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So I wasn't the only person to watch that movie... :lol

Heh, a bunch of gaffers turned me on to Idiocracy. Really funny movie.

 

[radjago]

So I wasn't the only person to watch that movie... :lol

M-rated games have what kids crave.

Walmart is a big enough force in retail that I could see publishers modifying their box art to get maximum use out of the exposed portion. Plus what is the point of blacking out the box art if they can't see the Rating and content descriptors? It's like they're trying to punish the ESRB for appropriately rating content.

 

[Ranger X]

Ok i can bear with that. Now how about selling AO games if they come up?

 

[DenogginizerOS]

Do they black sleeve R-Rated movies?

 

[WrikaWrek]

This is just retarded. Morans

 

[DenogginizerOS]

Speak with your wallet. Don't buy anything from Wal-Mart.

 

[Kusagari]

So Call of Duty 4 and Halo 3 will both get BLACK SLEEVES?

 

[WrikaWrek]

Speak with your wallet. Don't buy anything from Wal-Mart.

I don't have wal marts where i live.

Needless to say, where i live, this whole rating issue isn't even mentioned, because it's retarded.

Rate games like movies, end of discussion.

 

[Zombie James]

lulz, walmart sells guns.

 

[Zzoram]

lulz, walmart sells guns.

The true irony of the situation :lol

 

[mr_nexus]

lulz, walmart sells guns.

Lol-mart

 

[Synless]

I just came across this, fucking idiots. I'm sorry to say this about my own country (because this applies to many of the people) somehow, people have turned into a bunch of easily offended whiny bitchs. This entire idea is stupid, what will this even help solve?

 

[metsallica]

Are you, um, all in on it?

 

[Shig]

Most Wal-mart employees' faces are more offensive than M-rated videogame covers. So in the interest of fairness, they should start making their employees wear veils.

 

[beelzebozo]

Yet another reason to hate Wal-Mart, ect, ect, ect.

you may enjoy this thread

 

[inner-G]

I just came across this, fucking idiots. I'm sorry to say this about my own country (because this applies to many of the people) somehow, people have turned into a bunch of easily offended whiny bitchs. This entire idea is stupid, what will this even help solve?

Protecting kids from anything that could possibly be considered vulgar insures they will be well-adjusted individuals when they are let loose on the world in College.

 

[Jedeye Sniv]

I just came across this, fucking idiots. I'm sorry to say this about my own country (because this applies to many of the people) somehow, people have turned into a bunch of easily offended whiny bitchs. This entire idea is stupid, what will this even help solve?

With guns, don't forget that bit, it's important. Hey kids, sex is wrong! Videogames are evil! Rap makes you kill people!! But hey, wanna gun??

Fuuuuuuck...

 

[eznark]

With guns, don't forget that bit, it's important. Hey kids, sex is wrong! Videogames are evil! Rap makes you kill people!! But hey, wanna gun??

Fuuuuuuck...

Accuracy is also important. If you aren't old enough to buy an M rated game, you aren't old enough to buy a gun, so I don't really see the relevance.

 

[DenogginizerOS]

I have seen the public service announcement from the ESRB running in Target that has Tiger Woods explaining the ratings system. I have noticed that commercials on TV (ex. Turok's latest ad) state clearly that the following game is Mature and I see a 17+ on that message. What more do we need? If Wal-Mart can't stop their employees from selling M-Rated games to kids, then that is Wal-Mart's problem. I fail to see how the cover of a video game is marketing sex and violence to kids any more than guns in the Sporting Goods section or Sex in the City in the DVD section. I would not be surrised if Wal-Mart gets a long letter from publishers explaining how Wal-Mart is unfairly making M-Rated games look like porn.

Accuracy is also important. If you aren't old enough to buy an M rated game, you aren't old enough to buy a gun, so I don't really see the relevance.

This black-labeling of M-Rated games is more of an attack on how games are marketed and not as much about content. The fact that guns are on full display in the Sporting Goods section may be construed by some as a way to market guns to kids as well even though we know they aren't old enough. I clearly remember going to K-Mart when I was a kid and looking at guns in their sporting goods section and dreaming about owning my first hunting rifle like the ones my uncles and grandfather owned. I am not saying this is wrong. But it is wrong to place a stigma on video games that smacks more of Cooper Lawrence and Fox News than factual information.

 

[Davidion]

Protecting kids from anything that could possibly be considered vulgar insures they will be well-adjusted individuals when they are let loose on the world in College.

Yup.

I hate stupid overly protective parents who do nothing but censor yet don't care to actually educate their kids about the things that they supposedly should be avoiding.

