How to make this kid friendly?

[rayman617]

Is there any way to get a private server on PS4 w/o any other players or turn off damage to your character? Any other recommendations so a kid can explore the world without worrying about guns/getting run over or in a fight?

[PetrolCB]

Passive mode in an invite only lobby.

Edited May 1, 2020 by PetrolCB

[Lonely-Martin]

Aye, invite only is best.

 

Don't let your kid/s press the button to load online while the game loads up. Load the story mode and select online from the pause menu and select invite session. No one can enter without permission.

 

Passive mode is more for general public, but not 100% foolproof as players can still kill you if on foot.

[PetrolCB]

20 minutes ago, Lonely-Martin said:

Passive mode is more for general public, but not 100% foolproof as players can still kill you if on foot.

This here. I'd only mentioned it so their kid wouldn't pull out a gun and be tempted to do something with it.

[Lonely-Martin]

24 minutes ago, PetrolCB said:

This here. I'd only mentioned it so their kid wouldn't pull out a gun and be tempted to do something with it.

To be fair, I misread the original post on that part, lol. Sound advice.

[HamwithCheese]

GTA? Kid friendly?

Edited May 2, 2020 by HamwithCheese

[LarcenousUrsine]

9 minutes ago, HamwithCheese said:

GTA, kid friendly?

Running hookers over in a fast wee-woo that goes boom-boink is just what the kids love, actually. Fun for the whole family.

 

If one wants to cut out all the kid-unfriendly parts and frustrating features, though, one better use something like this on PC.

 

On consoles, though, all one can do is either play in a private session or in SP to keep outside interference to a minimum.

 

Still gonna face an occasional NPC calling you an inbred dickwad or running you over cause f*ck you that's why, but that's the price we all gotta pay.

 

Edited May 1, 2020 by LarcenousUrsine

[Pedinhuh]

This is a fool's errand, even with passive mode and in a private lobby your kid can still run over pedestrians with any vehicle and have the cops shoot him, he can still get in the strip club, and there's the foul language on the radio and the NPCs.

 

This game can't be 100% kid friendly, as being a murderer is almost a prerequisite just to get by.

 

In my opinion, I wouldn't let my kid play this until he's, at least, 12 years old which is when I started to play GTA 2.

Edited May 3, 2020 by Pedinhuh

[HamwithCheese]

1 hour ago, Pedinhuh said:

I wouldn't let my kid play this until he's, at least, 12 years old which is when I start to play GTA 2

One could argue they should play later, since games these days are more, let's say graphical. And that's before any online interaction with other strangers, with a toxic ass fanbase with endless asshole tools. 

 

Op, if you're reading any of this, and I doubt it, don't f*cking let your kids play this sh*t.

[Garland137]

You can't.  That's like asking for a Disney cut of Game of Thrones.  You're trying to cut out like 90% of the content.  If your kid is too young for. . . literally any part of the gameplay, play something else.  There's plenty of kid-friendly titles that involve exploration and/or driving.  Try Forza Horizon.

[Big Molio]

4 hours ago, rayman617 said:

Is there any way to get a private server on PS4 w/o any other players or turn off damage to your character? Any other recommendations so a kid can explore the world without worrying about guns/getting run over or in a fight?

Either let them loose on it, or not at all. There is no half-way house. My ten year old and all his pals play. Yes, sorry folks, they are the squeakers with the hideous cars, alien suits and white faces.

 

Kids these days are savvy, they've heard and seen most stuff. GTA Online is pretty tame beans you know?

 

The only time I go mad at my youngster is if I see him in races going the wrong f*cking way around the track. That is just not cricket man.

[éX-Driver]

3 hours ago, HamwithCheese said:

One could argue they should play later, since games these days are more, let's say graphical. And that's before any online interaction with other strangers, with a toxic ass fanbase with endless asshole tools. 

 

Op, if you're reading any of this, and I doubt it, don't f*cking let your kids play this sh*t.

Ah, the joys of growing up: Becoming the ‘no fun allowed’ adult that you hated as a kid.

