A Real Mom Reviews the Games Industry Report Card

Last month's National Institute on Media and the Family 'report card' was pretty much more of the same from the reactionary group. Recently a real parent (Colleen Hannon from GamerDad) sat down with the report to offer up some comments. "They still can't seem to read the names of the games off the front of the box. What they have listed as 'Call to Duty 4' is actually Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. That may seem like a minor mistake, but if you type what's on their list into a search engine to get more information off the ESRB's website or Google, it won't return the real results on the game. And without that last bit at the end, you're going to get a list with all the games in the series which can be confusing and not all of them are M rated. For someone who thinks parents should pay more attention and research they aren't helping them out much." Via GamePolitics.

Comments

Re:So we counter a biased "report card"

[IDontAgreeWithYou]

Well, there's two problems with your post. First of all, your "old man" has no business telling adults what games to buy regardless of who they are buying them for. He can certainly stop kids from buying them, but not adults. Second, I'm not really sure who made you the supreme judge on parenting skills. We're talking about video games here. No matter what the rating is, it's still a video game. I'm more worried about parents who have done such a bad job raising their kids that we need to be afraid that a video game is going to set them on a crime spree. Just my two cents.

Re:MOD PARENT DOWN - idiot

[illumin8]

Learn to use tags, idiot. Blockquote tag is there for a reason. Your use of language, where you say "first they say", "then:" makes it look like the second paragraph is in the article. No, it's not in the article at all. She doesn't say she has a 10 year old daughter and she would play shooters with her.

And, if you really would play rated M shooters with your 10 year old daughter you're a terrible parent as well.