| GTA 5 Dillema 21:06 - Mar 29 with 10892 views | Swanzay |
My step son is banned from playing GTA as I think he is far to young (10), yet our neighbour son of the same age is allowed to play it at will, which causes some friction between the two, due to the jealousy and nagging for us!
Thoughts? |  | | |  |
| GTA 5 Dillema on 19:01 - Mar 30 with 2101 views | skippyjack |
| GTA 5 Dillema on 18:28 - Mar 30 by londonlisa2001 |
in what way? Are you in prison or on tag? If not, then that statement is complete rubbish. |
If that's the case..
Oh Garry start me upfront Saturday! It's my choice!
Can you play football son?
Well I had a kick about back in the day.. Apart from that no!
Sorry son.. But you haven't got the required skills
Oh Police Force, Fire Service I'm literally part of the team! It's my choice
Are you fit and healthy son?.. Do you know the authoritive nature of the job?
I wouldn't say I'm the fittest.. How fit do I have to be?.. I don't know the specific details
Sorry son but you haven't got the educational foresight we need
Oh University I'm doing this course! It's my choice!
You'll have to speak to our online team
Towards the online team - can i do this course?
You'll have to meet the senior lecturer to assess your eligibility
Oh factory i'm joining you today! It's my choice!
Have you signed up with the agency son?
Nope
You have to sign up with an agency first
Oh agency I want to work in this factory! It's my choice!
We'll have to put you on a waiting list.. We'll phone you
After 2 months.. Rings them up.. So is this factory job still going?
Sorry Sir, we haven't got any vacancies at this moment in time.. I heard in 6 months they're taking on.
Oh job centre i want to be referred to a course! It's my choice!
I'm not sure about that, you'll have to do a few job searches
I've done my job searches, can I be referred?
No you're not complying with our regulations
Yep it's all my choice.. Clearly. |  |
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| GTA 5 Dillema on 19:28 - Mar 30 with 2077 views | Lohengrin |
Join the army, son. |  |
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| GTA 5 Dillema on 19:41 - Mar 30 with 2060 views | LeonisGod |
| GTA 5 Dillema on 18:36 - Mar 30 by MrSwansea |
You need to stop the dope - odd to say the least |
Nah, Lisa's not THAT bad  |  | | |
| GTA 5 Dillema on 20:24 - Mar 30 with 2036 views | skippyjack |
| GTA 5 Dillema on 19:28 - Mar 30 by Lohengrin |
Join the army, son. |
so i can fight for people who don't want me?.. fight in a war?.. finish my service and be left homeless?.. | |
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| GTA 5 Dillema on 20:27 - Mar 30 with 2030 views | Lohengrin |
| GTA 5 Dillema on 20:24 - Mar 30 by skippyjack |
so i can fight for people who don't want me?.. fight in a war?.. finish my service and be left homeless?.. |
Soldiering is a noble profession, Skip, and whatever self-esteem issues you're exhibiting on here (be they real or imagined, the Jury's still out) will have evaporated by the time you've had your Passing out Parade. | |
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| GTA 5 Dillema on 20:42 - Mar 30 with 2016 views | skippyjack |
| GTA 5 Dillema on 20:27 - Mar 30 by Lohengrin |
Soldiering is a noble profession, Skip, and whatever self-esteem issues you're exhibiting on here (be they real or imagined, the Jury's still out) will have evaporated by the time you've had your Passing out Parade. |
Doubt the army would accept me! | |
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| GTA 5 Dillema on 21:53 - Mar 30 with 1994 views | ItchySphincter |
Me, me, me, me, me...........ad infinitum....... |  |
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| GTA 5 Dillema on 23:22 - Mar 30 with 1971 views | skippyjack |
| GTA 5 Dillema on 21:53 - Mar 30 by ItchySphincter |
Me, me, me, me, me...........ad infinitum....... |
And?.. You're all you as well.. What's your point?.. | |
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| GTA 5 Dillema on 06:40 - Mar 31 with 1934 views | JimmyGilligan |
These games are 18+ rated for a very good reason. The rating is not put there for a joke. Games these days are completely different from the likes of Pacman and Space Invaders which you probably think of when you think of video games.
Would you let your child watch Reservoir Dogs or Boys N the Hood?
If the answer is yes, then go ahead.
But don't complain if/when your child is using the language he's heard in the game or worse, and be another one of these dopey militant parents who want the game industry banned because their 'little Timmy' decided it was funny to ram a kitchen knife into the pet cat's forehead.
There are thousands of games that a child can get perfectly innocent, age appropriate enjoyment from. This is not one of them.