 

it’s ultimately just a game. Kids can see just as terrible sh*t on the evening news, with the constant tragedy pr0n. Anyone that thinks kids are innocent untainted little angels doesn’t remember what they were like as one themselves. There’s precisely zero evidence that violent video games makes normal kids into violent sociopaths, regardless. The whole “video games pollute the minds of the young” is just one example in a long line of moral panics specifically designed to corral kids into little padded hugboxes under 24/7 surveillance for their entire childhood because parents are too scared to let their kids be kids.

I say let the little bastard kill hookers to get his money back and fire RPGs at planes. So long as you make sure he realises it’s just fantasy, there’s no problem. 

 

.. playing in a public MP match, at least with voice comms, should definitely be a no-no though.

Edited May 2, 2020 by éX-Driver

[Gunbladelad]

The entire Grand Theft Auto series is a mature-rated frachises with an 18+ age rating across Europe.  Letting kids play GTA games is akin to letting them watch mature-rated films with excessive violence and gore.

Yes, I know there's tens of thousands of kids out there playing the GTA series - but age ratings are there for a reason.

[saintsrow]

As long as we're talking about the subject of a less hostile, less crude experience in the GTA world, especially the beautiful world of GTAV San Andreas, here's my suggestion to Rockstar: 

 

Contract out to another company, to adapt the San Andreas virtual world to more benign social environments, with various versions for kids, for anybody who wants to interact with others in a social Sims / Playstation Home / Second Life kind of world.  

 

The GTAV world is such a fantastic creation, it should be shared to a wider audience. There is a whole new demographic to buy shark cards so they can dress up and drive cars, pretend to live a beautiful Los Angeles life, and spiff out their avatar at a million dollars a pop.  

 

It's a shame Rockstar has missed this opportunity.  

 

[CarimboHanky]

go to storymode the choose director mode, select your online character and done

 

thats how i let my 6yo girl play. i give her godmode, super punch, low gravity etc etc and she get to enjoy the game without worry of getting annoyed by other players.

 

when she wants to play in the casino, i load her into a invite only session and let her waste my chips there last time she wasted 200k chips but what can i do, she is the queen of the house!

[Black-Dragon96]

6 hours ago, Gunbladelad said:

Yes, I know there's tens of thousands of kids out there playing the GTA series - but age ratings are there for a reason.

No offense but most age ratings are only there because some idiots still consider video games virtual bootcamps for massmurderers.

I mean up until 2011 the first Doom was on the german index list A. Meaning you were not allowed to advertise it or sell it to people under 21.

The reason for that was "realistic violence".

Or the good old Wolfenstein 3D. That was on list B up until 2019 (aka 25 years). List B meaning, you were allowed to own it privatly but not to sell it or advertise it. If a store would have tryed to sell it the modules would have been confiscated by the police. The reason for that were the swastikas.

All while games with real money gambeling (aka lootboxes) were rated appropriate for all ages.

[Big Molio]

7 hours ago, Gunbladelad said:

The entire Grand Theft Auto series is a mature-rated frachises with an 18+ age rating across Europe.  Letting kids play GTA games is akin to letting them watch mature-rated films with excessive violence and gore.

Yes, I know there's tens of thousands of kids out there playing the GTA series - but age ratings are there for a reason.

Kids are savvy enough to be able to discriminate between videogame violence and real violence. That has been the same for as long as videogames have existed. The kids want to play them. They aren't going to suffer any long term effects from having pixels on screen kill each other. 

 

I have two sons, aged 13 and 10, and whilst my eldest has drifted away from GTA, the youngest plays it with his school-friends, particularly during lockdown as he can't go out and play with them for real at the minute. It is interesting to watch just how a typical ten year old approaches this game. This current alien "purps vs greens" civil war thing is a clear example of how youngsters will create their own fun. Other things they do is spend hours in groups riding BMXs around in the game, looking for the skate parks and doing stunts. They play it through the filter of what kids find fun.

