Why gta is bad

So long as you trust your child Grand Theft Auto V is an amazing and abstract game, full of beautiful scenery and things to do.

My child is 12 and has been wanting this game for quite a while now. Ever since the trailer came out in fact.

After a while we went through it and watched gameplay, trailers and everything. I am usually a very strict mother and would say no to an R rated game but this is an exception. Sure, it has some swearing but you can choose to skip it as it is mainly in cutscenes. The violence isn't bad at all and you can hardly see blood and there is no guts or bones etc. The thing that I was skeptical about was strip clubs. After watching "Youtubers" play it I was waiting for a strip club scene or nudity scene to pop up but to my surprise I discovered that it is an optional activity and has nothing to do with the main storyline or side quests, so in my opinion so long as you trust your child or have a guardian watching you play it it is completely fine.

Another issue was drugs which I found were optional as well. There are no missions that force you into drugs or anything else. I remember my niece playing worse games than this when he was 9 Mortal Kombat, Duke Nukem etc. Also it is rated M in America and most other countries and has one bad 'torture scene' that is skippable. In conclusion I think it is fine for anyone 12 and up if you trust them. Helped me decide 6. Had useful details 3. Read my mind 6.

It is not as bad as you think First off yes, there is all the violence, sex and swearing and i was sure that i was not letting my thirteen year old son get the game with grand theft auto's bad reputation for pushing the boundaries with their games but my son was set on getting this game and would try to convince me that grand theft auto was not as bad as everyone says it is and finally after watching gameplay of it and researching it I finally got the game for him but I told him that if i got it for him I would have to watch the first mission with him playing it and i didn't see any problems and whenever i see him play it he is never doing something he isn't supposed to.

With the violence there is just shots and when shot a bit of blood would splatter nothing more than call of duty has but there is a torture seen which cannot be skipped but there is not that much blood in the scene.

This is really no problem if your son knows the right from wrong and the reality to the virtual world. In the violence there is nothing a thirteen year old could not handle. There is sex and nudity but this is completely optional. There are strip clubs which you don't have to go into and the strip club is worthless and it does not give you any points it is basically just a waste of time.

There are prostitutes in the game and they walk up and down the street and you can collect them but this is also completely optional.

As for the swearing, there is a lot of it but there is nothing more than what you would get in an average school that a thirteen year old would be attending. Most of the inappropriate content is in the single player but whenever i see my son playing it he is always in online doing races or just having fun. So the violence is nothing more than what you would see in a fifteens movie or even a twelves movie.

And the sex and nudity is completely optional and the swearing is nothing more than what you would here at school. At the age of thirteen when they finally become a teenager is a good age to be allowed to play the game and there is nothing new to a thirteen year old in this game. My thirteen year old can handle it just fine and hasn't changed since he got it. Had useful details 4. Read my mind 5.

Parent of a year-old Written by KarenRobinson September 18, Ok if kid will not be scarred I think that this game has many violent and awful things, but if your child knows the difference between the game and the real world, they should be fine.

My 13 year old son was allowed to get this game because he demonstrated his knowledge that this game is not to be repeated in any way. Read my mind 4. Its just given a bad name Not for little kids but OK for13 and up! Helped me decide 4. Adult Written by Oneinthehand September 22, Ok for any kid 14 and up As a parent I know what you are thinking.

The same old stereotype that GTA is a game that is completely obscene and horrible. However, this is not the case. The language and violence keeps this game from being for everyone but apart from these there are very few concerns. The sex and drug references and usage is MUCH less than I expected and most parts containing these have an option to be skipped. All In all I believe that GTA has somewhat of an unfair stereotype that it is a terrible game for kids.

But I believe that apart from it being violent and the language being bad this game is fine for anyone ages 13 and up. Adult Written by John Microw May 18, Great game, misjudged by many people at first glance. At first, I thought getting my son GTA was a terrible idea. After all, it is an extremely violent game that turns you children into murders right? I decided to give my 12 year old son a chance at getting the game so I made him create a presentation on why getting GTA was a good idea.

He put hard work into his presentation and he proved how the game was given a very bad reputation for optional content in-game. First, the game allows for endless possibilities. The game offers a huge, fully explorable map which you can explore by air, sea, and land. Now, you might be thinking "What about the nudity and violence?

