Hello, I would like to discuss about how I think Halo 4 should appeal more to families. As a father of 3, I feel very passionate about this.
Halo, and video games in general, are getting more kids every day. Now, to help parents out, we should just give them an option to cut out blood and profanity. At the start of the game, Halo 4 could let you create a password. Entering in this password at the pause screen would let you access parental features. It would include things like…
-change the color of blood
-remove blood
-beep out profanity
-change explosion size (all the way to none)
-Change guns with water squirters(sounds ridiculous, but I bet many parents want this, including myself)
-Change guns with something else, can be a variety of things
-change explosion color
-Screams of Spartans when they, “die”, will be changed to something like, “Awwwwh, I lost!”
I appreciate that 343i showed some concern when they made the game take place in virtual reality, but you can let players have all the gore that they want, while letting families play. I would love to play Halo with my family! Halo 4 has a lot of potential in the family market now, and it would be a great move to implement these features.
There are endless things you can do with you family that are family friendly so why should 343 change Halo (An M rated game since the start)to appeal to family’s?
> There are endless things you can do with you family that are family friendly so why should 343 change Halo (An M rated game since the start)to appeal to family’s?
Well, we have M rated games and E rated games. In my post, I said that it would simply be an option. If more video games incorporated these types of options, then families would have a much larger variety of video games to play. It hurts no one.
Not that I don’t see your point, or understand, but games have ratings for a reason. The Xbox, has parental controls for a reason. Now I could see if Halo took the same approach as other games where before you start up the game you are given an option to play the campaign in a PG style way, but as for multiplayer it’ll never happen. Also, I understand you have kids, guns, -Yoink!-, violence, and profanity are all parts of life. Kids should be taught these things by their parents and made to understand them, not take the joy out of games for the rest of us.
I understand you are trying to raise a good family, but they could see see the blood and guns and see that the world isn’t this safe utopea that parents set it out to be. Kids will see blood and will see guns, it’s the underexposiure to the dangers of the bad stuff that makes them not aware that these things are bad and can do bad things.
Halo shouldn’t be a kid friendly Nick JR type of game for families, its a Sci Fi First Person shooter. If you don’t want your kids exposed to this, don’t buy the game in the first place, that’s what the rating is for.
> Halo is an epic shooter. not a water gun fight. The game is rated M for a reason.
Actually, it wouldn’t hurt you at all. It is a choice, and you don’t have to choose it. If this was implemented in video games, then it could actually encourage devs to include more options for gore. You could have even more gore in video games if you wanted. Even bigger explosions. Wouldn’t that be awesome?
Since you have children who are clearly not old enough to be playing a rated M game, why expose them to the game in the first place and also hence this game is rated for those who qualify as “Mature”.
It’s funny because these are the same parents who say “Why is my child so violent” you could just spend some quality time without using an xbox.
While I understand your concerns about videogames and their effects on children. Halo is a mature series of games, technically not intended for children. The series has dark themes of war, violence, genocide, and horror. So if you do want your kids exposed to that, don’t allow them to play it. It really is that simple.
Removing the violence, minor usage of cursing, guns, and screams just diminishes from the game and takes away practically everything from the experience. 343i are certainly not going to take this into consideration. As I said, if you don’t want your kids to play it, have them play another video game series.
Why not just buy them a gameboy and pokemon to go along with it. I disagree with everything you said in your post not to be a -Yoink- but because if you don’t want your kid playing gory games then don’t buy it for them.
Halo has been and always will be M with the excuse of halo wars. So trying to change it to E will just ruin the game. So making halo “family friendly” will be a horrible Idea. If you don’t want your kids playing M games than set a lock on what rating your kids can play.
Bad idea IMO. If you don’t want your kids playing Halo 4, go buy them some Sesame Street game. You can only keep kids away from violence and blood for so long. What’s the point of holding them back from it? Who cares if they see it now because they WILL see it.
Besides, it’s just a game. Just tell your kids that Halo isn’t real. There, problem solved.
This is an obvious troll post. Although if they put a skull in that changes all the weapons into water guns and plastic swords, add rainbow blood, give all the characters little squeaky chipmunk voices and so on; that’d be pretty hilarious.
> It’s rated M for a reason.
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> If you don’t want your family playing it or seeing it, just don’t let them. Let them go play Just Dance 3 or whatever is out.
Hey man, Just Dance 3 is my jam. I learn new moves, go to the club, and I’m constantly being asked “Yo dawg, where’d you pick up those sick moves.”
Actually I’ve never played, but that would be hilarious if that happened, or if I was ever caught in a “club.”
