ReturnOfTheRAT
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The kid is 10.
MyLifeIsALie
Banned
I think cod is barely violent anyways.. Hell i watched spongebob recently and was pretty shocked by the amount of violence in that. One of the characters got upset and ripped all of his skin off revealing muscles and red flesh.. Just out of no where lol.
Its weird because i watched that show years and years ago and don't remember it being gory but it is..
So i think I'm trying to say kids don't see things like adults see them.. i know when i was a kid my fuckin dentist had free to play mortal kombat 2 at his office.. No one cared lol
Its weird because i watched that show years and years ago and don't remember it being gory but it is..
So i think I'm trying to say kids don't see things like adults see them.. i know when i was a kid my fuckin dentist had free to play mortal kombat 2 at his office.. No one cared lol
vxXJordanXxv
Banned
This must be what it's like to be old, and outraged that kids play the violent games.
When I was 9, I was all about DOOM and Heretic and Hexen. How badly?
I bought it at a book store. So many levels. Came with Wadauthor. And it was super sick.
We all played games just as much outside their intended age when we were that young. Don't lie.
Doom, Heretic, and Hexen are good games though. Also I played Duke Nukem 3D and had a save titled "dancers" I was 8.
flyinpiranha
Member
Cool cake, wish my parents got me stuff that I was into like that.
You're obviously a terrible person with terrible parents that let you look at that stuff.
You're obviously a terrible person with terrible parents that let you look at that stuff.
So language is far worse than extreme amounts of violence? Ok then... Also, no1 talks on ps3, kids fine
half joking
Pestilence11
Member
The cake is a lie.
Grampa Simpson
Banned
I first read that as 40th instead of 10th. Whole different type of sad.
serversurfer
Member
They didn't even have ratings when I was that age.
If they did, all games probably would've been rated E. Maybe a T here and there, like Leather Goddesses of Phobos or Leisure Suit Larry, though even those didn't come out until I was 15 or 16. Certainly there were no M-rated games that I can recall.
Poltergust
Member
Guys, it's not a 10-year-old kid playing CoD, it's a kid turning 10-years-old playing CoD. Furthermore, since apparently CoD: Ghosts is a present along with the cake, that means that he played a previous game in the series when he was 8 at the latest, considering the release date of Black Ops 2.
Personally, that's far too young of an age to play these kinds of games. You barely even qualify for the E-rated games at that point.
Personally, that's far too young of an age to play these kinds of games. You barely even qualify for the E-rated games at that point.
Cheese Sandwich
Banned
I don't see anything wrong, other than how the kid's getting a giant-ass cake and he's only 10.
It looks like the box on the cake could have just been a generic box with a Ghost label printed out on it (so maybe he isn't getting the game?). Also, even if he's getting the game as a gift, that doesn't necessarily mean he's already played the other games in the series. Maybe he just played Ghosts at a friend's house or heard about it or something.
I also disagree that 8 is necessarily too young. My little sister played Halo (yeah, I know I said in my post that my parents were restrictive when I was a kid, they changed their minds by the time I was in my teens and basically let my youngest sister watch/play almost anything growing up) when she was 8. Also, he didn't have to have necessarily have played Black Ops 2 within its first months of release.
Good points.
It's a fancy cake that either reflects a wealthy family who buys their son whatever he wants, or a loving parent who spent a lot on a cake so that his/her son could have a very nice birthday.
I'm guessing it's the former, since I personally would rather that all the money that was spent on the cake was put towards something more functional like a gift, a trip to the movie theater with my family, a nice dinner, whatever.
I find the juxtaposition of guns/war/violence with a 10 year old's birthday cake kind of morbidly interesting. Like "Guess what, son! You live in a society where for your birthday you get to celebrate by engaging in pretend war for entertainment! Aren't you lucky you don't live in a society where war is just a game?!"
famousmortimer
Banned
I was gonna get all high and mighty and say I played MK as a kid. But I just looked it up and I was 15 when it came out.
I assume some of you played MK as a kid, however.
I assume some of you played MK as a kid, however.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
M-rated game and all, but I'd eat the hell out of that grenade.
