10 games kids shouldn't play!!

[quote name='Scrubking']I was just wondering... how come we always hear about kids immitating violence because of games, but we never hear of kids getting traumatized cause of scary games like RE or SH?[/quote]

Remember that idiotic story last year about the Canadian kid whose mother said he was traumatized by a bus banner ad for Prince of Persia? We all agreed he would be more traumatized in the long run by having his name in newspapers all over North America in a manner effectively declaring him to be a pussy.
 
I think the list is, for the most part, right on. Ultimately it's up to the parents though to determine what games their kids are mature enough to play. The same goes for movies, music, etc.
 
As someone else stated, I have no idea why this group narrowed it down to 10 games. There are way more M rated games that are worse than the ones on their list. Maybe they could better waste their time compiling a list of T rated games that they don't believe should be rated Teen. Like the Harry Potter games since they deal with witchcraft. :wink:
 
[quote name='epobirs'][quote name='Alpha2']The reason Halo gets an M is for the massive amounts of gun toating, for god's sake itey even amped it up by including dula wielding.
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Watch out! He has a dula![/quote]

I know, but Alpha spelled it wrong. He meant "doula wielding." I haven't played Halo2 yet, but it seems as if they have gone in a new direction. I didn't realize that Master Chief needed someone to help him with the birth of his child. Hell, I didn't even know Master Chief was going to have a baby!
 
[quote name='Scrubking']The whole violence on TV and video begets violence in real life is total kaka.

Tom and Jerry was my favorite cartoon (still is), and it had:

- dismemberment with knives
- shooting people
- beheadings
- biting
- Stabbing
- and a whole host of other violent acts

But you don't see people trying to ban that cartoon or loony toons either.[/quote]

Sure, they tried. For most of the 70's cartoons were utterly neutered. Characters who had been mortal enemies were now pals seeking non-violent solutions to other's problems. Sealab 2021 uses an example of 70's cartoon lameness as its source material.

The 80's got weirder. There was a return to real action but somehow hardly anyone ever got hit by the immense amount of weapons fire going around. The characters would possess the capability of immense mayhem but never brought it to bear against any living being.

Sometimes you couldn't even beat up a non-living being. Marv Wolfman (creator of Blade and the popular version of Teen Titans) once regaled a dinner gathering I attended with some of his experiences with network censors. While working on a Superman cartoon series he wrote a script in which Supes destroys a giant humanoid robot by smashing through its torso. No big deal, you'd think. But no, Superman can't be shown doing that because Superman can't kill. "Kill?" asked Marv, "It's a walking toaster, a machine." No, he was told, it was in the shape of a human being and therefore had a soul. That absurdity left Marv so dumbfounded he was ready to agree to anything to get away from this lunatic.

Joe Straczynski (B5) did a lot of cartoon work, too. He once got into an argument over a reference to the Necronomicon in a Ghostbusters script. The censor would allow it because it was, in his belief, a real book. Anybody with two brain cells to rub together knows H.P. Lovecraft invented it in the 1930's but no amount of corroborating support from professional scholars would shake this guy's beliefs. Joe had told the network he would quit if this ever happened and he did.
 
[quote name='epobirs'][quote name='alpo845']Hahaha...Free advertising for those 10 games.[/quote]

Yep. It's even funnier when an activist group gets up in arms about some product that hasn't done much business and creates enough curiousity to make it a hit. [/quote]

This brings about the obvious question of where this group got its information. Did they actually rent/purchase and try out these "bad" games (in which case they contributed to these games' financial success), or are they speaking out of ignorance (without having ever actually tried any of these games)? Either way, they're a bunch of hypocrits. If parents are concerned enough about what their kids play to read this garbage, these same parents are probably also knowledgeable enough to know and monitor what their kids are playing on their own.
 
Boy I'm so thankful that they came up with this list, cause I was just on my way out to my Leisure suit larry and GTA/SA for my 5 and 8 year old.

Thank you National Institute on Media and the Family, you just saved my kids!

Thank you so much for without your tireless work and insight I would have never known what an inappropriate game for my children might be.
 
