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Topic Started: 4 May 2015, 04:58 PM (738 Views)
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Do you reckon kids should have access/play 18 (or 15 actually) games whilst being underage?
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I think it is up to the parent to rule over their kids gaming life. Like I know my 14 year old friend loves GTA5 and plays it all the time. But me, an almost 16 year old, is still not allowed to play it.
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I quite like how it works right now (in a non-legal way). I like the idea that parents can decide whether their children are allowed access to such things, but rather than have it as a legal age to have access to it, I think it should be a recommended maturity age. So this automatically brings movies down by a age rating (or maybe two). A move that is rated 15 (which may only be so because of a few swear words) should be rated a 12. Some conservatives may disagree and say that the children should be shielded from such language to set a good example but I think if swear words lose their meaning then they can no longer be considered rude (but that's discussion for another day).

GTA V, on the other hand, is a debate and a half. I support the fact it's rated 18 because of how much violence it promotes as a franchise, but - again - it should be down to the parent to decide if their child is mature enough to play it without being influenced so much by it. Even GTA V's campaign as a torture mission in it so I don't think many people would disagree with me there.

I'm tempted to go onto ramble about other 18 rated things, but I'll keep myself on a leash ;)
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i feel like its also a parent choice... But parents need to keep there kids on check when playing these type of games... Because i don't want to hear a twelve year old cuss me out.. (which has happened). They need to be respectful along with the adults that are playing with the young children.
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I myself only own two 18-rated games. One of them is Fallout: New Vegas - okay, I get that. The other is The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

So many under-18s enjoy Skyrim that I have a hard time taking its '18' rating seriously. Granted, it does contain too many mature themes for me to recommend it to a 10-year-old, but there are a lot of younger teenagers who can handle that kind of thing. I guess that's best decided by parents, though.
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Skyrim is 18 where you are? It is a 15 here

Aren't ratings kind of pointless, the only thing they stop is young people from buying them in a store, you can still easily download games
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7 May 2015, 05:52 PM
Skyrim is 18 where you are? It is a 15 here

Aren't ratings kind of pointless, the only thing they stop is young people from buying them in a store, you can still easily download games
Ikr? It kinda pointless. Most of the time the ratings get ignored and underage people still play the rated game.
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But it does stop many kids from playing them. They do work to an extent, just not necessarily to the extent that they are meant to.
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