Saturday, Aug 23, 2008
As I ride my bike to the nearest Gamestop, I usually think of a game to get of course. Most of the time it is me and a few of my buddies that take a nice big bike ride to our local game store when are parents are being to lazy to drive us there themselves. So as my most recent "M Rated Exploit" I wanted to purchase Grand Theft Auto 4 and my parents wouldn't take me to the store to get it, so I called my friends and we decided to ride our bikes there to get it. I was so excited to get GTA 4 I wasn't even thinking that it was a M rated game and I needed a person that was 18 years of age or older.
So when we finally got there, I went straight to the Xbox 360 section and grabbed GTA IV and when I was looking at the box I saw the M rating I thought, "Oh **** so I was thinking of a way to get the game and we all know Gamestop employees are freaks about M rated games. Here's an example, I was with my dad at Gamestop and I wanted to get GTA San Andreas and when we brought it up to the desk and the worker was like to my dad, "Sir?, do you know this is one of the most violent games out now?", luckily my dad doesn't give a damn about M games, so he was cool about it and I still got the game.
Anyways, back to the story, as I look at the case and that dreaded M rating a man that was probably a collage student at home for the summer, came in and started looking at the games in the 360 section. So as he was looking I approached the guy and very politely asked him to buy the game for me. He started laughing because he told me that he did the same thing when he was 14 getting PS2 games. So I gave him the amount of money needed to get the game and I also gave him a little tip for getting it for me.
So I rode back home a happy man with my awesome copy of GTA IV in my hand. My friends got some ****ty PS2 games because they didn't have thier 360's yet. What I'm basically trying to say in this blog is that being a kid when all of the best games that come out are M rated kinda sucks. They all think that if people my age (15) play violent games will turn into violent psychaotic muder children but really all the violent psychaotic murder children are messed up before they play these games.
Oh well, guess I'll just have to keep asking people to buy the games for me until I turn 18.
So when we finally got there, I went straight to the Xbox 360 section and grabbed GTA IV and when I was looking at the box I saw the M rating I thought, "Oh **** so I was thinking of a way to get the game and we all know Gamestop employees are freaks about M rated games. Here's an example, I was with my dad at Gamestop and I wanted to get GTA San Andreas and when we brought it up to the desk and the worker was like to my dad, "Sir?, do you know this is one of the most violent games out now?", luckily my dad doesn't give a damn about M games, so he was cool about it and I still got the game.
Anyways, back to the story, as I look at the case and that dreaded M rating a man that was probably a collage student at home for the summer, came in and started looking at the games in the 360 section. So as he was looking I approached the guy and very politely asked him to buy the game for me. He started laughing because he told me that he did the same thing when he was 14 getting PS2 games. So I gave him the amount of money needed to get the game and I also gave him a little tip for getting it for me.
So I rode back home a happy man with my awesome copy of GTA IV in my hand. My friends got some ****ty PS2 games because they didn't have thier 360's yet. What I'm basically trying to say in this blog is that being a kid when all of the best games that come out are M rated kinda sucks. They all think that if people my age (15) play violent games will turn into violent psychaotic muder children but really all the violent psychaotic murder children are messed up before they play these games.
Oh well, guess I'll just have to keep asking people to buy the games for me until I turn 18.
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Posted Aug 24, 2008 12:11 am PT
My parents don't care at all about the ratings. Though my mom will always make a little comment, saying, "nice language," in a sarcastic tone when someone swears in GTA4. But the Gamestop that I usuaully use is about 15 miles away from my house, so I usually just buy all my games online, where the place is only a state away and gets to my house in a day.
Posted Aug 24, 2008 5:10 am PT
Haha, yeah. Like I was saying last night, now that I'm 16 with my license, I can probably just go to Best Buy or GameStop and when they ask for my date of birth, just tell them the date that's exactly 1 year before my actual birthday. After all, it is only one year. Knowing my luck though, I'd probably get caught, lol.
Posted Aug 24, 2008 8:04 am PT
my parents really don't care about the ratings. When I'm going to get an M rated game I usually have my dad come with because he doesnt care at all about the ratings.
Posted Aug 24, 2008 12:22 pm PT
I went to the movies I think when i was 13 to go see Jackass but I had to be 15 to see it so i missed out. The laws over in the states sound a bit harsher than here. For MA movies & Games you have to be 15 years or older and for R rated you have to be 18 and older.
Glad it worked out for you in the end.
Glad it worked out for you in the end.
Posted Aug 24, 2008 3:32 pm PT
18, don't you mean 17? Whatever. Kids do that to get alcohol all the time. Have fun with GTA IV!
Posted Aug 25, 2008 3:49 pm PT
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