ESRB Covers Up Racy Dead or Alive Cover
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Man, ESRB is on the ball this week. making the gaming world safer for our children, one box art at a time.
Oh, the irony...
When discussing the California game law, the ESRB is your hero, your champion, your primary defense against the denial of sale of games. They do great work as a ratings board ensuring that kids don't get their hands on games they shouldn't be playing.
Any other time, they're the evil overlord, censoring games with an iron pen, oppressing the game-playing masses with their Puritanical regulations.
Gamers, if you want to prevent things like the California law, you have to show some freaking support for your rating system and its board beyond just pointing at it and giving a thumbs-up when laws like California's come around, and then kicking it to the curb when they're gone. It's a really immature stance to take, and it's not fooling anybody. If you show no respect for the rating system, angry parents will only show that much less respect for you.
More on-topic, this change does seem kinda pointless. But it's nothing to flip out at the ESRB over. If you really found it so pointless, you wouldn't be having such a fit about it.
When discussing the California game law, the ESRB is your hero, your champion, your primary defense against the denial of sale of games. They do great work as a ratings board ensuring that kids don't get their hands on games they shouldn't be playing.
Any other time, they're the evil overlord, censoring games with an iron pen, oppressing the game-playing masses with their Puritanical regulations.
Gamers, if you want to prevent things like the California law, you have to show some freaking support for your rating system and its board beyond just pointing at it and giving a thumbs-up when laws like California's come around, and then kicking it to the curb when they're gone. It's a really immature stance to take, and it's not fooling anybody. If you show no respect for the rating system, angry parents will only show that much less respect for you.
More on-topic, this change does seem kinda pointless. But it's nothing to flip out at the ESRB over. If you really found it so pointless, you wouldn't be having such a fit about it.
if you think this is funny, you should have a look at how some posters were altered during Communist China. I know it's harsh to make the comparison, but that's where one sees this kind of thing. Posters were only allowed to have so much cleavage, so much leg, etc. Proportions were measured, and painted over accordingly. Take that, democracy!
I agree that they're good at classifying games and all, but I find it annoying sometimes when they pull stuff like that. I suppose it's for the better, but I dunno, sometimes things like that get to me, regardless of how infinitesimal the difference actually is (as is the case with this box art). Regardless of what they change, this is the stuff that sits out in the open for all to gaze at, so at least that's understandable.Zer_ said:
whoa someone need to read up on their american history.punkrocker27 said:
The Pilgrims and Puritans [http://xroads.virginia.edu/~cap/puritan/purhist.html]
I guess the founding fathers just magically sprang out of the ground here in the United States and weren't descendants from religiously closed minded and sexually repressed people whom were exiled from England.
Europe is against violence, having spent the last 2+ millennium in a state of almost constant war, (not counting the few dozen year here and there where they weren't killing eachother) i can see y. But they aren't as petty as to censor a bit of thigh flesh.
China, well thats a totalitarian state. they can do whatever the hell they want to their ppl. Their citizens have no say in the matter.
edit: should have also mention our long standing culture of outdated victorian era sexual repressiveness.
edit 2: wtf does having puritan sensibilities have to do with the rest of the worlds geopolitical mindset D:<
I just checked the one DoA game I have (2: HARDCORE) and it's rated T as well. As far as I know, so is the rest of the series.Sniper Team 4 said:
Anyway, I could care less about a box art change that I didn't even NOTICE until I looked at it for a few minutes. I'm just looking forward to getting my hands on the game.
They were the founders of one colony in particular. When people say things akin to "Puritan Roots" or the even more popular catchphrase "Puritan Sensibilities" they are referring to the widespread conservative stance in America on the issues of sex and family life, one that I wholeheartedly disagree with. Let's just try not to make it any more misplaced a term than it already is shall we?Frylock72 said:
You seem to think the Puritans were the sole settlers of the New World. Read up on your history a little and see just how widespread their actual influence was.DTWolfwood said:
It's more than just sensitivity to violence, most of it is politically motivated. For example you can't air an episode of the Simpson's in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland where the evil nuclear powered plant melts down. Yet if a dam breaks and floods the town...Who cares what they're censoring, it's still censorship.
Gee if only everyone were as cold and detached as you.
Won't argue with that. I'm an all-or-nothing kind of person and when it comes to censorship I'd rather nothing gets censored. Especially when there are people dying right now in literally untold numbers, and people's attitudes mostly mirror your own.
Not sure where this came from. The reason I named other instances of censorship was to draw attention to my point that this is such a ludicrous thing to take offense to considering what else goes on out there in America and abroad. Don't even get me started on the way certain people have abused sex ed for their own agendas. Still though, who cares, right?
Underneath all our skin are muscles, and below that are organs! Doesn't mean we want to see that either, do we? Not everyone wants to be naked.RobCoxxy said:
As for the ESRB though: They're just trying to find ways to prove to parents they're doing their job or something now, but in actuality I'm sure they could care less.
They are paid to care, it doesnt mean they actually do.Diamondback One said:
I wonder if other regions are altered as well.
i guess the the fact the dutch french and spaniards all at some point owned a piece of america and that we don't speak dutch, french or spanish means i'm assuming wrong that England and english settlers were the predominate driving force in Americas beginning, ie their roots. who were among the first english settlers again?punkrocker27 said:
so i take it the ESRB getting all in a fit about thigh flesh isn't politically motivated or based on their constituents being overly sensitive to sex? which i believe was what i meant when i first said.
DTWolfwood said:
there is a reason y my grandparents got the hell out of china the first chance they got, and why my parents and I moved to America <.< China is no place to live if you are a chinese citizen and isn't upper middle class.
short term memory lost. response to your insipid comment
how america acts at home has nothing to do with or related to what the rest of the world thinks and do on their lands. America = sexually repressive, hence retarded change from said article. Still not sure how you took my initial comment as anything but agreeing on how ridiculous this country is to censorship.punkrocker27 said: