Gearbox Worried Duke Nukem Too Crude For ESRB

[Ubermetalhed]

Please god don't let them tone it down...

 

[Sonicron]

Meh, I'm not too worried. If something like God of War 3 or Dante's Inferno (and probably Bulletstorm, too) can make it past the censors, then so can this game.

 

[JediMB]

Well, PEGI giving it an 18 rating would hardly be a problem.

 

[Wintermoot]

god damnit! thanks to the soccer moms Duke is going to be a pussy just because Billy Mc.Kid isnt allowed to see strippers!
EDIT: this is probaly going to be AO

 

[omega247]

It would be quite annoying if they tone it down before they're allowed to sell it. Why are those things allowed to be in films but not video games? Surely people who are offended by the game's content just shouldn't buy it.

The sad thing is I'm pretty sure the types of people who are offended by this kind of thing don't buy games anyway.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Can't see this making it in to Australia anytime soon :-|

Which, given your cultural stereotype, is bemusing. One could imagine a young Les Patterson acting in a similar way.

 

[teh_Canape]

makes sense, he's got a reasonable worry there


Duke Nukem is too manly for any rating system

 

[Kingjackl]

Yahtzee not-so-subtely dropped that the Duke would be making an appearance at the Mana Bar in his latest blog entry, which suggests the game might already on it's way to Australia. God, I hope so, anyway.

Looking forward to seeing Duke Nukem come Down Under...god, I can't believe I said that.

 

[rockyoumonkeys]

Duke Nukem's always been crude, but it never struck me as the kind of game that should warrant an M rating. The best thing about it was that it was crude without going too far. Yeah, there were strippers in Duke 3D, but "Duke getting pleasured by two girls at once"? That's a bit much. It's a gimmick in God of War, and it's a gimmick here, and gimmicks don't ever help the game.

 

[Ligisttomten]

I hope they won't tone it down because Americans refuse to acknowledge the existance of certain body parts.

 

[gl1koz3]

Fuck ESRB. If they keep it as in-yo-face as it is, I'm all over it. Enough no-big-deal-looking-and-sounding games already.

 

[Daverson]

Of course, in terms of explicity (hey, I just invented a new word!), it's not going to have anything Duke3D didn't have.

 

[Zeromaeus]

On the back of the box, in lieu of a laundry list of offenses against the ESRB, it will simply say: Duke Nukem.

 

[shadyh8er]

Duke Nukem Forever: Duke Goes to Church

...and drives a crucifix into the eye socket of a pig alien.

 

[MattRooney06]

I wonder if this game gets an adults only rating...
(I hope not)

i hate to break it to you but i rekon it will...i mean... it IS duke nukem after all

 

[zidine100]

Simple release a toned down version, with an online patch, im sure console gamers will get skrewed over here but it would work for pc gamers. I dont know if they control dlc on consoles but they dont control patches.

if its rated AO and theres alot of controversy over it... i see it selling a hell of alot better.

 

[Triangulon]

I wouldn't say its too crude, but it does sound too good to be true!

 

[Adzma]

young children + the duke = more deranged swearing children = more hospitalised children due to concussion by blunt object

Hey I'll have you know I played Duke3D when I was 5, and I turned out just fine. Now if you excuse me, my hoe has stopped working down stairs, I need to discipline the c*** and I should wipe that scout girl's blood off my shirt while I'm at it!

In all seriousness though I can't see this coming to Australia. The only way it could possibly happen is if the Attorneys-General pull their heads out of their arses and just say a unanimous "YES" in Novemeber, rather than delay the decision again for more bullshit reasons, and EVEN IF all that happens, Gearbox have to wait for all the legal shennanigans to be finalised before submitting the game to the OFLC.

In otherwords, I'm ready to jump on the import bandwagon.