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Common Sense Media Lacks Common Sense — eGamer Reveals The Real Top 10 Kids Games

Common Sense Media Lacks Common Sense — eGamer Reveals The Real Top 10 Kids Games

Common Sense Media aims to “improve the media and entertainment lives of kids and families” in a manner that not only offends us, but also confuses us. The media company released a list of games which might be unsuitable for kids, where they then offered an alternative solution which might be suitable for kids. What ever happened to games aren’t suitable for kids? It’s just a matter of time before all games are suitable for kids.

The “10 Cool Games That Are Uncool for Kids (and 10 Alternatives)” sounds like a cunning plan, but is it really? For instance, just look at the list below and tell us that you couldn’t giggle.

Uncool for kids Instead buy
Borderlands inFamous
Assassin’s Creed 2 Mirror’s Edge
Brutal Legend Ghost Busters
Modern Warfare 2 Battlefield: Bad Company
Dead Space Extraction Deadly Creatures
Dragon Age: Origins Braid
Grand Theft Auto IV Batman: Arkham Asylum
Demon’s Souls Uncharted 2
Left 4 Dead 2 Overlord II
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars C.O.P.: The Recruit

Their list pretty much replaces all top rated games with pre-July 2009 releases, or stupid games. Swapping games like GTA for “good-guy” games like COP or Batman? Let’s get real. Your kid wants to steal cars and beat up hookers, don’t deprive him.

Moreover it feels as if the company is not only replacing top-rated games, but also replacing top game play and new game developments.

We now feel that it is our duty to also help parents out. We’ll start with top parenting advice.

Don’t have kids — But if you do, unfortunately, have children then then follow the next tip.

If kids don’t get what they want they will moan, and you will land up buying two games. Kids know what they want.

For a parent’s comparison we’ve also released our own table with our own game replacements.

Uncool for kids Instead buy
Borderlands Borderlands
Assassin’s Creed 2 Assassin’s Creed 2
Brutal Legend Brutal Legend
Modern Warfare 2 Modern Warfare 2
Dead Space Extraction Dead Space Extraction
Dragon Age: Origins Dragon Age: Origins
Grand Theft Auto IV Grand Theft Auto IV
Demon’s Souls Demon’s Souls
Left 4 Dead 2 Left 4 Dead 2
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars

We’d like to point out that our list doesn’t replace new games with old games. Modern Warfare 2 for Bad Company 1? Borderlands being replaced by inFAMOUS, after Borderlands scored better? Does Common Sense Media want children to be teased at school?

On a side note, we’d like to add that games do have ESRB ratings, and parents should use this at their discretion. However, if you feel that your child is better than a rating, that’s cool with us.

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Name: Dean Oberholzer
Location: Cape Town
Position: Editor

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  • Fatbob

    Why exactly wouldn’t you want you children to play GTA? It teaches them orrsum life skills.

    1. How to express yourself (with all the cool language they teach you)
    2. How to steal cars (Open door, pull granny out, drive off)
    3. How to kill people (Whether it be shooting in the face, beating to death with bat etc)

    WTF does batman teach you? Dress up like a fairy in spandex at night? Yarrrr I don’t think so.

  • Nitrate

    Batman’s nipples show.

  • http://egamer.co.za/ Tody

    Hahaha. :grin:

    For the record though, Batman: Arkham Asylum was not a kids game, it had really dark themes, lots of killing and evil stuff :razz:

    Although, Fatbob, GTA: IV was a pile of crap. It taught you none of the lessons that previous GTA games did :???:

    The only thing GTA: IV taught you, was that if you thought YOUR life was boring, you ain’t seen nothing yet. ;-)

  • Fatbob

    Wait which one was GTA IV?

    I only played Vice City, cos that was set in a time I can relate too with awesome suits that have rollup sleeves, Old sk00l music etc.

  • http://egamer.co.za/ Tody

    GTA IV was the latest one released for PC, PS3 and Xbox360 (PC version only came later) :razz:

    The crappy life simulator where you play as Nico in Liberty City… ;-)

  • Fatbob

    Oh right I remember a mate having a bitch that the PC port was rubbish.

  • Nitrate

    I only played the ones where you looked over from Above.

    Yakuza and some other gangs. Was epic to play network and drive over each other.

  • M0fla

    LOL Battlefield: Bad Company over MW2!!! :mrgreen:

  • Nitrate

    Yeah, Common Sense Media are on drugs. Not that girl drugs either. Hard rocks.