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It's a bit presumptuous to think that someone that isn't interested in a 30 hour game suffers from ADD.

It's only abusive if they knew that the kid would react that way.

I have a feeling that, even if every retailer stocked games with AO ratings, they still wouldn't be the best selling games out there.

Oh?

You are likely a man and Elisha Cuthbert IS hot.

Comic book man would be proud!

I think it'll be 25-30....but I'm with Llyranor. I have played games that are 20 hours and are much more fun than games that are 40 hours.

THat's the one after Surrep's.

This thread is still alive?

Only if whoever reviews for the German company cares about the "hidden" content. Only the ESRB has made this kind of statement.

A long ways to go to catch Hextall.

Hahaha classic.

wasn't that pre-esrb? If you look at the more recent batch you won't find any. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It has nothing to do with the ESRB, but the fact that different countries censor different things. The reason why more recent games do not have swastikas in them is because that game will be outright banned in Germany, which has become a larger video game player market. Oh, here's the 2002 remake of Wolf3D for the Gameboy Advance. Rated M for Mature for "Animated Blood, Violence":

Also, let's not forget the special version of Carmageddon that had the people replaced with "zombies" and green blood. Or the omission of any children in the Fallout games.

Of course not!

What??? Definitely. Which is why the media and analysts feel that Mikka Kiprusoff should be a Hart Trophy candidate, while the actual players felt Ovechkin should be. The Hart Trophy and the Lester B. Pearson trophy are both MVP awards (one by the media, one by the players) have the same candidates, except the Hart has Kipper, and the Lester B. Pearson has Ovechkin. Sorry, but if the NHL Players think that Ovechkin is among the top 3 players in the league and not Kiprusoff, I don't think goalies are getting as short end of the stick as you think. Sorry, you lose. Game Over.

I went back and looked at your first post, and I saw this: When assessing content, why does it matter if they actually play the game, rather than just watch the game? Well, if you would have preferred that they "stick to their guns" over the hot coffee mod, we could just as easily have regulation coming in via the government, rather than advisement by the ESRB. It's a pretty simple solution as far as I'm concerned....don't leave naked skins or sexual content on the CD. The ESRB's decision to change the rating of GTA: San Andreas made it painfully obvious what their stance is on any content placed on the CD. IMO Bethesda dropped the ball on this one. Something people might like to read over. http://www.esrb.org/ratings/faq.jsp And no, he doesn't take things an itsy bitsy bit too far. When you start having multiple culture determine what is or is not okay in a video game, you'll end up getting nothing done because they won't be able to agree. For instance, the American in the group would have no problems showing a swastika in a WW2 game, whereas the German will be outright saying "banned!" So what rating do we put on that game?

They are only releasing Episode One online right?

It is funny from my perspective. "ARE YOU DUMB, ARE YOU DUMB, ARE YOU DUMB?"

hahaha.

Well, it was a dumb question

As I said, Gromnir is my hero.

It might be. I'm not big on preordering either. Sometimes preorders come right in the mail too, so you won't even have to go to the store. The only times I have "preordered" were Half-Life 2 and Doom 3, and it was just a week or two in advance. It was a good thing I did, as both games were unavailable to people without preorders at my store.

I believe Surrep's avatar is Bastila a few years later, is it not?

Than they need to get their act together and start being a parent. Take an active interest in their child's life. Like movies, they do reviews of games in game magazines, they do a brief description on what the game is about on the box. They are not totally ignorant to what they can buy. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Err, WTF is the difference? If the reviewer says that a game has excessive violence and shouldn't be played by kids...... You're grasping at straws, and from what I understand don't really understand the ESRB (or the MPAA).