It is a game that has been made for the likes of me who have been playing video games for 20-30 years.
Really is high-time people started taking video game ratings seriously. |  | | |
| GTA 5 Dillema on 07:34 - Mar 31 with 1918 views | jack247 |
| GTA 5 Dillema on 06:40 - Mar 31 by JimmyGilligan |
These games are 18+ rated for a very good reason. The rating is not put there for a joke. Games these days are completely different from the likes of Pacman and Space Invaders which you probably think of when you think of video games.
Would you let your child watch Reservoir Dogs or Boys N the Hood?
If the answer is yes, then go ahead.
But don't complain if/when your child is using the language he's heard in the game or worse, and be another one of these dopey militant parents who want the game industry banned because their 'little Timmy' decided it was funny to ram a kitchen knife into the pet cat's forehead.
There are thousands of games that a child can get perfectly innocent, age appropriate enjoyment from. This is not one of them.
It is a game that has been made for the likes of me who have been playing video games for 20-30 years.
Really is high-time people started taking video game ratings seriously. |
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| GTA 5 Dillema on 08:19 - Mar 31 with 1910 views | phact0rri |
I've played games most of my life. I grew up on them, and where I fill there are some horrible scapegoating going on in regards to games, the rating system is a great thing. Sure some countries (cough *australia-germany*) have it out on the cuff, the ratings in this country (and the US where I live) I feel are pretty much on the level.
I will say if the kid was 15, this conversation would be different. But at 10 years old, its much to young to have to be confronted with foreign information and put to a snappy and snarky backdrop of sophmoric humour. Though it could be worse, Saints row is bleeding hillarious bu I couldn't imagine the ten year old that exposed to some of the material in the vein.
Where games aren't going to make a kid go out on drive by. learning in this way can soften or at least put a negative spin on life's education IMHO. I mean my generation often laugh at prostitutes and drug abuse. Why is it that I wonder?
Food for thought if anything. |  |
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| GTA 5 Dillema on 09:56 - Mar 31 with 1892 views | Swanzay |
Thanks for all the views and the majority confirming our stand, quite an interesting thread. He is going to wait for quite a few years before he has a chance to play it, by which time it will be very much old hat anyway. He can stick to mindcraft etc for the time being. | | | |
| GTA 5 Dillema on 14:35 - Mar 31 with 1854 views | JimmyGilligan |
| GTA 5 Dillema on 09:56 - Mar 31 by Swanzay |
Thanks for all the views and the majority confirming our stand, quite an interesting thread. He is going to wait for quite a few years before he has a chance to play it, by which time it will be very much old hat anyway. He can stick to mindcraft etc for the time being. |
Stick to your guns, by you not allowing it he will be aware that it is not appropriate regardless of whether he plays it elsewhere.
When 'we' were kids we all snuck out and had a fag or a drink at some point knowing that it's wrong and our parents would never allow it in their presence, but that's the point we knew it was wrong because our parents were against it for legitimate reasons.
As I said earlier, i've been playing games all of my life from Pacman to this latest GTA and I wouldn't allow a child anywhere near it.
Does he have an xbox one? If so you can set parent controls on his account so that he won't be able to log into it on his own console or anyone elses. Have a read of this:
http://support.xbox.com/en-GB/xbox-one/security/child-attempts-to-view-restricte
That may seem to some as overkill and you being a bit of a killjoy, but its there for a reason and it's what I would do. | | | |
| GTA 5 Dillema on 15:13 - Mar 31 with 1836 views | LeonisGod |
| GTA 5 Dillema on 09:56 - Mar 31 by Swanzay |
Thanks for all the views and the majority confirming our stand, quite an interesting thread. He is going to wait for quite a few years before he has a chance to play it, by which time it will be very much old hat anyway. He can stick to mindcraft etc for the time being. |
Coincidently there was an item about this very subject on Radio 2 yesterday. I don’t get to listen to the radio very often during the day, so I’m not sure who the DJ was (it’s was lunchtime - he was a tad annoying in a Daily Mail outrage kind of way).
The subject was whether primary school aged kids should play violent video games, with GTA and CoD specifically highlighted. I think it had started because a headmaster/mistress somewhere had reported a family to social services/police for allowing their child to play these games unsupervised. Most of the professionals they had on the show were agreed that these are not games for primary school children to be playing. They interviewed a headmistress who said that she too would report any claims by kids this young that they are playing such games, *IF* she couldn’t get a reassuring response after discussing it with the family. The point being that they are obviously not suitable for kids aged c 5-11, and might be a pointer towards other levels of neglect and possibly even abuse.
