This is kinda embarrassing but, back when FFX first came out, my mom wouldnt let me play it. She was listening to me play the game and heard them keep saying Sin over and over so she made me turn the game off because she said it was against our religion. Its kinda embarrasing, but thinking about the remaster now reminded me of that and I always wondered if that happened to anybody else. Well?
My dad played it before I did. x)
Haha nope, my family's not really religious but even if we were, that still sounds pretty extreme. But I was also raised into a family that didn't mind me playing Grand Theft Auto III at the age of eight, either...
Ironically, my foster parents never had a problem with me playing Final Fantasy games. But Resident Evil was totally off limits because, as my foster mom said, "Zombies are demons." Explaining otherwise to her was a futile effort.
Good thing she never saw me play a Final Fantasy game, especially FFX. Casting spells, summoning giant super powered beasts, "Sin" and "Fayth"? Questioning, much less overthrowing, religious order? Oh she would have flipped her lid.
No. I think my mother confiscated my South Park VHS once... then I took it back anyway and she realised that even if she confiscated it again I'd just watch the others at friends houses so she pretty much didn't really bother with anything after that.
Nope. I'm of the age where as long as it isn't rated M, my parents simply don't give a flying smurf. And even with M games, it isn't that they don't like me playing them (I turn 18 in less than a month), it's that they are afraid that my little brothers and sisters (who range from 7-15 years old) would come down and see what I was playing. Hence why I can play them elsewhere if I please.
As for FFX (or FFVI for that matter. Possibly XIII), maybe they would've had a problem with it if I was playing it ten years ago, but now it is a non-issue. Which means I play the X/X-2 remaster the day it comes out. Will be my first time playing FFX and my fifth main-series Final Fantasy game (after XIII, VI, VII, and IX).
No, I was pretty much allowed to play/watch whatever I wanted.
Funny you should saythat . My post above is just the short story of the whole thing. One day I had her watch me play the game to show her it wasn't so bad, and she saw me do those things you listed and she got really angry and made me give the game back to my friend. I actually had to sneak and play the game when my parents werent around. To this day my mom still doesnt like Final Fantasy anything. I remeber when I tried to buy the FF7: AC movie she said "I don't want that Final Fantasy stuff in my house." Its really embarrasing.Quote:
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No, and that's crazy. But it's all the more amusing because FFX actually did have some anti-religion themes going for it, but the simple fact that a monster was called "Sin" wasn't, by itself, one of them.
I bought a ps2 and jak 3 when I was 14 with my own money. My mother came in and saw me playing, and took the disk and broke it claiming it was too real looking and would make me confuse the real world and video games.
Then as retribution I took one of her dvds and snapped it in half. I then told her very calmly how it would confuse her because the characters were so realistic and it looked like real life. She got the point, I got grounded and had to replace the movie, and after that I played whatever I wanted as long as I bought it.
I was way more badass as a child than I am now. :(
I was allowed to play or watch whatever I wanted, nobody in family had beliefs that they felt the need to enforce onto others. I'd consider anybody who does act like that to be an ignorant person that's not all that worthy of respect.
A parent should support a child's interests while also teaching them that fiction doesn't represent the real world, not dictate what they can and cannot be interested in.
I'm going to support my child's interest to prostitute herself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Siberian
No, up until a child is a certain age (I'm thinking early teens), parents are perfectly within their right of telling their child what they can and can not do. It's called being a parent. And even after that time, children should still have boundaries. (e.g. curfews, you can't date people are abusive, don't do drugs).
My parents raised me on videogames and didn't care what I was playing.
One of my little sisters was playing Halo and calmly explaining the pros and cons of the different guns to her friends when she was five.
True, but it would be nice if they did a little research into the boundary, instead of banning stuff like Harry Potter because magic. For games, I figure they should trust the PEGI-ESRB ratings, but if they still have their reservations, they should check out the game themselves or read something about it on the net (preferably from a more objective source then conservapedia). Though that demands work, parenting as a whole demands work, but I think you should make time for reasonably deciding what your child should and shouldn't watch/play/read, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tifa's BoobsI'm going to support my child's interest to prostitute herself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Siberian
No, up until a child is a certain age (I'm thinking early teens), parents are perfectly within their right of telling their child what they can and can not do. It's called being a parent. And even after that time, children should still have boundaries. (e.g. curfews, you can't date people are abusive, don't do drugs).
On topic. My parents never had a problem with that, they're both Catholic, mind you. Sometimes they watched me play and they would not see harm in it, though they though X was kinda stupid (I can now see why :D). I did, however, once almost have a ban on the Pokemon anime, because I was jus obsessing with it, throwing tantrums over not being able to watch an episode and whatnot. That near ban was probably for the best. If I hadn't taken a minute to think about my "addiction" I would probably have more problems with addictions to shows/games later on in life.
Same here. *brofist*Quote:
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