Parents buying underage kids rated M games?

[Reindeer]

I don't think kids should be allowed to play rated M games. Not only they are too disturbing for their age group, but they're turning into trashy kids.

Did you know that most of the people who cuss online, talk about sex and nudity online, and those who say "go to hell" a lot online are actually immature people under the age of 13? It's true.

wut

I've been playing M-rated games for over a decade and I'm not the kind of person to go yelling outside at 3AM in the morning or blasting my subwoofers at such a volume that people's houses literally shake. Those are actually the people who play little to no video games, so I'm not sure what kind of people you're running into.

And from personal experience I can say that playing rated M games can help in a person's development. At least it did for me. I decided to play a bunch of horror games (rated 16-18 here, I was 13 when I started), and they helped a lot with my nerves. I was really jumpy before that, scared of a bunch of things without any reason. Horror games made me face that and mature.

Things like violence in video games is also fine. It's just a fact of life. If people want to shelter their kids that much they should keep them at home, because there's enough violence, strong language, etc. just in a school environment. Whether or not their kids are playing games that are rated for ages higher than theirs is not going to help.

 

[Lovelylexi]

I'm not against kids who are mature enough themselves to play mature games, but there are some who can't handle it and should wait until they do actually mature.

A good example is my little brother. All the video games he plays are mature rated and the way they reflect what he says concerns me. It's not so much the actual game, as it is the people on the games he plays with are. They influence him in a lot of different ways, they're always cursing, yelling at each other, things like that and then my brother will go yelling and cursing at my mom when he's getting in trouble because he starts to think it's okay.

Obviously my mom doesn't put up with it and he gets in more trouble, but she never really puts her foot down, as in she doesn't take the games away from him. I've tried to convince her that she should at least make him take a break but she doesn't listen to me.

I mean I'm not saying my brother is a complete monster because of the video games he plays, but he probably would be better off if he stopped playing them for now and didn't start back up on them again until he's able to handle them the right way and I think it should be like that for all of the little kids that play M rated games. If they can handle it, fine. If they can't handle it, they shouldn't be playing them.

 

[-Apples-]

wut

I've been playing M-rated games for over a decade and I'm not the kind of person to go yelling outside at 3AM in the morning or blasting my subwoofers at such a volume that people's houses literally shake. Those are actually the people who play little to no video games, so I'm not sure what kind of people you're running into.

And from personal experience I can say that playing rated M games can help in a person's development. At least it did for me. I decided to play a bunch of horror games (rated 16-18 here, I was 13 when I started), and they helped a lot with my nerves. I was really jumpy before that, scared of a bunch of things without any reason. Horror games made me face that and mature.

Things like violence in video games is also fine. It's just a fact of life. If people want to shelter their kids that much they should keep them at home, because there's enough violence, strong language, etc. just in a school environment. Whether or not their kids are playing games that are rated for ages higher than theirs is not going to help.

As long as you're mature about it, it's fine. I'm only talking about the ones who are immature about it.

 

[rariorana]

I don't think young kids should play M-rated games, but if they're a mid-to-older teenager then I'm okay with it.

When I was a kid my mom refused to let me play T-rated games other than The Sims.

 

[#1 Senpai]

I played a GTA game when I was like 6-8?
and watched some people play it

If the parent knows that the kid can handle it and won't be out of control then so be it aha, I don't really care.

 

[spCrossing]

Meh.

It happens all the time here, I got used to it.
Not to mention, my first video game ever was the original Unreal when I was like 2-3.

 

[Aryxia]

Their crap attitudes probably come from crap parenting, not the games. As long as the parents are there to tell them what is right and wrong, they'll have that sense of morality.

 

[Nanobyte]

Though I think it's silly, I guess I'm okay with it. It's their parent's choice.

 

[spCrossing]

Their crap attitudes probably come from crap parenting, not the games.

Though I think it's silly, I guess I'm okay with it. It's their parent's fault if they grow up in to horrible people.

