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Aibu to ask about COD

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CanICelebrate · 28/05/2021 21:48

What age did you let your dc play CoD modern warfare?

All my dc’s friends play it (I’ve checked this with the parents!) but I’ve always been really strict about age ratings. It’s an 18 and my dc isn’t 18!

I’ve looked it up and some modes are worse than others and apparently his friends don’t play that mode.

When, if at all, did your dc play it?

Thanks

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ShowOfHands · 28/05/2021 21:50

Ohh I thought you were asking about our fishy friend old edgarcat.

My dc don't play CoD I'm afraid and neither do their friends

picturesandpickles · 28/05/2021 21:51

I wouldn't, no. I'm a monster Grin

INneedOFaSTIFF1 · 28/05/2021 22:06

I'd let my 12-13 year old play. I've played cod a lot and I wouldn't say it's bad for kids really, it never shocked me and I am (by my kids opinions) strict... It's such a fast game play you're shooting other players from a distance and you're not really looking at any gore at all.

toocold54 · 28/05/2021 22:12

How old are your DC? I’d definitely let them play it before 18 but what age would depend on their maturity.

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CanICelebrate · 28/05/2021 22:22

DC is 15 and a half.

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CanICelebrate · 28/05/2021 22:23

I think I’m worrying because other games such as GTA which are also 18s can be really grim.
I think CoD is different but I’m really not into gaming and am relying on common sense media which is a great guideline but also slightly random!

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Bopahula · 28/05/2021 22:26

My DSS had CoD from around 12. I think at 15.5 I would absolutely let him have it. For a while it was all his friends did, he'd have been massively left out without it.
We allowed GTA from around 15 too. But banned certain storyline elements.

GreenTeaPingPong · 28/05/2021 22:26

@ShowOfHands

Ohh I thought you were asking about our fishy friend old edgarcat.

My dc don't play CoD I'm afraid and neither do their friends

Yeah me too. I remember her terrible typing.
Bopahula · 28/05/2021 22:27

I play CoD too. It's not graphic, you're usually so far away that it's just cartoony blood.

OhRene · 28/05/2021 22:32

We are avid gamers and we don't really adhere to game age ratings in this house. Last year I was however, very surprised that many of my DS (8)'s friends had GTA. I had not played it myself as I heard there was a "rape a prostitute" bit but apparently it's not something the kids know about? (An 'if you don't already know you can't do it' kind of situation). I had a shot of it and it's basically a steal cars, do stunts, crash and beat people up type game so not my fave genre but I wouldn't freak out if DS played it at a pal's.

Games are very different to real life and as long as children are aware of this and are not a violent sort (there definitely are kids out there that shouldn't even be allowed to watch Tom and Jerry!!!) I don't have an issue with COD. It's my husbands game and DS isn't half bad at Warzone. He has quite a good KDR.

sbhydrogen · 28/05/2021 22:34

I played the original game when it first came out, and I was 15 at the time. I also played all the subsequent games, but was 18 by that point. But I'd also played plenty of other first person shooters like Counterstrike and Delta Force since I was about 12/13. They've never had a negative effect on me.

NiceGerbil · 28/05/2021 22:34

Oh haha I'd forgotten about COD!

on the game. Depends on the reason for the rating. Anything with prostitution/ sexual violence / that sort of stuff would be a no. I'm less fussed about violence tbh.

MiddleClassProblem · 28/05/2021 22:36

I would say about 13/14. But I would say by 15 I wouldn’t have any issue. I’d just monitor it not becoming obsessive the best of my ability.

I find common sense media a bit hit and miss with what the parental reviews.

Awalkintime · 28/05/2021 22:45

The kids in my school found out about 'teabagging' from COD at 9. It really was disgusting to see 9 year old kids acting it out in their play.

NiceGerbil · 28/05/2021 22:46

Right then it's a no from me. No idea how that word would come up in a game like that but it doesn't bode well.

I find it depressing that the games certs are so widely ignored.

OhRene · 28/05/2021 22:53

Odd, I just had to google teabagging in COD. We have been playing it for over a decade and were unaware it was a COD thing. YouTube does have some videos of online players crouching over the heads of downed player's avatars but that's more to do with having an online game avatar who is able to crouch/squat.

Awalkintime · 28/05/2021 22:56

Its something you can do to other characters apparently.

OhRene · 28/05/2021 22:59

Yes but it's not a Call of Duty move as far as I can tell is it?. It's people you are playing with clicking the squat button? There are no bare arses and balls, just a weird looking move.

NiceGerbil · 28/05/2021 23:00

I only know about it from sex and the city!

Sex act- man kneels over your head and you suck his balls.

So there you go.

NiceGerbil · 28/05/2021 23:03

Thing is the game is still referencing a sexual act. One which would be a serious assault in the event of one man forcing another man.

Puerile probably homophobic game writers is who you have to thank. Backs to the wall boys hahahaha.

Just based on that I'd say that the general maybe less obvious messages in it could well be dodgy as fuck.

I hate the fact so many games have content that is totally unnecessary and references sexual acts, assault, and really shit attitudes to women.

OhRene · 28/05/2021 23:11

@NiceGerbil the so called Teabagging in Call of Duty is not a game move at all. No one designed the move. It is not an aspect of the game. There is no teabag button.

It is simply one real life player moving their moveable character over another player's character and clicking the crouch button.

I have been playing it for over 10 years and haven't ever noticed anyone doing it at all. I suspect the children who discovered it were making their characters do all sorts and one knew what teabagging was.

NiceGerbil · 28/05/2021 23:12

Then where has the connection come from?

And why do players do it? Squatting over the head of a downed character?

OhRene · 28/05/2021 23:15

At some point some immature eejit made their character appear to sit on a downed players avatar and laughed about it. That's as complicated as this is. It is not a call of Duty move.

MiddleClassProblem · 28/05/2021 23:21

@NiceGerbil

Then where has the connection come from?

And why do players do it? Squatting over the head of a downed character?

Is this not the sort of thing immature teens do? It’s like making a sim walk into a female sim and saying “I touched her boob”. They didn’t really. It’s just kids being silly and showing off. It probably stems from an immature teen finding out what it meant and then doing it at some point in the game. That would not be a unique experience. Bits at my school did ball taps all the time. Hell, I know adult men that still find that funny.

The game itself doesn’t have sexual content.

Don’t let them play with people they don’t know or even not online at all until they are old enough.

Nutrafin · 28/05/2021 23:22

I'd have no problem with CoD for a 15 year old.

'Tea Bagging' (I.e. crouching over the face of a dead player) is something I recall from other online shooters from the early 2000s. It isnt a CoD thing in particular, nor do I think it's something you'd need to shelter a 15 year old from.

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