Poll: Your Parents and Violent Video Games

[Slash Dementia]

With all the censored/banned video games and violent video game threads, I've been wondering: did/do your parents allow you to play violent video games?

My parents, well, my dad would buy us pretty much any game. He didn't mind it, he would just sit there with us and play the game while telling us why these things were bad and such (I was about 5). We would play Mortal Kombat a lot which kind of became our "family game" (it still is).

The only game he had a problem with was Doom 3, since it had pentagrams and stuff, but he doesn't mind it anymore. "It's just a game" he says.

 

[Captain Pancake]

Within reason, yes. There was this one time my dad had a hissyfit over GTA: vice city because of the media bullshit over some kid reenacting the chainsaw scene, but now they just don't give two shits. They know I'm mature and I know my limits, so they just buy my whatever.

 

[Hurr Durr Derp]

My mom hated every single videogame she ever saw, but she never stopped me from playing them.

My dad taught me how to play Wolfenstein 3D.

 

[Jinmasa 8]

my parents really dont care that i play violent video games, because they know im not an idiot and wouldnt go shooting random people in the streets just because i did it on GTA

 

[Christemo]

my parents doesnt care what im playing. just as long as im not doing anything else, its fine with them.

 

[Andrecova]

I was playing GTA: Vice City by 9, and played Doom on the PSOne before that, so yes, yes they did/do allow me to play them.

 

[joshthor]

violent games? yes. m rated? no. i couldn't get m rated games till i was 18...at which point i got a job and got a butt load of em. i should also note i was not allowed to get teen rated games till i was 14

 

[Lord_Duke]

My parents used to have a problem with the Wolfenstein 3D setting and bosses (Robot hitler, lol)
but i was like 6 at the time so that's not more then reasonable.
They kinda gave up on raising me properly soon after that so games couldn't ruin me anyway

 

[Slash Dementia]

No.

I wish I could though - it's usually the violent ones that are good - I'm just stuck here playing Mario for all eternity.

That must suck. Hopefully they'll give in some day.

My dad had us watch this movie 'Faces of Death' when we were little...it was weird... I don't like seeing real dead people. We all turned out fine.

 

[Ekonk]

I never was allowed to play GTA up to shortly. I'd rather buy Saints Row, though.

 

[Gigaguy64]

Yes. They do not let me play some games, like Manhunt or Grand Theft Auto, though.

Same here.
I can get away with some things, and my mom understands that i am an adult and wont have nightmares from everything i see.
My dad really strict though, he even had a problem with Super Smash Bros. on the 64.
And because i live at home and have 4 younger sisters, there are a few things i choose not to play.

 

[Zacharine]

Quite amazingly enough, they had nothing against violent games. Well, not as such, in hindsight their disapproval was subtle yet there but they didn't control that aspect of my gaming youth.

Rather, what threw my mother completely off the thin precipise of sanity were Magic:The Gathering cards I owned and Baldur's Gate 1. Apparently, if it has the word 'magic' anywhere in it, it is made by satan or some other evil entity for the express purpose of seducing kids and teens to the abhorrent world of spiritualism whereupon malign entities from 'beyond' could beset upon them and devour their souls.

Yeah, my mother was a bit of a religious nutcase those days. I love her dearly, but sometimes she was just too much to take. Thankfully, my father as an engineer has a solid and practical head on his shoulders and refused to participate in his wife's, my mothers, campaing to 'safeguard our souls'. I shudder to think what I would have grown up to be like without his balancing influence. And my mother... well, she mellowed out a bit over the years when she realized I hadn't turned into some amoral abomination from beyond. Or just perhaps she began to understand that fanaticism isn't good for anyone. Not sure which, but when I finally a few years back told her that I'm an atheist, she just accepted it as my decision.

I wonder, should I have told her that after she burned my MtG decks, all those times I spent at my friends house we were playing p&p RPGs...

 

[War Penguin]

At first, no. But now that I'm older they know I'm mature enough to play games like Fallout 3. They're still not really comfortable with me playing games like GTA, though, in which case, you can't blame them.

 

[EeveeElectro]

She lets me play, but she always tuts and rolls her eyes.
Then rings a friend and complains o.o

 

[daconcon]

my parents are fine with violence, but they won't let me get most games with sexual themes and drug reference and stuff

 

[DrDeath3191]

Good ol' Dad introduced me to Doom at age 5. My parents are awesome.

 

[Robert632]

yes. we were very mature kids.