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Reminds me of a Gaf thread about a 7 year old having a CoD themed birthday party

Lagamorph wrote:Reminds me of a Gaf thread about a 7 year old having a CoD themed birthday party

Amazingly, there was a CoD range of action figures / soldiers for kids . Stuff like this...

Good lord.

jawafour wrote:

Lagamorph wrote:Reminds me of a Gaf thread about a 7 year old having a CoD themed birthday party

Amazingly, there was a CoD range of action figures / soldiers for kids . Stuff like this...

Yes, I saw this in Toys-R-Us last Christmas - it was right next to the MASSIVE LEGO section. I thought it seemed rather inappropriate then.

KK wrote:

jawafour wrote:

Lagamorph wrote:Reminds me of a Gaf thread about a 7 year old having a CoD themed birthday party

Amazingly, there was a CoD range of action figures / soldiers for kids . Stuff like this...

Yes, I saw this in Toys-R-Us last Christmas - it was right next to the MASSIVE LEGO section. I thought it seemed rather inappropriate then.

I thought that kind of thing had been stopped? Apparently not!

I remember in the early 90s being 7/8/9 years old and having action figures for Terminator, Aliens and Robocop, all of which were designed for my small Trump-like kiddy hands. Massively inappropriate but I do sympathise with my parents - anything to shut me up

I mean I'd seen all the films by that age as well but that's besides the point

I read the first part of this thread and was a little confused. Then I realised it was from a few years back! I can imagine GAME buying up mothballed old Blockbuster stores on the edge of town.

Preezy wrote:

KK wrote:

jawafour wrote:

Lagamorph wrote:Reminds me of a Gaf thread about a 7 year old having a CoD themed birthday party

Amazingly, there was a CoD range of action figures / soldiers for kids . Stuff like this...

Yes, I saw this in Toys-R-Us last Christmas - it was right next to the MASSIVE LEGO section. I thought it seemed rather inappropriate then.

I thought that kind of thing had been stopped? Apparently not!

I remember in the early 90s being 7/8/9 years old and having action figures for Terminator, Aliens and Robocop, all of which were designed for my small Trump-like kiddy hands. Massively inappropriate but I do sympathise with my parents - anything to shut me up

I mean I'd seen all the films by that age as well but that's besides the point

Robocop and Rambo even got their own cartoons aimed at children, though obviously they were hugely toned down from the films.

It's a bit if a weird one, if I had a 10 year old child I could probably justify sitting with them to watch some 15/18 rated films, but I don't think I'd be comfortable with them playing something like Call of Duty or Battlefield. Though I think it's a different thing with the modern iterations than it was when those franchises originally started. They've gone from comparitively blocky character models that just about resemble people and vaguely blood looking textures that a modern mobile phone probably wouldn't struggle with to extremely realistic models and textures. And then there's the toxicity of the online community too in multiplayer.

Maybe it's something worth it's own topic to discuss.

Lagamorph wrote:

Preezy wrote:

KK wrote:

jawafour wrote:

Lagamorph wrote:Reminds me of a Gaf thread about a 7 year old having a CoD themed birthday party

Amazingly, there was a CoD range of action figures / soldiers for kids . Stuff like this...

Yes, I saw this in Toys-R-Us last Christmas - it was right next to the MASSIVE LEGO section. I thought it seemed rather inappropriate then.

I thought that kind of thing had been stopped? Apparently not!

I remember in the early 90s being 7/8/9 years old and having action figures for Terminator, Aliens and Robocop, all of which were designed for my small Trump-like kiddy hands. Massively inappropriate but I do sympathise with my parents - anything to shut me up

I mean I'd seen all the films by that age as well but that's besides the point

Robocop and Rambo even got their own cartoons aimed at children, though obviously they were hugely toned down from the films.

It's a bit if a weird one, if I had a 10 year old child I could probably justify sitting with them to watch some 15/18 rated films, but I don't think I'd be comfortable with them playing something like Call of Duty or Battlefield. Though I think it's a different thing with the modern iterations than it was when those franchises originally started. They've gone from comparitively blocky character models that just about resemble people and vaguely blood looking textures that a modern mobile phone probably wouldn't struggle with to extremely realistic models and textures. And then there's the toxicity of the online community too in multiplayer.

Maybe it's something worth it's own topic to discuss.

I let my eight year old play Manhunt 2 on the Wii*.

*this maybe a massive lie.

You turn into a massive hypocrite and contradiction when you become a parent.

I used to watch the 80s action movies, usually behind my parents back and I played Mortal Kombat etc and I don’t think it did me any harm at all.

Would I strawberry float let my lad watch or play that sort of thing until he’s 16 though.

jawafour wrote:Saw my eldest (aged 11) nephew today and spotted that he'd got a copy of Battlefield 1 for his XBO. A disc-only, second-hand version without a cover that he'd got from our local GAME store. Apparently it was priced at £32 and he'd traded in four of his decent-condition XBO games to get it .

I've said before that he should give me a shout if he's gonna get a game and I can tell him where to buy it (i.e. not from GAME). I guess this is how GAME is making the bulk of its profit nowdays; from folk who basically don't know any better.

Slap him upside his face and point him towards EA Access which now has BF1 in the vault