Exact opposite for me. My mom still wasnt fond of me playing Halo CE at the young age of 4 all the way until I was an adult, but she preferred me playing Halo because we were shooting aliens instead of people.
I tried to get my Mom to play Reach with me once. After spending 3 minutes looking at the sky and 2 minutes looking at the ground, she actually got a kill! "Oh I got one I got one!" "MOM YOU KILLED ME"
i remember my mom pulling me aside while i played halo 3 with my older brother to warn me about kids who shot up schools because of video games i love halo 3 and i love my mom
My dad had one of these talks with me while playing GTA Vice City. Though it wasn't about shooters or violence. He was explaining the difference between games and real life by having me dive into the water and die, but just respawn at the hospital. He used that visual reference to say that if you mess up and hurt yourself in real life, there is no second chance, hence why games are just games and not like our real world.
@@DeadBeat_Dave Same lmao. For me it was my mom with these types of games. My dad would never buy us them cuz he was really into the "violent video games causes violence in kids" shtick. I remember every time we would go to gamestop or any game store she would always ask and make sure "you know this is a video game right? this isn't real life what happens in the game is ONLY okay in the game because it's not real. You can't do these things IRL, it would hurt people." and me and my brothers always looked puzzled like yeah of course who would ever think of doing these things IRL I don't want to hurt people, my brothers don't want to hurt people. Makes sense why they do it though it's important to make abundantly clear and ensure your kid understands the very crystal clear line between reality and a video game.
Halo is rated M like the Matrix is rated R, a lil tweaking and the media content would easily make a lower rating but is held back by usually one inclusion, for halo it was the flood, the flood is what ESRB decided needed the M rating
My mom actually liked halo, she rented it for her self, and then eventually bought it. it was me who did not like halo until halo 2 for some reason. specifically until i tried it out at the video store. the video store in town had a gaming room where you could pay a 2 bucks to play any game they had for an hour, they had XBL so I tried halo 2 online since thats what everyone was playing. fell in love during my fist BTB.
My mom actually let me play halo bc i wasnt allowed to play cod, and i convinced her or she figured killing aliens/ protecting humanity in the far future was better than committing war crimes or something in modern warfare
My parents were usually very supportive of what I played growing up. Halo was no exception. Of course they had a problem with me playing too much and ignoring homework but not with the actual game itself. Of course this is just how some parents are. Sometimes they overreact but it depends on the approach but they usually avoid letting us be exposed to stuff that can prove to be negatively impressionable to us. Whether you hated them for doing that is up to you, but it just shows how much our parents care for us. Appreciate them while you can is all I'm saying.
Yes, very true. Hopefully everyone is able to grow older and appreciate all the ways our parents showed that they cared. I would hope that having this kind of discussion wouldn't imply any kind of disdain towards our parents just because we didn't always appreciate the ways in which they tried to protect us.
Lol I remember I got grounded because in Halo CE I started shooting the Marines and my mom got upset telling me to stop doing that lol I kept at it and then got grounded
My dad was the one who didn't want me playing Halo. My mom always said "you know this is fictional and not real life right?" and me and my siblings were always like "of course." idk I guess it depends on the kid but my mom didn't do anything crazy raising us. She just taught us to treat others how we wanted to be treated, don't hurt people, dont talk to strangers, what you see in movies or games are fine to enjoy IN the movies/games and she made sure we understood the difference between what is okay in real life vs what's okay in a video game/movie. Not just what is okay though but also WHY it's NOT okay to do those things IRL. I always thought it was strange at the time that she would explain it to us but I guess it's more so to be safe because some kids will lie and then you get crazies who want to do the same thing IRL. Personally whenever she talked to us about these types of games and movies I would always just be confused and say "yeah of course I wouldn't, why would I ever want to hurt someone who isn't a threat to me, who isn't trying to harm me or my family or anyone else?"
Haha I debated circling the date there lol I meant that as more as "That conversation didn't just stay in the early 2000's" That video was one I watched all the way through while doing some light research on what news outlets in the modern days say about video game violence. I liked it enough and wanted to display it one way or another.
@@asherwiggin6456 damn, former president Donald Trump just released a clip talking about “violent video games” and how they corrupt the youth. That would have been a GREAT clip to use after saying “too this day”… missed opportunity 😭
Funny enough my Mom Loved Halo and would often watch me Play it as a kid. she seen all the megastructures in the games and thought they were "beautiful". mostly the halo rings and High Charity from halo 2.
