I can't get GTA IV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That "mom doing her job" thing is so old. I am 20 now, but way back in the day I wasn't denied any videogame or even R movie because it was "too mature" for me. I grew up watching NYPD Blue, ER, Beavis and Butthead, and later Southpark when that first arrived when I was a little kid. That little ESRB rating was nothing more than an annoyance because I had to be 17 to buy it. I remember when my mom first bought me a GTA. The clerk said, "This game is supposed to be pretty vulgar with prositutes and murder." my mom simply replied, "Well my son isn't a dumbass"

Anyway point is GTA never ruined my life. In fact I wasn't even shocked by what was in GTA. It's pretty tame compared to the light it's often put in. However if your mom won't let you have it than either she listens to the media too much, or you are one of those dumbasses who will take GTA to heart.

It's a game. Nothing more. Nothing Less.

DuxRow

Exactly. My mom was the same way and I turned out just fine...I remember watching the Nightmare on Elm Street movies and Jason and all that garbage when I was like 6 years old and I laughed my ass off at them for whatever reason. From the sounds of some of you people I should have grown up to be a murderer but in fact I'm pretty much the polar opposite. I played the original GTA and Doom and anything else I wanted and I'm probably nicer and more non violent than most of you. I watch movies and play games for one thing. ENTERTAINMENT. They are fun, and that's it.

I think as long as you're a well adjusted normal kid that playing those games or watching those movies will actually help more to teach you how NOT to act and what NOT to do than they will influence you to do something dumb. It all depends on what you take/learn from that type of thing I guess.

I don't play GTA and blow people's heads off/run over people/pick up hookers thinking wow I wish I could be cool like him. I play it thinking hahahaha this is FUN. It is fun in a fake game to blow peoples heads off with shotguns and even more fun with sniper rifles. It is fun to plow them over with a tank and watch people running around screaming. It's fun to have the cops chase me around only for me to beat the crap out of them and jack their car. I know it is only a game though. For entertainment purposes...Maybe some people don't? It's really all about the kid and the parenting the kid has imo. If the parents are alright, and the kid is alright, then dammit it's alright.

Your mom is a great parent

If you gotta ask your mommy to buy this game for you, then you are obviously too young to play it. Maybe you can buy GTA 6 or 7 on your own when you are old enough. I hope I don't see you on there. Playing any game on XBOX live with a kid ruins the game.

Your mom is a great parent

starwars0000

I'm not sure if you're talking to me and if that was sarcastic but yes she is thanks. I never felt I had to hide anything, I never felt I had to lie or anything like that because she just let me be me. Of course there were rules and things but she was never really strict and she never really had to be. I think if I had wanted those games and I couldn't have played them it may have made me a less honest/open person than I am because I would have probably just went to a friends and played it there or something sneaky like that, and learned that I should hide things and lie to get what I want. Instead I don't feel the need to hide anything and I can't stand a liar. Which are good things imo.

Cry me a river.....:cry:

[QUOTE="bigbrain120"]tough luck kidNOD_Grindking

my thoughts exactly....that's life, we all went through it at one time or another

same here (i couldnt watch south park when it first came out)

Im glad that when I was a kid, my parents didnt listen to the media.

Well, if you are too young, you shouldnt be playing it, it's simple really.

Ever since GTA IV was announced I've pleaded with my mum to get it. And u know what she said yes!! Then, just a few days ago she read an article in the newspaper about how GTA IV is the worst game 2 buy ur kids and that changed her mind. So, do u have any advise for me in order to get my mum 2 let me buy GTA IV.

PwnMaster94

No advice just grow up

Thats one big shame

Slap your mum and say look, i could either be out on the streets doing drugs and getting girls pregnant, and being put in jail for robberys and Crap or you could by me this game and be a good mum haha.

Signs_of_evil

I ratter get girls pregnant than play GTA VI...

[QUOTE="Signs_of_evil"]

Thats one big shame

Slap your mum and say look, i could either be out on the streets doing drugs and getting girls pregnant, and being put in jail for robberys and Crap or you could by me this game and be a good mum haha.

RJLateralus

I ratter get girls pregnant than play GTA VI...

Huh...I think you are the type that shouldn't be playing it anyway.

[QUOTE="Signs_of_evil"]

Thats one big shame

Slap your mum and say look, i could either be out on the streets doing drugs and getting girls pregnant, and being put in jail for robberys and Crap or you could by me this game and be a good mum haha.

