[General Discussion] MUTHA (censored) GAMES!

Television and rock music went through the same thing. People don't like what they they don't understand and they never try to understand what they don't like. More and more people are getting into games and eventually (though that will still take a while) the older generation of people who don't know better, won't be around or at least won't be so vocal about their ignorance.

It'll definitely take a long time, as the next big bad thing doesn't seem to be on its way just yet and games are only getting "worse" in a sense.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by chaofan

True to that... But oh man wait till the 2nd generation PS3 and XBOX360 games come around.

Exactly. I personally don't mind any rating systems they develope or elaborate on. The more clearer it is made that a certain game is not fit for an adolescent, the better. Games will be seen as kids' stuff for a long time now therefore anything not fit for children in them will be frowned upon, so any help with that is good.

The issue comes with the governments themselves. Be it the censoring Germany likes to do, or the way Australia gets a lot of games banned for whatever reason, it's certainly not the rating systems that are the problem. Rating systems are what allow the game to not be censored, unless you're on US turf, which, again means the problem is with the government. The whole mess that is the NC-17 and X rating is just ridiculous beyond anything. There isn't even a very good difference between the two, and yet the biggest problem with X ratings is that they're "perceived" bad and stores won't sell them. Does this sound like the problem is with the game or that its content is not fit for kids?

18-rated movies and games have been available in most of Europe for a while now (although Finland had the ridiculously stupid video law preventing 18-rated movies being sold on VHS for a long time, something the coming of DVD finally got rid of).

How ya doing, buddy?