No. No one ever watched or played mature countent as a kid in the 90's or 80's. Not a single person ever
I agree with this. It's not necessarily the fact that the kid is playing Call of Duty that I find somewhat disturbing, it's the juxtaposition of a grenade on a young child's birthday cake representing the celebration of war culture at a young age.
vxXJordanXxv
Banned
Long story short I wasn't able to finish Duke Nukem 3D till I was 16 it was taken away from me when I was a kid lol.
pretty done
Member
When I was 10 I was playing UMK3. I don't see the issue here.
quantumnerd
Member
I don't really know how to feel about kids playing games like this. On the one hand, I saw some shit through the internet/through games when I was at the age this kid may have started playing CoD at (grade 4), and I didn't obsess over the violence. On the other hand, a lot of parents aren't very careful, and jingoist gaming isn't exactly the best thing to build a worldview around. I tend to err on the side of caution and say that in the absence of a well-balanced media diet, parents should keep this kind of stuff away from their kids until they're at least 14.
James Woods
Banned
As a man of distinction who leaves Cowadoody to the plebes I,
Poltergust
Member
True, I suppose I was too rash to think that he got Black Ops II near release. It's actually very likely that he played it (or another game in the series) with a friend much later on and got it for himself then.
...Although, assuming that his friend is the same age as him, that still seems too young to me. <_>
Dark Souls actualy knows it's target audience.
Call of Duty thinks 100% of their target audience are people with AT LEAST twice
(and a day)
Basically this. Who here didn't play a violent videogame before they reached 10?
Dark Octave
Banned
I was playing Black Ops with my 8 year old cousin yesterday and was picking on him about "being too young to play violent games".
We had a good laugh at that.
We had a good laugh at that.
The kid most likely watches movies and tv shows where people shoot each other. What's the big deal?
Mobile Suit Gooch
Grundle: The Awakening
I'd like a piece.
PreyingShark
Member
Same here. It because I know GTA is just a game with comical violence (at that time the graphic makes it look comical), and replicating it in real life is stupid.
-MD-
Member
Black frosting looks gross to me, anyone else? Controller should've been white.
I had my mom run me up to the local game shop not even a month after I turned 13 to pick up my preorder of Manhunt. The guy behind the counter tried pretty hard to make my mom reconsider and she went into worry/panic mode after hearing what the game was about, I only had to say a sentence or two to convince her it would be fine lol.
Manhunt at 13, what a baller.
I had my mom run me up to the local game shop not even a month after I turned 13 to pick up my preorder of Manhunt. The guy behind the counter tried pretty hard to make my mom reconsider and she went into worry/panic mode after hearing what the game was about, I only had to say a sentence or two to convince her it would be fine lol.
Manhunt at 13, what a baller.
The Grim Heaper
Member
Yeah, it's kinda gross. Especially since it usually stains your teeth and mouth black.
HAHAHAHA what's that supposed to mean?
lol
I played Goldeneye when I was 12ish so I'm not gonna flip out over this, but it is fucked up. The graphical and just overall realism of COD plus the nature of the voice chat makes it something I wouldn't buy for my kid until he was probably in High School.
The bigger issue is getting your kid a $200+ cake for his 10th birthday (Unless the parent made it themselves in which case, respect)
The bigger issue is getting your kid a $200+ cake for his 10th birthday (Unless the parent made it themselves in which case, respect)
MK just teaches you that over the top violence can be entertaining. Call of Duty online teaches you how to be a grade-a douche, if you've got a spongy and easily-influenced mind. It's not so much the content as it is the culture.
I mean, I'm no one to talk about violent games, bits of Wolfenstein 3D and Duke Nukem 3D were my two earliest game memories.
'zactly.
At least he's playing on PS3. The amount of profanity is probably less than on the XBL version, since there's no bundled mic.
So? Did you never play a violent game before you were 18?
-MD-
Member
I agree. Interacting with people online is 100x worse than anything you'll see in a game. That shit is real life.
NOT a fan of cake? Who are you? The grinch?
You say nothing?
The double standards people have about violence is bizarre.
the "10 year olds on xbox live" meme is funny, but let's be honest it's not true. Plenty of people of all ages act stupidly online.