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Your first M-rated game

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Was 10 when I played Left 4 Dead. The zombies didn't scare me even a bit, and my parents for some reason didn't care about me playing.
 
When I was about seven years old, one of my cousins on my father's side of the family rented Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. I played a bit, too, and got a kick out of some of the weirder stuff like the "Flying Car cheat, and the "changing the phase of the moon wi"th a sniper rifle" easter egg.
 
I forgot, but it was one of these:

PC: Doom, Doom 2, Quake, Quake 2
Sega Genesis: Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
N64: Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
 
I remember playing GTA Vice City many years back but the violence is mostly in the actions themselves than the graphics which are incredibly tame. San andreas would be a better example with all the swearing. I thought it was the funniest game ever made. Since I watched Robocop and Fist of the North Star before I was even 10 no one bat an eye to this.
 
First M-rated game I played was Conker's Bad Fur Day on the N64. I believe I was 14 at the time? I don't really remember.
 
My first M game was Assassin's Creed III.
 
GTA Vice City. But I didn't find it to be a 18+ game. And my parents are too indifferent to look into what I was playing
 
I never really used to play video games (unless it was Mario Party or SSB: Melee) so much as watch others play them. So I did see quite a few M games as a kid, but that stuff didn't really bother me. My favourite movie as a four-year-old was Slave to the Cannibal God, for crying out loud. I used to like watching the cannibals get killed because I hated them, so a Darknut exploding in a puff of smoke was hardly going to give me nightmares.

But yeah, the first M game I was exposed to would have been GTA: San Andreas. I remember afros and bikes and giving flowers... but I just used to watch, really. Otherwise, it was LoZ: Twilight Princess. Actually, this game did scare me a bit as a kid. I was so scared of the Moblins (when I was allowed to play) that I'd make someone else kill all of them in Hyrule Field, so that I could just ride around and not be inhibited. And the Twilight Zone was terrifying, and the Twilight Temple and... yeah.
But then I finally grew up, bit the bullet and set out to kill some Moblins. I slaughtered them all and found that I liked it. That was the start of me facing my fears, but I still haven't gone into the Twilight Realm. I don't handle being chased well - in real life or video games. I'm of the predisposition to curl up in a ball and die.

So yeah, San Andreas and Twilight Princess. From then on it was stuff like GTA4 and Final Fantasy 13.
 
I haven't touched an M-rated game in my life, mostly because I don't get into blood, horror, swearing or sleazy themes. In fact I hate those themes with a passion that burns as hot as Incineroar's navel. (That didn't sound right.)

I did want to pick up Dual Destinies, which is the first and only M-rated Ace Attorney game, but only because it was an accident. The game is rated T in Japan, and the following sequel was again rated T.

Revenge of the Boyega said:
I never really used to play video games (unless it was Mario Party or SSB: Melee) so much as watch others play them. So I did see quite a few M games as a kid, but that stuff didn't really bother me. My favourite movie as a four-year-old was Slave to the Cannibal God, for crying out loud. I used to like watching the cannibals get killed because I hated them, so a Darknut exploding in a puff of smoke was hardly going to give me nightmares.

But yeah, the first M game I was exposed to would have been GTA: San Andreas. I remember afros and bikes and giving flowers... but I just used to watch, really. Otherwise, it was LoZ: Twilight Princess. Actually, this game did scare me a bit as a kid. I was so scared of the Moblins (when I was allowed to play) that I'd make someone else kill all of them in Hyrule Field, so that I could just ride around and not be inhibited. And the Twilight Zone was terrifying, and the Twilight Temple and... yeah.
But then I finally grew up, bit the bullet and set out to kill some Moblins. I slaughtered them all and found that I liked it. That was the start of me facing my fears, but I still haven't gone into the Twilight Realm. I don't handle being chased well - in real life or video games. I'm of the predisposition to curl up in a ball and die.

So yeah, San Andreas and Twilight Princess. From then on it was stuff like GTA4 and Final Fantasy 13.
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Interesting that you say Twilight Princess and FFXIII are M, because in America the ESRB rates them as Teen. Wonders never cease!
 
Incinerawr said:
Interesting that you say Twilight Princess and FFXIII are M, because in America the ESRB rates them as Teen. Wonders never cease!
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I'm "guessing" he's talking about the Australian Classification Board's M rating, which is for individuals 15 and older, and is relatively similar to our Teen rating. I think the AU equivallent to our M is the MA 15+ because it's legally restricted and requires that you be at least 15 to purchase, like how our M rating requires you to be at least 17 to buy it.
 
TeaWest said:
I'm "guessing" he's talking about the Australian Classification Board's M rating, which is for individuals 15 and older, and is relatively similar to our Teen rating. I think the AU equivallent to our M is the MA 15+ because it's legally restricted and requires that you be at least 15 to purchase, like how our M rating requires you to be at least 17 to buy it.
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Woo, they start early in Australia! but they do that here anyway
 
The first M rated game I played was Borderlands 2. It wasn't the first one I owned though, that spot goes to Fallout 4. I played Borderlands when I was about 10 or so, at my father's house. He was a lot more lax about games I got to play, he only disliked ones with overly sexual themes and I frankly agree with his philosophy about video games. Basically he says "You'll do what you want in the end, regardless of what I say." So he'd more so guide my choices than force them.

I got Fallout 4 like, 6 months after release I think? I was 16 at the time. My mother is a very controlling person and I had to be a bit deceitful in asking permission to buy it (not asking and just getting it would have had severe consequences for me).

I may have been a bit off topic there, but those were my first M rated games.
 
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