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Freakish wrote:

So you think guns, knives, swords, tanks, jets, blood, gore, intense swearing should be rated "T".

No.

No one plays TF2 in my area, and you need a gold membership to play the game with other users around the world.
So basically all I can do is run around and hit the wall.

Gatsby wrote:

veggieman001 wrote:

Gatsby wrote:

Yes

Care to explain? 

Video games are distractions I don't think kids in general cannot handle right. They aren't really productive and are overall unnecessary. I think legitimately educational ones are nice, though, because they aren't a complete waste. Complete-wastes of distractions don't do any good, I'd think, to a developing mind

Adults have reason for wanting distractions

It's fun, TV doesn't bring any productive thoughts, but it's fun, it's just some fun for people.

bananaman114 wrote:

CylonToast wrote:

Freakish wrote:

So you think guns, knives, swords, tanks, jets, blood, gore, intense swearing should be rated "T".

No.

No one plays TF2 in my area, and you need a gold membership to play the game with other users around the world.
So basically all I can do is run around and hit the wall.

Yeah but there's a PC version
and with that
it's automatic
and you uh
yeah
you shoot somebody
and then
depending on the gun
they either blow up or splatter blood on the wall
and I've never backstabbed anyone yet
I'm not good enough

I don't play often 
Probably because of the nature of the game

Oh they're playing it on another platform

Gatsby wrote:

The problem with kids, from my firsthand experience, is they can't get their priorities very straight when it comes to this sort of thing. I'd rather suggest for frivolous things like games be held off until they can handle them

What you’re describing is a fault of the user, not the actually game.

So am I right in assuming you don’t have a problem with the games themselves, but rather the abuse of said games?

my-chemical-romance wrote:

I think it should be more down to the parent, as each child differs and if you said "Do you think you could handle this extremely fun game?" they'd say yes, but parents know better.

Exactly, it is the parent's respectability to be aware of what their kid is spending his time with. I think most parents these day neglect that responsibility when it come to thing like video games and entertainment media in general.

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Kileymeister_test wrote:

CylonToast wrote:

TF2 should be rated T, I got the game today,  its basically smashing walls with hammers

No, TF2 should be where it stands.  Great game, but it has blood, gore, moderate swearing, and somewhat offensive material.  One item mentions clubbing baby seals to death in style.

HOW CAN YOU PLAY SUCH THINGS? this is why i play nintendo dogs. WHAT HAPPENED TO LOVE OF BABY SEALS? 

veggieman001 wrote:

mattb777 wrote:

Well, I think it was stupid how Super Smash Bros. Brawl was rated T. It should have been E or E10+.

Melee was T though.

I don't think the E10+ rating existed back then, though.

DavidTy wrote:

Gatsby wrote:

The problem with kids, from my firsthand experience, is they can't get their priorities very straight when it comes to this sort of thing. I'd rather suggest for frivolous things like games be held off until they can handle them

What you’re describing is a fault of the user, not the actually game.

So am I right in assuming you don’t have a problem with the games themselves, but rather the abuse of said games?

Yeah

VanillaCreme wrote:

Excuse me but, i really don't think us kids should be making rating changes.

Exactly! 

I'm not sure if this has an ESRB rating, but Spore is a good computer game if you're bored.  It has fighting and fight-sounds, but that's the worst part. 

Yeah Spore is E10+, for "Animated Blood, Comic Mischief, Fantasy Violence". Which makes sense. Also, the game contains reproduction as a main theme.

veggieman001 wrote:

Yeah Spore is E10+, for "Animated Blood, Comic Mischief, Fantasy Violence". Which makes sense. Also, the game contains reproduction as a main theme.

All that happens is they do a little happy dance, then one of them lays an egg.
E10+ makes sense, though.

veggieman001 wrote:

PlutoIsHades wrote:

veggieman001 wrote:

Yeah Spore is E10+, for "Animated Blood, Comic Mischief, Fantasy Violence". Which makes sense. Also, the game contains reproduction as a main theme.

All that happens is they do a little happy dance, then one of them lays an egg.
E10+ makes sense, though.

Still, it's a main theme and could be misleading to children as well.

Yeah.
My 8-year-old sister plays Spore.
Really, if you can handle a little violence, Spore should be fine.  Personally, I've never payed too much attention to the reproduction thing.  And they're aliens, so....yeah.  They're different from us.