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I won't let my five-year-old play, or watch me play, he's going through a "monsters in the wardrobe"-period (I know, we shouldn't have let him warch "Monsters, Inc."), and would probably just be afraid. But I did let him see me fighting a dragon, he thought that was fun!

My 18-month-old daughter gets to watch sometimes, she's too young to have discover that monsters are scary. As I wrote in another thread here, she started saying "daddy, daddy" when I watched an uploaded video of a dragon fight where Ulfric Stormcloak spoke, I'm not sure if that's a good sign...

Oblivion is really happy and vibrant, not too much of a problem even for kids. Skyrim might be a little more violent, but then again I am bias because I remember playing Resident Evil 2 on the PS1 when I was like 7, haha.

That's seriously hilarious. I can imagine their excitement while saving up the septims to get a house or a horse. Only if they knew how much more evil NPCs can be than just selling you a ghost infested estate. When I was their age I played Drakan. Might have been a little too early. You could decapatite monsters if aiming correctly or cut off their limbs and watch them literally bleed to death. Then there were those huge beasts that stepped on your character and crushed it to pieces if you let them catch you. It was cool though. You had the ability to ride a dragon and roast enemies.

You're one awesome dad, that's for sure. Video games can be so much fun when played together.

ive actually been taking games away from my children, i think the ESRB rating is really acurate, my boys are 6 and 8, and when they play mature games or even teen rated games there attitude seems to be a lot more violent, so there stuck with E, E13 for now.

I think Oblivion is not violent except for few things such as Dark Brotherhood quests. Oblivion is still cartoonish to be labelled as "violent, gore, extreme gore", there is no sixual stuff either. it is still safe for children to play.

There are games out there however might injecting some bad idea in children mind...i don't want to mention them here...

I remember playing Doom while i was still in elementary school (don't remember my age back then), when i shot the enemy in there i feel nothing real, they are all just pixels, the graphic is not realistic at all, so i know it is not real.

But today games, latest games do have some highly upgraded graphic, even i an advlt couldn't bare to watch some detail gores in today games, and some realism shown haunting my mind, and today games also shown sixual stuffs, so those kind of games shouldn't be allowed to children.

Adorable story OP! Love it.

Oblivion really is not that bad of a game, especially if there's a parent around supervising. I'd let my kids play as long as I was around and limited what they could do. And if I had kids.
There are a lot worse M-rated games out there. Heck, there are a lot worse T-rated games. I played Trespasser (does anyone even remember that one?) when I was like 8 or 9. It was fairly gory at the time, and pretty intense for a wee one as myself, but I turned out okay. *twitch twitch*

And wasn't Oblivion's rating changed because of some third-party messing with it to make females topless? Something that would never be accessible during normal gameplay. For all intents and purposes, I still consider Oblivion "Teen."

This, but then you have to be there and watch their every tiny little step and also to make them
turn away if suddenly some NPC's are being attacked.

Thank you

That's your preference. Games like oblivion are OK If monitored. As a parent, I set strictly rules as to what they can and can't do. They abide by it so they don't get exposed to violence. Plenty of times the game issues when I get home because they got into some problem and kept to the rules. Also the game has taint them to save their money foe things they want to buy. They learn to budget there is more on the game to use as teachable moments, If you think about it.

They are not allowed to play unless myself or my wife are there to moniter them

I suggest you let them kill. How can anyone ever play an Elder Scrolls without killing at least some type of animal.

Yes there is. not actualy graphic sixual representation, but some of the speech in the game refers to sixual stuff, not to mention you can strip dead bodies and play about with them..

I always find it weird how people think it's wrong for children to be exposed to nudity or six, most children would just find it disgusting and hilarious, sixual violence is obviously wrong to show to kids but I wouldn't go limiting my hypothetical children from playing a game with briasts in it or anything.

Yeah come on, let them kill a deer. Hunting is so fun in games (wouldn't do it in real life, nothing against those that do it's just not for me, prefer watching animals), get them a little bow and arrow and head to the island around the Imperial city.

I said they can't kill people. Wolves, mudcrabs, goblins and deer are all old

That's an adorable story!

I let my son watch me play when he was six. When he turned seven, I let him have at it. It was pretty funny to watch. He would go into the wilderness, but only next to the traveling Imperial Legion Patrol. When the patrol turned back, he would too. He ended up doing the Arena all the time, because it meant he wouldn't have to go outside the city walls.
He gets impatient. He watched me play whatever character, and wanted all the high-end gear, but without doing any of the work. He's made at least 20 characters who have never made it past level 15.... he wants something else to happen with his character, scraps the current, and starts over.... and the cycle continues....

