games for 5 year old to play ?

ooEy said:
Allowing a 5 year old to play GTA is a fail anyway you look at it.

I have 2 boys (8 & 4). The 4 year old goes on Cbeebies only (very very rarely as he's 4 so is too busy being a ninja or fireman sam).
My 8 year old has a laptop with a 8600GT and an Xbox 360. Up until last week when he had a blast on BC2 the worse game id let him near is Unreal Tournament.

Kids are very impressionable at this age and allowing a child to run riot in a realistic city environment beating, killing and stealing with no consequence for his actions is setting a very scary standard for social responsibility. Yes we know those things are wrong but at 5 your a blank canvas.

Buy him a football!
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oh **** off my son is one of the best behaved in his class , all of the teachers he has had have adored him.

kids dont think of games like you do, to him its just a game its make believe hes not stealing peoples cars hes "borrows" them, he doesnt run around killing people for fun he just drives around exploring the city.

to him its no different than playing http://www.roblox.com/

at five years old he knows what is write and wrong he understands the difference between a game and reality , he understands in real life there are consequences.

we arent destroying his tiny little mind by letting him play games you dont find apropriate.
 
Fallout 2 will run on that.

But you might want to play it first (best game ever so you definitely should) but may be a little disturbing in parts :p
 
5-year-old playing HL 2 and GTA. Sorry, but are you insane? Do you check at night that that poor kid hasn't got nightmares? He might seem alright during the day, but stuff like that festers.

A few years older, OK, but at 5 years?

Sorry, but I'm really upset now!

Later:

Also, I just read your reply to ooEy above.

This just gets worse. Are you seriously saying that your kid is alright because at 5 years of age he doesn't go around killing people and stealing cars in GTA? I suppose it's OK for him to go running over pedestrians and seeing them splat off the windshields screaming? And the mind boggles at the thought of a kid that age enjoying the carnage of HL2.

Seriously, man, you can't be for real! Could be he's so good and well-behaved in class because he could be scared inside? Can you really disregard that?

And no, at his age he can't understand that there are consequences for all actions in life except on a very limited five-year-old level, in spite of what you write.

It may be that is and/or will be alright, but if he isn't, it'll only show at a much later date. Just the fact that you're prepared to risk that speaks volumes of you as a parent. It's entirely inappropriate and to my mind borders on child abuse. Not everything a small child enjoys is good for it!

Are you really not concerned about future behaviour abnormalities or free-floating anxieties that make life a living hell? Yes, I know nothing has been proven, but neither has the opposite, and that should be good enough for any caring parent. I'm not talking about children exposed to computer games growing up to kill people in the street or in schools, that's a bunch of psycho ultracrap. But I do believe that their inner well-being and equilibrium can be seriously disturbed on a long-term basis, possibly for life.

Get a grip and do something sensible with your kid!

I've also seen a post on the previous page by a Jack Bauer, who let's his small chlid play L4D and Crysis Warhead ALTHOUGH SOME OF THE LANGUAGE MAY BE INAPPROPRIATE!!! Jesus wept! Am I hearing this right? One small child playing brutal games meant for adults without a parent worried about this but then getting concerned about language? This must be some parallel universe suddenly!

I suppose dismembering monsters is peanuts to a small kid but a bad word could corrupt his mind for life!

I just feel so very sorry for those children who should be outside playing and having caring parents watching over them to see that they'll always be be alright.
 
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arknor said:
at five years old he knows what is write and wrong he understands the difference between a game and reality
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How do you know that, exactly? I know mine has trouble with exactly what a game 'is'. I try to tell him that it's like a cartoon, someone draws the characters, but I know from some of his questions about them that he still doesn't quite get it, he still thinks that on some level that these collections of polygons are living things, even if they do only live in a computer.

Inappropriate content, blood and swearing aside, it just makes me very uneasy how completely my son can zone into a game. Even given an hour a day, it can be all he talks about and thinks about, and I would swear his concentration at reading goes to hell after regular sessions.

His behavior when he's allowed too much games worries me, basically, therefore he's been strictly limited.
 
PAINKILLER

F.E.A.R.

