SoliDeoGloriaIHS Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 My wife would argue that I'm a big kid. I turned 50 a couple weeks ago. I've been gaming since Pac-Man and Galaga were in the arcades and the Atari 2600 and the Commodore 64. I've taken breaks over the years, but I don't see myself ever stopping. As others have said, gaming is for everyone no matter the age. However, I would argue that most games today (especially those that are M+ or 18+) are definitely NOT for kids. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkPhoenix4567 Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 See there is video games made for kids But at the end of the day anyone can enjoy gaming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draqilo Posted February 15 Author Share Posted February 15 3 minutes ago, SoliDeoGloriaIHS said: (especially those that are M+ or 18+) are definitely NOT for kids. I always loved M+ and 18+ games, when I was 6-8 years old I played so much of those and It learned more things then I learned at school! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruexnimbus Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 2 hours ago, draqilo said: When I game, I forget about family somehow. Don't make a habit out of that. One day they will be gone and all you'll have left are your games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draqilo Posted February 15 Author Share Posted February 15 2 minutes ago, ruexnimbus said: Don't make a habit out of that. One day they will be gone and all you'll have left are your games. I know that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiagozak Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 Also remember that a lot of so-called adults who don't need no damned videogames are still likely to spend as much time on their phones playing solitaire, Duolingo, generic match-3 puzzles or whatever other apps that are TOTALLY NOT videogames. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feral Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 Games are for anyone and everyone, regardless of age. I’ve been playing them since I was 4 and I’m 33 now, still enjoying games. Got plenty of friends my age and older that also play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJ_Solo Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 Video games are for kids the same way books are for kids. Also water. Water is for kids. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Fluffy_Pants_ Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 (edited) Maybe that used to be the general consensus, or perhaps a bad stereo type, in the late 80s early 90s era. Since however those kids grew into adults, many of which are still into video games. Whether or not people still think that, it just isn’t the case. There are countless examples of video games certainly not aimed at children for example the torture scenes in gta V, the serial killer simulator that is manhunt, the provocative dead or alive xtreme beach volleyball series etc I believe video games are for children is a stereotype that was a whole lot more dominant years ago and has slowly faded away. Nobody who spends a few minutes looking at the vast variety of video games available in this day in age would say they are all for children. Edited February 15 by Mr_Fluffy_Pants_ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennos1980 Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 I'm 43 and have been an avid gamer since the 80's. The medium has evolved so much over the years that it's no longer just a children's hobby, it's a wildly diverse hobby that welcomes all ages. Hell, look at the bestselling and most acclaimed games of the past decade, many are M-Rated and geared to a mature audience. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armamac14 Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 (edited) Depends E everyone 3+ T maybe 8+ and M at least 16+ it just depends on their Age I have been doing this for a long time just on XBOX mostly There are games for kids that are BABY games some being shovelware like My Friend Peppa Pig or PJ masks both $40 though and get old in like 2 hours SCAM to me. In a way not paying $40 for Shovelware Garbage to me. Like sometimes I feel like shovelware is a scam now like my name is mayo $3 Easy and cheap but My friend pepper pig is $40 for like 2 to 5 hours ( without discount or premium ps+) like No 8 minutes ago, armamac14 said: Depends E everyone 3+ T maybe 8+ and M at least 16+ it just depends on their Age I have been doing this for a long time just on XBOX mostly There are games for kids that are BABY games some being shovelware like My Friend Peppa Pig or PJ masks both $40 though and get old in like 2 hours SCAM to me. In a way not paying $40 for Shovelware Garbage to me. Like sometimes I feel like shovelware is a scam now like my name is mayo $3 Easy and cheap but My friend pepper pig is $40 for like 2 to 5 hours ( without discount or premium ps+) like No Shovelware is so expensive. why it sometimes is not even good and a baby game for 4 year olds like No Edited February 15 by armamac14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modest_undue1 Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 41 minutes ago, armamac14 said: Depends E everyone 3+ T maybe 8+ and M at least 16+ it just depends on their Age I have been doing this for a long time just on XBOX mostly There are games for kids that are BABY games some being shovelware like My Friend Peppa Pig or PJ masks both $40 though and get old in like 2 hours SCAM to me. In a way not paying $40 for Shovelware Garbage to me. Like sometimes I feel like shovelware is a scam now like my name is mayo $3 Easy and cheap but My friend pepper pig is $40 for like 2 to 5 hours ( without discount or premium ps+) like No Shovelware is so expensive. why it sometimes is not even good and a baby game for 4 year olds like No It's probably a scam to you because, well to say it simply, you're not a kid and it doesn't appeal to you? The game would take the average young child more than 5 hours definetly. They actually get it's moneys worth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadiantFlamberge Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 (edited) They're for everyone. Some games are for kids, some are for a more mature audience (Mortal Kombat, Samurai Spirits/Shodown), and some are for a general audience. It's not just content but also the complexity of the game. A game based on a franchise like Paw Patrol or PJMasks will likely be simpler for kids. Adults would probably grow bored with it. Sega Saturn's Sailor Moon Super S Various Emotion fighting game has a completely bonkers CPU. This one has some pretty strong perfect play AI that is as difficult as MK2's Shao Kahn fight (hah... at least!). I believe