Originally Posted by Miniman

I'm not worried about addiction or playing too much with younger kids, mine are good about playing all sorts of board games, standard action toys, etc. More about the content. In particular higher rated content that some seem to feel is ok for younger kids to view (even on this thread!). Ratings that they are years away from, I'm not talking about a 14 year old being exposed to plenty of swearing (15 game) or a 17 year old viewing 18 rated killings.

Even if you don't play the Multiplayer parts there are plenty of single player games that are just violent or scary. Not just Call of Duty (that just happens to be an easy target because of it's popularity). Games where you have to act out the violence, stabbing people in the throat, wandering around dark forbidding hall ways. Bioshock, Dead Space, Resident Evil, etc.

We get plenty of threads on here about the way feral kids are let loose on communities, but not enough about the causes of their ferality (SP?). It's disappointing that I appear to be in a minority when pointing out that some games are simply not for young kids.