Your thoughts on the new video games law?

A law might be passing where any video game with a significant amount of violence would be for 18 and up. The back of game cases would have a huge ass 18 covering a lot of space. If this law passes even Mario games might end up being for 18 and up because of the "violence". Your thoughts?

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Oops. Almost forgot. Heres the link.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6210028.html?tag=latestheadlines;title;1

I can see how Mario games can be made for people age 18+ with its infinite psychoactive drug references, but I don't see the law passing.

Yes, this will prevent youngsters from getting the games because the parents never buy them and no child has friends with parents who would do such a thing. Heheheh..heh...

Ehh, I'm 19 so this doesn't apply to me but I still think slapping a big ugly 18 on the box (even though M games are 17+) is a futile move.

I'm 25 so, I wont be affected by this. I am not for it though since I don't think it's fair.

Well it affects me because I'm only 16. :cry: Although my parents are alright with me buying M rated games as long as the games dont have sex in them. It still sucks.

I walked into a store and bought mature games myself. Philippine stores don't care how old you are :P

It's the equivilent of the Surgeon General smacking all cigarette packs with the "Cancer" label. Everybody knows violent video games aren't for children just as everyone knows cigarettes cause cancer. It's informative and helpful at best and symbolic and pointless at worse, but it's not going to hurt the video game industry any.

I wonder why this would even be considered a good mesure to take? I'm guessing this Yee guy is either what is clinically known as Jack-Thompson-crazy, or he has his own selfish motives.

Well it affects me because I'm only 16. :cry: Although my parents are alright with me buying M rated games as long as the games dont have sex in them. It still sucks.

Hungry_Jello

That reminds me, what the hell is with sex being horrifying in video games as opposed to violence. To me, the logic goes like this:

Two people in bed: Not okay

Two people getting brutally stabbed in bed: Okay

I swear I can't wrap my head around how someone could follow this train of thought with a straight face.

A law might be passing where any video game with a significant amount of violence would be for 18 and up. The back of game cases would have a huge ass 18 covering a lot of space. If this law passes even Mario games might end up being for 18 and up because of the "violence". Your thoughts?

Hungry_Jello

I don't think the rating should be any bigger than it is now. It's already way bigger than MPAA ratings. Parents should take at least a bit of responsibility by taking some time to look at the rating.

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Well it affects me because I'm only 16. :cry: Although my parents are alright with me buying M rated games as long as the games dont have sex in them. It still sucks.

THE_DRUGGIE

That reminds me, what the hell is with sex being horrifying in video games as opposed to violence. To me, the logic goes like this:

Two people in bed: Not okay

Two people getting brutally stabbed in bed: Okay

I swear I can't wrap my head around how someone could follow this train of thought with a straight face.

Heh. It's not just video games, it's pretty much every single medium of entertainment.

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Well it affects me because I'm only 16. :cry: Although my parents are alright with me buying M rated games as long as the games dont have sex in them. It still sucks.

effena

That reminds me, what the hell is with sex being horrifying in video games as opposed to violence. To me, the logic goes like this:

Two people in bed: Not okay

Two people getting brutally stabbed in bed: Okay

I swear I can't wrap my head around how someone could follow this train of thought with a straight face.

Heh. It's not just video games, it's pretty much every single medium of entertainment.

Not really. There's movies with nudity (and even sex scenes) that are PG-13 but video games either get an M or AO rating for showing the same stuff.

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Well it affects me because I'm only 16. :cry: Although my parents are alright with me buying M rated games as long as the games dont have sex in them. It still sucks.

effena

That reminds me, what the hell is with sex being horrifying in video games as opposed to violence. To me, the logic goes like this:

Two people in bed: Not okay

Two people getting brutally stabbed in bed: Okay

I swear I can't wrap my head around how someone could follow this train of thought with a straight face.

Heh. It's not just video games, it's pretty much every single medium of entertainment.

My dad was laughing at that the other day. He thinks its funny how sex is worse than violence. Even though he still wont buy me a video game with sex in it. I'm lucky he never saw some scenes in Devil May Cry 4.

Wouldn't bother me, I'm 28 :)

Not really. There's movies with nudity (and even sex scenes) that are PG-13 but video games either get an M or AO rating for showing the same stuff.

THE_DRUGGIE

I guess you're right now that I think about it. I guess alot of people still think video games are for little kids.

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Not really. There's movies with nudity (and even sex scenes) that are PG-13 but video games either get an M or AO rating for showing the same stuff.

effena

I guess you're right now that I think about it. I guess alot of people still think video games are for little kids.

The saddest part of it all is that, in video games, the people doing it aren't even real. *sigh*

And it will be as effective as 15 year olds having their mommies buy them GTA4...

I would not care since it I am over 18.

I think it's ridiculous. I'm 19 but is there something wrong with the ESRB? No. It's not the games we need to worry about, it's the parent or person buying it for them.

I think it's ridiculous. I'm 19 but is there something wrong with the ESRB? No. It's not the games we need to worry about, it's the parent or person buying it for them.

Raikoh_

I agree 100%. It's the parents at fault if the child is playing mature games, not the game itself.

It's a shame media has such a controlling power. They'll find any little thing like that GTA4 scandal, and stab down the industry entirely as a result.

I walked into a store and bought mature games myself. Philippine stores don't care how old you are :P

Kenny789

same here in my country yay :D

yay for being 18. :D

I'm legal so it doesn't matter but I hope it won't affect the quality and content of these games. I wish there were more AO rated games for consoles though.

It's a huge waste of money (especially with the economic crisis) and out of all the other important things they could be spending the money on, they choose this?! Why pick on video games? What about TV, Movies, and other forms of entertainment that produce the same thing or worse? Kids can obtain anything they want from anywhere, whether they're 7 or 17, and it's not very hard at all in today's society. They already have a rating system in place and I think it's the best it's going to get. I work at a Game Stop and when kid's pick up over-age products, we have to tell the parent/guardian that the game is over the kid's age limit for the content in the game and explain to them what that content entails, but a lot of parents/guardians really just don't care, so how is this going to help? Anti-video gamers need to stop being so judgmental and do some factual research before they start making video games and gamers in general scapegoats for what parents/guardians should be doing.

wack!

Reid and Pelosi will undoubtedly say something along the lines of "Protecting our children from violent video game material will help in the prevention of school violence."

Wow you guys are lucky to have such a law.

In Australia, we don't even have an R18+ rating for games, it stops at MA (15+). Games deemed to have violence, drug use, sexual references etc that breech MA+ standards, are banned here.

We're the only industrialised nation that doesn't have an R18 rating for games, it's bloody pathetic!

im against it

but were i lilve people dont care for that in games and even when its about porn, so i dont care much for that type of law

Thats been here in the UK for years.

Doesn't matter to me, since I'm older than 18 and all

I'm 19, so I could care less about whether game become 18+ or not. I can legally buy them anyway.

Thats been here in the UK for years.

clyde46

Good thing I don't live in California