[quote name='epobirs'][quote name='Scrubking']I was just wondering... how come we always hear about kids immitating violence because of games, but we never hear of kids getting traumatized cause of scary games like RE or SH?[/quote]

Remember that idiotic story last year about the Canadian kid whose mother said he was traumatized by a bus banner ad for Prince of Persia? We all agreed he would be more traumatized in the long run by having his name in newspapers all over North America in a manner effectively declaring him to be a pussy.[/quote]

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
oh my god that rocks
 
i went to that link with the worst games. i read the front page article and it says in the 4th or 5th paragraph "AO games are described as games with graphic depictions of sex and/or violence. Rumble Roses is one of these games." WTF?!?! You wrestle as scandily clad women in bathing suits.. Or am i completely off target. maybe i am but i dont think halo 2 is that bad, either. they forgot about games like Manhunt, Suffering, and other survival horror or incredibly violent games.
 
[quote name='stag8603']i went to that link with the worst games. i read the front page article and it says in the 4th or 5th paragraph "AO games are described as games with graphic depictions of sex and/or violence. Rumble Roses is one of these games." WTF?!?! You wrestle as scandily clad women in bathing suits.. Or am i completely off target. maybe i am but i dont think halo 2 is that bad, either. they forgot about games like Manhunt, Suffering, and other survival horror or incredibly violent games.[/quote]

Welcome to 3 months ago.
 
I think Halo 2 makes the list because of how popular it is. I'm sure when it came out, it was the talk to the school yard for a week. Most kids with an Xbox are going to want it. Now, it is an M game about killing, so in some ways, it should be thought about before you let your kids play. That being said, I watch my nieces and nephews, and if my 5 year old niece wanted to play Halo, I would let her (though, she's throughly addicted to Ape Escape 2 right now).

I played through 75% of Grand Theft Auto, San Andreas. I have no problem with that being on the list, but I don't think it deserves an AO rating. AO should be a porn video game, if SA was a movie, no one would be arguing that it should be an NC-17 or worse. It would be an R.
 
Another thing they should put up there is having your 7 year old online.

Nothing I love more than talking about Having sex with a legless vietnmese 13 year old with such a massive case of vagininosis that it looks like I'm diping my dick in a bowl of cottage cheese. Then, being that she's legless....I spin her around a few times while shes on and when Im about to jizz I stand up and throw an ounce and a half of throat yogart in her hair right before a quick donkey punch. I could get dirtier....but I dont wanna gross you out completely.

But I love getting into detail about stuff like this...kids are like sponges and they pick up stuff so quickly.

Now, if I'm playing a "E" for everyone game, I wont do this...but a "M" = Mature game...I love it. The parents buy little jimmie Halo2, so they dont have to watch their kid as they go have a night on the town or something. The whole thing is rediculous. I love corrupting kids who play mature online titles.
 
[quote name='Death2Sanity']These people need to realize a M rating is equivalent to a movie's R rating. Then there's not much they can say about the distinction between M and AO. It's the same as R and X.[/QUOTE]

exactly, it should be self evident to any parent that they shouldn't play games with adult ratings....but I guess since when do parents pay any attention to the ratings system.
 
lol yeah this organizations are really crap they made my friends mom not want to buy him any M rated games!!
 
Here is what the parents shouldnt do: A) let the kid play the game without letting them know its wrong or B) completley shelter them from it and only say dont play that, dont go near that and so on. When a kid is shelterd from a killing game, they are more likely to want it more and more as they grow older, not knowing its wrong, and the same with just letting them play it. I think that you should let the kid play the game once in a while making sure they know that running down the streets gunning people down is the wrong thing to do. If everyone did that, none of this "Video game caused me to kill someone" would happen. As far as the top ten games go you talk about a "horrible game" what is the first thing you think of. For me it is certianly not resident evil outbreak or halo 2. Manhunt, the punisher, etc, are way worse than most of the games out their and they didnt even make the list. These people arent even gamers so how would they know what they are talking about? i mean really, you dont see too many aliens walking down the street with needlers and blue blood do you?
 
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