Poll: Your Parents and Violent Video Games

[some1stolemyusername]

I am a parent, and i allow my son to play some games with minor violence. he also watches me over my soldier when i play TF2, CoD etc etc. I started playing Wolf3D back in the day, grew up playing a mixture of games, mainly FPS' and so do not believe that bs re: kids + violent games = ted bundy

 

[SonicSoulstrike96]

Sure, they don't mind shooting games. Retarded gangster wannabe shit with expletives every other sentence and mediocre third person gameplay (GTA games)... neither myself nor my parents can stand 'em.

 

[hazabaza1]

Recently, yes. When I hit 14, I got my first 18+ which, considering the recent state of my town, is about 5 years later than everyone else.

 

[PureChaos]

when i was about 14 my mum bought me Mortal Kombat 4 for the N64. LOADS of violence and blood and she didn't mind

 

[iFail69]

when I was 8, my parents bought me UT99 and HL1

 

[TheSeventhLoneWolf]

My mother spoke to me about it awhile ago. when i was like 9. It went like this.

''Don't copy anything you see or hear in games.''
'Ok.'

Amazing.

what if a game does good things?

OT:up to about 11 i got things that were within my age range after that my eyes got fixed on 15,16s and 18s, at 11 i got an 18 (god of war)by getting my auntie to get it for me at x-mas and then a few years later (mayby 14) illd just get my mom to order a game online set it up so she just puches in the card details etc and illd give her cash, illd say 'its cheaper online'
but they were always against it lol (if they knew)
at about 15 my dad saw my maturity and set a 2 year leverage so at 16 he would get me 18s
they never returned that 18 game when i was 11.... i dont think they saw me play it much tho.

Oh, we didn't have anything about compassionate sharing, we were playing 'The getaway' at the time.

 

[Artina89]

My parents never censored what my brother and I played, as they believe that videogames and films should not be solely to blame for acts of violence and that the majority of people take what happens in games with a pinch of salt and no-one in their right minds think that you could get away with the kind of stuff that happens in videogames. As long as they don't detract from our studies my parents don't really care, in fact, my dad will often play the games my brother and I play. The last time I visited my parents my brother was playing Mortal kombat vs DC and my mum and I were laughing at the violence and the amount of cleavage that was on display. My parents are pretty open minded.

 

[RabidusUnus]

They don't much care. They realize that running down civilians made out of pixels, isn't going to make me steal the car and go on a murdering spree. I got Vice City when I was 9, even before that I just went over to my friends' houses to play M games.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Yes. Because I'm not stupid. My parents can understand that if I shoot someone in a game, I'm not going to shoot someone in real life. Most of my games aren't shooting people though. I'm talking about zombie games, alien games, and unrealistic games like that.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

Once I convinced them that I understood the difference between a group of pixels on the screen and flesh and blood humans, they got convinced.

 

[Galletea]

My parents decided that I was mature enough to handle mature content at a fairly young age. So I never had restrictions on what I had, in any media, as long as I didn't let my younger siblings see, as they were more susceptible to what they saw. My mother doesn't necessarily approve of wanton violence in games, but she trusts we're not stupid enough to take any of it too seriously.

 

[Kajin]

When I was two years old my father would sit me on his lap and hand me a controller that wasn't plugged in so I could fiddle with it while he played shadowgate. I actually do the same thing whenever I wanted to play with my three year old nephew. I'd sit him down on my lap and hand him a controller that wasn't plugged in so he could "play with me"

 

[Russian_Assassin]

Yes. because my parents knew I had the maturity to play them. Even though my mother would occasionally glance at the screen and turn away in terror when I ripped someone apart in any given gory game, they never had any problems with that. She once even chuckled a bit when she saw me driving like a lunatic in Vice City and heard the wacky things the drivers said.

 

[Dopi]

I can't remember my parents ever forbidding me to play a game, no matter how violent or bloody it was. Then again, I had to save up money for the games myself as they refused to spend money on such "trash". But that doesn't really count as forbidding me to play them, as I got them in the end! *proud pose*

 

[BlackLadybug]

My parents have no idea what I'm playing, but since I never caused any trouble, they don't really care either. They know I've got a pretty solid grip on reality and they're pretty open minded about what I do, both on PC and in life

 

[GoldenRaz]

The only game(s) that my parents wouldn't buy for me and my brother was any GTA, since they were notoriously violent. Any other game was ok, since we weren't interested in anything that was all that violent or scary anyway. They never stopped us from borrowing them from friends, though.

Nowadays, my brother is 18 (incidentally, the first game he bought after turning 18 was GTA IV), and for quite a while now my parents have considered me mature enough to buy me pretty much any game I want, no matter the rating.

 

[teisjm]

Well yeah... but when i grew up, the violent wasn't so exccessive given the poor graphics.
Gore and blood just isn't that big of a deal, when it's pixelated big time, like duke nukem and doom and stuff.

But i've never been told i couldn't play a game due to violence or anything. (though i've been yelled at quite a lot for starting on a game i oculdn't just put down when dinner was up, but what could i do? i didn't wanna be a leaver)

As far as i remember, my parents thought it was ffunny when you had to gatehr people in a bus in GTA 2, and drive them to a factory where they we're ripped into canned meat.

 

[IamQ]

Got my first M rated game this year (turned 15), Assassins Creed. My dad didn't mind me getting it, hell, if it was him, I would've probably gotten it a couple of years earlier, but my mom is really strict about the ratings.

Also, when i got the game she started questioning me what it was about. It was hard to explain how you are an assassin in the middle east, without making it sound like you're a massmurderer in her ears.

 

[TheFacelessOne]

My dad has no problems with buying violent video games with gore flying everywhere and guts spilling, etc. I believe it's because he realizes that I'm smart enough to know that all of this is a game and I should never renact anything I see in a game. My mom on the other hand...she doesn't exactly agree with my dad and me. But my dad is the one in charge of the games. The only games my dad won't let me have is anyone sexual content, etc.