some parents think games are too violent

some parents thinks games are too violent and can change your mind, until make you a killer, i think theyre exagerating, what do you think?

i think the world is more violent.............its more dangerous and violent walkin down the street and might get jumped for 5 singles u have left in ur wallet lol. tv is dangerous, sex, crimes, action movies with arnold or rambo in them. u see this wat i dont get. ppl will let their kids watch tv with the remote at their hands, but playin a game ohhhhh god forbids we going to have a holicost (dont mind the spellin as long as u get it lol)

Unless your kid has a condition that's bull, but at the same time, a parent has too look after their child. If they see that the kid is becoming too obsessed with games, it would be in their best interests to step in.

Unless your kid has a condition that's bull, but at the same time, a parent has too look after their child. If they see that the kid is becoming too obsessed with games, it would be in their best interests to step in.

Legendaryscmt

well this hole thing started in the early 90's when some kid who played nothing but shooting games vrought a gun to school and shot off 8 rounds and all of his shots were head shots. but to me games dont teach you any fire arm skills or any thing of that matter parents just want to blame somethin other than taking responsibility for their childs problems.

Unless your kid has a condition that's bull, but at the same time, a parent has too look after their child. If they see that the kid is becoming too obsessed with games, it would be in their best interests to step in.

Legendaryscmt

Thats the real truth bro

well this hole thing started in the early 90's when some kid who played nothing but shooting games vrought a gun to school and shot off 8 rounds and all of his shots were head shots. but to me games dont teach you any fire arm skills or any thing of that matter parents just want to blame somethin other than taking responsibility for their childs problems.

bloodshot191

Parents need to do the parenting.

It's nice to monitor what your kids watch and play, but if you have to do it so strictly, then you're already relying on the media to teach your kids and you fail as a parent.

Parents rely too heavily on the TV to raise their children. If that wasn't the case, we wouldn't have to worry about they watch and America wouldn't be gradually getting stupider.

FYI: You don't have to kill somebody to be violent.

GameSpot did a interview a couple years back...atleast I think it was GameSpot...might've been GameInformer doubt it though.
But it was a study about something called mirror neruology(sp?). How seeing something or playing something will impact what you do.
Parents should be careful what their kids play though I do agree with that.I would never let my kids play something like GTA4.But, thats why the ERSB was set up for a reason. My parents still see me playing shooting games and think its violent. But its like the mc chris song " I would never buy a gun I would never take a life but I'll snipe you in the eye if I see that you're online."
What has always amazed me though was how games were criticized and people pointed their figures at them but television has always pertrayed way more violence. You watch a show like CSI that goes into way too much detail about murders and what not but that isn't bad. and excluding GTA4 and a couple other titles yeah you make kill people but its usually always for a cause making you the good guy. But, now I'm ranting =)

Parents need to do the parenting.

It's nice to monitor what your kids watch and play, but if you have to do it so strictly, then you're already relying on the media to teach your kids and you fail as a parent.

Parents rely too heavily on the TV to raise their children. If that wasn't the case, we wouldn't have to worry about they watch and America wouldn't be gradually getting stupider.

Scianix-Black

yashore.

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when my parents said that my videogames are too violent, i say ok thats your opinion and my opinion is that is better to play videogames, than smoking drugs, or something like that.

Today, I found $35.85 in a change room. I put the money up to claim at the office, but kept 25 cents so I could buy a soda. I blame video games :cry:hazelnutman

What have the turned you into :cry:

You used to be an honest person, but those god danged vidya gaemz turned ya into a monster :cry:

It's because they don't understand it. People are afraid of what they don't understand.

If parents played most games with their children, then they would know that almost no harm will come from those 'violent' video games.

but then you have some loser (R.I.P) commiting suicide because of a game ban. >_>

I'm not lying... this is what usually riles parents up and getting all COMMANDO all over the entertainment.

i love violent games, theyre great

Any form of media content can make a person feel certain way.

Lot of it is because the individual has no self control or is just to young to comprehend the situation, bad parenting also doesn't help.

I have to agree that if the person is exposed to a certain amount of violence without understating the right and wrong argument, that person can go as extreme as it gets.

Video games are in minority when it comes to such issues but I don't believe they're completely safe from it either.

