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Phantom - Student  |
How stuiped is this, but Im sure its just the first of many. http://www.gamebiz.com.au/xbox/news.php?action=display&id=7120 _______________ -Phantom Ex-Master to Threat. Proud owner of Sazabi's 1500th comment! And Threats 50th comment "Insanity: a perfect rational adjustment to an insane world" |
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Mreoton - Student |
Well at first i thought well they shouldnt put a sex scene in it cos thats just stupid not that i care nor do most the population except the idiots who dont realise what an M rating is. If youre old enough to get a game or buy a game for your children rated M then your mature enough for whatever it throws at you. http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=ticket_to_hell OMG LOOK WHAT THEYRE EXPOSING US TO! This comment was edited by Mreoton on Aug 04 2005 12:11am. |
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Jacen Aratan - Student |
If kids go out and try to reenact the stuff they see in games and films, they were screwed up to begin with. And it's the parents' responsibility that the children behave properly; not a board. |
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Thomasooo - Student 
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Quote: No, censorship is never good. Really? On what do you base this statement? On the grounds of free speech being limited. Ratings should be there for guidance, not to enforce law, so that parents and children can see what to expect from a game... who are the comission that decides the ratings to decide what people are, and aren't, allowed to buy? It might be good to keep kids from playing very violent games. Keep in mind that many children are extremely easy to influence, and they might think that it's a good idea to bring the violent content of the game to life by injuring or even killing someone the way the 'hero' in the game does. There have been countless incidents of this type. From what the media tells us, most of these incidents take place in the United States. I guess there are a lot of kids playing violent games there...maybe parents would be more reluctant to buying their kids these if there was sexual content in every single game with a shred of violence in it?  _______________ In the navy and LOVING it! 
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This comment was edited by Thomasooo on Aug 03 2005 11:55am. |
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Jacen Aratan - Student |
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DarthMike - Student 
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Quote: PG-13 in US. I'm no expert, but i think that's 13+ only to see. actually all pg-13 means is that it is strongly suggested that parents watch the movie with kids who are younger than 13. So really a 6 year could go see batman in the US just as easily as in the UK. _______________ "You can't get Windows on a Mac because the drivers are not compatible." --- Some dude from the Geek Squad "So if you have quad-core, you have four times the RAM, right?" --- Some guy at Best Buy |
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Fire - Student 
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Sex being a natural part of humanity is obviously totally more terrible than violence, everyone RUN! |
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Ecks - Student 
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Quote: No, censorship is never good. Really? On what do you base this statement? _______________ "To become a greater man, you must be a lesser one first." |
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Phantom - Student 
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Raziel I see what your saying, U.S. censorship for movies is enforced but the censorship for games suxes. _______________ -Phantom Ex-Master to Threat. Proud owner of Sazabi's 1500th comment! And Threats 50th comment "Insanity: a perfect rational adjustment to an insane world" |
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Jacen Aratan - Student |
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Quote: Ratings and censorship suck. To a certain degree, yes. If only the people who worked in the cencorship department KNEW how to do their job, the world would be a better place. Besides, journalists would have less crap to write about. No, censorship is never good. |
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Raziel Anjelis - Student 
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Censorship is better in US than Britain. Batman begins is a 12A here, which means anyone under 12 can see it. That means a 6yr old can go to a cinema and have nightmares when seeing the Scarecrow's face. PG-13 in US. I'm no expert, but i think that's 13+ only to see. Now tell me censorship is silly. I realise game censorship is silly, cause the board have just seen one person take the game literally and all. but they seem to forget the rest of us that have enough braincells to know its just a game. For films, the UK censors need a kick up the jacksie. Games, i dunno. Whats stupid is the fact that younger kids want to play these 18+ games but can't buy them, so they go to someone older to buy them. And there was me thinking older people were responsible. _______________ Proud owner of El Vee For's 200th Comment, and Wicek's 2600th comment DaMi3N's 400th, Trad Redav's 666th.
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Thomasooo - Student
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Quote: Ratings and censorship suck. To a certain degree, yes. If only the people who worked in the cencorship department KNEW how to do their job, the world would be a better place. Besides, journalists would have less crap to write about. _______________ In the navy and LOVING it!
Recipient of comment no. 1000 and heart-warming words from Ataris!
