They've never really cared what I play on or watch. Mum just gets annoyed at me for getting too angry at them, but I'd like to see her not get angry when trying to snipe on a game before they invented analogue sticks.
Poll: Your Parents and Violent Video Games
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By plying violent video games you are less likely to go and shoot someone what I mean by that is if you really feel like shoot some one don't play a shooting game and turn everyone into a pile of organs to clam down
The only one I almost wasn't able to get was GTA4... but my friends parents won't let him play M rated games no matter what they're rated M for.. so he's stuck playing Forza Motorsport 2, Nascar, and Ghost Recon.......
Yes. They were never worried that [videogames] would cause me to do something stupid/crazy... Probably because they knew I didn't want to have them deal with me... Or rather, didn't want their belts to deal with me...
Though, now that I think about it, my parents were really cool. They'd always look the other way whenever I got into fistfights at school. Though, if I failed to turn in a homework assignment, that meant I had a date with the belt...
Remember kids: it doesn't matter if you can get along with other people. So long as you do your work and do it well...
Though, now that I think about it, my parents were really cool. They'd always look the other way whenever I got into fistfights at school. Though, if I failed to turn in a homework assignment, that meant I had a date with the belt...
Remember kids: it doesn't matter if you can get along with other people. So long as you do your work and do it well...
My dad hates them all with the relgious ferver of a Jack Thompson bood cult member.
tough shit though since I'm 20.
tough shit though since I'm 20.
My parents aren't too bothered by violence in games, they trust me to know that its a game, not reality. They're probably more bothered by strong language.
My grandparents can hardly tolerate any of it, we had to stop playing Time Splitters 2 one day becuase the guns were too loud, and it was a fun day when we got San Andreas. Within minutes we were told to turn it off.
My grandparents can hardly tolerate any of it, we had to stop playing Time Splitters 2 one day becuase the guns were too loud, and it was a fun day when we got San Andreas. Within minutes we were told to turn it off.
My dad's a pretty huge nerd (albeit a successful engineer/businessman as well, so it's not always that obvious). He didn't object to violent video games - hell, he even urged me to buy a two-disk set of Dungeon Keeper over some random E game once, and doesn't really think anything of my little brother playing Halo at friends' houses.
My impression is that as long as the game is pretty decent, he doesn't care/mind.
My impression is that as long as the game is pretty decent, he doesn't care/mind.
My mom is really very random on the topic of videogames, for instance, she used to be fine with me playing M rated games, then last year she just stopped being okay with it because my dad wasn't okay with it (he later changed his mind), she seems to think that ESRB always rates games logically, Yeah okay mom. She thinks that if it's got drug reference, then the characters are always shooting up heroin or smoking meth, if it's sexual themes, she thinks that there are tits in every single frame of the game, surprisingly, she doesn't care about blood and gore, because I've played T rated games with blood and dismemberment in front of her and she once wanted to play with me. What the fuck?! I once brought Oblivion from my dad's house to my mom's house (My dad knows I won't shoot up the school if I play M rated games.) She literally thought that just because it had alcohol and "Skooma" in it (so does Morrowind) that I would go and get hooked on crack the next day. I brought her unreasonable rules on video-games to her attention, and when realizing how stupid her rules were, said that it wasn't about me shooting up schools and becoming a resident in a crack house, but because my grades weren't good enough, I was getting 80's and 90's. Then she said it was because my little brother would see them and shoot up schools. My mother is usually very logical and reasonable but for some reason, she's just being totally stupid on this topic. I needed to get that out, anyways, the short answer is yes and no. I selected yes though.
My parents were fine with most violent games (like Mortal Kombat), but they did not like GTA at all. I think it was a little too realistic with its violence for them.
My family's approach to videogames was pretty simple. If you could tell the difference between fiction and reality in books; you could handle video games.
I think I've actually chosen not to get more video games on moral grounds (or financial for that matter) than my parents have.
In fact, my parents usually ask me for advice when it comes to getting games for my little sister.
I think I've actually chosen not to get more video games on moral grounds (or financial for that matter) than my parents have.
In fact, my parents usually ask me for advice when it comes to getting games for my little sister.
at this point my dad doesn't really care (he's still somewhat opposed to me playing GTA, but probably wouldn't make me return it if I bought it). he started letting me play M games when I was 14 or 15, provided I could convince him that they weren't too overly violent.
Dad used to play Streets of Rage II with me.
I can't really say they ever prohibited me from playing violent games, but thanks to that I never really considered violence to be an "added bonus" to any game and focused more on core gameplay... (So no, I didn't seek out Violent games simply for being violent, making stuff like MadWorld completely uninteresting and annoying)
I can't really say they ever prohibited me from playing violent games, but thanks to that I never really considered violence to be an "added bonus" to any game and focused more on core gameplay... (So no, I didn't seek out Violent games simply for being violent, making stuff like MadWorld completely uninteresting and annoying)