Rockstar: Parents who buy our games for their kids are terrible parents

[Slimebeast]

mike_intellivision said:

Slimebeast said:

mike_intellivision said:
Amen!

While I generally do not care to play the games that Rockstar puts out, I believe that there are adults who do -- and they should be allowed to have adult fare.

Almost no one in their right mind would have taken a 14-year-old to "No Country for Old Men" (a critically acclaimed but violent film). So no one should buy M-rated games of this type for their 14-year-olds either.

Mike from Morgantown

Didn't you watch violent movies as a 14-year-old?

No. No I did not. 

Certainly not the level of violence found in an M-rated video game.

And note that most parents do NOT take their children to R-rated movies ... the kids sneak in (one way or the other).

However, these same parents think nothing of buying the equivalent of an R-rated video game for their kids.   That is the problem.

Mike from Morgantown

"No country for old men" was quite brutal. Here in Sweden u need to be 15 to see it. I think that's okay. Is R-rating 16 or 18?

But u do not think GTA4 is on the same level as that move do you? Gta4 I would allow an 11 year old to play, maybe 12. Grafix in games still are so unrealistic that the violence even if it's a lot more brutal doesnt affect kids that much.