MISSING YOUTH - CALL OF DUTY GAME WARNING

Th N word is used everyday at your local highschool. Go on down during lunch and just listen. I guarantee you there is nothing more mature in CoD4 (and yes I play) than the kid was seeing at school.

 

Seriously. If it wasn't video games it would be drugs. Parents should be happy If not drugs it could be stealing, or any other of the insane amount of compulsive behaviors that ail people these days.

 

Marilyn Manson, Nirvana, Rob Zombie, etc.

 

I almost forgot about the PMRC.

 

Unfortunate, and it looks like he didn't make it very far. He sure showed everyone, and I'm sure other kids will use him as an example and precedent for when parents threaten to take way their gaming system. XBox: serious business.

 

I have been playing on live for about 6 years. I personally have never gotten addicted, although I can understand how it could be possible. Some of the best friends I have ever had came from playing online over the years. However, there is no substitute for going outside and spending some time with your parents. As long as the parents don't let it get out of control and make their kids(if needed) go outside then so be it, the kid will be grateful one day.

 

Pretty sure this happened in Colorado. Parents got prosecuted and both got prison time for something like "wrongful death" or "abuse resulting in death".

Ditto... RIP Brandon. A 15yr old that the world will never know. RIP little dude.

James in Denver

 

Ahh..World of Warcraft. There is a saying called "Widows of Warcraft"..and South Park made a great show about it.

I actually like World of Warcraft and was in a raiding guild that almost did a full Sunwell clear pre 3.0. Those in Wow will know exactly what that means. Wow raiding means spending a few nights a week (I was raiding 3) getting along with 24 other people for 3-4 hours at a time under sometimes pretty stressful conditions pounding away at what is a fairly complicated puzzle to solve (or boss to kill). Yes..it can build social skills. Or at least flush out alot of a-holes in the world.

But yes it is addictive. So are all sorts of internet temptations..so it really comes down to self control and discipline more than anything

 

So his dad packed his own bag for him to run away, but now it's the Xbox's fault.

It'd be a nice change to see some parents say, "Ok we screwed as up parents." Instead of always blaming those horrible, horrible games.


Quoted.

 

+2

We have a 12 year old son in a magnet school. His only job, we told him, is school. If he does well, he is consistent straight A student and always ranks in the top 3% of FCAT scores, he may have his distractions. He loves CD4 and plays incessantly during his none school-work downtime and all weekend. As we have seen no affect whatsoever on his Academics or his personality, we allow him to continue.

Cliff - C63

 

He is probably the kid who kills me over and over again with wicked good skills.

 

I don't know about that! Every time I go to check on him, he eventually gets killed. We just got him a new "Creative Fatal1ty" "COM" unit for him to communicate with everyone. It's still sitting NIB till all his Mid-term grades are posted.

Cliff - C63

 

I usually get killed withing 30 seconds.

 

Wow! I guess he is Ok. He usually can walk around for 5-10 minutes before he get killed.

Cliff - C63

 

For me it's the damn helicopter and the non stop bombing from the UAV.

 

That drives me nuts when he is not on his COM and I hear "UAV is online" over and over incessantly.......

 

We must have gone to the same "virtual war training camp" LOL. My kill to death ratio is shockingly ugly.



As much as I love COD4, I've REALLY been enjoying the new COD: World at War!

 

I know. They either need to raise the kills to get the UAV going or just have it so that feature can be shut off.

I am a great sniper if I can find a good spot but as soon as I get the right spot I have my ass killed by air support.

 

Ha! My son is a sniper too! Loves to plant Claymores!

 

Sometimes I just walk around and blast through walls and take out all the campers.

I really miss the days of TFC.

 

Team fortress 2 for the 360 is AWESOME THOUGH!

 

not this **** again! Unfortunate for the dead teen, however this homeless attempt at blaming video games by certain people is quite pathetic.

I remember when there was a big brouhaha about Manhunt and the consequent banning in several countries that followed. Has anyone played Manhunt by Rockstar? What do you think of it? Manhunt 2 sucked balls. I played it for 5 mins and returned the game the same day!

 

SAme goes for postal. all hype.