GTA: San Andreas was just re-released in stores this week after some parents who bought the game for their kids discovered a hack for a sex game. Personally I was never into this game because of how long it was. I played GTA III and that was enough for me. I won’t buy sequels until after I complete the original. Anyway it irks me how mothers, wives and females in general are so appalled by the game. The females that ive heard from first hand have told me they buy it exclusively for their husbands. Ok, that’s all good but seriously when a game is slapped with a Mature adult rating what do you expect?
Thanks to games like mortal kombat (since i'm looking foward to the Shaolin Monks game) being viewed by politicians and mothers the ESRB has been created. Now just like movie ratings they need to be enforced by the parents who decide what their kids need to see. In a Best buy I’ve noticed some parents don’t care. They’ll buy the game for the kids no matter the name or looking at the ratings just for the sake of shutting the kids up. Hell, my moms did the same thing with me and my brothers except she sat in on us playing Mortal Kombat II and using Jax’s Fatality she screamed in horror. Ye, she didn’t make us stop playing the game, for we knew reality.
Then there are those who believe kids at a young age wont know the difference, this is based on personal experience. There will be something’s that will be scary, no doubt. We should also stop thinking kids are so naieve! My father sat me through Alien & Halloween movies before I was 10. I was Shook. Yet I cant remember having any nightmares of them as a child until I hit my preteens. Anyway, Back to the subject.
Games like Time Crisis & Grand Theft Auto do not make future killers or troopers. In the class where we had an ethicical debate about the subject I told them how I felt. I said I’d rather play Halo. Many didn’t know what I was talking about. As soon as I said shooter the women got uptight; yet when I explained your killing aliens they didn’t care. Tell me what kind of twisted way of thinking is that? Let me get it straight as long as it's not people its okay?! What I did was after saying that was exaggerate the violence by saying crazy shit like “I love it when the aliens’ glow in the dark blood splatters all over the wall!” lol. It was something that was easily accepted could now become a no-no as well. This is the type of mentality we need to change. You don’t want violence in your home shut everything down.
Some feel these are the same games that the military are using to train their soldiers. I totally disagree. Please, Prove me wrong by naming the game that the government does not exclusively own and let use. I feel if that was the case Mortal Kombat would teach many kids how to kill other kids with their bare hands. And that shit aint gonna happen. One more debatable question for those who feel this way about those games breeding criminals. In the same studies, kids that are into games like those are also into Sports games. So how come Madden & NBA2k hasn’t made there kids better athletes yet?