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brendude13 said:
spurgeonryan said:
AndrewWK said:
spurgeonryan said:
First I would say that Parents at least know that it is GTA and it can be violent as it is. Maybe they did not know about the nudity and sex, but still....it is RAted M!! The box probably even says nudity on it like most Movies do.


But even the Mass Effect 3 box says partial nudity and it had none 

I am sure more parents have heard of the Hot coffee cheat in the last GTA more than they have heard about Mass Effect. I doubt many even know what Mass Effect is.

Still, if there is any chance of nudity, you probably should not let your 11 year old play it. There are ratings for a reason.

 

^ So Cirio.

 

Sex is natural, it is part of nature. Are you going to let your 8 year watch porn when you have kids? They will probably turn out just fine right?

I turned out fine. :)

You're desensitized, which means society has increase the enevolope psychologically to entertain you. Kids took their innocence away from themselves because of the ignorance of their parents. The parents wonder why but they allowed it to happen. You don't need to kill or rape anyone to see the results, you just need to look at society to see the results.

Kids need their years of innocence. 



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Cirio said:
I played GTA3 when I was 10. I think I turned out okay.


Something happened to you, its called desensitization.



spurgeonryan said:
S.T.A.G.E is right. Desensitization is what I would look out for. It may not turn you into a killer, but it changes you.

Also, a little less serious. Besides my enjoying anal Sex, Porn did not hurt me much either, but still do not want my 1-25 year olds watching todays porn. When they are 25 I will let them watch porn and rent cars.


In America when they turn 18 they are legally adults. They will probably make the decision to pop their own cherries if kept away that long. LOL 



its not that big of a deal tbh! coz i remember when i was his age back in 2000 i played resident evil and a couple of rated teen games and watched wrestling when it was TV-14 and all kind of movies which didn't effect me at the slightest. not to mention when i was 13 i played GTA 3 back in 2002!



S.T.A.G.E. said:
Zappykins said:
This seems more like 'gorilla advertising.' Remember how when Rupert Murdoch bought MySpace then it was the lead story on Fox New every other day? He is kissing the game after all, seems happy.

Of course an 11 year old should not be playing that game. Like an 11 year old doesn't belong in an NC17 movie, in my opinion.

But it's also up to the parents. I wouldn't raise my kid like that, but then my brother took his, I thought too young son, to see Jurassic Park when it came out.

Ultimately, its the choice of the parents.


Jurassic Park wasn't bad, I saw it very young as well and it was PG 13, but I was kept away from rated R films a lot as a child. Seeing GTA is like letting your child see Pain and Gain, which everyone was funny as hell but turned out to be a dark story.

My nephew was like 5 or 6 and now he idolizes the Koch brothers and thinks little kids working at sweat shops is 'a cool employment advancement opportunity.'

He is actually not evil, just missing some compassion and empathy.  Other than that, he is an ok dude.  We are all hoping he will grow out of it. 



 

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spurgeonryan said:
I know. But I would not want them to see it. At least they have to wait to rent a car! :P

Most will find a way before they are 18 anyways. Unless you are like me you probably will smoke and drink as well.


LOL They can get their license at 16. I get what you're saying though.



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

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.


Pure BS. The old horror movies didn't scare us because they were brutal, there was almost nothing brutal about them. They worked on what's scariest - fear itself. It's not the zombie that's scary, it's the threat of a zombie appearing when you don't know when and where it'll happen. Horror movies nowadays are made by idiots who think that blood and violence is scarier than the fear of the unknown, the fear of... fear. In fact they just can't make a movie like that, cause they have no idea about making horror movies, so they just put mindless violence and call it a day. If anything, these movies are disgusting not scary, so they have nothing to do with making you scared and it's no wonder they don't scare anyone. Also trust me, no movie or game will prepare you for the sight of a real dying man.

Also, I hate when some "educated pricks" talk this crap about us being exposed to so much violence, that we need the "innocence years" and that we live in sick and violent times. Do they know the first thing about history? We live is such peaceful and pacifistic times that it's probably bad for us. When has it been better? 70 years ago during the II WW? When you had death on every step, dead bodies in the streets, you never knew if you were going to live another day or hour even? My grandparents grew up in such a reality and they are normal people, they are the ones that get scared much easier than kids nowadays accourding to you. And earlier? I WW - ever more brutal. Earlier? There were constant wars, constant fighting, murdering and raping, little children were working whole days, nobody cared about them, often even their parents didn't care about their lives that much. And now some "wise scholar" goes on to tell me that we live in brutal times and that a video game or movie can destroy a person's psyche. Desensitization caused by a game? God, have we become weak pussies.



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

You're desensitized, which means society has increase the enevolope psychologically to entertain you.


I don't agree. I still cry like a little girl whenever I watch Cast Away. Or The Iron Giant.



let the kid play



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Dahum said:

its not that big of a deal tbh! coz i remember when i was his age back in 2000 i played resident evil and a couple of rated teen games and watched wrestling when it was TV-14 and all kind of movies which didn't effect me at the slightest. not to mention when i was 13 i played GTA 3 back in 2002!


You don't notice the effects, its mental and it works its way into your system in the opposite way in which panic attacks work. Eventually when you react less to things at such a young age  and grow while taking education courses in psychology you start to notice the difference. Today things are getting even more graphically enhanced thus bolstering it in further. The innocence of children is being taken away, which is why I can now understand why the entertainment industry has to up the ante to preserve itself.