{"id":2013,"date":"2009-03-16T11:27:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T17:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamesanityblog.com\/?p=2013"},"modified":"2009-03-16T11:27:33","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T17:27:33","slug":"gamerdad-says-let-them-eat-m-mature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/16\/gamerdad-says-let-them-eat-m-mature\/","title":{"rendered":"GamerDad Says: Let Them Eat M-Mature!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bloodonthecontroler\"Yes, it’s true. A healthy sapling tree bends when the wind hits it while the\u00a0mighty oak defies said wind. As GamerDad, I’ve always constantly try to bend. When people ask me advice the first thing I do is try and figure out what they WANT to hear. If they clearly want to hear bad things, I’ll tell them a few bad things and then a few really good things. If a parent is clearly a geek and is maybe overdoing it, I’ll advise they throttle back a bit and tell them a few of the bad things about overdoing it with video games. I definitely do not believe violent video games make a person violent. I believe they can purge anger from a person, but I also believe they can adversely affect a disturbed child. In fact, I think they’re an opportunity to help diagnose said child. Anyway, my point is that I’m going to start going off the reservation again and I’m going to start recommending some M games to parents – under certain circumstances. <\/em>GamerDad has NEVER been about the rating. It’s always been about the WHY. Here’s what I mean.<\/p>\n

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In my infamous and still very popular Halo 3 review I point out that the most violent parts of the game could be rated Y-14 or even Y-7 on television. In movies it’d be a definite PG-13.\u00a0 So why is it M? The Flood are naked, swarmy, vile, and a lot like the monsters in Will Smith’s “I AM LEGEND” – a, you guessed it, PG-13 movie.<\/p>\n

That’s why I recently went out on a limb and said Resident Evil V, a game filled with gore, zombies, monsters and some bad language, and said that IF YOU WERE THE KIND OF PARENT WHO LETS THEIR KIDS WATCH GORY HORROR MOVIES then this is one hell of a great game for 14+.<\/p>\n

See what I did there?\u00a0 I’m no blanket authority. I’m jusr acknowledging scale. Nuance.<\/p>\n

How did I come to this realization?\u00a0 I constantly read and then often re-read later all kinds of books about game violence, education, etc.,\u00a0 I also look at statistics.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I’m not scared of video games<\/p>\n

I’m not afraid of people playing them<\/p>\n

They are just entertainment<\/p>\n

The most important distinction is quality<\/p>\n

Virtual\u00a0violence may be healthy, but at least isn’t harmful.<\/p>\n

I don’t promise consistency, but times have changed. More parents know games, more play games and so they look to me for different reasons. Instead of telling them what to fear, I plan on helping them. If they’re looking for an excuse to let junior play LEFT 4 DEAD with his friends – I can come up with valid reasons why it’s okay. If they’re looking for an excuse to stop junior from playing – I can come up with valid reasons why it’s not okay.\u00a0 Life isn’t black and white. GamerDad goes\u00a0populist!\u00a0 Film at 11!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, it’s true. A healthy sapling tree bends when the wind hits it while the\u00a0mighty oak defies said wind. As GamerDad, I’ve always constantly try to bend. When people ask me advice the first thing I do is try and figure out what they WANT to hear. If they clearly want to hear bad things, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}