Poll: 72% of Adults Support Violent Game Law

[Killiana1a]

TukTuk said:

Killiana1a said:

indodude said:

lolwut? I thought this "law" was already enforced.

Funny, 8 years back I was in Hollywood Video renting a PS2 game. An 8 year old picks out GTA: Vice City and his fucked up, completely negligent parent allows his 8 year old to rent it.

I was thinking what the fuck? When I was 8, I was playing Super Mario Bros 3 and did not play my first mature game until Doom when I was around age 12.

If we have parents like this, then companies need to be held to the table. Fines and whatnot equivalent to liquor and convenient stores selling alcohol and tobacco to minors is needed because there are parents out there who will let little Jimmy rent any game because they just don't care.

Parents should be able to decide what is right and wrong for their kids, not the government.  If a parent thinks their kid can play GTA, let them. 

Your example is either the parents failure for not being involved in the kids interest or the parents success in knowing what is and is not appropriate for the kid.  Heaven forbid parents actually care about their kids!

Are your parents completely fucked up and negligent for letting you play Doom at 12?

No, because I was mature enough for it which my parents agreed and more importantly, Doom and even Soldier of Fortune have nothing on GTA in terms of the varieties of ultraviolent content.

The most you do in Doom or Soldier of Fortune is blow bad guys away and shoot their body parts off. In GTA, you can kill pedestrians in 100 plus ways, rob innocent people, rob stores, and on.

The point is, by and large the vast majority of parents are decent and attentive. It is the minority of parents for whatever reason will allow their kids to play anything. You need to make sure each retailer and renter is fully informing the parents of the content of the game before the sale or rent is made, up to the point of the employee demoing the game at the counter.