11 year old reaction getting GTA 5 early
 

tldw- These parents somehow got a copy of GTA 5 a few days early for their 11 year old son. The vid starts with the kid BAWLING his eyes out in hapiness while his mother embraces him laughing, with his dad laughing in the background.
He then takes the game kissing it and cuddles it to his cheek.

http://kotaku.com/11-year-old-kid-ge...hel-1317048819

I'm not sure whether to be incredulous at his reaction or the fact that the parents - who I'm assuming are completely aware of the game's content - actually buy the game for this 11-year-old boy.

i was pretty young when i played GTA3 so...

Doesn't make it alright.

why?

Yeah... Worst parents out there. I've heard how kids talk on mics on M games and it just goes to show they can't handle them. GTA though takes it to a whole new level. There are strippers and **** in that game. You shouldn't be exposed to that stuff like it's normal. My hope for humanity has been lowered yet again.

Because then **** like this happens. Granted, this is an extreme case, but still...
Children that young are extremely impressionable.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...r-dead-2223955

like you said, extreme case. you can say the same happens when adults play games (lolol norway massacre he played cod for training it must b da reason!!!, columbine bcuz of doom okok). i'm sure the kid played gta 4 and the parents didn't mind, so he can probably handle gta 5.

Children are impressionable. If a child plays a video game like GTA, Saints Row, whatever, they might start thinking that violence like that, which is portrayed as an OK thing to do in a video game, is OK to do in real life. I can bore you with statistics and whatever about how violent games can increase a child's aggressiveness but I won't :3 It's just not something you should be doing.

except i was a child and wasn't exactly influenced that way by the games i played, lol. im sure you were once a child too~

also those statistics should be taken with a grain of salt. they're usually out of context and the correlations don't necessarily explain anything.

I'm sure you must have been seeing the way you think now. Children's minds are more underdeveloped than adults. They are more prone to imitating actions. Just because you didn't do anything, doesn't mean it won't effect other kids. Who knows, it could have even desensitized you to violence. The game is M+17 for a reason. Not meant for kids whatsoever. If you even think it's okay for a kid to play that kind of game it's wrong.

Killing cats out in the woods isn't normal Crono...

11 year old's owning strip clubs? Seems perfectly fine to me.















These parents are horrid people...
They probably got him Call Of Duty when he was 6...

I'd cry like that too if i got Pokemon X and Y early

I don't understand how mildly increasing a kids agressiveness will cause anything? If you're trying to start up the whole "violent video games cause school shootings" arguement, we can bore you with statistics telling you how this isn't true

Well, the FPS Doom was used to "train" for Columbine.

Ash, you're a bad trainer. No one wants to see your "adventures" in Kalos! We want Red!

I really don't think grand theft auto had anything to do with this. We don't know enough about the story to even draw that conclusion. All we know is that he played grand theft auto in the past. Heck, it could have been anything. I bet the reason this story blew up is because the media is desperately trying to link video games to violence for hits since that's a big controversy now. My biggest problem with this story is the fact that these parents left a loaded gun around in their house... That should be the real issue.

Translation of the boy(the video is french):
"It's beautiful" and Parents are laughing because they are so happy for their children...
Pitfull
Once again

Doom didn't teach them how to make explosives that would potentially kill 600 people, Doom didnt cause them to be mercilessly crazy, training on an Fps isn't gonna help you win a gun fight with trained police officers. Crazy people will be crazy, video games won't make people crazy. These kids were beyond crazy, you should see some of the stuff they were writing in a journal.

Violent video games and movies do influence kids thoughts and maybe some of their actions. I'll use torah as an example. He watches that super hero show right? Hes into it. He loves it. People are into GTA and they love it. But I'm pretty sure Torah would never make a sword like the ones he sees in the show he watches and try to stop bad guys irl lol. I played GTA when I was younger too and maybe it did make me a little more aggressive but I'd never ever steal a 200 thousand dollar car , run over a few hundred people, and shoot a few dozen cops. Only a psycho/seriously mentally ill or unstable person would do that. And unfortunately we have these people. But games like GTA do not make ppl mentally unstable like these crazy shooters and bombers we hear about these days. Those ppl had fled up childhoods and are not fit to live in society. If what people say is true about violent games then we would have millions of little criminals and thugs destroying the world right now. But I do agree that Kidd should be a certain age to play these games so that they're old enuf to understand its just a game and don't do anything u see on the screen irl

were you directly influenced by mature games when you were a kid?

I didn't play them because I was a kid. I think the first mature game I played was Halo 2 local multiplayer when I was 14 at my cousin's. I've had my Xbox 360 for 4 years so I pretty much started playing them when I was 15. Yes, they did make me more aggressive actually. I would actually punch myself and bite my hand and cuss at the people (people being the players) calling them things like "Cheap ass ****er!" when they were really not. I would even be more aggressive to people that came in the room when I was so pissed off. So I really wasn't old enough to play them either. I just think 11 is way too young. You're not even a teenager at that age.

that has nothing to do with the mature content of the game though.