And in light of the teenage (12-13 yr old) sex abuse story today, you’d question the appropriateness of games like GTA5 even for kids younger than their mid-teens.
So you've definitely made the right choice. Beside, the more you keep them off the PlayStation the longer you can spend on it  . | | | |
| GTA 5 Dillema on 09:32 - Apr 20 with 1736 views | JimmyGilligan |
Anyone on here got this for the PC ? Thoughts? | | | |
| GTA 5 Dillema on 10:49 - Apr 20 with 1712 views | Highjack |
Whatever generation you are there are games that are criticised for being too gory/adult. In my era it was mortal kombat, but I still played it and Ive never copied anything on it. The time I ripped that guys heart from his ribcage was a coincidence. |  |
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| GTA 5 Dillema on 10:58 - Apr 20 with 1705 views | JackSomething |
| GTA 5 Dillema on 10:49 - Apr 20 by Highjack |
Whatever generation you are there are games that are criticised for being too gory/adult. In my era it was mortal kombat, but I still played it and Ive never copied anything on it. The time I ripped that guys heart from his ribcage was a coincidence. |
I need more info before I can decide if I agree it was a coincidence. After ripping his heart out, did you stand over him and say 'You Lose'? |  |
| You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help. |
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| GTA 5 Dillema on 11:00 - Apr 20 with 1701 views | Aquinas |
In GTA 5 you can have sex in the first person. I wouldn't be worried about my child running over dozens of people, i'd be more frightened of him having a completely skewed view of sex and women. |  | | |
| GTA 5 Dillema on 11:34 - Apr 20 with 1684 views | Lord_Bony |
| GTA 5 Dillema on 09:32 - Apr 20 by JimmyGilligan |
Anyone on here got this for the PC ? Thoughts? |
Yes I'm about to get it on PC,been waiting for it to come on this platform.
Not normally my type of game im more of a COD type guy...but hell yeah,nothing wrong with a bit of mindless violence after a hard days work. You can even kick back while your character gets drugged up chill out for a while before going to the lap dance club,casino then a night in the town driving about killing people for no apparent reason....ah class...  |  |
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| GTA 5 Dillema on 11:43 - Apr 20 with 1668 views | JimmyGilligan |
| GTA 5 Dillema on 11:34 - Apr 20 by Lord_Bony |
Yes I'm about to get it on PC,been waiting for it to come on this platform.
Not normally my type of game im more of a COD type guy...but hell yeah,nothing wrong with a bit of mindless violence after a hard days work. You can even kick back while your character gets drugged up chill out for a while before going to the lap dance club,casino then a night in the town driving about killing people for no apparent reason....ah class... |
I normally hate this kind of game, and have always disliked the GTA series, because it made you do the same thing over and over when you died. This doesn't happen anymore...as much, at least not to an annoying level. It starts you off a little bit before you died in the mission.
I absolutely love GTA 5 PC (never played console versions) it is, in my opinion, a masterpiece and possibly the best game of its type ever created.
I've played nothing but story mode since launch day, spending hours on it and i've apparently only done 23%. It took me maybe a couple of hours to get the hang of it, so if you're like me stick with it. [Post edited 20 Apr 2015 11:44]
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| GTA 5 Dillema on 12:03 - Apr 20 with 1652 views | Darran |
I haven't played this game though that's probably because I'm not 14. |  |
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| GTA 5 Dillema on 12:06 - Apr 20 with 1651 views | Lord_Bony |
Ok job done I'm ordering it today on steam.
I ll try to stick with it but if I don't gel with a game after half hour or so I normally ditch it.
Have to admit though this looks tasty graphics wise...and to think it all started off from humble beginnings in Scotland a few years ago to become this multi billion international monster of a game.
Well done to the developers...but keep young kids away from this please. [Post edited 20 Apr 2015 12:07]
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| GTA 5 Dillema on 12:23 - Apr 20 with 1631 views | Cooperman |
A good bike ride sounds like a much better option especially on a day like today. |  |
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| GTA 5 Dillema on 12:44 - Apr 20 with 1613 views | Darran |
| GTA 5 Dillema on 12:23 - Apr 20 by Cooperman |
A good bike ride sounds like a much better option especially on a day like today. |
F*ck that too.  | |
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| GTA 5 Dillema on 13:14 - Apr 20 with 1592 views | Cooperman |
| GTA 5 Dillema on 12:44 - Apr 20 by Darran |
F*ck that too. |
I'll expand on that then to include anything conducted outdoors. It's a cracking day for some photography. | |
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