Exactly.

 

[tamagotchi]

I mean, if they can handle it. I don't have a lot of thoughts on the matter, I don't think about it all that much. Personally, I wouldn't want my child, if I had one, playing a game with implied sexual actions and such, but that's my opinion. I guess people just have their own ways of parenting.

 

[spCrossing]

It only gets annoying when other kids call out on other games who play different games than "M-Rated games" (Mainly Nintendo here, cuz imma Nintendo fanboy over here) kiddy.
Even those games are just as fun or even more fun than the M-Rated games that people play.
Really don't have to call out on some body for liking different stuff.

Then again I do that with Smash Bros 4 with people here so....

 

[Gideon]

I disagree with the practice of allowing children, and I am talking about kids under the age of 13 at the very least, to play games with all this mature content. Children are much more easily influenced than teenagers and adults are, and many of those games can easily cause a child to come to the understanding that certain things aren't bad; this is especially the case with children whose parents (and/or other influential figures in their lives) do not properly teach them right from wrong, or things that are simply not supposed to be done in the real world.

A particularly notable issue is when children who are already questionable in their mental health, get their hands on things, whether it be video games, movies, etc. with content that can be considered inappropriate (especially for young children). A child who is easily influenced in general has a greater risk in my opinion of doing the wrong thing when they take part in experiencing in such mediums. I'm not someone who believes that video games are a cause of these people who go out and kill, and just happen to play video games. What I will say is that allowing younger children to play such games (or watch movies like them etc.) with heavy violence, sexual themes, alcohol, profanity, abusive actions, etc. can potentially cause problems with the child in the future.

For kids in the teens it's not really as big of a deal to me, but some 8 year old in elementary school playing Grand Theft Auto, shooting people, being exposed to sexual content, heavy amounts of profanity, and the like is rather disturbing to me. And is a very questionable action by the parents/guardians of a child for allowing them to play such games.

 

[ellabella12345]

My brother let me play GTA when I was 6...

Exactly the same as me. I actually loved it. I didn't do the missions though. I would just walk around pretending I was a human and real.and stealing cars, running people over and have the cops chase me

 

[thatawkwardkid]

I don't care if kids buy those games or not. If it doesn't have some sort of negative impact on them, or me, or anyone else, I don't care what they do.

 

[Bowie]

If you can handle it, play it. If you can't, don't play it.

 

[Aradai]

I've been playing M-rated games since I was....about 10 or something.
But that was my choice. I thought I could handle it. And I did.

 

[Shirohibiki]

If the parent thinks the kid can handle it, and isn't just giving the kid the game to shut them up, then by all means, let the kid play whatever ****ing game they want.

p much this^

and people really need to stop blaming games and whatever else for peoples' attitudes. it may contribute, but it is nowhere NEAR the sole reason people become violent or vulgar or whatever else have you. as someone else mentioned, that would ESPECIALLY be contributed to by parenting, as well as core personality, among other things.

 

[Groovycat64]

I think it really depends on the child.

I mean over in the U.S., you sometimes hear some parents complaining that video games are linked to their child's violent temper or cause of a child shooting something or someone.
I disagree with that though.

I think that if the child has a clear depiction between what's reality and fantasy or virtual, not to mention the parent feels the child is mature enough to realize the fictitious implications the video game holds, then let them play it.

If they can't do that, then they shouldn't play the game.

Just my opinion though.

 

[FriendlyVillager]

not all rated M games are bad though, like Virtue's Last Reward is rated M but it has nothing in it thats bad for a teenager

 

[Beachland]

It depends on the game, and the maturity and age of the kid. I played many M-rated games when I was under 17 but I don't think any of them were "too mature" for me at the time. I probably wouldn't let a ten-year-old play GTA, though that seems like an extreme case considering the nature of the game. I WOULD let a thirteen-year-old play Assassin's Creed. Just my personal opinion though, thinking of myself at that age- not much would "shock" me.