You're a Terrible Parent!

Rockstar games bluntly stated this in a recent interview about their recently released game Red Dead Redemption

Lazlow of Rockstar states "If you're a parent and buy one of our games for your child, you're a terrible parent. We design games for adults because we're adults. There's a lot of kids games out there that we're not interested in playing. Just like you enjoy watching movies and TV shows with adult themes and language and violence, that's the kind of thing we seek to produce."

He goes on to compare their games to TV shows like the Sopranos, which won numerous awards despite its excessive violence, language, and strong sexual content. If the identical digital content was displayed in the form of a video game then certain organizations "are all up in arms".

There was alot of media coverage with the previous game Grand Theft Auto about its excessive violence and sexual content. "I think ever since GTA IV came out and there were such rave reviews by major publications saying that this is actually art the restrictions about being politically correct have largely fallen away."

There are ratings on games for these reasons, if you don't want your kids playing these types of games don't buy it for them. You know theres something wrong with the world when the developer, who wants nothing more than to sell as many copies of the game as possible, comes out and tells parents not to buy this game for their kids. That right there says alot, they care, and you should care about the rating system too.