[QUOTE="hazelnutman"]Today, I found $35.85 in a change room. I put the money up to claim at the office, but kept 25 cents so I could buy a soda. I blame video games :cry:thelastguy

What have the turned you into :cry:

You used to be an honest person, but those god danged vidya gaemz turned ya into a monster :cry:

Okay, yes they are taking it a little to dramatically. I play violent games all the time and im still not a killer, ive held guns and ive never killed anyone with them, I listen to rap music and its never made me want to bust a cap in someones @$$.Violence has been here way before videogames or any form of entertainment for that...what happened first? WAW or WWII, COD4 or the Iraqi War,Gang Warfare or GTA SA?Who was here first? Al Capone or Jon Corleone? Its natural in humans to put the blame on something else then the obvious thing in the matter. Its always been one kid ruins it for the rest. It cant just be that that kid is crazy its gotta be the things around him that made him do it. They did it wwith movies, they did it with music, now they do it with games....eventually it will be something else and JTs and Hillary Clintons will find something else toblame a kid going crazy on...thats all there is to it...and when we are all parents we'll find something our kids do to be "too violent"

Most of what has been said is spot on!! I feel that if parents did care about what their kids were playing and telling them good violence and bad violence this really wouldn't be an issue. And to the ESRB ratings: I understand what they're supposed to accomplish but it's plain ignorance to simply look at the rating and make a decision. I have a customer at the gaming store I work at and his parents won't let him play M games because he's 16 and M games should only be played by 17+. He actually sold his PS3 because he couldn't buy any of the games that are M. That my friends is just preposterous.

some parents have a valid reason to keep games away from their kids but some just go by the rating without doing research to understand why specifically they are keeping that game away from their kid.

Example: my mother was mad at me for buying my nephew gta4. i said, "why!" she said, "because their cussing, using all that bad language"! i said, " he learned all those words plus a whole lot more listening to you!" (which is why i bought the damn thing, thinking she wouldnt care, lol)

that and the violence. but hey, the boy aint stupid he just wants to play a good game...

i think this is old news i mean there's always gonna be people who are afraid of anything they are not familiar with and cry out wont someone think of the children (Helen from the simpsons) and try to stigmatize it. people did this with comic books, mtv, and now video games eventually theyll just move on to something else that doesnt sit right with them.

My parents bought me MGS when I was in Kindergarten and I turned out fine. Depends on the child really.

Violence is everywhere ..

They like to target video games because they allow you to 'act' out the violent part ..

Parents just need to take some of the responsibility and stop blaming others or other things for their not so perfect parenting ..

i think they are too violent for certain age groups. it depends on the kid, and the game. i wouldnt buy a kid a game with senseless violence, but if a game had violence for a reason, then i'd get it for them.

its not really about the violence as to the maturity of some games; drug use, strong language, and sex are never good for kids. most parents think it really.

most kids now a days are watching suicides happen online, so i don't really think computer animated violence is all that terrible.

it's the media's fault for blowing it out of proportion, and then people beleiving it and then thats how it all starts.

life isnt the same if i dont play my favourite shooters, with lot of violence like my bioshock, killzone2 , resistance8)

Props to the parents who actually give a damn about what their kids are and aren't playing.BenderUnit22

i think they are too violent for certain age groups. it depends on the kid, and the game. i wouldnt buy a kid a game with senseless violence, but if a game had violence for a reason, then i'd get it for them.

its not really about the violence as to the maturity of some games; drug use, strong language, and sex are never good for kids. most parents think it really.

most kids now a days are watching suicides happen online, so i don't really think computer animated violence is all that terrible.

people who say that videogames inspire to make crimes, are sick, because it depends on the person who plays and people who say that, dont deserve a ps3(ps3 rules)

We live in a finger pointing society where people are too stupid to take responsibility for their own actions. Everyone is babied, they hide behind things like this like spineless cowards and it's never "their fault". It's always something else that's doing this. Never, the actual world that surrounds us. No. Never any other form of medium because that would not work to their benefit as a matter of biased opinion. Everything is a band aid solution. "Blame this, case closed". People are too lazy and would live in diapers if you'd let them. Those who claim they have "rights" or have individuality have no problem making those very claims null and void when it comes to falling back on something that can't possibly be "their fault". Yet, you can't "take it away" from them.

It's all hypocritical BS that you can smell a solar system away. People want to feel "safe" in their little bubbles they create and bark out and point fingers at anything they please that they don't agree with. Demonizing them as wrong and ruining it for everyone else.

Society in itself is weak and sick. Actually in some parts, pathetic. This does have a big tie into video games. But there is a "bigger picture" apart of this too. Video Games are just one of many targets.

I think the children of today are very babied, in the 1950's - 1960's many of the parents bought the child a GUN as a present when they were like 13 years old. While the finger pointing parents are taking a away video games because of media influence.

