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Rated M for Mature video games for kids? UPDATE
Ok so am I being a big old fuddy duddy? My 12 yo son is getting a PS3 (well for the family) for Christmas. The two games he asked for are Halo and Modern Warfare 3. Ok the kid working in the game dept. at Best Buy said Halo is for X-Box..........ok one down. Then I asked why MW is rated M...........is it mostly violence or what? He asked how old my son was and when I told him 12 he was like "Um yeah he's too young for this." I asked if there's F-bombs and he said that's pretty much all they say.......great. So I informed my son that he's not getting those games and now he's TOTALLY pissed at me going on about how all his friends have those games and how he can't join in the coversations about them at lunch because he's the ONLY one that doesn't play it yada yada yada...............
I let him watch some movies and comedy specials with us with some language, but not non stop and esp. not the f-bomb.
So the video guy said the new Batman game is really, really good and rated Teen which I'm ok with so I got that. I'm just affraid he's going to be disappointed on Christmas which no parents wants. :surrender:
So tell me I'm not being lame............or tell me that ALL tween boys play these games and I'm making too big of a deal out of it. :9:
Ok so am I being a big old fuddy duddy? My 12 yo son is getting a PS3 (well for the family) for Christmas. The two games he asked for are Halo and Modern Warfare 3. Ok the kid working in the game dept. at Best Buy said Halo is for X-Box..........ok one down. Then I asked why MW is rated M...........is it mostly violence or what? He asked how old my son was and when I told him 12 he was like "Um yeah he's too young for this." I asked if there's F-bombs and he said that's pretty much all they say.......great. So I informed my son that he's not getting those games and now he's TOTALLY pissed at me going on about how all his friends have those games and how he can't join in the coversations about them at lunch because he's the ONLY one that doesn't play it yada yada yada...............
I let him watch some movies and comedy specials with us with some language, but not non stop and esp. not the f-bomb.
So the video guy said the new Batman game is really, really good and rated Teen which I'm ok with so I got that. I'm just affraid he's going to be disappointed on Christmas which no parents wants. :surrender:
So tell me I'm not being lame............or tell me that ALL tween boys play these games and I'm making too big of a deal out of it. :9: