Persuasion campaign being waged in the Tyred household - Tyred Jr the elder (12) desperate to play it online with his mates, but I'm really not into violent games (or violence in general, or anything that normalises it for that matter!) so I'm instinctively not keen but appreciate the fact that computer games aren't my thing so don't speak with knowledge in this case.
Its rated 12, so in theory this should be OK but it doesn't sit easy with me. Plus Tyred Jr the younger is 9 and keeping it from him would be logistically tricky (we've one telly, in the living room, and console time is quite tightly controlled).
Knee jerk pinko-liberal hand-wringing or right to be hesitant, what says STW?
My 14 year old plays it.
It's cartoon violence Tarquin will be fine.
Cheers Drac, I'll tell Cressida.
Cheers Drac, I'll tell Cressida.
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See, that looks pretty flippin violent to me.
My 11 year old plays it with his mates (X box is set up in living room so we can keep an eye on him). As Drac says Fortnite is very much cartoon violence. No blood and gore. He seems to be a well adjusted soul who hasn't started torturing animals...
Full disclosure though - I do play 'violent' games so my moral compass may be a bit shonky! (I don't let my son play them though).
My 9-10 year old and everyone in his class play it. They would play it 22 hours a day if I let him
I've grown up pretending to kill people so maybe I'm biased, but I don't see it as any different from kids playing with toy guns, reading superhero comics or watching action movies.
As pointed out by others there's no blood or gore in Fortnite.
See, that looks pretty flippin violent to me.
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The enormous guns not make it kind of violent? I think I associate guns with violence.
So far it's been all Forza, Minecraft and Fifa so maybe I've led a sheltered existence til now.
Very mildly so.
Minecraft, that’s horrifically violent going around smashing and blowing peopke’s houses up with them inside. Forza smashing into people’s cars to make them crash.
They’re pew pew guns as mentioned hardly a big step away from playing ermmm army from Japan and English.
Looks like a TF2 level shooter, will be fine. I'd stay away from Borderlands though, cartoon-like isn't always a reliable metric.
My 11 yr olds play it but they aren’t that impressed with it. Having said that I don’t see much that is 16-ish with most 16 games so they play battlefront and halo against each other and me too.
My lad is looking for a gaming buddy or 3 for Fortnite. I don't allow him to add friends of people he doesn't know. But i could bend the rules slightly for STWers kids 🙂
If any of yours wants an extra Fortnite buddy, just shout on here or PM.