[kubedawg]

What is everyone's take on this?

With ESRB ratings, are kids really safe from these M rated games? And will it hurt them? After all, kids cannot decipher right from wrong depending on the age.

Personally, I like the ESRB rating system, and I think that they should raise the M rating to 18 and above. But, the parents are the ones to blame in a lot of cases. They buy GTA for their 12yr old, and the next week, they are using curse words, shooting people, and who knows what else?

The parents are the decisions makers, and in some cases, where the kid/teen is mature enough to play a game like GTA or some other shootem up game, the kid/teen is able to understand that this is just a game. But most kids/teens don't know why they do these things in certain games like blow someone's head off, just to have them respawn on the other side of the map thinking maybe they could do that in real life.


I love video games, I play them religiously, I am a gamer. I've been playing for a loooooooong time, ever since I was maybe 6 or 7. My first violent video game I ever played was Age of Empires. This type of game, i think is different than fps games because there are tiny little men/women killing each other rather than something closer to life sized with an fps game. I played my first fps game i think when i was 14. Still I turned out ok. But that does not change the fact that it can harm people.

As long as people are old enough to understand the diference between a game and real life, is the time when they should be allowed to play a violent M rated video game.