When is "too young" to play halo?

[ScifiKitty]

After Halo 3 for pc has come out, its reminded me that I was about 10 when I first started playing Halo. I remember playing with people my age, who had their younger siblings on as guests playing too. And that many people were my age when Halo 2 came out. I also remember staying home from high school to play Halo 3 when it came out, still "too young" based on the ESRB ratings.

So as a parent now, with my son being the same age I was when I first started playing, I wanted to ask other parents out there and start a discussion about when really is "too young" to play Halo? Should I introduce my son to Halo or wait until hes a teenager?

I obviously turned out fine but as a parent am always paranoid about this and that. So I thought other gamers who were 10 or so during the Old Halo Days would be a good people to reach out to.

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Nguyên văn bởi +Ironguard+:

Nguyên văn bởi Foxit Youkai:

Dont you think that there is cases when its more than okay to shoot other people as well as homicide often have much more reason behind it than media wants you to think

Maybe in America but in cucked europe you get fined or even go to jail if you protect your self. If you get assaulted and knock the other guy out you pay big money for attacker in court.

Im not in America.
Thats the point - you cant protect yourself to the point you can (and at some point logicaly should) protect yourself, thats what this system doing and thats only one single, little example.
Same as everything depends on situation - if its at night, dark corner at three am - nothing and nobody will ever know what the ♥♥♥♥ happened here if body will be find there - difference is - if you attacked - thats what attacker have in mind, while you most probably will have in mind what you just said.
Which assumes if this ♥♥♥♥ somehow happened to you - bury it as serial maniac - it will give you more chances to proceed lliving normal life without being wronged by whole ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ world because of you did what you must

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Nguyên văn bởi ScifiKitty:

I obviously turned out fine but as a parent am always paranoid about this and that. So I thought other gamers who were 10 or so during the Old Halo Days would be a good people to reach out to.

1. Be less paranoid as it is possible so you will have more clear and objecive mind
2. Keep in mind that internet drasticaly changed this years and there is tons of people who just scamming and pushing you just for the sake of scamming and pushing. Disibling both chatting methods is good choice if it is MP aspect

[Dikasmusha]

Nguyên văn bởi ScifiKitty:

After Halo 3 for pc has come out, its reminded me that I was about 10 when I first started playing Halo. I remember playing with people my age, who had their younger siblings on as guests playing too. And that many people were my age when Halo 2 came out. I also remember staying home from high school to play Halo 3 when it came out, still "too young" based on the ESRB ratings.

So as a parent now, with my son being the same age I was when I first started playing, I wanted to ask other parents out there and start a discussion about when really is "too young" to play Halo? Should I introduce my son to Halo or wait until hes a teenager?

I obviously turned out fine but as a parent am always paranoid about this and that. So I thought other gamers who were 10 or so during the Old Halo Days would be a good people to reach out to.

just let him play videogames lol

[CRIMSON KING]

be me the kid of the dad trying to limit me laying halo 1 and 2 - get rids of internet - gets first job to buy wifi router and steal it from next door to play halo.

then i bought bigger tv than they had in the living room.

ahhhh the good ol days of being told no to playing the chief so you spartan out and play it anyway.

edit. they bought me the mc helmet for h3 after that. hahahaha

[DogMeat]

The only stuff that comes to mind as being objectionable or scary for a 10 year old are the sections involving the Flood / Gravemind.

Halo has always come off as a series in that murky area between PG-13 (T) and R (M). The swearing is mild. There is no nudity / sex (ok maybe Cortana is a tad provocative) and while violent, it's not explicit and in your face. Most of it is also aimed at space aliens with differing blood colors, some of which act humorously (Grunts).

I'd be more concerned with a kid going online being exposed to the language and discussions that happen there.

Maybe watch some videos online (or play it through yourself if you have the time) and judge it's content based on what you feel your child is ready / comfortable for.

[Gullis]

Nguyên văn bởi Autoimmunity:

Nguyên văn bởi Zunkey:

Let him play, but do the proactive approach that parents should of done back in the day and turn voice chat off or teach your kid to mute the lobby chat, and you know, not scream over the mic. Some of the things people say over the voice chat I wouldnt want my kid to hear if I had one.

Halo is the exception I would give, with halo 5 almost being a T rated game imo, its just blood and some swears.

Halo 5 actually IS rated T for Teen, the only main halo game not rated M.

OP, my dad introduced me to Quake 3 Arena when I was 9. With all it's gore, blood, and satanic imagery. And we were a very Christian household. He simply made sure that I understood that nothing happening on screen was actually real, and that it was all just a game.

Fitting since halo 5 is like watching a garbage superhero movie

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Nguyên văn bởi ScifiKitty:

I obviously turned out fine

Cognitive Dissonance Alarm

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Nguyên văn bởi Gullis:

Nguyên văn bởi Autoimmunity:

Halo 5 actually IS rated T for Teen, the only main halo game not rated M.

