M rated Video games

[electromagneticpulse]

Singles: Flirt Up Your Life Well it's selling as M.

As for Jack Thompson, I doubt he'll get very far. Also he shows a complete moronic point, any game can have full frontal nudity in it because all the characters have to be modelled, which means simply removing the clothes and you have full frontal nudity. As for the sims and sims 2 the blur can be removed by simply stopping the program running that line of code, which if he wins basically means no game maker will ever make a game again because they could be sued for having FFN in a game.

EA is one of the biggest gaming companies out there and I know he's fighting his way to a wall, as the sims 2 is still in the top 10 after nearly a year of it being released. Meaning lots of sales, lots of fans and no doubt (and hopefully) a big out cry go against him.

I also think pretty much every teenager has played one of the sims games at one point, at least I don't know anyone my age who hasn't.

Oh and Humphrey, people will learn very few games are for kids when they look at the ESRB rating. Apparently there are a lot more blind people than we are led to believe.

[Moose]

Also he shows a complete moronic point, any game can have full frontal nudity in it because all the characters have to be modelled, which means simply removing the clothes and you have full frontal nudity.

Well, technically, you have to replace the base model with a "dangly bits" version. It isn't usually enough to simply strip down the "paper doll". It's rare that a company will build off of an anatomically correct base model, unless they have a particular reason to. (Singles, for example.)

Bioware's (Neverwinter Nights) apparently been waging a low-level technological war with the modders to prevent anyone from replacing the base (underwear-clad) models, used both extensively in the official campaigns as well as the PCs.

[Tranquility]

Singles: Flirt Up Your Life Well it's selling as M.

Maybe they're selling different versions, because on the ESRB website, it's rated AO.

[electromagneticpulse]

That's strange. But it's also kind of disturbing how few games are rated AO.

[Tranquility]

All of them are pornographic, except for one which involves real-life gambling with real money exchanging hands.

[Moose]

And this is pretty much why Whassisface wanted GTA:SA in the AO category. Not to properly label it, not to ensure that the M label is properly enforced, but to indirectly censor it (by making it inaccessible to the adult general public.) This is the only real effect making it AO will have on the game.

I find I deeply resent the prospect of fundies and "your kids" dictating what I can and cannot play.

[Fazor]

I guess barbies should be banned to because you can take thier clothes off :-p. And what's more sexually suggestive than a barbie "hot-tub party dream house"? Oh well, lawyers follow the money, and video game companies like EA and Rockstar are the best at attracting them. The real point is, if the game is unsuitable for children, then why are parents letting thier children play them? And more importantly, why aren't the kids already aware that such violence is wrong? I didn't know it was the entertainment industries duties to raise children. *shrugs*

[Edit] I apologize for bringing up a dead post. for some reason it was showing up like this was still active/recently posted to. Musta followed the similar threads link.

[Doodler]

Heh, man, if these fools ever knew some of the stuff we did in the original Neverwinter Nights campaign editor....holy....

I can't think of a NWN1 server that DIDN'T have the nude hak installed on it...then you get to the real codegeeks like I ended up being, and Gods, the fun we had with scripting...

I had a jailcell for people who got out of line which would strip them naked and dump them in a cell where a naked half ogre who's body was invisible except for his anatomically correct hips would beat the stuffing out of you. I put two of them in there in the second version, actually. Named them "Bubba" and "Chip".

The screams were legendary.

[Moose]

I can't think of a NWN1 server that DIDN'T have the nude hak installed on it...then you get to the real codegeeks like I ended up being, and Gods, the fun we had with scripting...

Named them "Bubba" and "Chip".

[Kristophe]

Heh, man, if these fools ever knew some of the stuff we did in the original Neverwinter Nights campaign editor....holy....

And that's the high tech, advanced master version of it. I used to play on Warcraft 2 and Starcraft maps that bore closer resemblance to male reproductive organs, and female nursing organs.

Really, most of the people involved in these Opposition to Free Expression in a Digital Medium awards (an offshoot of the classic Opposition to Free Expression in a Pigment Based Medium awards) are just looking to reduce the exposure of people, especially children and adolescents, to new ideas. You won't rock the boat if you think there's a sea monster suckling on the hull, after all. I mean, that is what censorship is about, no?