Games the ESRB/PEGI/CERO etc. rated wrong

[BoringSupreez]

For those that want to continue this line of discussion, fair enough. But can we get it split out of this thread and get back to what's important?

Sure. Looking back on it, this has so little to do with the original topic.

[Hobie-wan]

Sure. Looking back on it, this has so little to do with the original topic.

I meant game ratings and their appropriateness, as opposed to the discussion about the collapse of society which had gone on for pages. Thus an inappropriate joke involving a rating.

[BoringSupreez]

Sure. Looking back on it, this has so little to do with the original topic.

I meant game ratings and their appropriateness, as opposed to the discussion about the collapse of society which had gone on for pages. Thus an inappropriate joke involving a rating.

I got the joke, it's just that I thought going back on topic was a good idea.

[Hobie-wan]

I got the joke, it's just that I thought going back on topic was a good idea.

Ok, misunderstood your post.

[DinnerX]

The Rampage games are pretty cartoony in my book, but Universal Tour at least is rated T.

[ZeroAX]

What I mean here is that it is not significant for the historical record. We care about when people were born. Not about all the details of what their parents did one night.

But almost all of the most important works of art man has made are greatly influenced by sex.

I don't think you could say it doesn't hurt anyone. I've seen people's lives, reputations, and families get totally destroyed over doing something "natural."

If people can't use a condom, and if they can't stick to monogamy once they get married it's cause they are stupid fucks. I still don't see why someone can't enjoy his body with whoever he likes while he's single, or why he can't talk about something so important with friends (of both sexes, which it seems to me doesn't happen outside of Europe), and have it portrayed in art.

Having intercourse left and right seems pretty animal like to me. Although even some animals mate for life.

You perhaps have never experienced the beauty of flirting and chasing the girl of your dreams.

Also, something being natural doesn't necessarily make it right or acceptable to discuss.

Yes, YES it does. Otherwise you get moron teenagers who think that people tell them to use condoms so they don't enjoy sex as much.

EDIT

Ok I missed this when I first read this and replied to this, but are you freaking implying that sex isn't.......right? God forbid I ask your opinion on homosexual sex.

My main point is they are two very different things, and society has very different standards as to how much of either can be displayed. Very different standards for very different subjects. What is the issue with that?

Because it doesn't make sense for something which EVERYONE goes through (and if you don't, goooooood I feel sorry for you), to be considered more taboo than, ooooh.... I don't know, stealing a car and running people over, beheading people, killing them with a chainsaw, using fucking nukes as toys that go boom, or a lot of other gruesome stuff we see.

Let me put it this way. Would you rather catch your daughter at home fucking with some dude, or catch her beheading the neighbors? I'll take the first option any day, thank you very much.



BTW I'm not against the portrayal of violence. I believe that freedom of speech means, I can portray ANYTHING I want, and if you don't like it look the other way. But distribution channels restricting the available content is pure censorship in my opinion, and should be illegal.

[Erik_Twice]

I don't think you could say it doesn't hurt anyone. I've seen people's lives, reputations, and families get totally destroyed over doing something "natural."

I bet you are not talking about sex, but about people being jerks because someone had sex. Different matters.

After all, I could argue that lives, reputations and families get totally destroyed because I decided to have a black friend.

Having intercourse left and right seems pretty animal like to me. Although even some animals mate for life.

If I want to have sex left and right, that's my choice. My body, my choice. I do not understand what's wrong with that idea.

Also, something being natural doesn't necessarily make it right or acceptable to discuss.

Are you saying that it's unacceptable to discuss sex?

[dsheinem]

Let's keep this on topic, guys. If you want to debate sex/violence/moral decline/etc. then create a new thread. It should be possible to have a discussion about game ratings that focuses on whether or not ratings organizations have been consistent without debating the moral underpinnings of their criteria.

[ZeroAX]

Let's keep this on topic, guys. If you want to debate sex/violence/moral decline/etc. then create a new thread. It should be possible to have a discussion about game ratings that focuses on whether or not ratings organizations have been consistent without debating the moral underpinnings of their criteria.

split perhaps?

[DinnerX]

I started a new morals thread here.