Rockstar: Bad Parents Buy Our Games for Kids
Rockstar Games lashes out at parents who purchase its M-rated games for children.
Rockstar Games recently came out and spoke against parents who purchase its games for their children. The retaliation comes at the heels of its latest release, Red Dead Redemption, now heading to stores worldwide. Like most of Rockstar's games, Red Dead Redemption is rated "M" for violence, language, drug use, and other adult content. And like the games preceding it, Rockstar will undoubtedly receive flak for the content despite its ratings, even from parents.
Is it any wonder the developer/publisher comes out with guns blazing? The argument clearly gets tiring after a while. "Our games are not designed for young people," said Rockstar's Lazlow in an interview. "If you're a parent and buy one of our games for your child, you're a terrible parent. We design games for adults because we're adults. There's a lot of kids games out there that we're not interested in playing. Just like you enjoy watching movies and TV shows with adult themes and language and violence, that's the kind of thing we seek to produce."
He made an interesting comparison to the retired HBO TV series, The Sopranos, saying the show earned numerous awards even though it was a gritty crime drama filled with excessive violence, language, and strong sexual content. He pointed out that--if the same material was applied to an electronic format called a video game--certain organizations "are all up in arms." Does he make a good point? Certainly. It's also an indication that the general adult consumer may still view games as toys rather than forms of art.
But that perspective may finally be changing. "I think ever since GTA IV came out and there were such rave reviews by major publications saying that this is actually art the restrictions about being politically correct have largely fallen away."
heck the average age of a gamer is now what 35?
Don't bitch about your kids playing adult games that is your fault not mine.
" parenting isn't a zero sum game, If one of your kids wins a nobel prize and another gets robbed by a hooker you still fail."
heck the average age of a gamer is now what 35?
Don't bitch about your kids playing adult games that is your fault not mine.
" parenting isn't a zero sum game, If one of your kids wins a nobel prize and another gets robbed by a hooker you still fail."
That reminds me of the article that said that the average gamer was "35, fat, and depressed". Course the fat and depressed could easily be blamed on Seattle, where the study occurred, but... certainly the study showed that the average gamer is of suitable age for adult content.
In fact, with so many gamers adults now, and with children purchasing less games vs adults... it makes a LOT of sense to market a new videogame to an older target audience.
What urks me, is that even a title like RDR is watered down to meet a M rating, since a lot of retailers don't carry AO rated games. Remember when San Andreas got the AO rating due to Hot Coffee, and was pulled from production to appease Wall mart, Target, and Best Buy?
Good idea, but the MPAA probably have the rating system copyrighted and would sue ESRB.
I play games. I just don't try and fool myself about it.
There is nothing wrong with getting robbed by a hooker, it happens to everyone
That kid needs some GTA4! Learn to shoot down the hos and take the money back!
There are alot of bad parents out there and that the number will continue to rise sadly. Doesn't matter the US government will be raising all the children soon just as they will be making all our decisions also...thank goodness cause making decisions for myself is getting old! LOL.
Because you've totally played every game out there and can testify that not a single one is purely art-based. Good to know you're very experienced.
Just like movies there are some for kids and some for adults...
And if you reaaly want to stick with games being toys, well that applies too... There are some for kids and some for adults
2.the class of objects subject to aesthetic criteria; works of art collectively, as paintings, sculptures, or drawings: a museum of art; an art collection.
3.a field, genre, or category of art: Dance is an art.
4.the fine arts collectively, often excluding architecture: art and architecture.
5.any field using the skills or techniques of art: advertising art; industrial art.
6.(in printed matter) illustrative or decorative material: Is there any art with the copy for this story?
7.the principles or methods governing any craft or branch of learning: the art of baking; the art of selling.
8.the craft or trade using these principles or methods.
9.skill in conducting any human activity: a master at the art of conversation.
10.a branch of learning or university study, esp. one of the fine arts or the humanities, as music, philosophy, or literature.
11.arts,
a.(used with a singular verb) the humanities: a college of arts and sciences.
b.(used with a plural verb) liberal arts.
12.skilled workmanship, execution, or agency, as distinguished from nature.
13.trickery; cunning: glib and devious art.
14.studied action; artificiality in behavior.
15.an artifice or artful device: the innumerable arts and wiles of politics.
16.Archaic. science, learning, or scholarship.
All dictionary results for ART. Games are just as much art as anything else.