Thursday, January 13, 2011

Why Kids Shouldn't play Call of Duty

I swear there's nothing I hate more as a gamer is playing a rated M game (Call of Duty, Halo, Killzone 2, take your pick) and hearing a little kid in multiplayer. Not only is it an earsore to hear these kids talk, but annoys me in a lot more ways than just the fact of getting my eardrums ruptured by their constant screaming and annoying babble.

To me this shows bad parenting (my opinion go against me if you will)

My parents were very strict about what games I played until I was at least 16. I was forbidden to play shooters even Teen ones because my Dad simply didn't want me to. He was okay with me watchign violent movies though as long as it was with him. I didn't really know his real reasoning, but I can assume he didn't want me to be the one doing the shooting real or not and at least mature a bit more and differentiate between enjoying a shooting game or enjoying the emulation of killing someone for fun, which I may bring into real life. Now I play shooters just because if appeals to my human nature to hunt, but at the same time I already know that the feelings just for the game and the competition and nothing more. That's at least how much I can explain it.

I don't think most kids have that kind of restraint to differentiate between that joy of playing of a game or the joy of actually killing for fun. There's a pretty damn good reason why games are rated-M BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT FOR KIDS! I really think it's horrible parenting whenever a parent let's a kid play a rated-M game you're pretty much risking exposing them to violence and gore and making them more sensitive to it. I know I sound like Jack Thompson but hey there's other reasons for my benefits and others why kids shouldn't be on Call of Duty.

Kids are annoying!

I'm not saying it in a bad way, well yes I am... but here me out. Okay most of us where pretty obnoxious and talked a lot as children. But it's natural and we can't help it. Hell the reason why we're overly self conscious and a bit more reserved as teenagers is because someone, mostly an older teenager or person, told us to shut up when we were little and we know what annoying brats when we were little.

So in the gaming lobby I know any gamer 16+ groan when a little kid is in the lobby and talking his little butt off. I don't blame them it's natural, but please what parent let you play and torture us? I have to deal with little cousins like this so why do I want to in this game?

I could take a Nazi, foreigner that doesn't speak english, girl, jerk, noob tuber, camper, etc., but once I hear a voice that hasn't hit puberty yet >:(

Kids really shouldn't be exposed to the adult crowd especailly the gaming adult crowd

For my own good and others I usually don't play with a mic due to my excessive swearing and cussing while playing whenever I get killed. So ya kids shouldn't be exposed to the gamers that don't show the same constraint like me. Teenage jokes, which usually consist of drugs, sex, and your mom shouldn't be what little kids should be listening to and no doubt they'll be imitating that in their lame way. We know we did that when we were little. When you heard the new cuss word from your friends you had to try it out, but by the time you use it on the daily you were old enough to be using them with your friends.

So in conclusion kids shouldn't be playing rated-M games or the alternative shut up while they play Call of Duty or Halo, but that's highly unlikely. In my opinion childhood should be consisting of playing outside even to preteen years. And if it comes to video games, there are already good non rated-M game out there. The Call of Duty multiplayer lobby isn't one of the places that one's childhood should be spent because once you enter it you'll loose it very quickly and regret somewhere along the way..... And be causing many a teenager to suffer in your obnoxious rambling about how you're so "good" because quite frankly no one cares.

8 comments:

  1. I agree. I also wasn't allowed to play violent shooters. I'm still not allowed to play Doom, but I am allowed Far Cry 2 (huh?), on the rare occasions that I have access to my bro's PC.
    I think people like shooters because they are, as you say, giving you violence that your natural instincts are used to, or whatever. This would include punching, but there are a lot more shooters out there than "punchers". But kids should enjoy simple stuff while they can. Whacking a kid in front of CoD, not caring what they play, is just ignorance.

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    1. I must say, when I play any video game my goal is to level up, get achievements and basically unlock everything. Then I simply play a different game and do the same thing. I cant say that im having fun doing it, fun for me is knowing that its done. But if you are doing it just to kill....you had better be very mature. And games like Gta (the last 5 of them) ,manhunt and postal all allow a variety of ways to kill other characters...kids and adults need to be very careful about what is going through their head while playing. Kids need to play games according to their maturity level and not so much their age.

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  2. Exactly! haha ya my parents were kinda weird too I was able to play assassin's creed but not Call of Duty haha maybe impaling someone with a sword isn't as bad as shooting someone in the head (shrug). But ya childhood should be simple nuff said

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  3. Kid count in cod 2000000 halo is 3000000 and minecraft almost everyone but they CRY over every little thing i take one wood kid: Wahh give me my f ing wood back (n bomb)

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  4. I hear you out kids should not be playing this i was not able to play CoD until i was 14!! and kids are playing it wow just wow

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  5. i think this game is overrated but it isnt underrated either i think 13 years of age of 14 years of age should be able to play it with parents permission

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  6. I'm twelve and my little brother is 9, the Xbox I specifically bought we played on, we just got cod ghosts, and man my little brother turned into a real jerk because of that game, he was acting all arrogant and cocky, taking over the Xbox like it was his Xbox

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