This is a stupid idea in the grand scheme of things. I know someone said that this would take some heat off of gaming and that makes sense, but the permeating general social sentiment on this subject is still borderline retarded.

 

[Shins]

if its covered up by black velvet i want into its sweet juices

 

[Snaku]

Um, it's not a porn rag you morons. Why don't you just black sleeve R-rated movies?

Fucking Walmart.

 

[Aeris130]

If you wanna keep a kettle from boiling over, lower the heat. Don't put on a lid and hope nothing happens.

 

[eznark]

This black-labeling of M-Rated games is more of an attack on how games are marketed and not as much about content. The fact that guns are on full display in the Sporting Goods section may be construed by some as a way to market guns to kids as well even though we know they aren't old enough. I clearly remember going to K-Mart when I was a kid and looking at guns in their sporting goods section and dreaming about owning my first hunting rifle like the ones my uncles and grandfather owned. I am not saying this is wrong. But it is wrong to place a stigma on video games that smacks more of Cooper Lawrence and Fox News than factual information.

that makes much more sense than the "no game but here's a gun" argument.

I think this is pretty stupid but much like Wal Mart, people here are over reacting. Wal Mart should be able to market the products it sells any way it sees fit, and we as consumers are free to choose to not shop there (living in Boston, I honestly have no clue where a Wal Mart even is around here).

 

[digita1alchemy]

“It is the responsibility of Wal-Mart to protect our children from potentially damaging content, such as the covers of some video games,” said a company spokesperson.

Funny, I thought it was the parent's responsibility.

 

[Branduil]

So any actual proof this is happening?

 

[WrikaWrek]

lulz, walmart sells guns.

What? A supermarket sells guns?

 

[Jme]

I thought Bully was rated T.

It was...

 

[Jirotrom]

so what.. are they going to black sleeve rated R movies as well... so fucking stupid.

 

[shintoki]

Feels like your buying porn then:lol

 

[Chiggs]

Are you, um, all in on it?

*reads the thread*

That would be a resounding "no." :lol

 

[The Mighty Schwein]

I hope they are collectible.

 

[DangerStepp]

This coming from the same retail chain that wll tout this as a bargain?!...

 

[CZroe]

This is bunk. They'd never black-sleeve PG-13 and R-rated DVDs. Their rating is on the back and you have to squint to see it, which is how Fox unjustly described the ESRB logo placement on Mass Effect. Hell, alot of those DVDs are "Unrated" and get sold to kids without issue at retailers everywhere. The videogame industry is the only one taking their self-imposed age restictions seriously and putting them up-front on the box with consumer awareness campaigns (commercials, full-page advertisements, celebrity PSAs, etc).

 

[Kai Dracon]

This is of course hilarious and ridiculous on one level, since game covers are typically no worse or not as bad as the covers of many R-rated DVDs (consider how many scary R rated movies have horrific covers, like the Saw series).

But besides being a PR move you gotta remember who Wal-Mart's customer base is in many states in the US: red necks, poor people who are likely to be from the religious and poor demographic, and assorted hicks. Most of the Wal-Marts I've been to in Western PA carry tons of religiously themed Jesus merchandise, horse and tack equipment, and related items to cater to the local population.

So, I'd suspect Wally World isn't just trying a stupid PR stunt to get good graces with the general population or look politically correct; it is likely some exec had a probably not too stupid epiphany and realized that the same idiots who suck down Fox News are their shoppers, and right now they all think videogames are the New Satan of pop culture.

 

[Mr.City]

Doesn't Walmart keep their games locked in a glass case? So, I'm understanding this correctly, games are going to be locked in a glass case while also being covered in a black sleeve to prevent the kiddies from corrupted and the parents from being offended by the boxart of M-rated games. Wow.

 

[ParticleReality]

Can someone show me an offensive box art? Please?


This will only piss people off depending on how they do the black sleeve. I can already see people getting the wrong game due to stupidity.

 

[Tiktaalik]

holy fuck that's ridiculous.

Someone please post a game cover that's graphically violent, or sexual enough to deserve this. Really.

I can't think of anything that comes close at all.

wtf Walmart.

 

[BloodyYank]

I am soooooo offended by this box art.:lol

Fucking bureaucrats, shouldn't you jerk-offs be trying to replace Vagina (Bush)?

 

[PistolGrip]

"sounds like a good idea"

 

[chaostrophy]

I wonder how people will even see what game is what? With magazines, the sleeves are okay because they can use the same sleeves that say "Cosmopolitan" or whatever month after month. But are they going to print up new sleeves every time a new game comes out?