This comment was edited by Thomasooo on Aug 02 2005 11:08pm. |
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Phantom - Student
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Just cause they made a law against it doenst mean anyone cares _______________ -Phantom Ex-Master to Threat. Proud owner of Sazabi's 1500th comment! And Threats 50th comment "Insanity: a perfect rational adjustment to an insane world" |
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Eica - Student 
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RockStar Games are apparently going to release an official patch that stops the pornographic content, and good for them. _______________ Former padawan of RoseRed |
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Senor Hat - Student 
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thats a load of cr#p its still out here, i went to EB today and it was still on thier shelves i think that site just wants to be notist _______________ I have beaten The Internet. The end guy was hard. |
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Axion - Student 
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I've already read this. Whatever floats the goverments boat. _______________ Axion - Yeah. |
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SaZ - Student 
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Quote: Nope saz its not. And dice I mean in general noone cares about ratings. well depends from what point you are lookin in to this thing  yeah no one cares about ratings. actually in my country i NEVER (i mean NEVER!!!) heard someone complaining about some ratings,violence lol _______________ playing jk3 since 30th of january (2005), member since 1st of february. [Unofficial Master to Vision and Z�diac ] If you can make a fool of yourself infront of 300 people you can do anything - Jaiko D'kana |
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Phantom - Student 
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Nope saz its not. And dice I mean in general noone cares about ratings. _______________ -Phantom Ex-Master to Threat. Proud owner of Sazabi's 1500th comment! And Threats 50th comment "Insanity: a perfect rational adjustment to an insane world" |
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SaZ - Student
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omg die! this will force them to download the damn game. is that better? lol _______________ playing jk3 since 30th of january (2005), member since 1st of february. [Unofficial Master to Vision and Z�diac ] If you can make a fool of yourself infront of 300 people you can do anything - Jaiko D'kana |
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Jacen Aratan - Student |
Ratings and censorship suck. |
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Dicemaster - Student 
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phantom, the MA ratings the don't care about. GTA:SA is now AO, not MA. They are considerbly more strict with that rating -Dice _______________ Dicemaster |
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xAnAtOs - Student |
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Quote: The going down the street, picking up hookers and killing them is ok, but a little bit of CG pron and OMG THE WORLDS GOING TO END. The United States of America in a nutshell. :') lol took the words straight out of my mouth. As for the game being banned, they had to release a censored version of GTA 3 when it came out a few years ago too, my friend still has the original though. The game being banned isn't really gonna stop people from getting their hands on it though, if you know what i mean heh. _______________ Brother to Luke Skywalker and (SKX) Dark Blade 
Lag Brother to Acey Spadey 
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Phantom - Student
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Dice dude I dont know what your talking about Im under 18 and have rented a thousand games that have the MA rating and knowone even flinched about it. Noone enforces those ratings people just want money. But it is really stuiped, you can go to strip clubs, kill old ladies off the street, get laid by a whore and kill her afterwards, shoot a cop in the face, but they are worried about a little porn? And you can take the blur off in the Sims for years now why are they cracking down on it now? And you do have a point here in America there are proably more porn stores then there are drug stores. There are thosands of sites all across the web that have porn on them, you can easily d/l porn. And your right why beat down GTA? When Playboy Manshion, Leusure suite larry and The Guy Game have alot more nudity? Somethings just out of place here dont you think? _______________ -Phantom Ex-Master to Threat. Proud owner of Sazabi's 1500th comment! And Threats 50th comment "Insanity: a perfect rational adjustment to an insane world" This comment was edited by Phantom on Aug 02 2005 12:47am. |
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Dicemaster - Student 
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buzz, the major difference, is that Mature rated games, are not very strictly enforced, you can get MA games when you are 12 pretty easily, adults only games are a lot more strictly enforced. So while it is completely retarted, the rating difference does make it harder for young ppl to buy -Dice _______________ Dicemaster |
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ozzcoz - Cosplay Nerd 
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Uh, it's not banned where I live. I was in EB Games last night, and they still have copies on the shelf that say MA-15+. Then again, Perth is full of slackers, and EB Games staff do tend to be a little slow. I'd buy it, but I don't want to pay $90 for a PS2 game. _______________ A wizard did it. |
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Buzz - Student 
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Actually what they're doing is recalling the games and releasing it with that content taken out of the game. Yeah now its adults only as opposed to the mature rating it had. So instead of it being for 17 and older its now for 18 and older. Nothing like ridiculousness is there. _______________ When you are going through Hell, keep going. -Sir Winston Churchill. Those who seek power and control of others, no matter the level, no matter the intentions, should never be given it. |
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