Your thoughts on ratings:

[Angel_of_Death]

Originally Posted by Happy lil' Elf

Ummm, yeah, you can. It's just that if you do, you deserve it. Course then there was that kid who killed a young girl by showing her wrestling moves too.

Meh in any case, it's up to the parents to judge their kids.

Well I didn't mean it's impossible to get hurt from wrestling...look at Owen Hart. I just meant that it's rare you see a big injury from wrestling, or it turning someone into a homicidal maniac.

And it is up to the parents to judge the kids, but nobody knows kids' limits/tolerance more than kids themselves.

[kreeten]

Originally Posted by worldvengence

AO = Adult only...Postal 2 should be rated that just for the hell of it (i play it religiously)

That game is so bloody brutal hehe.

[scarpas]

Originally Posted by FlakMan

No game has ever recieved an AO rating

[321]

What I think:

T=10
M=13
Ao= wait there are no Ao games

[UncleDynamite]

The government has actually made several attempts to regulate games, but they have failed repeatedly (I'll try to find some more information on the individual cases). So I guess video gamers won't have to worry about politicans breating down our necks for awhile.

Anyway, some M games are worse than others, so I suppose it matters on both the game and the person playing it.

I think the only software with Adults Only (Ao) ratings are those that are basically interactive sex guides for couples.

[Mango]

Im 18 so i don't really care =P
But ratings aren't going to stop a determined enough kid from playing violent games

[Dharkbayne]

The ratings shouldn't actually make it ILLEGAL for you to buy them, just like, so a parent can see "Hmmm... extreme gore, foul language, sexual themes, Billy, go find another game" not "You can't buy this cuz you're not 18!"


The parents who bitch about the games aren't very good parents, because THEY shouldn't allow their kid to play that if they don't want them to, simple as that.

If you don't want your kid playing violent games, don't let him. Don't sit on your fat ass watching Sex in the City and expect the governments/game companies to control him.

My $2.23

[Happy lil Elf]

Well I didn't mean it's impossible to get hurt from wrestling...look at Owen Hart. I just meant that it's rare you see a big injury from wrestling, or it turning someone into a homicidal maniac.

For professional wrestlers, this is true. They also have the training and experience to keep themselves from getting seriously hurt. The morons who try to pull off the same stuff at home though, not so much. Again though, if you jump off your roof onto a friend and you both get broken bones the only tragedy is that those broken bones didn't sever any major arteries.

[AztecWarrior]

Parents control it. If your 10-year-old can handle AO in your opinion (a rare case) then let him have it. If your 16-year-old can't handle M, don't let him have it.

[BUGGER]

As long as i can play them, ratings are bullshit.



Hell i watched Saving Private Ryan when i was like 9 or whenever it came out, i think my parents can handle me playing a gory game.