Daughter wants to play the witcher.

I have just finished the Witcher 3 main story after about 137 hours and still have a lot to be done. I started off following all the side quests and the gwent card game too.
It has some hard tales such as a werewolf who could not help itself, a hidden aborted mutant baby becoming a haunting tale. And so on it is the witcher. Hence simple language rules and swearing rank it 18.
The so called sex scenes or moments in it are laughable and kind of cringe too. So there is a fair amount of boobs. But never ever saw Geralts wee chap swinging about.
The fact you can make choices in a lot of the moments and judge whether to be cruel or kind or emotionless is pretty cool. Overall the main story is well down and it is a really well crafted world that must have took so much to put together the sheer amount of dialogue and text into the world.

Witcher 3 less of an 18 than GTA V for me.
Some horror tales and sad circumstances but just makes really good stories rather than shock horror stuff.
 
BowdonUK said:
How old is she? You said she was young and its an 18's game.

I know a guy who's 5yo was playing the original Doom.. and beating most people.
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"young teenage" I would take to mean 13 or 14.

Old FPS games like Doom are an interesting one, they don't really have anything in the way of storyline or physchological horror, and have unrealistic almost cartoonish graphics by modern standards, so I think they are not too bad for youngsters. Basically they have violence and pixelated blood. Modern 18 cert games are potentially a lot more impactful.
 
grudas said:
Postal 2 I’ve heard is decent
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I remember that mainly for a moment in the demo I played that was perfectly suited to the game. The demo was the game with a limited area available. If you tried to go to the zoo (which was past the boundary of the demo) you were blocked by a big sign saying "BUY THE FULL GAME, MONKEY BOY!"

inflames said:
My young teenage daughter has asked to play the witcher 3, what is a 18. At the time when she asked, i was like thats awesome game and started to explain some of the back ground story before i checked it was an 18. Trying to remeber some of the reasons for it being a 18.
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All of them, basically. Realistic (well, semi-realistic) extreme violence. Explicit sexual content. Lots of swearing. Genuinely adult storylines (which is why it's so well regarded - it has proper storytelling). But it's not like, for example, Postal (1 or 2), where the reason for it being an 18 is that it's psychopathic. Break into someone's shed, steal a spade, kill a random stranger, hack their head off with the spade, carry it around for a while, throw it through the window of a random house, watch the people run out screaming. For a game like that, under 18 would be a hard "no" from me. For Witcher 3, I'm not so sure.
 
Would you let her watch films like Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, Goodfellas, The Green Mile etc.? They're all 18 rated for similar reasons to The Witcher.


Personally I wouldn't have an issue with it, it's not excessive and mostly it's beneficial/key to the story.
 
You know your daughter, so trust your own judgement.

Would I let my 13 year old son? Absolutely, yes. Would I let my 10, or 6 year olds? Absolutely not.
 
Is there any point of age rating if everyone ignores them.

Is the age rating meaningless or has everyone been desensitized to what the age rating rate.

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As for things being much worse on Intranet social media. Is that not a problem. The social media companies don't care what content they publish. A child to them is simply another revenue generating click. The tech companies have rubbish child safety features. So they don't care either. Who should care? Should a parent just not bother with age protection because it's just to hard?

Seems like most people have given up.

Is Witcher 3 any good?
 
inflames said:
My young teenage daughter has asked to play the witcher 3, what is a 18. At the time when she asked, i was like thats awesome game and started to explain some of the back ground story before i checked it was an 18. Trying to remeber some of the reasons for it being a 18.
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how young is young?

I am glad games have age ratings on, it allows parents to be more clued in and take control.... however personally i would only use as a guide....

at 14/15 i would have no problem my child playing a game like the witcher, its offline and narrative based. i mean, kids that age watch game of thrones for instance...infact maybe that is a good yardstick, would you let her watch GOT? if yes then the witcher is no worse, if no then, maybe give it a swerve. (GOT is actually more graphic than witcher, mainly because it looks more real, but the over all concepts are similar)

@OspreyO there is absolutely a point to age ratings....... and not sticking to the religiously does not mean you totally ignore them. Parenting is about takign responsibility yourself a lot of the time and making your own calls imo.... the age rating is a guide and one which i support fully. It also passed the responsibility from the games makers to the parents which is a good thing as well.

i must admit i would rather more fine grained limits myself as well, with an X rated level over and above 18.

for instance i would have no problem a teenager playing a game like witcher with a proper narrative but with some adult themes and even some nudity, but for me i would not want the same child playing a game where pornography or gratuitous violence was the primary hook in the game..... but that is my line in the sand, others have different ones and that is ok.
 
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The other thing to bear in mind is it just takes one specific scene or a handful to bump a game from a 15 to and 18, if any of the content is 18 then the whole thing becomes an 18.

I'd agree with other posters, if you'd let her watch something like GoT then the Witcher isn't any worse.
 
While I can't be doing with my 3 year old coming home from nursery with the "innocent" but violent side of Marvel characters because clearly other parents don't give a damn, we also have a 16 year old who over the last few years has been introduced to a lot of reality and life experience through watching older rated tv shows and movies etc.

We'd much rather the kids were introduced to things with us and discuss it rather than hide it and potentially be clueless or misled by it. Better they have a heads up in a safe environment. Same goes for drinking.
 
Has anyone seen the super hero cartoon Miraculous (ladybug and cat noir) ?

My lad enjoys it (he is 6 and a little younger than its target audience but his friends watch it and have the merch etc).. ... Now maybe it is just me, and my own bias. I am told by some parents that it is good for kids to watch a program where the female is the clear strong character and the lead hero.... however to me it seems highly sexualised (a female friend of mine tells me i am just a perv and it is all in my head)...... this is aimed at pre teen / early teen maybe kids but i would say i think it is as inappropriate to kids my lads age as witcher 3 is to 15 year olds TBH but no one seems to have issue with it at our school..
 
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