A few months ago I got my grandma to sit down and watch me play Reach we played the whole campaign and she loved it sure it was violent but she loved the music and the kind of thing it was saying I did start crying at the end because of you know the last game made by Bungie and she understood as well
I’ll never forget being 6 years old playing CE, on the pillar of autumn mission when the autum gets slammed into and a marine shouts “what the hell, did something just hit us” my mom looked at my dad who bought it for me and scolded tf out of him. I never forgot that for some reason lol 😂
Its always been weird hearing what others parents did and didnt let them play. My mom and dad played Left 4 Dead with me and my siblings. My mom loved the Last of Us and my dad beat Gears 3 before i did. GTA was the only game she didnt want us playing but after a while, she learned it had a good story so she would watch my younger sis play GTA 5 and RDR.
Perception on gaming changed quite a bit, I first played Reach at a friend's house in 2011, and my parents were only hesitant to let me get it because they were worried about me playing too much. They didn't really care about the violence. Fortunately, I was a very honest kid so we had an honour system where no gaming during weekdays unless homework is done. Which honestly back then was pretty good for older immigrant Indian parents. I'm lucky I didn't get the strict one's lmao.
For me, my mom (and apparently dad) didn't care if I played games. I used to play halo with my brother when I was 6, all the way to now. Even played doom 3 when I was 9. The other day my mom watched me play the silent hill 2 remake out of boredom. I literally was running breaking everything and betting everything to death while she was watching. She didn't care.
Dude renting Vice City at 7 and hearing the Intro sounds and getting into a car and driving around, was literally like a drug to me as a kid. I also just drove around haha.
I got pretty lucky. My parents both loved halo. They actually bought it because they would play slayer at their friends house and they introduced us to it. My dad was a desert storm vet which im sure helped in him not seeing anything wrong with it, considering he had seen ACTUAL death. But my mom too was very fond of it. They proceeded to buy my brother and i every halo game that came out since then. We eventually drove them to stop playing it, my brotger complained every time he got shot and i got rediculously good at slayer, my dad is also a sore loser. My mom slowly just became huge into pga tour games. So it was just me and my brother surrounded by mcfarlane halo figures and our xbox. To this day i still play them and rememver the fond memories of driving into the ocean on silent cartographer or hearing my dad complain about wasting ammo when we would just shoot infinately into nothing with the warthog turret. Good times man
my dad and mom didn't really mind with the exception of the swearing as when I was younger, I asked her what it meant, and she wasn't happy. But she told me it was a bad word, and I never said it again. She didn't really blame the game, as I was still young at the time.
I remember my mom kindof disapproved of the *idea* of Halo at first, until she saw it, and realized it was nothing like the military shooters and had a lot more in common with the sci fi movies that my dad and I would always watch. Between Halo and Deus Ex, my mom ended up trusting me to pick games myself. Fortunately for me I just never really had an interest in games like GTA or CoD
I remember my dad playing a bunch of Deus Ex for the original xbox. I remember it looking like a super cool game, but I never got to play that one. I've bought it recently for the original xbox collection, but it's in a pretty long backlog at the moment...
Shit, my mom LOVED me playing Halo. I could shoot aliens all day as long as I didn't grow up thinking war was fun or carjacking people was cool. Yeah I definitely wasn't allowed to play COD or GTA growing up. But that's okay because Halo was my game.
The funny thing is that my entire family loves Halo. My cousins, my mom, my dad and I all used to play together on multiplayer maps (and my dad and I ran through all the campaigns together).
I was not allowed to play it mainly because buying an XBox was expensive. Back then, best we got was the GameBoy as well as a used family computer from my uncle. Bought Halo and the XBone with my first pay once i was able to. Funny, my parents did not allow us play Battlefield or Halo, but playing L4D with them in COOP after they got insulted by kids in WarRock was OK lol.
My mum was always pretty conservative but was oddly chill when it came to swearing or violence in films and games just not sex or anything she thought was satanic. We did have those conversations but I had an older brother so I played these games through him and I guess she trusted his judgement cause he turned out ok. She could be convinced basically, she'd still bring up those articles she was concerned about the effect of the games but tbh she cared more about us getting off our asses and doing chores than the violence in particular.
Yeah, having older siblings definitely helps when it comes to what media your parents will let you consume. I'm the oldest of three, and by the time my youngest brother was dabbling into violent video games, my mom handed the game censorship reigns over to me. She trusted me and knew that I had way more experience with the games to really know what he should and shouldn't be playing. I drew the line at GTA V and Black Ops 2's zombies mode until he was a bit closer to his teen years.
