[QUOTE="ceells87"][QUOTE="Phoenix534"]
I don't know. I'm thirteen and my parents let me play Fallout 3, Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil 5. And they'd probably let me get Gears of War if I wanted to.
Phoenix534
and your family is one of the reasons video games take so much flak and keep giving people bull**** reasons to pass laws on them. It's the freaking law that you have to be a certain age to play those games and thats for a reason. whether you like it or not doesnt matter, when your old enough and can vote and actually do something about it speak up. My brother is 14 and is reasponsible, does that mean im gonna let him use my car cause he wont go out and run people over, or because he believes he can drive. No, its cause he's not old enough and i kinda like obeying the easy simple laws we have so harsher ones dont get made. talk to your parents and try doing the same. No matter how maturwe you THINK you are, doesnt change the law That's not entirely true. Video games are getting these laws because people find out that serial killer and psychopaths play Grand Theft Auto or Saints Row. Yes, some kids do start doing crazy things from games, but any right-minded person knows the difference between right and wrong. And no, it's not against the law for me to play them. It's against the law for me to buy them. There is a big difference.
This a debate that will rage on for years to come. As gaming becomes more advanced, they are being aimed at are more adult age group. Looking at my games collection I notice a lot of the 18 rating on the boxes. What people don't realise is that there is only a small majority of kids that actually do something bad that relates back to computer games and 9 times out of 10 the child had problems to begin with. Some people may have read about or been around duringthe whole 'video nasties' debate back in the 80's where the 'extreme gore' films like 'Evil Dead' and 'Driller Killer' were being banned because people believed it was corrupting their children when there was hardly any evidence of it at all.
I'm sure many gamers have been playing games from a very young age and have grown up to be just fine. I for one played a lot of violent games as a kid but at the same time, I played a lot of 'normal' games as well.If one child kills someone because of a computer game then immdiately every child is at risk at being corrupted because it gets blown out of propertion and people are quick to point of the finger at someone and find someone to blame.
I know ratings are there for a reason but when I was sat at home playing GTAIII on my PS2 back when I was 15, a lot of people I knew from school were out taking drugs. There are far worse things in life then playing games underage.
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