 

[virtuafightermaster]

Haha, easier target now.

 

[OgnodoD]

a better idea is just have a rated "M" section somewhere away from the E-T sections, that way everyone is happy... mom's know little jimmy shouldn't be in the older kids section, and older gamers go happily to the older section and have no issue...

i think the idea behind it is good, just the implementation is not well thought through...

you can't compare movies to games in this aspect, because games are not seen as adult entertainment yet by mainstream, people view it as kid centric...

I agree with this. Have a case that is just M-rated games. Parents will be able to tell easily if a game is inapproprite for little Billy that way. (Yes, I know parents should take ratings seriiously, but many don't and then get mad and try to censor our passion.) It makes a lot more sense than covering up 3/4 of a cover.

 

[DenogginizerOS]

I see three display cases. One for Nintendo, one for Playstation, and one for Xbox. Inside the cases for Xbox and Playstation, I see a bunch of games that are black-sleeved that look like porn. In the Nintedo case, I see just a few of the black cases. Now, which system(s) do you think will get associated with having a bunch of porn on it? It is obvious that the PS3 and the Xbox 360 stand to lose potential system sales in Wal-Mart simply because this new tactic will do more to associate negative impressions with those systems over the Wii. It will only strengthen the idiots who think Fox News is right and that the Xbox 360 is a "sexbox" promoting sex and violence to kids.

 

[eznark]

I am soooooo offended by this box art.:lol

Fucking bureaucrats, shouldn't you jerk-offs be trying to replace Vagina (Bush)?

swing and a miss. It's not the government doing it, it's Wal Mart.

Hasn't this story been outed as a hoax though?

 

[critch]

Oh you fools. You stupid, stupid fools. It's a SATIRE WEBSITE. Did anyone actually go there?

Other headlines from the same page:

KANE & LYNCH 2 TO BE SKINNED WITH GAMESPOT ADS

RARE TO REMAKE TABOOO: THE SIXTH SENSE

DIGGING YOURSELF OUT OF A HOLE MAKES HOLES BIGGER, MAN LEARNS


Jeez people.

 

[NintendoGal]

Oh you fools. You stupid, stupid fools. It's a SATIRE WEBSITE. Did anyone actually go there?

Other headlines from the same page:

KANE & LYNCH 2 TO BE SKINNED WITH GAMESPOT ADS

RARE TO REMAKE TABOOO: THE SIXTH SENSE

DIGGING YOURSELF OUT OF A HOLE MAKES HOLES BIGGER, MAN LEARNS


Jeez people.

Oh sure, spoil our fun.

 

[DenogginizerOS]

Oh you fools. You stupid, stupid fools. It's a SATIRE WEBSITE. Did anyone actually go there?

Other headlines from the same page:

KANE & LYNCH 2 TO BE SKINNED WITH GAMESPOT ADS

RARE TO REMAKE TABOOO: THE SIXTH SENSE

DIGGING YOURSELF OUT OF A HOLE MAKES HOLES BIGGER, MAN LEARNS


Jeez people.

If true, the thread title needs to reflect it. I read the filefront link and it even contains a "quote" from a Wal-Mart spokesperson. Seemed legit.

 

[eznark]

If true, the thread title needs to reflect it. I read the filefront link and it even contains a "quote" from a Wal-Mart spokesperson. Seemed legit.

Even if it is true, there is some worth discussion in between the "wal mart is for fatties" and "poor people can't read!" comments that remains valid.

 

[Costanza]

Oh you fools. You stupid, stupid fools. It's a SATIRE WEBSITE. Did anyone actually go there?

Other headlines from the same page:

KANE & LYNCH 2 TO BE SKINNED WITH GAMESPOT ADS

RARE TO REMAKE TABOOO: THE SIXTH SENSE

DIGGING YOURSELF OUT OF A HOLE MAKES HOLES BIGGER, MAN LEARNS


Jeez people.

I can't believe filefront actually fell for this.

also...

http://scrapetv.com/Games/Games Pages/Reviews/Turok 360.html

I haven’t played the new Turok game. I did however play the old N64 titles so I’ll use those as a basis for comparison.

In the old Turok games you ran around killing a bunch of dinosaurs with different kinds of weapons. From what I gather, that’s pretty much the same with the new game.

I don’t really remember the story behind the games, just that you play a character named Turok and you have to kill dinosaurs.

Turok 1 was okay. So was Turok 2. Rage Wars gave me motion sickness. I barely remember the games to be honest.

I’m sure the new game looks really good and has some cool weapons and stuff.

I’m gonna say you should probably rent Turok rather than buy it.