I personally think that yes, violent games do desensitise you to violence to a degree, same as hunting, but is that necessarily a bad thing? Not to be shaken by violence? That's another discussion Like many hunters i knew were definitely desensitised but also were extremely reliable in stressful situations
my mom still believes me lashing out when I was like 6 has nothing to do with her divorce, oh how great people are sometimes (I have a somewhat strained relationship with everyone but my dad and grandpa who are both clearly autistic like me)
Most of us in general will be ok from playing these gems of games. But i cant ever forget that high schooler that shot his mom and dad for taking his halo 3 copy.
My dad loved the game and got me to play it and my mom didn't care because she saw it was aliens so it was fine and now ive got the whole collection thankfully to my parents ❤ I liked and now its 300 lezgoo
Only thing my mum hated was that I’d kill my own marines haha but I played Halo: CE with my entire family: mum, dad and 2 sisters, when we got it for xmas the year it came out. From escaping the Pillar of Autumn and landing on Halo to storming the Control Center, and then discovering the horror that is The Flood, we did it all together and she had a blast. I miss those days.
Halo is a core childhood memory for me, and I can't imagine not growing up with it. Halo uses its M rating in such a sophisticated way. Its not like other M rated games that just have crass and vulgar content for the sake of it, very surface level themes. But Halo (not saying its the only game) used its darker themes sparsely and with literary intent. It all comes down to context, like you say.
I was lucky enough to have parents that didn’t understand it. I got both halo 1 and 2 for my birthday and halo 3 for Christmas. Honestly some of the best games I played and even now I go back and just play for fun. My dad even got me halo reach on a midnight release for my birthday. I’ll never forget him saying “I didn’t know people like this game that bad. The line was down the block!” I loved Halo and I hope it gets the love it deserves with Halo studios
Well crafted video! I wish you woulda interviewed mom! You coulda even had her play it some! Also you should explain, wasn’t there an article about the US Govt using halo to desensitize the military?
I was like 7 or 8 and i was told not to show certain games (for instance Postal 2) to my nephew who is only 4 years younger. Make believe is make believe. I'm not a Columbine kid, I'm not creating doom levels of my high school to go shoot it up. I played Postal 2 and GTA Vice City as a kid, but it was a way I could get violence out without doing it in real life. I know video games are video games. Some clerk told me at Walmart that Doom 3 was for adults when my dad bought the 5 disc copy. I was scared shitless of that game, but now as an adult I can play through it like nothing.
My mum was fine with Halo for one reason. I was killing aliens,not people. And by her logic,if I was killing aliens,robots or anything non human it was fine
My parents played Halo CE first then when they beat it, they deemed it appropriate for me to play with them and eventually they let me play it on my own. But they had rules, no killing marines and a couple others escaping me atm Definitely part of why I still love CE over any other Halo game though, getting to spend time with my dad I still find it incredibly unfortunate that most people won’t be able to have these experiences with their own kids though; because our generation is so quickly losing the capability of having healthy relationship with the opposite gender…. Having a family is a blessing that so many don’t realize….
Yeah, some of my favorite memories with my father were playing Halo CE back in the old days. I wanted to say, don't let the internet get you down man. There are more people with families than you realize. Just because it's "trending down" and sometimes just not for everyone, doesn't mean that the idea of a family is disappearing from existence. 👍
@@DeadBeat_Dave 🙂 Not down, but definitely sombered. The difficulty is finding a dedicated person. The internet makes people think their options are infinite, makes them keep looking for “the perfect person” instead of a healthy person to build with; because our generation’s women typically don’t like to build
My mom was the one who bought it for me back then xD, Halo was never really a problem, even in multiplayer. But the whole "you become a murderer/school shooter from playing this" came up later when i also played CoD 4 & 5 As if shooting bullets out of your head is so realistic xD and the graphics were a joke compared to Crysis 1
so as a gen z kid ngl im a baby i was always a switch gamer but int he past 4 years ive gotten into more mature games satrted playing halo played souls games and my aunt kinda was like why do you want dark souls 3 when i asked for it and was so confused and my uncle was just like sure why not so its def intresting maybe its more of a female thing idk it wasnt even like i was young im a teen cant be that bad but still was that reaction
I’m 20 and I still do everything in my power to not let my mom see h4 Cortana. (She’s definitely seen her but she doesn’t know I let my little bro play halo 4)
oh man… i got in SO much trouble for letting my homies in grade school play halo 2 with me. i always argued we were killing aliens and saving the universe so it was justified 😂
My mom didn’t like violent games but halo was fine gta off the table golden eye nope she got rid of it I brought it up she threatened to get rid of it but never did hell when halo two came out my dad pulled me out of school early to get it
My first intro to modern games was turok evolution for ps2. M for mature but I was allowed to play it because you were not killing people. I also had 007 goldeneye which was T for teen. I was NOT allowed to play it because you WERE killing people. We still played it in secret and had a great system of switching the screen input to the gamecube with animal crossing or something open when we heard mom or dad coming up the stairs. Those were the days. In my personal opinion, gaming has never been as good as it was late 90s to early 20 aughts. The new hyper realistic games just do not at all tickle that fantasy realm the same way those cheeky graphic ps1 or og xbox games did.
