Danny
27-01-2015, 01:54 PM
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As it's probably pretty clear, I am big on games, I love all kinds of games from the tame Sonic The Hedgehog and Pokemon to the violent games such as Resident Evil and Grand Theft Auto.
I play games for fun and have played from a young age, I reckon from about 5 years old. At 10/11 I was playing Resident Evil even though it was rated 15 and Grand Theft Auto when it first came out which was rated an 18.
Now the violent games are often in the media an are given what I feel a bad reputation because some lunatic played Grand Theft Auto a lot then went out on a killing spree for example. It has to be down to the game right? I often read it's the influence of the game that a person has played, but like I say, I have played a varied genre of games and I have not had any ideas of rampaging with a knife because I did it in a game. I like that I can immense myself in these games, do things I never would dream of doing in reality.
But that's just it, some people can't tell reality apart from a gaming world. My younger brother who has Asperger's started playing my other brother's Canis Canem Edit game (AKA Bully), between us we called it Bully so my mother assumed that was the actual name of the game. He wasn't able to determine why my mum didn't like the way he was laughing so much at punching somebody in the face, it got to the point where he was banned from the game and my brother and myself couldn't play it around him. She hated the game because of it's realism, but didn't mind us playing Grand Theft Auto because we were mature and aware enough that this is a game.
Years down the line, because as I mentioned above that she didn't know what the actual game was called, he had tricked her in buying the game for him again. She soon realised what the game was and again ended up taking the game from him because his behaviour was appalling after playing it.
So, it's clear people perceive things in different ways, but as much as parents want to pass the buck with things like this, they are quite uneducated with video games. But my view is they should read in to games instead of being pressured into buying it there and then. It's not hard to ask at the counter what the game is about. Age ratings are there but I don't think it's an age issue, I think it's down to how each person is. The parent should gauge if their child is responsible enough to be able to play it, the parent should do the research into the game instead of coming out and saying "I didn't know what they were playing".
So this is my view on this matter, what about you? Is it down to games to keep their content less violent or less realistic, or is it down to parents to decide if a game is appropriate for their kid, regardless of age?
As it's probably pretty clear, I am big on games, I love all kinds of games from the tame Sonic The Hedgehog and Pokemon to the violent games such as Resident Evil and Grand Theft Auto.
I play games for fun and have played from a young age, I reckon from about 5 years old. At 10/11 I was playing Resident Evil even though it was rated 15 and Grand Theft Auto when it first came out which was rated an 18.
Now the violent games are often in the media an are given what I feel a bad reputation because some lunatic played Grand Theft Auto a lot then went out on a killing spree for example. It has to be down to the game right? I often read it's the influence of the game that a person has played, but like I say, I have played a varied genre of games and I have not had any ideas of rampaging with a knife because I did it in a game. I like that I can immense myself in these games, do things I never would dream of doing in reality.
But that's just it, some people can't tell reality apart from a gaming world. My younger brother who has Asperger's started playing my other brother's Canis Canem Edit game (AKA Bully), between us we called it Bully so my mother assumed that was the actual name of the game. He wasn't able to determine why my mum didn't like the way he was laughing so much at punching somebody in the face, it got to the point where he was banned from the game and my brother and myself couldn't play it around him. She hated the game because of it's realism, but didn't mind us playing Grand Theft Auto because we were mature and aware enough that this is a game.
Years down the line, because as I mentioned above that she didn't know what the actual game was called, he had tricked her in buying the game for him again. She soon realised what the game was and again ended up taking the game from him because his behaviour was appalling after playing it.
So, it's clear people perceive things in different ways, but as much as parents want to pass the buck with things like this, they are quite uneducated with video games. But my view is they should read in to games instead of being pressured into buying it there and then. It's not hard to ask at the counter what the game is about. Age ratings are there but I don't think it's an age issue, I think it's down to how each person is. The parent should gauge if their child is responsible enough to be able to play it, the parent should do the research into the game instead of coming out and saying "I didn't know what they were playing".
So this is my view on this matter, what about you? Is it down to games to keep their content less violent or less realistic, or is it down to parents to decide if a game is appropriate for their kid, regardless of age?