Depends what game you want to talk about. I really didn't play any M games besides first person shooters when I was younger. It's possible I just had anger issues with games. My point is still made that I did not own my first M game until I was 15. The other times I had played an M game were over friends or family on occasions. So you can't use me as an example. Now if you want to look at game content for M games let's take a peak at Grand Theft Auto 5. Go ahead and look at this link and tell me how any of what is described is suitable for children. Most M games contain foul language that when exposed to a younger audience may start being imitated.

Violence influences don't actually have to be physical attacks on others. Ever think of psychological? It's possible you get more violent urges in your mind against people. An example, you see a guy picking on a dog and rather than being charged for animal abuse you instead start having thoughts of ways he should die for what he's done. The violence can get to your head. Thoughts of such are unhealthy. We can go on and on about the content in games and the effects it has or the audience it's suitable for. I'm still saying it's not meant for kids.

I didn't say it was suitable for children, instead I just disagree that it's "wrong" for an 11 year old to play GTA.

Strong arguement, because a kid isn't exposed to foul language unless it's from M-rated media content right?

Quite the imagination you have there, perhaps we should be thankful you didn't get your hands on M-rated games when you were a kid.

Well that'd be okay because its age apropriate

If a game is causing aggression that is a strong warning sign the kid should not be playing the game.

How could you think theres nothing wrong with that?

Damn, what a lucky kid.

Are you really asking about the language thing? The worst words I've heard in Teen games are damn and hell. M games contain words like f/uck, ass hole, douche, etc. Also, an 11 year old is classified as a child. You're not a teenager, toddler, or a baby. You're a child. The game has sexual content and violence not suited for such an age. I'm not making the the psychological part up. You must consider any and all cases. I don't even know why I'm bothering arguing with you. It's obvious which party you are and that you won't listen. I've always disagreed with most of your posts except for a few. I guess this just goes by someone's moral values.

When I was in 5th grade my classmates said every "bad word" on a regular basis. Hell, I picked up swearing from them. And this was in America too, so don't give me that "here in 'murica its different".

This kid is probably a fan of the series, meaning he's played GTAIV. Believe it or not, not all people fit under one blanket assumption. Some can handle mature games.

lol ok.

I haven't read this whole thread but here is my opinion I played black ops when I was 11 from what I've seen it just doesn't affect me. My parent would never let me play these game if my behavior was like what I saw in these games and my dad is always telling cussing is a substitute for intelligence so I just don't do it

I'm pretty sure i played Vice city at a much younger age.
Never got any 'thoughts' from it

Ugh. The only reason kids play these games, is because games like Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, and MegaMan are for "babies".

Everyone says that GTA, Cod, and all that is bad for you, but couldn't it be good for you, showing you what not to do in real life? That's how I got my parents to get me COD around age 13.

Yeah doing it digitally helps you not do it irl...

What?

You have a very good point there.

South Park was a part of many kids childhood back when I was in 5th grade. I'm talking about the original South Park that was violent and nasty just for the lols. It didn't have the sort of smart humor it does now.

Also, think of how many kids play rated M games. I wish I could find the statistics but it's probably in the hundreds of thousands. How many stories do you hear about kids doing something because of a game? A handful? The people who let these games influence them are people who either already unstable or aren't properly raised.

I'd be pretty god damn pissed if I couldn't play the M-rated games I did when I was under 18.

Granted, parents need to monitor/educate/set boundaries for their kids playing rated M games. Don't buy a kid a game without knowing what you're buying, and don't sit your kid in front of a game and never pay attention to what they're doing.

Lmao. I recently asked my dad to get me GTA 5 when it comes out and he said no that *** is so violent. Its the worst game ever made. Now imma ask him again and tell him what hayze said

and look how you turned out... =[ jk bb

lel, I would laugh if he opened it and it was empty.

Wow it has 764,000 views now. It was at 200,000 last time I checked.

San Andreas all day, EVERYDAY. I was like 7 or 8 when I first started playing it. It was when I first got my ps2, played the hell out of it.

Weird how they state that his 11 years old in the title..?

Says the person who still plays graal


(not saying i dont )

Graal is for babies.
Play a real man's game aka any game that isnt Graal

Monster Hunter is an example of a real game 8]

You know what, people mature at different ages, and if they made sure their kid understands that violence is bad and shouldn't be practiced in real life, as well as if they sat through the game with him and explained that the stuff that happens in there isn't real and shouldn't be made real.

They could've also had him acting, then took the game away from him after the video was filmed. There are several factors that could change whether this video truky shows bad parenting or not.

What so when i was 5 and playing rachet and clank im gonna shoot rockets at robots? You see it only affects a handful of young kids. I played gta about 8 years old and guess what im not screwed in the head.

You wanna know a game that is worse that gta? Dead island. Why? Well you have haeds flying everywhere ,limbs breaking, swearing every 5 seconds, drugs and booze feature alot in this game but because gta is more popular lets jump on it and attack it for being too violent

Also crono is right everyone who disagrees needs to man up quickly

I like how anyone who doesn't agree with you is now suddenly "less of a man". Ya, okay. Because you're always right or something.

i dunno, i kind of like his post :D

I think if a kid is mature enough then there is no problem, in that kids case then there could well be problems.

no.