Yeah, a lot of people feel that way about "modern gaming" and honestly I find it pretty hard to fully explain. Probably because its a big mixture of a bunch of things. There is no easy explanation or scapegoat. Definitely part of it is sadly that we're just getting older. Another could be the hyper-competitiveness of new multiplayer games. And also the way studios have sold out to larger corporations that now control most creative decisions one way or another.
For me the Halo franchise is the less M rated game their is i know 1 to 4 a rated M but 5 and Infinite are T to prove my point .Ironically Call of Duty 2 & 3 are rated T even if it look more realistic then Halo and still have blood in it from CoD 4 all CoD are rated M to this day .I am older then you ,you should look at my parent face when i got my Snes at christmas 97 with Donkey Kong Country and Mortal Kombat II the first time i play Mortal Kombat 2 and have done a Fatality i sense them looking at me from my back they where like what the fuck just happen !!!
Yeah, in hindsight it seems pretty wild that those old COD games didn't get the 'M' rating. I definitely don't think the early Halo games deserved it. But at the time, I bet the dismemberment that came with the flood had a large role in the mature rating.
Exact opposite for me. My mom still wasnt fond of me playing Halo CE at the young age of 4 all the way until I was an adult, but she preferred me playing Halo because we were shooting aliens instead of people.
@@alphaisdank42069 haha same!
Exactly this!
My Mom had the same logic lol, as long as it was killing space aliens it was totally fine.
Same as well.
How does a 4 year old even play videogames??
They barely know how to use the bathroom lmao
Parents: Violent video games are ruining our kids.
Social media: Allow me to introduce myself.
If only they knew the REAL danger was just a few more years away....
Facebook and Fox news did to our parents' generation what they thought violent video games would do to us.
@@xcfjdyrkdtulkgfilhulol true politics and bs social media centered around more death and violence than video games ever did
Thanks Ryan I'm glad you understand the real problem in our society.
"Dad, why are the covenant the bad guys?"
"Because they think theyre the good guys."
some serious wisdom there when you think about it for a second
And also a sentiment that chief canonically agrees with, even having empathy for covenant he has defeated.
"Because they're religious zealots who cram their beliefs down everyone's throat despite said religion being a suicide cult"
🔥
I tried to get my Mom to play Reach with me once. After spending 3 minutes looking at the sky and 2 minutes looking at the ground, she actually got a kill! "Oh I got one I got one!"
"MOM YOU KILLED ME"
To be fair, if you get friendly fire'd by an absolute noob with pretty much anything less than a rocket launcher, that's kinda on you...
i remember my mom pulling me aside while i played halo 3 with my older brother to warn me about kids who shot up schools because of video games
i love halo 3 and i love my mom
My dad had one of these talks with me while playing GTA Vice City. Though it wasn't about shooters or violence. He was explaining the difference between games and real life by having me dive into the water and die, but just respawn at the hospital. He used that visual reference to say that if you mess up and hurt yourself in real life, there is no second chance, hence why games are just games and not like our real world.
I'm surprised Halo, CoD, DOOM, and GTA get all the blame for real world violence, but no one ever mentions games like Postal.
It's all bout teaching children the difference between reality and make believe .
@@Hero11170 My dad made that lesson VERY clear when I was young playing Vice City. I still remember that moment to this day about 20 years later
To be honest if your a kid and play halo and then as an adult you still think halo or any game is reality then you clearly have a huge brain issue.
@@DeadBeat_Dave Same lmao. For me it was my mom with these types of games. My dad would never buy us them cuz he was really into the "violent video games causes violence in kids" shtick. I remember every time we would go to gamestop or any game store she would always ask and make sure "you know this is a video game right? this isn't real life what happens in the game is ONLY okay in the game because it's not real. You can't do these things IRL, it would hurt people." and me and my brothers always looked puzzled like yeah of course who would ever think of doing these things IRL I don't want to hurt people, my brothers don't want to hurt people. Makes sense why they do it though it's important to make abundantly clear and ensure your kid understands the very crystal clear line between reality and a video game.