it uses input reading. The continue screen will show one of Tuxedo Mask's roses for every re-challenge... I beat the game once, but with a total of 52 used continues. The Japanese version of the Sailor Moon anime wasn't really meant for kids. It's at a hard PG-13 level, and shit gets real. Its syndicated North American dub from 1995 was censored to hell and back. If SMSSVE had a USA release, they probably would have added easier difficulties and labeled the default as "Extra Hard". Though it's family friendly, a game like Mr. Driller is not one that most younger (< 10 yrs)kids would come to grips with so easily. Mr. Driller G is a considerable step up in difficulty from the first one. It's more complex than it looks. If you're not careful, you could easily Jenga the blocks that are above you and now offscreen, with an ensuing cave-in. You want to be fast, but keep control over the block formations the best you can. Edited February 15 by RadiantFlamberge 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrBloodmoney Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 the content warnings from a couple of my recently played games: .... I'm going to go out on a limb, and say that they're probably not made for kids. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
draqilo Posted February 15 Author Share Posted February 15 5 hours ago, DrBloodmoney said: the content warnings from a couple of my recently played games: Lmao, your right is not for kids but will kids not play it? They would probably, so many 18+ games I played when I was really young! I was never interessed really into kids games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heavyrockerfin Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 Oh no. Goodness, no. I'm close to 28 and I'm doing uni stuff on games and literacy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrBloodmoney Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 (edited) 13 minutes ago, draqilo said: Lmao, your right is not for kids but will kids not play it? They would probably, so many 18+ games I played when I was really young! I was never interessed really into kids games. I mean, there's a sliding scale really. I also grew up without any real restrictions on games I played... ...but when I was a kid, there were some games with adult ratings, but TBH, back then, it wasn't like anything a game could present was ever actually going to disturb a kid, as it was so cartoonish and pixelated, that you couldn't really have gotten anything too disturbing. I do think that now though, both graphical fidelity and games as a medium have moved so much further, than there is both the potential for very realistic gore and violence, or pretty strong sexual content, and - I would say more importantly - much more complicated, and therefore, potentially disturbing emotional content, that I probably would want to keep away from younger or more impressionable kids. Personally, I would still try and keep something like modern Mortal Kombat style highly-detailed, extreme violence and guts and gore away from the eyes of under 10s... ...and probably would keep things like Soma or Outlast, or more disturbing horror away from kids under 12 or 13 - and that kind of content simply wasn't a thing when I was growing up. The most we had was, like Nighttrap - which was comical, even as it tried to be scary. There is also things like Immortality, (which that second warning is from), it is literally filmed footage of erotic cinema (some of which is pretty much identical to soft-core skin-flick) some pretty disturbing horror, and a lot of kind of nasty abuse on show - and so the argument reverts back to more film ideas - some kids are going to be able to handle seeing that kind of cinema earlier than others, so it comes down to parental judgement. Edited February 15 by DrBloodmoney 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDarkKratos Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 21 hours ago, draqilo said: Do you think video games are for kids? Yes... Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VigilantCrow Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 Most games seem to be pandering to young adults in the 18-25 range. Not very common to see advertisement campaigns trying to attract kids to a game. Even something like Peppa Pig pushed the idea that it was a gameparents could enjoy with their kid, those kids that wouldn't have the motor functions to play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modest_undue1 Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 On 2/16/2024 at 12:38 AM, TheDarkKratos said: Yes... Reveal hidden contents Wait till you find out about RapeLay... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHIL_DADDY1 Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 10 minutes ago, modest_undue1 said: Wait till you find out about RapeLay... Banned in Australia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modest_undue1 Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 2 minutes ago, PHIL_DADDY1 said: Banned in Australia Manhunt 2? Banned here but you can still buy a copy of the ps2 version that was unbanned at that point 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHIL_DADDY1 Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 There were a bunch of PC games in the early days of PC gaming, before nanny classification laws, that were definitely not kid friendly. I still got my hands on them, when I was a kid, and that was pre-internet. The PS2 snuck a few dodgy/questionable games in, which I managed to pick up in Bali in the early 2000s... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killbomb Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 On 2/14/2024 at 7:50 PM, Tiagozak said: Also remember that a lot of so-called adults who don't need no damned videogames are still likely to spend as much time on their phones playing solitaire, Duolingo, generic match-3 puzzles or whatever other apps that are TOTALLY NOT videogames. I had to call out somebody at work for talking bad about video games when she has played a ton of Candy Crush on her phone. 😆 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modest_undue1 Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 (edited) 2 hours ago, PHIL_DADDY1 said: There were a bunch of PC games in the early days of PC gaming, before nanny classification laws, that were definitely not kid friendly. I still got my hands on them, when I was a kid, and that was pre-internet. The PS2 snuck a few dodgy/questionable games in, which I managed to pick up in Bali in the early 2000s... Bali is PAL? I really thought they were NTSC oops, and when you were a kid? YOU WERE A CHILD??? Edited February 20 by modest_undue1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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