How strict were your parents about letting you play M Rated games?
| About how strict would you say your parents were about M Rated games? Were they super strict or did they just genuinely not care what you played? (The poll answers are jsut examples, it doesn't have to be exact to your experience) |
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| My parents didn't care what game we played as kids. |
| Though I was 13 when I played Grand Theft Auto Vice City when it was newish thanks to a friend loaning it to me, I mainly bought my own games and stuck with which games were appropriate for my ESRB age range at the time, as well as just caring more about the Ratchet & Clank series, the Jak series, and Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2 at the moment while I was more or less indifferent towards GTA until I was old enough to buy them on my own. The only M rated game that I asked a parent for was Devil May Cry 3: Special Edition when I was 16 almost turning 17, so me getting it during Christmas 2006 wasn't a big deal. |
FacelessVixenNov 9, 2022 9:04 AM
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| My mother was never bothered by the content in a video games that I played. To her, it was "fiction," so it didn't matter. Back around 1994, when I first rented "Mortal Kombat" and "Mortal Kombat II" for my Sega Genesis, my mother had no problem with the violence. As a matter of fact, she played the games with me. |
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| There weren't any M rated games I wanted to play as a child. Even as an adult, only a small percentage of my games have that rating. |
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| My mom was always super strict when it came to video games. I wasn't allowed to play the majority of action games and I'm not even talking about shooters. When I was around 14, I wanted to buy Street Fighter 4 for PC and it took a lot of effort and weeks of arguing to convince her. She thought it was some kind of hyperviolent game about murdering civilians in the streets or something like that (even though the game is rated 12+ in my country...) Another game I always wanted and didn't play until way later was Dragon Ball Origins on Nintendo DS, but that game was rated 16+ in Germany (because you see Goku's uncensored dick in the game). But again, my mom thought the game had such a high rating because it was too violent. However, this time I didn't get the game, because I wasn't 16 years old (I was like 12-13 if I recall correctly...) Basically, until I was 18 years old I only played baby games... which was ok, since I was a big Nintendo fan anyway. I mostly played games like Zelda or Pokemon. But It would have been neat, if I could play something like Fallout too, occasionally... Or at the very least 2D fighting games, which I was obsessed with, but rarely got to play. So instead I just played crappy flash versions of Street Fighter or King of Fighters or just watched gameplay videos on Youtube. |
| I was allowed to play them when I was 12-ish as long as it was at a friend's house, I wasn't allowed to own any. The first M-rated game I owned was Fallout 4 for my 17th birthday. |
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| They didn't care at all. I think I was around 8 when I started gaming. |
| Not strict at all, although I don't think I had such games like that until I bought Doom on PS1, although someone had to buy it for me as I was maybe ehh... about 10 or 11? (I really don't remember how old I was exactly?). Although saying that, I remember one of my copied ST games had a woman with her tits out on one of the game's menu lol (I forget which game it was though?), So definitely I probably would have played that at some point when even younger, but probably wouldn't have been interested in the Anatomy, and my parents would never have known about that unless they happened to walk in on it. My mother did give me hell about playing Anime games in my late 20s though. She hated anything ecchi. |
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| I don't think they even realized games had a rating system when I was growing up, or, if they did, they certainly didn't care. |
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| My parents didn't care what sort of games I played. They didn't really ever buy me games, but they never stopped me from buying them with my own money. |
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| My parents would get mad over GTA V because I played it way too much and started getting low scores I was also only allowed to play Mortal Kombat 9 an hour a week(On Thursdays) |
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| My parents didn't give a single shit about what I was playing, my late father was the one who let me play at my earliest years of living with games [I didn't check if they are actually M rated tbh] like Wolfenstein, Call of Duty 1, Quake, Shadowman etc. And my mother as my family isn't reach I usually was asking for particular 1-2 games for bday/boy day/xmass as a gift so not only I got a pass since I was 2-3+ to play whatever I wanted, they could always check it, they [father mainly] knew the game etc. I don't think that my mother knows about rating especially that M is Mature for english words and my mother doesn't speak nor know english, so even if the PEGI 17 would be shown it didn't really matter. |
| My dad introduced me to Call of Duty, Medal of Honor and Battlefield when I was 5. Although I think all three were still T rated back then. |
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| My mom didn't let me play them for a while but my dad would, on occasion. That's how I first played Halo, and Metal Gear Solid 2. |
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| My parents does not care what I play one bit, they just care about how long I play video games |
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| My parents followed the ESRB rating system religiously, not in the Bible study sense but rather in the no questions asked sense. As a result, I was never allowed to play a lot of great games that kids my age were. It took some convincing but when I was fifteen I finally got through to them and they let me play M-rated games. Or at least games with minimal mature content, like CoD with the graphic content filter on. Later on they stopped caring, entirely. |