 

My son has the ugliest cars that all look like Hot Wheels cars, the ugliest, most garish outfits and the ugliest tints on his weapons so they all look like Nerf guns.

 

They tend to stick together in small groups of people they know on the XBOX party chat, and not be influenced by outsiders, much like they would anywhere else.

 

They play it their way. And whilst some adults will tut and shake their heads, it is what it is. No harm done.

 

 

Edited May 3, 2020 by Big Molio

[CarimboHanky]

7 hours ago, Gunbladelad said:

The entire Grand Theft Auto series is a mature-rated frachises with an 18+ age rating across Europe.  Letting kids play GTA games is akin to letting them watch mature-rated films with excessive violence and gore.

at home we never had such restrictions, i grew up watching movies like goodfellas, reservoir dogs, pump fiction, casino etc etc and playing whatever i wanted and i came out really good.

 

the problem are not the movies or the video games, its what you teach your kids at home, i was thought those are just movies and video games, you dont do that in real life, i got the message. nowadays as a parent of 3 kids(17-10-5), i did the same thing, they know what they are seen its just a movie/game, i got guns at home and they know those are not toys, they wont respawn.

[God-eater]

There is no way I'm explaining Trevor to a kid. Or the billboards. Or the random things NPC's say. Or the violence. Or the glorification of crime. Or the... you see where I'm going with this.

[Aquamaniac]

8 hours ago, Gunbladelad said:

The entire Grand Theft Auto series is a mature-rated frachises with an 18+ age rating across Europe.  Letting kids play GTA games is akin to letting them watch mature-rated films with excessive violence and gore.

Yes, I know there's tens of thousands of kids out there playing the GTA series - but age ratings are there for a reason.

When I was a kid, games were illegally copied which is nowadays more difficult if possible at all, but GTA and way more violent games have been played by kids ever since. When I was even younger James Bonds movies were on TV on Sunday mornings and they were quite violent and cynical. I wouldn't take age ratings too serious, but not everything is suitable for kids.

[Lonely-Martin]

10 hours ago, Gunbladelad said:

The entire Grand Theft Auto series is a mature-rated frachises with an 18+ age rating across Europe.  Letting kids play GTA games is akin to letting them watch mature-rated films with excessive violence and gore.

Yes, I know there's tens of thousands of kids out there playing the GTA series - but age ratings are there for a reason.

Bollocks!

 

I'm guessing you never watched/played an 18 before you were of age, of course, lol.

 

By the sounds of it, I'd give you a heart attack if I was to list all the movies me and my kids watched before they were 18, lol. My daughter loves horror and the lad his action flicks, blimey.

 

And naturally, you must hate the freedom the American parents have as with R Rated movies, they can take their kids to the cinema and enjoy some classic stuff together on the big screen. We can only do that on home video here in England.

 

Always been jealous of the way the US does that. Funny old world though. I (and the Mrs.) decide what's suitable for our kids, not some suit like James Firman or Mary Whitehouse. What a couple of muppets they we're, lol. According to those clowns, movies like The Evil Dead or The Exorcist aren't even suitable for over 18's, lol. Twats!

 

Anyway, lol, your type of comment was expected. But damn, it still is funny to read.

 

2 hours ago, CarimboHanky said:

at home we never had such restrictions, i grew up watching movies like goodfellas, reservoir dogs, pump fiction, casino etc etc and playing whatever i wanted and i came out really good.

 

the problem are not the movies or the video games, its what you teach your kids at home, i was thought those are just movies and video games, you dont do that in real life, i got the message. nowadays as a parent of 3 kids(17-10-5), i did the same thing, they know what they are seen its just a movie/game, i got guns at home and they know those are not toys, they wont respawn.

Well said! I do the same.

[Garland137]

On 5/1/2020 at 8:05 PM, Big Molio said:

Kids these days are savvy, they've heard and seen most stuff. GTA Online is pretty tame beans you know?

When I was in school, none of the teachers could work the computer system as well as the kids.  We loaded stuff like Quake and Mortal Kombat onto the network and played matches on our lunch break.  We were 12.