Halo is rated M like the Matrix is rated R, a lil tweaking and the media content would easily make a lower rating but is held back by usually one inclusion, for halo it was the flood, the flood is what ESRB decided needed the M rating
Flood were definitely worth it though. And for 2001, the flood horror vibe and dismemberment 100% is what sent that rating over the edge into M
My mom actually liked halo, she rented it for her self, and then eventually bought it. it was me who did not like halo until halo 2 for some reason. specifically until i tried it out at the video store. the video store in town had a gaming room where you could pay a 2 bucks to play any game they had for an hour, they had XBL so I tried halo 2 online since thats what everyone was playing. fell in love during my fist BTB.
I should’ve become a politician the vocabulary mastery I had to display to get an Xbox and Halo 2 for my birthday was beyond comprehension
Huge W
My mom actually let me play halo bc i wasnt allowed to play cod, and i convinced her or she figured killing aliens/ protecting humanity in the far future was better than committing war crimes or something in modern warfare
My parents were usually very supportive of what I played growing up. Halo was no exception. Of course they had a problem with me playing too much and ignoring homework but not with the actual game itself.
Of course this is just how some parents are. Sometimes they overreact but it depends on the approach but they usually avoid letting us be exposed to stuff that can prove to be negatively impressionable to us. Whether you hated them for doing that is up to you, but it just shows how much our parents care for us. Appreciate them while you can is all I'm saying.
Yes, very true. Hopefully everyone is able to grow older and appreciate all the ways our parents showed that they cared.
I would hope that having this kind of discussion wouldn't imply any kind of disdain towards our parents just because we didn't always appreciate the ways in which they tried to protect us.
Lol I remember I got grounded because in Halo CE I started shooting the Marines and my mom got upset telling me to stop doing that lol I kept at it and then got grounded
haha but fr though that is psychotic behavior.
We're supposed to save them!
Ah-hah!
My mom had a crush on Chief and still does.
And she didn't like the one we got in the show at all.
Ohhh the show....😑
My dad was the one who didn't want me playing Halo. My mom always said "you know this is fictional and not real life right?" and me and my siblings were always like "of course." idk I guess it depends on the kid but my mom didn't do anything crazy raising us. She just taught us to treat others how we wanted to be treated, don't hurt people, dont talk to strangers, what you see in movies or games are fine to enjoy IN the movies/games and she made sure we understood the difference between what is okay in real life vs what's okay in a video game/movie. Not just what is okay though but also WHY it's NOT okay to do those things IRL. I always thought it was strange at the time that she would explain it to us but I guess it's more so to be safe because some kids will lie and then you get crazies who want to do the same thing IRL. Personally whenever she talked to us about these types of games and movies I would always just be confused and say "yeah of course I wouldn't, why would I ever want to hurt someone who isn't a threat to me, who isn't trying to harm me or my family or anyone else?"
4:00 “To this day”
*proceeds to highlight a date from five years ago*
Haha I debated circling the date there lol I meant that as more as "That conversation didn't just stay in the early 2000's"
That video was one I watched all the way through while doing some light research on what news outlets in the modern days say about video game violence. I liked it enough and wanted to display it one way or another.
@@asherwiggin6456 damn, former president Donald Trump just released a clip talking about “violent video games” and how they corrupt the youth. That would have been a GREAT clip to use after saying “too this day”… missed opportunity 😭
Funny enough my Mom Loved Halo and would often watch me Play it as a kid. she seen all the megastructures in the games and thought they were "beautiful". mostly the halo rings and High Charity from halo 2.
A few months ago I got my grandma to sit down and watch me play Reach we played the whole campaign and she loved it sure it was violent but she loved the music and the kind of thing it was saying
I did start crying at the end because of you know the last game made by Bungie and she understood as well
I’ll never forget being 6 years old playing CE, on the pillar of autumn mission when the autum gets slammed into and a marine shouts “what the hell, did something just hit us” my mom looked at my dad who bought it for me and scolded tf out of him. I never forgot that for some reason lol 😂
Haha thats funny 😆 I could super easily picture that happening between my parents lol
Xbox was soo expensive that’s why I didn’t get halo.
