SuperSneaky

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In Order of Desire (and kinda in the realm of possibility)

- A Zelda Wii that dares to leave the current template a bit.
- F-Zero GX sequel, by Sega. Despite Miyamoto being a douche.
- Retro Studios Starfox. F*ckin A.
- Disaster: Day of Crisis. Looks cool.
- Factor 5's Kid Icarus. All but confirmed at this point.
- Pirate Wings. Yarrr.

Wow, someone called "John McPoop" is lecturing us on being grown up....

I hate to break this to you John, but worrying about games being "Kiddie" is normally the first sign that you're pretty immature yourself. I have a 14 year old Nephew who won't watch one of the most beautifully executed films of all time, Bambi, because that too is "Kiddie" and he's far too busy being grown up with his blood and guts in Gears of War.

How old are you btw John? For the record, I'm 26, and have seen enough console generations to know that once you've graduate to long pants, it won't even occur to you if a game is "Kiddie" or not. You'll simply want to know if it's any good.

And here we are with the picture of the dragon with the huge, erect penis for a head again.

I will bend round and chew through my own balls if this game ever comes out. Someone record this. I'm being serious.

As anyone who's read my comments recently will tell you, I'm a big fan of the BBFC. They're bad ass, they don't fuck around, and what's more they have an 18 certificate that they don't worry about handing out, and that there's no kiss of death stigma attached to when going to see said movie.

You yanks could learn a thing or two ! BBFC FTW !

Question: Without the ability to go after Take Two anymore -- what can
Thompson do ?

Answer: Go fuck himself.

dsub

You raise some very valid points. There certainly is a huge amount of inequality between various rating systems and what get age restricted and what doesn't. I also particularly like the point obout not wanting to blame the voters for being bad parents - rather, it is far easier to target some "big bad" to rail agaist, thus removing the blame for in-effective parenting.

On the whole though, isn't it time, we, as a responsible comunity of gamers, were prepared to open ourselves up to sensible, informed regulation ?

Jack Thomson isn't going to have much of a leg to stand on if GTA is only legally avaliable to people old enough to make an informed decision for themselves, at which point he'll look pretty daft if he thinks your right to bare video games is as potentially dangerous as your right to bare arms.

killr0y

You should come and live in the Uk matey. It's already illegal to sell games to anyone under the given age rating, as is it illegal to buy games for anyone under said age.

Kinda like with the fim ratings we have over here.

If you're under 18, you don't get into an 18 rated film, regardless of if your Mum's willing to sit and hold your hand. It just means there are alot less 12 year old nob-heads sat in the same cinema as you, and if that becomes the international standard of video game ratings and keeps the same idiots out of online multi-player than that's also fine by me.

As adults we have a responsibility not to let our kids have access to inapropriate material. However, video games will never solely turn anyone into a high school shooter. If someone's gonna be set off by that kind of stimulus, then they're already pretty un-hinged, and just as likely to be set off by an ice cream van or a pair of brown shoes.

What it can do tho, is turn your kids into nobs, as anyone who's played X-BOX LIVE or who's kid brother has downloaded Super Mario World on the VC can attest to ("WTF ?!! 2D ?!! SUCKZORZ ROFL !!!1!!").

Politicians using such a soft target to shamelessly self publicise to fucked up tho. Want to earn my respect ? Go after gangs, guns and hard drugs in whatever order you want, and show us some of that steely resolve you display when promicing to tackle these hard-core-child-destroying-murder-simulators.

I'm sorry, but on the list of "Things you can do to prevent violence in scociety" this topic falls so far outside the top 10 it's scary.

Of course, on the list of "Soft targets which require minimum effort to produce maximum media coverage".....

Y'know, that's exactly what the controller used to look like next to the Atari Jaguar.