Whats wrong with parents? Eleven year old child in France gets GTA 5 and freaks out

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AndrewWK said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:

AndrewWK said:
I don´t see the problem. I played Killer instinct Gold Goldeneye Resident Evil etc. when I was 11 and didn´t became a murderer. A child should know the difference between reality and fiction.

Who says you have to be murder someone for a game to be out of age range?

Pöease epxplain to me something I never really understood. What are the ratings for? I mean The Last of Us is rated M and a 11 year old kid wouldn´t know to appreciate whats great about that game. GTA is rated M and a 11 doesn´t even know what the game is about he is probably going to drive and do some mayhem just like we did in GTA 3, Vice City or San Andreas. And if a parent thinks this is appropriate for his kid then thats totally fine.

GTA3 wasnt that bad of a game but for its time it was very mature. GTA today would most likely push the envelope even further in violence, sexual language kids shouldn't hear, misogynist statements against women, nudity, drugs and more in  cocktail to the point where kids beome desensititzed to it. Desensitization is why you no longer can scare a child any longer and the horror genre has gone down the shitter. You don't need to be the best director of a scary movie but today the genre has no chance any longer. The demands of violence, sex and drugs has grown to a rate where people need to see movies like Saw or even Hostel to even cringe. To make them even squirm they need visceral stiumli. What scared our parents fails to scare us. We can watch people die in real life because of it.

Most parents and old school pioneers of the war against videogames have made ridiculous arguments against videogames. I just so happened to have studied disensitization and just like rated R films and Videogames, they desensitize children to the point where the industry has to search for answers in how to shock people further. Children force themselves to grow up and again react less to stimuli before their time, therefore forcing the industry to go on defense.

In conclusion, our parents are more emotionally sensitive than we are.