to wonder why youd have COD black ops for kids way under 18?

[bettymoody]

or is it really not that bad?

Football people need to grow out of that.

Nothing wrong with sitting on your backside shooting people in the face on the TV, I've been doing it for over 25 years, never did me any harm, I used to set fire to things when I was a nipper, I don't recall there being any games in the early 80's that required doing that so what could I blame that on other then fact fire is pretty .

Oh is it bad? DS1 wanted it for christmas. he's 13. Perhaps not then

I must admit Halo was very beautiful and so was Assassins creed. Also enjoyed Fable. I think they are all rated too old for him. Funny really as I censor their film intake.

My top 5 fave games

God Hand
No more Heroes 1 and 2
Eternal Darkness
Bully (Canem canis edet? can't spell latin)
Deadly Premonitions.

Aren't they all the same? Shooting?

hully - have you applied for the engineering course yet?

Dragon Age: Origins was brilliant.

Oh yeah, shooting and creeping up on people etc but the worlds the characters inhabit are stunning quite often. And the costumes etc.

Oh dear, Hully! Is that all your son plays? Shooting games? How boring.

Tch. Computers are wasted on the young.

Wassa - I don't know..I thought they were all shooting. I shall enquire.

(Orm - not yet, we are having a teensy credit crunch of our very own presently, so everything is on hold. You did, didn't you?
Have found out about air cadets though, going to go along to that (when it's not raining...feeble..))

Halo is an FPS, Assassins creed is a adventure and Fable is an RPG.

I don't speak Game Acronym..

Just sent the form off. In fact the school sent it off for us before DS had a chance to complete his bits So had to email the extra bits later.

I know what you mean - hoping we can save up by then.

FPS= First Person Shooter. You can't see your character, you play from the view point of the character. Basically, as in real life, it's quite difficult to see the back of your head in an FPS. Shooting games are often FPS ones.

RPG- role playing game. Means the game is more story based. You are a wizard on a quest, kind of thing. There may be moral choices to make that alter the story.

Third-person play, you can see the back of your character's head.

Will happily accept improvements and corrections to this explanation.

Thanks wassa.

Orm, well done, I'll keep you posted.

RPG = dungeons and dragons, a game with elements that arch back to the old days of pen and paper gaming, such as taking turn in battle (as you do when you throw a dice) basing all forms of combat on a point system(hitting enemy with 500 health points with bat that causes 2000 of damage equals instant kill)etc.

I had no idea. I thought you just ran about blasting everything to bits.

Oh, no. Sometimes you can use swords.

More seriously, please don't take this as a personal attack on you, but that's the problem really. People think they're all the same, and don't realise that game B is far nastier than game A, etc.

Games are a new medium, and there's a huge amount of variation. As there is in films, another medium.

There are war games (CoD), monster-shooting games (Left 4 Dead, Doom), survival horror (Silent Hill), playing card games (Solitare- comes ready installed on many computers), farming games (yes, people play games where they plant vegetables, harvest them, and sell them- Harvest Moon, Viva Pinata), rhythm games (Rock Band, Guitar Hero), puzzle games (Minesweeper-one of those little games that comes ready installed on lots of computers, Bejewelled) puzzle games with storyline (Professor Layton), card-collecting games (like collecting playing cards, but virtual pixel ones), racing games, football and other sports simulation games (Fifa Season whatever), babysitting games, railway simulators. There's a huge range out there.

Just because one game or genre of game is acceptable/enjoyable to you doesn't mean any other would be. My husband, for example, detests survival horror, and I can't start sports simulators.

Black ops features a section where you shoot British soldiers, no one is moaning about yanks shooting brits but all the people I know find it distasteful.

I'm not giving Activision any money myself billy bo bobby can survive without my hard earned.

Barbara - I don't know, I'll ask.