I think parents are trying to place the blame on something other than themselves because they can't control their kids

and those parents are right, some games are too violent

We live in a finger pointing society where people are too stupid to take responsibility for their own actions. Everyone is babied, they hide behind things like this like spineless cowards and it's never "their fault". It's always something else that's doing this. Never, the actual world that surrounds us. No. Never any other form of medium because that would not work to their benefit as a matter of biased opinion. Everything is a band aid solution. "Blame this, case closed". People are too lazy and would live in diapers if you'd let them. Those who claim they have "rights" or have individuality have no problem making those very claims null and void when it comes to falling back on something that can't possibly be "their fault". Yet, you can't "take it away" from them.

It's all hypocritical BS that you can smell a solar system away. People want to feel "safe" in their little bubbles they create and bark out and point fingers at anything they please that they don't agree with. Demonizing them as wrong and ruining it for everyone else.

Society in itself is weak and sick. Actually in some parts, pathetic. This does have a big tie into video games. But there is a "bigger picture" apart of this too. Video Games are just one of many targets.

Denji

it's easier to blame games.

I don't have the link to back what I am about to say because it came in the news. The average British couple spends around 15 minutes a day with they children. 15 minutes a day people! That's nothing. Then they blame games/movies/TV for corrupting they young.

They should have spent the necessary time explaning to them what's wrong or right, and you can't do that in 15 minutes a day.

I love the violent games. A game with no blood offers no realism.

i love violent games, theyre great

james_pat

I been playing violent games since i was 11, started playing games like gta 3 at the age of only 12 .... been watching all kinds of horror/ violent movies even younger yet i turned out great. It all depends on the person really. In a world full of ****ed up **** video games are nothing compared to it. ****ed up **** like scat porn, hentai rape child molestation, murders, ppl killing cutting ppls heads of, ppl chopping of there nutsacks on the internet to see, ppl commiting suicides, wars, rough neigbourhoods where ppl kids get shot every mminute, gangs, random street killings, serial killers, fathers cutting sons eyes out, the list just goes on and on.

They're right as far as games being violent but I think the whole turning kids into killers thing is blown out of proportion. Having said that, I still wouldn't let my future 10 year old kid play something like GTA until he hits his teens. As long as kids know the difference between playing something in a game and acting it out in real life, I don't think parents should be that worried.

I been playing violent games since i was 11, started playing games like gta 3 at the age of only 12 .... been watching all kinds of horror/ violent movies even younger yet i turned out great. It all depends on the person really. In a world full of ****ed up **** video games are nothing compared to it. ****ed up **** like scat porn, hentai rape child molestation, murders, ppl killing cutting ppls heads of, ppl chopping of there nutsacks on the internet to see, ppl commiting suicides, wars, rough neigbourhoods where ppl kids get shot every mminute, gangs, random street killings, serial killers, fathers cutting sons eyes out, the list just goes on and on.

PimpiNbananas

some parents thinks games are too violent and can change your mind, until make you a killer, i think theyre exagerating, what do you think?

darkscorpion08

I been playing violent games since i was 11, started playing games like gta 3 at the age of only 12 .... been watching all kinds of horror/ violent movies even younger yet i turned out great. It all depends on the person really. In a world full of ****ed up **** video games are nothing compared to it. ****ed up **** like scat porn, hentai rape child molestation, murders, ppl killing cutting ppls heads of, ppl chopping of there nutsacks on the internet to see, ppl commiting suicides, wars, rough neigbourhoods where ppl kids get shot every mminute, gangs, random street killings, serial killers, fathers cutting sons eyes out, the list just goes on and on.

[QUOTE="PimpiNbananas"]

I been playing violent games since i was 11, started playing games like gta 3 at the age of only 12 .... been watching all kinds of horror/ violent movies even younger yet i turned out great. It all depends on the person really. In a world full of ****ed up **** video games are nothing compared to it. ****ed up **** like scat porn, hentai rape child molestation, murders, ppl killing cutting ppls heads of, ppl chopping of there nutsacks on the internet to see, ppl commiting suicides, wars, rough neigbourhoods where ppl kids get shot every mminute, gangs, random street killings, serial killers, fathers cutting sons eyes out, the list just goes on and on.

WorldOfHurt

Just to clear things up im 19 now kk LoL and yes I first found out opon these sick **** through friends and Youtube reaction vids. I think stuff like this is whats going to kill the human race one day. Or severely decrease human morals.

Well most video games That are voilant have a M RATING! if parents would pay attention to wat they are getting for there kids then they would see that its not the game. If you are 18 and think that you can do half the s#!+ you can do in a video game then you shouldnt be playing it