Any Lucasarts Point & Click adventure games

Fallout 1,2, Tactics & 3

Baldurs Gate & Sword Coast

Baldurs Gate II SoA & ToB

Starcraft

Unreal

(Apologies to those who must play after it's mention)
Deus Ex

System Shock 1 & 2

The Nomad Soul

Halflife + CS...ect

Starwars X-wing Alliance

Wing Commander series

Independence War II : Edge Of Chaos
 
get real people bloody hell most of us older folk grew up watching predator , blind fury , blood sport etc when we were around 8 years old and we didnt turn into serial killers or whatever....

nanny state has warped your minds.

how many people watched starwars as a small boy? what people got there hands cutt off! darth vader gave everyone nightmares for weeks
 
arknor said:
get real people bloody hell most of us older folk grew up watching predator , blind fury , blood sport etc when we were around 8 years old
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1. 5 isn't 8. There's a lot of development in between.

2. There's no way I'd have been let watch predator or blood sport at that age, they're both incredibly graphically violent. Hell, Doctor Who was about as risque as I was allowed to watch, and that still managed to give me nightmares.

3. Watching isn't playing. We didn't have photorealistic games when we were that age.

You honestly don't see the issue, do you? Good luck with your kid is all I can say.
 
Sleepery said:
1. 5 isn't 8. There's a lot of development in between.

2. There's no way I'd have been let watch predator or blood sport at that age, they're both incredibly graphically violent. Hell, Doctor Who was about as risque as I was allowed to watch, and that still managed to give me nightmares.

3. Watching isn't playing. We didn't have photorealistic games when we were that age.

You honestly don't see the issue, do you? Good luck with your kid is all I can say.
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did gremlins warp your tiny little mind ? :rolleyes:

seriously people are way to over protective these days and they wonder why kids are out of control.

i enjoy an out going son who is very smart at school , superb math skills for his age , one of the best behaved in his class and i have the school reports to proove it.

i think im doing something right k thanks go judge someone else
 
My littler brother has played games since he could use a controller / mouse keyboard.

He's played through GTA III - IV, he's played Halo to death, Plays through Doom ect any game.

Hell, Doom scares me.

He's 12 now, doesn't go out killing people. He's way ahead of many people in his classes and is never in trouble?
 
I feel I should add something to this as I was quoted :)

I think theres a big difference between fantasy style games and games that have a reflection on real life. Hence, Im happy for my son to play L4D. Now before it comes up, hes in no way scared of this game, any one whos played it knows the zombies are not the threat, you are. Yes theres a reasonnable level of violence, but I find this secondary to the core theme of any media.

Im not having a go at the op, but I wont let my son play GTA until hes in his mid teens as this game encourages a poor culture. On the other hand, I find the comments stating that HL2 is a bad game for kids ridiculous, this is an ideal game for kids (secondary to dedicated learning games) as it has elements of problem solving, low violence and no adult content.

Also, I avoid games that may contain "LANGUAGE THAT MAY BE INAPPROPRIATE!!!" as this can easily be applied in real life. Although he knows the difference and what is allowed, I prefer to avoid encouraging him.
 
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Jack Bauer said:
I feel I should add something to this as I was quoted :)

I think theres a big difference between fantasy style games and games that have a reflection on real life. Hence, Im happy for my son to play L4D. Now before it comes up, hes in no way scared of this game, any one whos played it knows the zombies are not the threat, you are. Yes theres a reasonnable level of violence, but I find this secondary to the core theme of any media.

Im not having a go at the op, but I wont let my son play GTA until hes in his mid teens as this game encourages a poor culture. On the other hand, I find the comments stating that HL2 is a bad game for kids ridiculous, this is an ideal game for kids (secondary to dedicated learning games) as it has elements of problem solving, low violence and no adult content.

Also, I avoid games that may contant "LANGUAGE THAT MAY BE INAPPROPRIATE!!!" as this can easily be applied in real life. Although he knows the difference and what is allowed, I prefer to avoid encouraging him.
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he plays on a 100% complete save game i dont think theres really any swearing for him to hear but he was taught from a very young age some words are bad and shouldnt be repeated.

i dont swear and neither does his mum and so far if any adult has swore around him in real life he always comments on them saying a naughty word, he knows it wrong.

you can teach kids right and wrong from a very young age if you treat then with respect and explain why rather than treat kids like stupid little things that cant understand anything..


btw if you let your 12year old brother play the hitman games he probably learned how to dispose of the bodies , better dig your patio up and check the walls!
 
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