Violent video games, your parents, and you

Originally Posted by a_gerontophile

I was recently thinking about when I was younger and how I was not allowed to play games such as Mortal Kombat or any other excessively violent or bloody video game. During a time when pretty much every male classmate of mine would rant about how great the latest Mortal Kombat game was, or how great Killer Instinct was, etc., I was never allowed by my parents to play these games and these rules continued even as games had ESRB ratings and parents came to be informed of them. I remember at the age of sixteen my parents confiscated a copy of Resident Evil 2 that I had borrowed from a friend. It continued like this even when I was past 18, where my parents exercised their complete control over the house by saying I wasn't allowed to play rated M games while living there.

Wow, way to live in a cage, dude. Tried explaining? Killer Instinct didn't even have blood.

My parents never cared, as I've been gaming since I was 4 and they know I can seperate reality from fantasy. That, however, isn't entirely true. Games will play on your subconscious no matter who you are. Music games, you'll see notes when you close your eyes, or you'll dream about it. RPS games, FPS and horror games also apply. This has happened with countless games over the past 16 years of gaming.

Unlike some, I have restraint. I won't play Fatal Frame simply because I'll start seeing shit in real life. Aside from that though, I'm pretty content when it comes to games. Most of the games I play aren't violent, and if they are (I've clocked in over 300 hours in Vice City) it really isn't a big deal. If I'm going to hurt somebody in real life, there'd be a very valid reason. Of course I'd end up regretting doing so, but I haven't encountered violence in real life so far.

I usually find that most violent games have little replay value or just flat out suck. Mortal Kombat is a great example of this. How much of a gimmick were the fatalities? The only really graphic game I've discovered is Resident Evil 4, and there isn't going to be many games like that in the future.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by a_gerontophile

I recall Killer Instinct having optional gore.

There's no optional gore settings in the original KI.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Yes, and? That isn't optional gore. Mortal Kombat had the same rating, and in different versions, there was optional gore.

I have Killer Instinct. I just played it. There's no options to change the gore, and having a "Teen" rating doesn't make it "optional" gore.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

It's quite simple. There's a version of Killer Instinct (the original SNES version) which doesn't have blood, and there's another version which does. The blood is barely visible so I can only assume your parents have been anal over this whole situation the entire time.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

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Okay you're right. The gore isn't optional, but it's there, which contradicts your original statement. I just downloaded the ROM and saw it with my own one eye, so please stop being retarded and derailing my thread, thanks.

I'm not derailing your thread. The original version was released on the 2nd of Feb, 1995, according to gamepro. Then the second version which contained blood was released on the 21st of August, 1995.

The six month difference means that the majority of cartridges available would of been the ones with blood, as Rare would of distributed more as their game was in demand. My cartridge is the rarer version without blood, hence my stating that it didn't have it. So why didn't you tell your parents that there was a version without blood? If they're that protective of you, try explaining to them. Like I said. Jesus.

I was speaking idiomatically.