OP, my dad introduced me to Quake 3 Arena when I was 9. With all it's gore, blood, and satanic imagery. And we were a very Christian household. He simply made sure that I understood that nothing happening on screen was actually real, and that it was all just a game.

Fitting since halo 5 is like watching a garbage superhero movie

Like watching avengers yeah, totaly

[TROGDOR]

For me personally, I wouldn't want my kid playing online with anything with voice chat until they were at least 12 or 13.

However as for the graphic content of Halo or video games in general, that's all a known quantity & it's easier to talk kids through that stuff. My experience with Halo as a kid started when I was 11, playing it co-op at my cousin's house. I would be 100% fine with my kid doing the same at 10, 8, or even 5, as Halo's violence, particularly in the earlier games, is very toned down.

But then again, I played Diablo 1 when I was 6 and the butcher scared me so bad I couldn't go back to the game for another 2 years lol. I also remember being really shocked by a few scenes in Terminator 2, but in fairness, the impact of those things is entirely the point of that content. But with parental guidance & context, the 'offline' content of most games, even 'M' games, I'm perfectly comfortable with kids experiencing.

Most people, kids included, are more than smart enough to discern fantasy from reality.
That said, I wouldn't want them playing Postal until their mid-teens lol

[ScifiKitty]

Nguyên văn bởi Lagging Like Larry:

i went into a pc store with my dad in 2004 and he bought me halo ce i was 4 years old its really cartoony and he even played with me back then its not like gears of war or call of duty

Edit its also better than say fortnight where people can say the n word and other swear words and he learns horrible stuff like that through voice chat and text chat
id recomend playing the game with him like my dad did and if you find he is grossed out or bad when playing it maybe not allow him to play a lone and with you up to you though maybe just let him play single player first thats all i did when i was 4 i just replayed and played the single player missions till a year later when we got internet and play mp

This is actually fantastic advice. Thank you.

[ScifiKitty]

Nguyên văn bởi Me:

Nguyên văn bởi ScifiKitty:

I obviously turned out fine

Cognitive Dissonance Alarm

I was trying to point out following this that this wasnt a convincing argument, logically and statistically. That one person doesnt help determine causation or even correlation.

I was also trying to invoke the "i got spanked and i turned out fine" mentality, and thats whyI opened up this forum topic to get more insight to see if anyone counteracts or advances my thoughts.

[ScifiKitty]

This is a really impressive forum full of incredibly insightful discussion, thank you (aside from the murder in europe tangent lol)

I was mainly worried about campaign content but the multiplayer advice is super helpful because I totally forgot how halo online can be. I work at an elementary school and kids have learned A LOT from fornite,

While worried about the violence might spook him, the part that doesnt worry me is that it is a game about shooting aliens and also working as a team. I forgot how you get to play with marines and fight with them and it feels really cool playing it again. Also the gameplay primarily is team based, Vs fortnite is this me vs everyone else mentality which I think can be harmful to kids.

So i was trying to weight out the potential spooks vs the life lessons and creative insight gleaned from Halo.

Halo has taught me what makes a good team and what doesnt make a good team and how crucial teamwork is to having fun and surviving not only people taking your flag, but also against zombies and other custom gametype antagonists (like fatman). and the custom games/forging community with their super creative gametypes was hugely impactful for me growing up.

the art style, even as edgy (literally) as halo's graphics were, the skyboxes and scenery still amazes me. And sure games nowdays has every blade of grass and every Mario nose hair visible, but they arent doing anything creativer with graphics. Seeing covenant ships STILL blows my mind and i pause and gaze in awe at the architecture of the covenant themed levels.

I went in today into Halo 3 after downloading it and almost cried when I saw Sandtrap and remembered all the good memories in it, and how beatiful the map looks (and how sexy those ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Elephants are)

and thought that sharing this with my son, and showing him what games used to look like and play like before Season Passes, Lootboxes, microtransactions and live service hoopla (without being too much the "back in my day..." kind of person xD)

Idk man, this quarantine has been rough and downloading Halo 3 has made me have a lot of feels. Thank you all to you that posted on this random thought.

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Nguyên văn bởi ScifiKitty:

This is a really impressive forum full of incredibly insightful discussion, thank you (aside from the murder in europe tangent lol)

Well outside of this one, I cant be this bad

[CodySir]

For me personally, I consider the Halo series as a whole a "Teen" Rated series because they usually keep a cap on the explicit language, the violence only gets gore-y whenever the Flood make an appearance, and Cortana is the most sexual thing in most of the games and even then that's if you're being shallow.

[BigCheese]

6 months is too young as they just chew the joysticks.