| My parents are divorced, so I'll be putting them separately. Mother: When I was younger, my mother wouldn't mind me playing RATED M games as long as it didn't affect my studies or my behavior. However, if there was a small change in my behavior or my grades started slipping, I get the slapping. Father: Very strict, if he knew what the games were specifically, I'd lose access to playing any games, even if they're not RATED M. |
| I never got any 18+ games but I do remember getting a few 12+ games and I think even 16+ games before I reached those ages. My mom still complains a bit if she sees me playing a game that seems violent but not to the point where she tries to stop me from playing them. Weirdly enough she saw me playing Blue Archive recently and didn't say anything. Guess half naked anime girls are fine in her eyes LOL |
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| I got blessed with parents who don't care. My moments with Black Ops 2 & GTA 5 (2013) were some of the best memories of my life. |
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| My mum was pretty strict when it came to violence in video games so I only really played shooters and things like GTA at friends houses. Goldeneye on the N64 was about her limit for gun games. lol |
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| Somewhat strict, especially when my brother and I got our hands on True Crime: Streets of LA. We told our mom that the game was about a Kung fu cop fighting bad guys. She said it sounded like a Jet Li movie. |
| I have some old family footage where you can see me playing Doom as a 6 or 7 year old kid. My parents never cared what I played, and I started to play video games on a very young age. I can even remember when our first internet connection became available. There wasn't any multi-player games nor social media or what so ever. Since then i'm playing video games, and my parents didn't cared what I played. |
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| they knew it was bound to happen. i would find the stuff related to m rated games so they just didn't care |
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| They were pretty strict, though when I got an Xbox360 I just bought microsoft points and got them digitally instead. Eventually when I was 15 or 16 they weren't really bothered. |
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| Somewhat. My parents wouldn't let me and my step-siblings play M-rated games on our own but I remember my step-dad always playing games like Resident Evil 4 and Conker's Bad Fur Day when I was a kid. Once I got into my adolescence, my parents could have cared less. |
| my parents didnt care except for M, and then later they let me play some like halo but not grand theft auto, until i waslike 15 or 16. of course i had learned how to pirate at 11 or 12. and one of the first things i did was pirate gta 3. the only one that ran on the shitty old computer with no internet that they gave me in my room. (internet only on the family pc) |
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| pretty loose overall, and anyway i probably never played actual M Rated games until i was in my late teens and italy in general never had too much of age restricting rules about videogames. Only things i can think about are... - they bought a Game Gear for me and my older brother that included Mortal Kombat 2, it was 1995 so there was no internet or too much information on the news about violent videogames, and they never discovered about fatalities otherwise they could have regretted giving it to us - in 1999 my mother commented negatively Tekken 3 while i was playing the demo calling it ugly and uneducative and wishing my father wouldn't have bought our then recently purchased new Playstation, but never became a moral guardian as i feared back then. Some months after, my father himself commented negatively Carmageddon after probably watching some tv news about it, and in this period my older brother and neighbour best friend were playing it (i was fine with it but not too involved, and they asked me to see through the windows if all four of our parents returned home with their cars to avoid any risk and turn off the console in time) |
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| It's weird that they let me play 16+ m games while a big no for 18+ game, they said it's too violent girl, i'm a boy, let me do chaos, but besides, i agreed on that, and i'm already 17, so no one can stop me next year lmao AND LOOK, I PLAYED NINTENDO GAMES NOW INSTEAD OF M RATED GAMES LMAOOOOOOOO |
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| In my mother's era there were not computer or game consoles in her area. So she doesn't know a thing about games let alone rating. She still doesn't know even now for most part That being said my mother indeed didn't allow me to play any games unless I make a scene. But the games i used to play as kid are not the bought games rather pirated or hacked games or free games. So she wouldn't really have a chance to know rating anyways. But if she was enough knowledgeable and such situation arise, she definitely wouldn't let me play |
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| Not as strict as they should have been. |
| ehhhh they havent ever cared about what i played. but i only played nintendo games when little so like. whatever tbh |
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| They didn't mind as long as it didn't affect my studies or behavior. |
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| They didn't care at all one bit. The first movie I ever saw in a movie theater was Lethal Weapon 2 when I was 8, so fantasy violence in media was never a concern to my parents. |
| the whole ESRB rating system didn't even come into existence until about the time I was 16 years old. So it didn't effect me all that much. |
| They never allowed it minus for persona 5 and a Date A Live game. As a man with a job now, I buy what I want now. I mostly play waifu games and jrpgs. |
rohan121Dec 2, 2022 7:16 PM
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| My parent don't care what games I play, doubt they know what M rated games mean (well they never play video games in their life at all, and I have asian parents lol) , but if the game is too expensive they'd refused to buy it for me. Now as an adult myself, I can just do what I want now. |
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| Had to find other ways to get games that i wanted, they were kinda strict so had to be discreet |
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