to think that 8 years is too young to be playing Modern Warfare3 games?

[funnyperson]

An 8 year old proudly told me he loved playing Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3. His mum said he had all the others and had been give 4 other war computer games by doting relatives for Christmas. I looked it up - the games are rated 18 and might cause upset and distress.
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aibu to think that wargames have got out of hand for children?

if you have a problem with the word ""glamourising", how about we say these games makes shooting and killing people FUN and EXCITING

make

I don't hear anyone complaiming that Angry Birds make chucking birds against hard objects FUN and EXCITING

I don't know anything about angry birds, weren't we talking about a game called Call of Duty where the idea is to kill people?

very suitable!

Cartoon people, the same as cartoon birds.

The graphics are good, but they are not like real life.

pushydad - you are so full of assumptions, the area my kids school is in is the most expensive area in town, very middle class and most of the parents are professional and very interested in their kids. The kids are lovely and no I don't think they will grow up to necessarily be affected by this but I still don't see how what I linked is suitable for 9yrs and under.

I use noticed the posting history of one particular poster. In another thread she? goes on about how her DC is quiet, sensitive and shy while on this thread she is wheeling out her kumbaya credentials. Perhaps if you weren't so hippy-ish towards your DC then perhaps they wouldn't be "quiet, sensitive and shy". Its just a thought.

"I don't know anything about angry birds, weren't we talking about a game called Call of Duty where the idea is to kill people?"

I'm just trying to figure out why no one is objecting to a game about lobbing birds at hard structures.

"parents are professional and very interested in their kids" reads parents who don't let their kids play COD. And yet they talk about teabagging kids that they've 'killed'. I would move house if I was you.

no as usual you got it wrong, many of the parents who let their kids play COD seem nice, interested parents and the kids are very nice but i still don't see how what I linked to could be considered appropriate for 9 yrs and under. Like the way you cherry pick the bits you want but ignore the rest. Are you going to check my posting history now and bring posts from other threads to this one to have a dig like you did with another poster.

My 17 year old just had a good laugh at that, he says you could go up to a dead person in a game and sit on their face, but you'd be the one doing it, the computer game doesn't do that for you.

Id have a word with the school, Or just move

Cartoon people, the same as cartoon birds. The graphics are good, but they are not like real life.

So its not violent games or TV programs that you object to, Its REALISTIC violent games or TV programs that you object to.

My son watched a few John Wayne movies when he was about 9 and, as a result, he wanted either to be a cowboy of a soldier. John Wayne would shoot an indian/Jap soldier and they would clutch their chest and drop to the ground. He then saw a REALISTIC war movie (Saving Private Ryan) and realised that war, in real life, is bloody, dangerous and definitely not fun. He now wants to be a games programmer. So much for being de-sensitised by 'realistic' violent images.

My DS plays violent PC games. He likes watching action movies. Recently gone off WWF Wrestling. He also plays three musical instruments, plays various sports at inter-house level and he is currently teaching himself Flash on the PC. And he often sneaks 'I love you' messages into our work coats.

Now if you want to take your childhood experiences or DC' experiences or some study you've read and project that onto us then feel free but, to me, your posts says more about you then it does about me or DC

shit, I just looked at some call of duty things on youtube and I found them disturbing...very realistic, graphic torture scenes.

I'm very glad all you gaming "apologists" think this is lovely entertainment for your 8 and 9 year olds, I certainly don't

and I don't see what insulting Sozzled's neighbourhood has got to do with any of this

"I still don't see how what I linked to could be considered appropriate for 9 yrs and under"

DS thinks there is too much waffle in these cut scenes so he just presses the SKIP key.

If a DC was of the type that would either find it screamish or relish it so much that they repeat the scene then the game would definitely not be appropriate for that particular child.

PushyDad - aren't you in that case just wasting your money on COD? Wouldn't you be better buying your DS a game where he's not skipping most of it.

'I don't see what insulting Sozzled's neighbourhood has got to do with any of this'

Sozzled - I apologise for insulting 'the most expensive area in town' and the 'professional' parents that live there. Its just jealousy on my part. I wish I could afford to live in an area where the kids mock the kids that they just 'killed'.

The cut scenes are hardly 'most of it'

" I'm very glad all you gaming "apologists" think this is lovely entertainment for your 8 and 9 year olds, I certainly don't "

Where are those damned Angry Bird apologists? I could do with some back up here.

Of course, silly me.

No doubt these are the sections of the game that require a little more attention and a little less of the violent action (is that a song by Elvis?)

Assumptions, assumptions - i didn't say that I lived in the most expensive area in town, just that the school was - please read properly and learn to keep up. Don't worry, my neighbourhood is just fine, if not the most expensive area in town. Just tackling you stereotypical assumptions that these kids playing these games and doing said 'teabagging' (boak) were from poor areas with suspect parenting.

Ooopsie. I guess i shouldn't mention that my 4 year old plays it then!

My 10 year old also plays it and on x-box live with his mates too! So far neither of them have tried to garotte the other with a controller cable.

My 15yr old daughter likes to play GTA4 and I haven't received any complaints from school yet that she's taken a baseball bat to someone's head.

All of them, even including the 4 year old seem to be able to accept that the xbox game is a game and all have the intelligence to realise it's not acceptable in real life.

I think those parents who think kids shouldn't play 'violent' games are just namby pamby do gooder's who should just stfu and let me bring my kids up the way I want to. After all, I don't moan about how I think ensuring their child plays nothing more exciting than Viva Pinata will turn them into fairies.

Quite simply, they're just not the kind of thing I want at home. We're not hippies, just a nice household where gratuitous violence isn't something we want around the place. Come one, niceguy2 and Pushoverdad, admit you and the DCs are just sucked in by it and you haven't stopped to think how unpleasant they are. A lot of people around you have the games, the DCs want them, you like them and that's all that matters.

I'm not saying you shouldn't have them, I'm a bit that you let such DCs have them at such a young age, but don't criticise me for choosing not to have them.

"i didn't say that I lived in the most expensive area in town, just that the school was - please read properly and learn to keep up"

I apologise again for missing the significant diffference between where your children live and where they go to school.

As for tackling my stereotyping, you could perhaps first sort out your own stereotyping about parents who allow their kids to play COD or similar. I'll still be here should you ever reach that level of self awareness. (where is that damned emoticon for [sarcasm] )

hmmm DS is showing an interest in Mario Kart for the Wii. No fucking way is he playing it, he might start hurtling around the nursery in his Little Tikes ramming into the other kids whilst chucking assorted mushrooms and tortoise shells at them