Its always been weird hearing what others parents did and didnt let them play. My mom and dad played Left 4 Dead with me and my siblings. My mom loved the Last of Us and my dad beat Gears 3 before i did. GTA was the only game she didnt want us playing but after a while, she learned it had a good story so she would watch my younger sis play GTA 5 and RDR.
Perception on gaming changed quite a bit, I first played Reach at a friend's house in 2011, and my parents were only hesitant to let me get it because they were worried about me playing too much. They didn't really care about the violence.
Fortunately, I was a very honest kid so we had an honour system where no gaming during weekdays unless homework is done. Which honestly back then was pretty good for older immigrant Indian parents. I'm lucky I didn't get the strict one's lmao.
One day at GS my mom looked at the box art of Halo CE and said, "that looks cool" and we got it.
For me, my mom (and apparently dad) didn't care if I played games. I used to play halo with my brother when I was 6, all the way to now. Even played doom 3 when I was 9. The other day my mom watched me play the silent hill 2 remake out of boredom. I literally was running breaking everything and betting everything to death while she was watching. She didn't care.
Dude renting Vice City at 7 and hearing the Intro sounds and getting into a car and driving around, was literally like a drug to me as a kid. I also just drove around haha.
As usual, loving the takes dude!
I got pretty lucky. My parents both loved halo. They actually bought it because they would play slayer at their friends house and they introduced us to it. My dad was a desert storm vet which im sure helped in him not seeing anything wrong with it, considering he had seen ACTUAL death. But my mom too was very fond of it. They proceeded to buy my brother and i every halo game that came out since then. We eventually drove them to stop playing it, my brotger complained every time he got shot and i got rediculously good at slayer, my dad is also a sore loser. My mom slowly just became huge into pga tour games. So it was just me and my brother surrounded by mcfarlane halo figures and our xbox. To this day i still play them and rememver the fond memories of driving into the ocean on silent cartographer or hearing my dad complain about wasting ammo when we would just shoot infinately into nothing with the warthog turret. Good times man
my dad and mom didn't really mind with the exception of the swearing as when I was younger, I asked her what it meant, and she wasn't happy. But she told me it was a bad word, and I never said it again. She didn't really blame the game, as I was still young at the time.
Can’t relate. My mom used to sit on the couch next to me so she could listen to the music. She thought the environments were beautiful
I remember my mom kindof disapproved of the *idea* of Halo at first, until she saw it, and realized it was nothing like the military shooters and had a lot more in common with the sci fi movies that my dad and I would always watch. Between Halo and Deus Ex, my mom ended up trusting me to pick games myself. Fortunately for me I just never really had an interest in games like GTA or CoD
I remember my dad playing a bunch of Deus Ex for the original xbox. I remember it looking like a super cool game, but I never got to play that one. I've bought it recently for the original xbox collection, but it's in a pretty long backlog at the moment...
Shit, my mom LOVED me playing Halo. I could shoot aliens all day as long as I didn't grow up thinking war was fun or carjacking people was cool. Yeah I definitely wasn't allowed to play COD or GTA growing up. But that's okay because Halo was my game.
A fair compromise if you ask me lol
Mum loved the music tbh
Bro. My Mom bought it for me while I was at school on Day 1. She even drove to Canada to pick it for me (along with the og xbox).
I wasn't allowed to play GTA3, but I was allowed to play Halo CE.
The funny thing is that my entire family loves Halo. My cousins, my mom, my dad and I all used to play together on multiplayer maps (and my dad and I ran through all the campaigns together).
My mom was the opposite, she played it before me and with me when i was young. Same with my dad we all played halo together.
I was not allowed to play it mainly because buying an XBox was expensive. Back then, best we got was the GameBoy as well as a used family computer from my uncle. Bought Halo and the XBone with my first pay once i was able to. Funny, my parents did not allow us play Battlefield or Halo, but playing L4D with them in COOP after they got insulted by kids in WarRock was OK lol.
My mum was always pretty conservative but was oddly chill when it came to swearing or violence in films and games just not sex or anything she thought was satanic. We did have those conversations but I had an older brother so I played these games through him and I guess she trusted his judgement cause he turned out ok. She could be convinced basically, she'd still bring up those articles she was concerned about the effect of the games but tbh she cared more about us getting off our asses and doing chores than the violence in particular.
Yeah, having older siblings definitely helps when it comes to what media your parents will let you consume. I'm the oldest of three, and by the time my youngest brother was dabbling into violent video games, my mom handed the game censorship reigns over to me. She trusted me and knew that I had way more experience with the games to really know what he should and shouldn't be playing. I drew the line at GTA V and Black Ops 2's zombies mode until he was a bit closer to his teen years.