So now at nine years old, I've bet him 20 dollars that he can't take one character to level 30. I think I'm going to win, he still wants the reward for no work.

That's awesome, my guys go the bloodworks only for the rainments and to steal the arrows of the archer practicing foe gold lol

Eh. Don't listen to the people who want you to change the rules. I let my five year old nephew play gory games and am always making sure he knows it's all fake. Despite me not liking kids much, I love my nephew. He is someone who is very presious to me. I just have different ideas on what is okay for kids.

I was watching violent anime like Bleach when I was 11. It was hardly even that bad when it was still good. I'd let a six year old watch the stuff I watched when I was a preteen, but I would only do so if they clearly are able to handle the violence and swearing. I was. My nephew's guardians will not let him play games with swearing in them, and I try to avoid the parts with swearing just to stay out of trouble with the people who actually have custody of him.

My nephew loves to watch me play Bully, actually. Me and him aren't allowed to play GTA(my dad hates that series.) and we play Bully together. I just tell him to not repeat what he hears if it sounds remotely sweary.

I am quite proud of your kids considering they are so obedient about the rules you have set up for them. The saving up for things is going to help them in the future, as well. I had to start feeding my gaming hobby with my own money by the time I was 7. I love hearing that your kids are just as polite and know the rules of the house.

Tell them a thieving Khajiit recommends that they learn how to steal in the game during the daytime. Also, good luck.

My nephew watches me play Skyrim, and we just laugh if we see the violence. I've heard of so many much more violent games like the sadly canceled Thrill KIll that I find Skyrim's violence more goofy. If those kids ask for any Pokemon games, they will have to show the money before showing the Pokemans now. Haha. That's how it was for me once Pokemon Ruby came out, anyways. I still loathe that non-backlit original GBA I bought...

Do they jump all the time? Because my son does, even though he never gets to the level where that would be useful.
He joins the mages guild, then loots every guild hall. If it isn't nailed down he takes it. Makes about five thousand gold per guild hall lol, I tell him that it would be easier and less trips involved if he just hit a dungeon or cave, but that would mean going outside the city walls... so yeah.

There's talk about going to Kvatch, and seeing what it's all about... I'm shocked, it has taken him 2 years now, to even consider going outside.

Very cool post, OP. I would have made a thread like this long ago, except I don't want my daughter playing TES yet. She's about to finish 1st grade. She's pretty sensitive about animals getting killed, and has nightmares sometimes, also. I just dont' think she's ready for TES. Maybe when she gets to be about 10 things will be different.

I also consider TES to be "me-time". It's time when I get to do my thing. My girl still gets to game, though. She's got her Wii games (Dance Revolution, etc). that's plenty for her, I think.

Most of that would go over kids heads though...

That's a great story OP! I remember my dad always used to play racing games and Age of Empires with me. It was really fun, gaming can be a great bonding tool.

Yeah i know, i saw some people do that thing on You Tube, but that is ONLY if anyone want to do it, for a child, sure they don't have any motivation to do it.

An yes, there is sixual jokes in Oblivion, that is also if it is triggered by the player, if don't then it is nothing.

"Why Khajit lick their ass?"


because it is improper to expose children with those stuff early in their age, they should be exposed to other stuff than that stuff, for example, education, sport, other kind of activities that can teach them become for responsible for their action, joining boy/girl scout or something, joining community service activities...and many more useful things.

six comes later in their life, when they are an advlt. Just think, our ancestors didn't exposed to six early in their age, but still most of them have many children and have good family, large family...

Well, it is also depend on culture and so on...maybe in the west sixual stuff is not a taboo, i don't know, i live in the east...

thats how the game should be played!!!!!

Have you watched kids cartoons? The amount of sixual puns that are in them is astounding, yet they were shown to kids.. heck I used to listen to a song as a kid that I thought was just about fast food til my friend pointed out the lyrics were in fact highly sixual, yet it was recorded for kids! But six is not really a taboo amongst the 'younger' generation of teens in western cultures so we can find sixual references in cartoons from the 1990's

Saying that also - there is a high number of people in western cultures that are young teenagers, some just shy of becoming a teenager, who end up as parents from their own parents with the attitude of 'if I don't expose my kid to it, they'll be safe'. That's not to say that attitude is wrong, I certainly wouldn't expose young children to anything sixual...I just wanna point out that there isn't always a happy ending with not exposing them at an earlier age than advlthood.

on topic though..
OP: I do hope my kids enjoy it as much as yours do when I have them I'd love for them to be immersed in such great games . I'd probably be similar to you with rules until they convinced me they could handle the game on their own so I hope they enjoy it just as much.