Show me your maturity by taking the time, energy and resources you have put into a video game, and invest those into bringing food to the hungry, shelter to the poor, company to the lonely / outcast.

Be careful when you claim maturity, because you may be held to act as a mature person, and not as a thirteen year old.

Maturity does not define responsibility. Hang up and try again.