I personally think that yes, violent games do desensitise you to violence to a degree, same as hunting, but is that necessarily a bad thing? Not to be shaken by violence? That's another discussion
Like many hunters i knew were definitely desensitised but also were extremely reliable in stressful situations
What's funny is Halo came out when I was 8, and it was my Mom who played it with me x'D
my mom still believes me lashing out when I was like 6 has nothing to do with her divorce, oh how great people are sometimes (I have a somewhat strained relationship with everyone but my dad and grandpa who are both clearly autistic like me)
My mom use to play GTA SA with me at the age of 6/7 💀, good memories were made it for sure, i remember going to sleep at 12/1 am
I still play multilayer Halo with my kids and they're in their 30s now.
Most of us in general will be ok from playing these gems of games. But i cant ever forget that high schooler that shot his mom and dad for taking his halo 3 copy.
She just didn't understand, but she loved you! Give her a call bro
My father always told me it was okay to kill aliens cause its not like youre gonna be able to do it in real life.
this is such a lovely video :D
Thanks! Glad you liked it 👍
My dad loved the game and got me to play it and my mom didn't care because she saw it was aliens so it was fine and now ive got the whole collection thankfully to my parents ❤
I liked and now its 300 lezgoo
Only thing my mum hated was that I’d kill my own marines haha but I played Halo: CE with my entire family: mum, dad and 2 sisters, when we got it for xmas the year it came out. From escaping the Pillar of Autumn and landing on Halo to storming the Control Center, and then discovering the horror that is The Flood, we did it all together and she had a blast. I miss those days.
My mom made it known to my dad that she was staunchly against him letting me play Halo CE when I was 7 LOL
Halo is a core childhood memory for me, and I can't imagine not growing up with it. Halo uses its M rating in such a sophisticated way. Its not like other M rated games that just have crass and vulgar content for the sake of it, very surface level themes. But Halo (not saying its the only game) used its darker themes sparsely and with literary intent. It all comes down to context, like you say.
Perfect way to put it. That's where the feeling that if it were to be rated today against newer games, it would feel really tame.
Damn I didn't realize this was a thing, my mum bought my brothers and I a copy of halo 2 & a new original Xbox :)
Yah very different, in fact my mom bought the mcc when my genetic dad tried to kidnap me so I was distracted. I was obsessed ever since.
Bro forgot about the flood.
I was lucky enough to have parents that didn’t understand it. I got both halo 1 and 2 for my birthday and halo 3 for Christmas. Honestly some of the best games I played and even now I go back and just play for fun. My dad even got me halo reach on a midnight release for my birthday. I’ll never forget him saying “I didn’t know people like this game that bad. The line was down the block!”
I loved Halo and I hope it gets the love it deserves with Halo studios
Well crafted video! I wish you woulda interviewed mom! You coulda even had her play it some!
Also you should explain, wasn’t there an article about the US Govt using halo to desensitize the military?
My Mom was cool with me playing Halo and COD but banned GTA for me.
Somehow I managed to prove to my mom that halo is a good series and now she loves the ost.
I was like 7 or 8 and i was told not to show certain games (for instance Postal 2) to my nephew who is only 4 years younger. Make believe is make believe. I'm not a Columbine kid, I'm not creating doom levels of my high school to go shoot it up. I played Postal 2 and GTA Vice City as a kid, but it was a way I could get violence out without doing it in real life. I know video games are video games. Some clerk told me at Walmart that Doom 3 was for adults when my dad bought the 5 disc copy. I was scared shitless of that game, but now as an adult I can play through it like nothing.
My mum was fine with Halo for one reason. I was killing aliens,not people. And by her logic,if I was killing aliens,robots or anything non human it was fine
My parents played Halo CE first then when they beat it, they deemed it appropriate for me to play with them and eventually they let me play it on my own. But they had rules, no killing marines and a couple others escaping me atm
Definitely part of why I still love CE over any other Halo game though, getting to spend time with my dad
I still find it incredibly unfortunate that most people won’t be able to have these experiences with their own kids though; because our generation is so quickly losing the capability of having healthy relationship with the opposite gender…. Having a family is a blessing that so many don’t realize….
Yeah, some of my favorite memories with my father were playing Halo CE back in the old days.
