i dont know why your so worried, gameman_4, because no matter how many restrictions the goverments put on games/ movies/ and music, people WILL find ways to get their hands on adult oriented games. there's no stopping it. you obvously dont know about the prohibition era in america during the 1920's. even tho alcohol was forbidden, alcohol kept on finding its way into the US. its never stopped us, so why should it stop you. i assume since you are making this topic, you aren't of age to play games with graphic content. if you are not, then you should stick to appropriate games according to your age group; you'll get to play the violent, grotesque, and profusely distusting games soon enough; just be patient. now, if you are of age, then why are you so worried about it?? i mean, do you want kids to possibly lose their childhood/ innocence by playing games that could potentially shock, scare, and even desensitize kids?? that's wrong, and irresponsible for an ADULT to allow. i am not saying that those games can have that affect on all of the youth, but you cannot swear on your own life that it cannot and has not happened already. game ratings are emplaced for a reason - so that the people who cannot make the difference between game and reality do not get a hold of games that could potentially affect them in a negative way. it's not like the rating system is working with jack thompson or something. why don't you do some research into the game rating controversy of the 16-BIT era; i'm sure you'll learn something from it...kanedajjj5757

ever heard of a little thing called the enter button?

games = amusement

those whole shock, scare, etc.  crap is cause they shield kids to much.....hell im 16 and my parents never worried about me doing crazy stuff....

just aint the type for it,

set the limit to 10 years old for the current 15+ and kids will be fine....its will augment development with vocabulary and for some countries ofc the entire english language

ive learned most of my english from playing games and the stuff i didnt from tv....school didnt come in till i was 12 with english and only refined grammar....

if you restrict that kind of stuff to kids they will miss the development stage in their languages and it will be a lot harder in high school

and since everything not limited to the age of 10 are mostly the licenced movie crap translated to their native language they will never learn..

I think violent games should be restricted to minors.Is better for them.dayaccus007

and you must be jack thompson....or hilary clinton,   or just an overprotective housewife

well i agree some games should get an enforced limit (manhunt, and that type of game)

gta should be 14+,   its not that bad........hot coffee wasnt intended so should not count as such.......dont agree with the 18+ (i was 12 back when gta 3/ vice came and i got it myself anyway, it didnt harm me at all.......im part of that 99,99999999999% that doesnt shoot people cuz they've seen it in a game

but shooters like halo and unreal are just for fun.....they should be like 6-8+ 

my point here is: stop restrictin games at all,

lock up the mentally ill and just maintian guidelines just like on tv

and last: release one o those crazy ppl give him a chaingun and send him into the panel i was talking about....should do the trick since its the current gig for all those "zomfg ban violence games" hype lifting politicians

a politician in my country once made a statement about bully...without ever havin played the game,  gues who just lost all the votes he ever had in the gaming community, the moron.......

before i start typing my wall text......i feel sorry for you americans and germans out there

 10 minutes ago i opened one of my favorite cyber news site

as im going through the topics i see something about the recent school shooting

to my great supprise they once again blame it on violent games and imply to restrict this to adults only.

first it was comics, then tv, and now they blame it on games?

note to politicians: stop blaming all kinds of stuff on amusement and passtime just to make it seem you actually do something

we all know the hilary clinton and jack tompson bullcrap by now so let me post some logic here.

every now and then a serial killer or another loonatic like that snaps and starts his spree....this 0,000000000000001% (might be off a few millionts of a %) of the population hardly has a resistance to these impulses, these are in most cases the ones to blame these crimes on.

 once they get a means to kill people, and yes here it comes:  get a gun from the local arms-store and they go guns blazing somewhere

and the small portion of these people snap over games so now we need to restrict games to adults.....

isnt it way and i mean like 1000000000000x more effective to restrict weapons to the public?

here: in holland, we have about 100 shootings a year with maybe 20 people killed

in america they have somewhere near 16000!!!!!! people killed every year (and rising) by guns.....apart from other factors like american socity (canada has like 40 shootings a year with legal gun possesion)

also...american law has it that a weapon licence has no age limit (i read somewhere a 10 month old baby apparenly has one)

so they think restricting violent games to minors will have any effect whatsoever?

those mentally impaired people will just snap on some other point and do it anyway.....limit the means of killing people and maybe then those number will go down

just restrict guns already and leave games, tv, comics alone will you...this is getting ridiculus