[Scottiedog123]

Aaah this is how it starts.. 

 

Then ten years later your kid is a beast online..

 

I was like.. "I'll just let him drive the cars around.."

 

 

[Mdc]

3 hours ago, CarimboHanky said:

at home we never had such restrictions, i grew up watching movies like goodfellas, reservoir dogs, pump fiction, casino etc etc and playing whatever i wanted and i came out really good.

 

the problem are not the movies or the video games, its what you teach your kids at home, i was thought those are just movies and video games, you dont do that in real life, i got the message. nowadays as a parent of 3 kids(17-10-5), i did the same thing, they know what they are seen its just a movie/game, i got guns at home and they know those are not toys, they wont respawn.

You are totally right. Kids are exposed to way more damaging behaviour, and its often done by their nutty entitled parents. My kid has a friend at school who isn't allowed round because we play 18+ games all the time. Fair enough but said parent is regularly seen parking blacked out SUV on the pavement safety zone outside school compete with blaring hip hop music then speeding off down the road leaving a smell of weed in the air behind.... Bit of a control freak.

 

Other parents take excess drink or hard drugs every night rather than supervising/teaching their kids how to play GTA properly. Encourage said kids to shout obscene things to other players who won't carry them through the heist or mission. You gotta be trash inbred scum with 2 daddy's cos you won't complete a setup for them right? Point out that they just need to not die by sitting in the kuruma you brought? You are definitely a nonce who needs to get a life and they feel sorry for your kids because you are a truly terrible parent who's kids should be removed....

 

Its this sort of toxic irresponsible parenting that is making all the trouble not the games. Kids can see some real terrible stuff on the news or in games/film even in real life and be unaffected when the parents give the right message and support about it. But giving little johhny no guidance while encouraging him to be a entitled brat is a recipe for disaster whether he sees age restricted material or not.

[Big Molio]

2 minutes ago, Mdc said:

You are totally right. Kids are exposed to way more damaging behaviour, and its often done by their nutty entitled parents. My kid has a friend at school who isn't allowed round because we play 18+ games all the time. Fair enough but said parent is regularly seen parking blacked out SUV on the pavement safety zone outside school compete with blaring hip hop music then speeding off down the road leaving a smell of weed in the air behind.... Bit of a control freak.

My eldest son has a friend with a mother who controls his every move like that. At 14 you need to start giving them a bit of freedom. This kid pleads with us not to mention to his mum that he has been at ours with my son, eating sweets and watching horror movies, or he won't be allowed to come any more. Tragic really.

[Commander S]

On 5/1/2020 at 8:19 PM, PetrolCB said:

Passive mode in an invite only lobby.

100% kid-friendly GTAO:

 

- Invite-only session

- Passive mode

- Mute the audio

- Tell them "the baddies are fine - they're just sleeping, in a big puddle of jam"...

[Lonely-Martin]

9 minutes ago, Commander S said:

- Tell them "the baddies are fine - they're just sleeping, in a big puddle of jam"...

✌

[RyuNova]

1 hour ago, Commander S said:

- Tell them "the baddies are fine - they're just sleeping, in a big puddle of jam"...

 

 

[FairladyZ]

I'd rather buy The Crew 2 for a kid. It's open world, no violence and he can explore an immense map with multiple vehicles.

[ManassaxMauler]

If you're worried about how violence in a video game might affect your kid, maybe don't let your kid play Grand Theft Auto. This is some stupid sh*t. 

 

I played the first GTA when it came out at 8 years old because my parents knew I was not the type of person to be influenced by what I saw in video games and movies. 

 

I can't stress enough how stupid it is to let your child play Grand Theft Auto if you don't want your child exposed to the central themes of Grand Theft Auto. It would be like saying you want to show them pr0nography, but want to censor the genitals. It's a shame you have already passed on your genetic code. 

 

If you're worried about your kid just not having fun because they're getting rekt, start a private server and teach them how to play. They learn fast, and can be some of the deadliest players in online games. 

Edited May 3, 2020 by ManassaxMauler