I wanted to say, don't let the internet get you down man. There are more people with families than you realize. Just because it's "trending down" and sometimes just not for everyone, doesn't mean that the idea of a family is disappearing from existence. 👍
@@DeadBeat_Dave 🙂
Not down, but definitely sombered. The difficulty is finding a dedicated person. The internet makes people think their options are infinite, makes them keep looking for “the perfect person” instead of a healthy person to build with; because our generation’s women typically don’t like to build
My mom got me into Halo. This title is rubbery rub rubbish
Dood, our mom hated it, as with many others
My mum played halo with me. Idk what you guys are on about.
My mom didn’t care. My dad loved it, except he scolded me deeply when I shot at marines
My mother hated the theme, it creeped her out. But other than that she didn’t really care at all
Haha my wife says the same thing 😂
Can't relate. My mom loves Halo. Both of my parents play video games.
Cool parents supremacy
My mom was the one who bought it for me back then xD, Halo was never really a problem, even in multiplayer.
But the whole "you become a murderer/school shooter from playing this" came up later when i also played CoD 4 & 5
As if shooting bullets out of your head is so realistic xD and the graphics were a joke compared to Crysis 1
So sorry you had to grow up with a mom like that keeping you away from anything cool it must have been hard
My mom wouldn’t let me buy a paintball gun. I came home with an Xbox and Halo instead 😂
That sounds like a fair compromise to me lol
so as a gen z kid ngl im a baby i was always a switch gamer but int he past 4 years ive gotten into more mature games satrted playing halo played souls games and my aunt kinda was like why do you want dark souls 3 when i asked for it and was so confused and my uncle was just like sure why not so its def intresting maybe its more of a female thing idk it wasnt even like i was young im a teen cant be that bad but still was that reaction
I’m 20 and I still do everything in my power to not let my mom see h4 Cortana. (She’s definitely seen her but she doesn’t know I let my little bro play halo 4)
I DIDN’T THINK OF H4 CORTANA!! 😬
That’s pretty funny though 😅
oh man… i got in SO much trouble for letting my homies in grade school play halo 2 with me. i always argued we were killing aliens and saving the universe so it was justified 😂
My mom didn’t like violent games but halo was fine gta off the table golden eye nope she got rid of it I brought it up she threatened to get rid of it but never did hell when halo two came out my dad pulled me out of school early to get it
My mom had no problems letting me play Halo haha
I love Halo. But yeah kids should be outside, not playing video games
But Mom, its not Call of Duty!
My mom didn't
My first intro to modern games was turok evolution for ps2. M for mature but I was allowed to play it because you were not killing people. I also had 007 goldeneye which was T for teen. I was NOT allowed to play it because you WERE killing people. We still played it in secret and had a great system of switching the screen input to the gamecube with animal crossing or something open when we heard mom or dad coming up the stairs. Those were the days. In my personal opinion, gaming has never been as good as it was late 90s to early 20 aughts. The new hyper realistic games just do not at all tickle that fantasy realm the same way those cheeky graphic ps1 or og xbox games did.
Yeah, a lot of people feel that way about "modern gaming"
and honestly I find it pretty hard to fully explain. Probably because its a big mixture of a bunch of things. There is no easy explanation or scapegoat. Definitely part of it is sadly that we're just getting older. Another could be the hyper-competitiveness of new multiplayer games. And also the way studios have sold out to larger corporations that now control most creative decisions one way or another.
For me the Halo franchise is the less M rated game their is i know 1 to 4 a rated M but 5 and Infinite are T to prove my point .Ironically Call of Duty 2 & 3 are rated T even if it look more realistic then Halo and still have blood in it from CoD 4 all CoD are rated M to this day .I am older then you ,you should look at my parent face when i got my Snes at christmas 97 with Donkey Kong Country and Mortal Kombat II the first time i play Mortal Kombat 2 and have done a Fatality i sense them looking at me from my back they where like what the fuck just happen !!!
Yeah, in hindsight it seems pretty wild that those old COD games didn't get the 'M' rating. I definitely don't think the early Halo games deserved it. But at the time, I bet the dismemberment that came with the flood had a large role in the mature rating.
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Halo is the only rated M game my mom let me play lmao
He blipped his dog 😭
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@@DeadBeat_Dave Don't act like nothing happened. We all saw it, you maniac! 🙃
Um, then maybe they shouldn’t have bought it for their kid? 🤷♂️
Flooding our countries with low-iq gangsters and blaming video games.... Social enginering 101. Well played Cabal, well played.
Mom halo is just a ring 💍 lol 😆
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John Halo?
@@DeadBeat_Dave it's Mr. Halo to you.
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