Poll: Your Parents and Violent Video Games
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Yes they let me play because they know they can trust me not to turn into a blood thirsty satanist.
as child i didn't really care about "violentic" video games. tho i was allowed to play any game i wished. i wouldn't classify crimson skies or warcraft 3 as violentic game 
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i quess the answer would've been "no", however most games with high rate aren't that great tbh.
.i quess the answer would've been "no", however most games with high rate aren't that great tbh.
Mom: Video games are evil, pointless, and they rot your brain!
Dad: Hey, wanna play Modern Warfare?
Dad: Hey, wanna play Modern Warfare?
My parents refuse to let me get games that are rated 18. My Mum as a show of power and my Dad because he doesnt want to anger my Mum. I obviously cant buy them myself and the one time I managed to get one to play my Mum threw it out of the house (literally!) even though I had borrowed it from my friend, it broke on impact with the pavement so I had to pay my friend back the £40 it was worth!
Innocence is the same thing as naivety. The sooner kids grow up, the better.Thaius said:
OT: My parents didn't buy me any video game systems at all until I was 14. Even then I had to buy my first system myself. Not because of the violence, but because they thought it would be a bad deal to buy something that would be obsolete in 3-4 years. I played a LOT of computer games though. When I finally bought my own system (a gamecube) my mom was pretty upset because she thought that my sister and I would quit reading because of it. While we did stop for the most part (I got burned out on books after having to read Plato's "republic" for school three years later and my sister stopped pretty much immediately after we got the gamecube) Mom and dad eventually realized that video games were all right.
To be honest, what with my platforming roots, I barely even WANT to play mature games. They got a bit mad first time I played GTA 1 - But that was more along the fact that one of the passwords was "BASTARD." I guess they thought me smart enough to not reanact it. Or maybe it's because we're british, and... Well, no-one's reanacted (Or been acused of reanacting) A video game yet.
Yes. Thankfully my parents aren't idiots that believe everything the right-wing media spews about videogames being the spawn of satan. I was allowed to play the likes of Grand Theft Auto from the age of around eight, and I also remember watching films like Saving Private Ryan earlier than that. They don't care about violence in games/films, or sex, drug references or anything really. They knew I was mature enough to realise the difference between fantasy and reality, and basically left me to it.
I remember when I got Fallout 3, my dad walked in just as I was lining up a headshot in V.A.T.S and watched as the raider's head was subsequently blown clear across the room, and all he said was "Wow, that game has good graphics!"
I love my parents.
I remember when I got Fallout 3, my dad walked in just as I was lining up a headshot in V.A.T.S and watched as the raider's head was subsequently blown clear across the room, and all he said was "Wow, that game has good graphics!"
I love my parents.
My mom's really easy-going about that. I showed her how I dismembered a female raider in Fallout 3, and that was okay... so yeah...
EDIT: Oh, and it was with a nudity mod. I never did understand why people make them, but whatever.
EDIT: Oh, and it was with a nudity mod. I never did understand why people make them, but whatever.
Nope, though I guess it helped when I was young the games out were much less realistic and had much less media coverage.
It was fun to play Diablo + Command & Conquer at age 6 and 5.
It was fun to play Diablo + Command & Conquer at age 6 and 5.
They never minded what games I played (or movies I watched). My parents are very liberal, in a good, non-creepy way.
My mom is basically a female Jack Thompson and tries to demonize any type of videogame despite have no knowledge of the industry whatsoever.
My dad, on the other hand, doesn't really care...
That being said, they never prevented me from playing violent games...like Turok 2...when I was 6ish
My dad, on the other hand, doesn't really care...
That being said, they never prevented me from playing violent games...like Turok 2...when I was 6ish
My parents don't care if my siblings and I play violent games, they realize that we know what is reality and what isn't. I've been playing violent games since I was 9 or so. Though, it probably helped that when I was 9 years old, it was only 1997.
EDIT:// Unless you count jumping on Goombas as being violent. Then I've been playing violent games since I was 5.
EDIT:// Unless you count jumping on Goombas as being violent. Then I've been playing violent games since I was 5.
my dad worked in a correctional facility, he knows what really makes kids into bad kids. Its shitty surroundings run by shitty parenting and sometimes just a bad kid.
Video games are seldom if ever something that will make someone turn into a psycho. (I say seldom because if your mentally challenged maybe it will have an effect)
Video games are seldom if ever something that will make someone turn into a psycho. (I say seldom because if your mentally challenged maybe it will have an effect)
I wasn't stopped from playing them... but me and my dad had debates over the content in games
My Mum was totally intolerant of games full stop, but has never stopped me from playing them unless i pushed her in some way... few bans and what not. She has no idea and no interest in the conetent of what i play.
My dad on the other hand is well aware of the games i play... i played all the notorious games like manhunt etc. But I was very open with my dad and we discussed and debated the content. He wouldn't play violent games himself but doesn't judge me for doing so. I remember he said "if you ever start to show sociopathic tendancies i'm taking away your gaming privilages" or something similar to that. He realises the highest risk from violent games comes from the enviroment to which the person who plays it is raised in... If a person has a pension for violence, violent games just give him/her ideas, same can be said about music and film i guess
But i personally switched my attituted towards games when i was 15/16.. i still play violent games but have no interest in games that don't at least try to justify it (in its context) or provide alternatives. I prefer story and context over action and gore.
My Mum was totally intolerant of games full stop, but has never stopped me from playing them unless i pushed her in some way... few bans and what not. She has no idea and no interest in the conetent of what i play.
My dad on the other hand is well aware of the games i play... i played all the notorious games like manhunt etc. But I was very open with my dad and we discussed and debated the content. He wouldn't play violent games himself but doesn't judge me for doing so. I remember he said "if you ever start to show sociopathic tendancies i'm taking away your gaming privilages" or something similar to that. He realises the highest risk from violent games comes from the enviroment to which the person who plays it is raised in... If a person has a pension for violence, violent games just give him/her ideas, same can be said about music and film i guess
But i personally switched my attituted towards games when i was 15/16.. i still play violent games but have no interest in games that don't at least try to justify it (in its context) or provide alternatives. I prefer story and context over action and gore.