RJLateralus

I ratter get girls pregnant than play GTA VI...

OH DEAR, your the type who gets girls pregnant and then leaves em to cope alone and do it to many others over and over because your nothing but a useless a**hole :)

If you're too young for this game then your mom is making a great decision. Deal with it and wait till you're old enough to play mature games like this.Potemkin2005

Come on, you know the game's biggest market is 14 year olds.

Just get your dad to buy it or something. Just keep convincing her.

Your alias is "pwnmaster94".

You don't DESERVE GTA 4.

Your alias is "pwnmaster94".

You don't DESERVE GTA 4.

PiNwOrM

Oh so funny *yawns*

[QUOTE="PiNwOrM"]

Your alias is "pwnmaster94".

You don't DESERVE GTA 4.

Signs_of_evil

Oh so funny *yawns*

I was not attempting humour.

dude trust me i had the same problem

all u gotta do is show ur parents a trailer that is not that bad but still shows what the games about

for example dont show one with a stripper

but show that its a cool mobster game and ur good to go

How old r u? if ur 12 i don't think u deserve to play it.

if u have the money to buy the game then go down to walmart and ask sombody to buy it for u, give an extra 10 or something .

boo hoo. it's a mom doing what she's supposed to be doing. it's called being a parent.tgschmidt

Can't get the game, probably because "You'll shoot your eye out!!"

You don't need to play GTA 4 the series is dispicable and should taken off store shelves you would be better off playing a game like Mass EffectFuzzman38

omg but what about the sex scenes?!?!?! ZZZZOOOOMMMGGG surely you wouldnt want him ruining his mind with that nonsense?!?! psh wat a douche

Look man, kids playing games clearly meant for adults is what's ruining the industry, ur mom is right to deny you this, playing this game is not a right you have and no sensible adult would let their kids play stuff like this.... having said that, wow sorry for ur loss man, this game is da shaaat!Keitarourashima

hahaha! funny but so true... game ratings are for a reason man.

[QUOTE="HazeVJ"][QUOTE="Signs_of_evil"]

Thats one big shame

Slap your mum and say look, i could either be out on the streets doing drugs and getting girls pregnant, and being put in jail for robberys and Crap or you could by me this game and be a good mum haha.

NOD_Grindking

I completely agree, I don't understand why parents won't let their kids have a video game because at least if you do that then you know where they are and what they're doing... the alternative is much worse, IMO, so if your kid would rather sit inside with a damn game then let him get it!

you must be the same age as him, lawlz:D

Same age, probably.

Unfortunately (HazeV and Signs_of_evil) your logic is flawed. Giving the options of drugs and pregnancy OR video games is really, for lack of a better word, stupid. Logic will dictate that a lack of a single video game would not cause you to do those things, and if you were to do those things you would do them if you had GTAIV or not. There are other good games out there other than GTAIV, and it will be just as good when your old enough to play as it is now (bar online).

Well from my experence with my mom and the media... i think you should get it...

any way i was just getting home from future shop and eb games. i got mass effect and halo 3. i left mass effect out and go to work, i come home and my mom is giveing me this disgusted look. lol. she yelled at me and said that hard core porn is not welcome in this house! ( i thought she went threw my closit >.< ) and she takes mass effect and quite frankly tosses it out to the trash, apparently she had been watching some videos on youtube and saw that fox news crap... i tried to reason with her and showed her some of the coments of the video and retreved my game, busted case and all.

did i mention im 20 years old?

so yea i think parents should not base a decision off of what media makes a game to be, i think she should be watching the actual game trailers before she decides on weather your capeable of playing it. show her some of the trailers and let her decide if it is similar to the other games you already play... omg hard core porno lol :P still get a good laugh out of it..

get a fake ID and go buy it. or find someone to buy it for you. problem solved.

Ever since GTA IV was announced I've pleaded with my mum to get it. And u know what she said yes!! Then, just a few days ago she read an article in the newspaper about how GTA IV is the worst game 2 buy ur kids and that changed her mind. So, do u have any advise for me in order to get my mum 2 let me buy GTA IV.

PwnMaster94

the exact same thing happened to me other than it was gta san andrayes and it was a tv thing about it, But now im 16 and my mum dosnt care so unluky