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"Do you take any notice of the age rating on games?"

Ok here is my attempt at winning GAD.

Do people really take notice of the age rating on games, are sure you don't as many of you have probably a horror game, like Resident Evil series, and these games have a age rating, for instance Resident evil games have a age 18+ age rating, so this is saying that we should not be able to buy these games if we are under that age.

I mean its not like after playing Resident Evil we are gonna go out buy a gun and start shooting people that look like the dead. (It would be fun though) but we just wouldn't do that.

Most games though have a age 15+ for swearing in games like Metal Gear Solid, which to me is stupid because I am sure that everyone will agree that we have all seen a TV programme with swearing in it, whats the big deal, everyone swears from time to time.

The age ratings to me are stupid for some games, take for instance a wrestling game, they have about a 15+ on them because of the weapons, fighting and stuff like that, I mean all my friends have got Smackdown 1,2 or they have No Mercy, me I have Smackdown 1, 2, and getting WWF Smackdown: JBI.

People are thinking that games influence that much that we are gonna get a gun after buying a game with a gun or some other kind of weapon and start being a crazed phsycopath. GAMES DO NOT INFLUENCE US THAT MUCH!

The point is that nearly everyone has probably got a game that is over their age limit according to the age rating on games and people should stop thinking that games make us crazy and enjoy gaming.

I hope SR noticed this and i hope you all agree with me, feel free to disagree

I don't take any notice of the age ratings for games. I am 13 years old and I have Perfect Dark, Conkers Bad Fur Day, Resident Evil 2, Quake and loads more rated games.

Oh right I didn't know he was cracking a joke, but if it had have been real then my point would have been very strong about games with the wrong age rating. Don't you think?

Good post. When it comes to ELSPA ratings, the check box ones, I would disregard them as they are not legally enforcible. The BBFC video style ratings are however enforcible by law. So I would respect them, probably if I had to. But being 102 I am old enough for every game.

Some people would have to be pretty mad to take games as reality.

Time_Warp wrote:
> He was cracking a joke mate. The punchline was that he mistook the
> age rating for the time the company said he should have completed it
> in. (:)

he knows he was saying it had an age limit of 2-6 years yet sheepy still took a year, must be hard then get it!

Anyway i ignore age ratings as i am amture enough to accept games i dont go chainsawing killer teddy bears in half ala conker! or shooting a PD guard through a wall with a gun!

Age ratings on games don't bother me anymore. Probably because I'm older than 18.

He was cracking a joke mate. The punchline was that he mistook the age rating for the time the company said he should have completed it in. (:)

I mean it is a strong point because it was a hard game and it had a 2-6 age rating that must be wrong if it was that hard.

what game was it? but still my point is still stong about the age rating on games that aren't really suitable for that game I mean, My point there is stong with yours because it was a hard game and it had a 2-6 years rating don't you think?

SHEEPY wrote:
> I saw a game that said [ 2-6 years ]

I finished it in 1
> year

:D

Cheese. Nice one craig, did you break some kind of record?

(:)