After watching my son play the game a bit, I found that most of the violence and all of the nudity is completely optional for your child to experience. If you trust your child enough to not enter adult areas and purposely get into super violent interactions, you will be fine. Overall, GTA is a game that can be trusted around good children that know whats best. Helped me decide 1. Adult Written by KarenSmith July 30, Amazing for Kids They can do whatever they want in a open world playground style and you can track the kids transaction report to see if they were at the strip club and who would waste there time and money there if they can do anything.

This game, if anything, teaches kids about real life and the aspects of social problems in society. Grand Theft Auto isn't a bad game. Yes, it contains some material that may be inappropriate but the player can choose to engage in it or not.

For example, the player can choose to go into a strip club or not. Also, the game doesn't force people to act bad in real life. People have a choice in their actions. It is not the games fault. Further more, this game is not a bad game.

This game isn't bad because you are not force to kill like in call of duty or other war games but you can do anything what you want. Gta is the game which you can compare very good to real life but it is not percent realistic. This game can also help in reducing aggression. And you can do many good things than just killing people. Gta is the best violent game ever. I think it is as good as sims. I feel that this game isn't very bad at all except for swears and other things that make it "bad" for kids.

This game is actually very brilliant indeed and may be appropriate for a mature child who knows right from wrong. Most people who say it's bad say that based on the ESRB rating. Look at all of the activities and everything else you can do in gta v than just evil. I also think the title of the game is just ridiculous, as in saying you dont have to steal cars you can buy one.

Go get a job, house, money you do not not need these bad things. GTA V took some big steps forward from the last edition of the game, which is to be expected with such a long layoff. The multiplayer still didn't have anything in it to keep my interest, but the regular game cut out a lot of the obnoious additional fluff and focused on why people like GTA games.

No, Grand Theft Auto V is not bad. Indeed, it is a brilliant example of post modern art as it serves the purpose of deconstruction. The violence in GTA V is over the top and ridiculous in some places. This lulls the player into a false sense of security. Then, shortly later the player will encounter a scene of realistic violence. This causes the player to ask why violence is fun in the first place. GTA V is not bad. Grand Theft Auto V is a fun game and the graphics are the best yet.

A cool 1. The in-game economy for both single-player and multiplayer is all kinds of wonky an issue facing Red Dead Online as well , but for completely opposite reasons. In single-player, there's no point in doing much after the first few heists since you'll be flush with an unbelievable amount of cash.

That's the exact opposite of the other games in the series, where you start off poor and struggle to work your way up, with constant setbacks. Becoming the top dog kingpin in previous games, like GTA 4 , is a massive struggle.

There are times when you can't afford the ammo you need for big story missions and must complete other tasks to get ready for the next objective. Here, everything is handed to you quite early on. Your crew will be millionaires before you know it, and the random open-world stuff just isn't worth your time. Of course, in online mode, the problem is actually the exact opposite, with a constant agonizing grind to afford anything or you could spend real money to get a boost, which is obnoxious.

Another major problem of starting off with an overly privileged rich guy quickly becomes apparent Michael's interactions with his spoiled, obnoxious kids are painful to sit through, and often had me just wanting to put the controller down and go do anything else. I don't watch TV shows about awful rich people on purpose, so it isn't exactly a gripping arc. These characters are all unbelievably whiny, which quickly becomes grating.

Can you imagine Niko Bellic ever behaving like Michael or putting up with Trevor's nonsense for even a second? Speaking of everyone's favorite insane drug dealer — and it's probably because I've lived in an apartment building with shrieking meth-heads — but I didn't find Trevor's shrieking meth-addicted personality at all amusing or endearing.

I'm not sure there's ever been a video game character I wanted to see die horribly more than Trevor. Which brings us to Franklin, who doesn't have the obnoxious family of Michael or the all-caps screaming fits of Trevor to deal with but still comes with his own reasons to hate. For me, it's the constant string of racial slurs that make me start wondering if Quentin Tarantino is hiding in the backseat wherever we drive.

Throwing out the racial slurs a few times for shock value or to showcase the nature of a character is fine, but eventually, it hits a level where it's just unnecessary. To be clear, I'm fully opposed to censorship of any kind and think games, movies, and literature should say or show whatever they want, but there's still such a thing as tact to keep in mind. It's clear the developers were trying to make a parody of southern California life, but they took it so far that there's no way to empathize at all with any of these characters, and you start to hate the game world, which is a very bad thing for an open-world game.