If the aging corporate thinks that allowing the player to rape somebody in a game is different than seeing it portrayed in a film then I believe perhaps that aging corporate isn't the one whose attitude needs to be more progressive and open minded.
It clearly is different and anybody with any level of corporate responsibility has to carefully consider such things if they want to market their products in America.
An AO rating is still a death sentence in the US market.
If you think such portrayals don't merit an AO rating I'd say your beef is with the ESRB.
it's a discussion for another time for sure, but that quote from the Eidos Suit just hit me hard after last years United States Supreme Court Decision threw out some thought provoking and encouraging ideas,
excerpt from current United States Law:
"Video games qualify for First Amendment protection. Like protected books, plays, and movies, they communicate ideas through familiar literary devices and features distinctive to the medium. And “the basic principles of freedom of speech . . . do not vary” with a new and different communication medium."
so, it's just a shame to see such a restrictive ceiling on the medium right now coming not from the government, but within the industry. i understand the market, but i'm asking for the market to change lol. esrb, devs, pubs, retailers, and audience... they should all accept and encourage difficult subject matter. we never know what games can do until we try.
but anyway...
do you ever wonder what the bottom of an avatar's shoe looks like? (if that counts, the introduction to kinect was marred with gaffes lol)
boooooo to you
This isn't a soapbox thread get off it
lol just saw this, double sorry.
i'm done. but hey i put a quote and gave reasoning.
