Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24057651-20141223072003/@comment-35357669-20141223105732

You see, violent video games are great, they allow us to do things we would never do in real life, like kill someone or rob a store. But getting introduced to things at a youngs age can affect the way kids think. As humans we tend to have a this dark morbid sense in which curiosity leads us towards these sort of things. We tend to have this sense of pleasure from playing violent games, watching horror movies; we get a guilty pleasure. It's the fact that they are considered morbid is the reason we go back to these things. Besides everyone being different with morbid curiosity, very few have that much that it would lead them to do that. Skylanders has a comical releif sense and is less morbid then say more violent games which are R or MA15+ rated, and very, very morbid. Going on to games like that, you can do all sorts of horrible things on that game, but it feeds your morbid curiosity and that is why that game even exists. But Skylanders is most definately nowhere near that. You could say Stealth Elf throwing knives is bad for kids, so why don't you say Pop Fizz drinking potions is a drug reference? Of course I won't go into detials for obvious reasons there but just look at how stupid that sounds. Most kids don't even think about those kinds of things, sure they may have morbid curiosity but it would be more innocent. Sure you can put a dark plot behind Skylanders but kids see it a lot more innocently.