Gearbox Worried Duke Nukem Too Crude For ESRB

[lord_beo]

How about we have a new ERSB rating?
D for Duke:
Includes-
Strippers, nudity, gratuitous swearing, curse words rendered in massive letters, giant aliens getting punched in the junk and Duke getting pleasured by two girls at once.

I like how you think, The Duke is so awesome he even gets his own rating

 

[Lord Honk]

...or I could just drive the 200km to Austria and get an uncensored version like I did with fallout and left4dead. Hell, if you're gonna make a game about Duke Nukem, of course it's gonna be offensive. That is the point.

Reminds me of the audio commentary in L4D2 "Oh yeah and we've got like 85 spots on the zombies' body that can blow up in your face... oh wait you live in germany? Too bad. Here's 'Left4Dead:Kindergarten Edition' just for you". -.-'

 

[Gladion]

HEY LOOK AT ME HEY HEY LOOK AT OUR NEW GAME, IT'S REALLY BRUTAL AND... AND THERE'S BAD LANGUAGE, YEAH, AND THEN WE'VE GOT SOME BREASTS, TOO, YEAH, IT'S REALLY NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH SO WATCH OUT IM JUST WARNING YOU NOT TRYING TO TELL YOU MY SHIT SMELLS LIKE ROSES.
This is ridiculous. I'm really looking forward to how 'brutal' this game is going to get.

...or I could just drive the 200km to Austria and get an uncensored version like I did with fallout and left4dead.

Pardon me, what? That must be even more expensive than paying for the nearly criminal prices Austrian online shops demand, let alone a fucking small video game store.

 

[Gladion]

HEY LOOK AT ME HEY HEY LOOK AT OUR NEW GAME, IT'S REALLY BRUTAL AND... AND THERE'S BAD LANGUAGE, YEAH, AND THEN WE'VE GOT SOME BREASTS, TOO, YEAH, IT'S REALLY NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH SO WATCH OUT IM JUST WARNING YOU NOT TRYING TO TELL YOU MY SHIT SMELLS LIKE ROSES.

This is ridiculous. I'm really looking forward to how 'crude' this game is going to be. It will probably be so shocking we will never get to see any of the original content (which totally exists, really!) and only get a "toned down" version. But hey, it's not our fault, we really know how to make a game seriously over the top, we just were not allowed to.

...or I could just drive the 200km to Austria and get an uncensored version like I did with fallout and left4dead.

Pardon me, what? That must be even more expensive than paying for the nearly criminal prices Austrian online shops demand, let alone a small video game store.

 

[Lord_Gremlin]

Honestly this just makes me even more excited. The game industry NEEDS something completely crude, juvenile, and awesome. Too many developers go for real and gritty. Whatever happened to fun and ridiculous?

Well, you have every game cliffy B has made.

I can remember only Gears of War - gritty grey game about gay space marines. Maybe you mean Bulletstorm?

I miss games like Blood, Shadow Warrior, Redneck Rampage.

 

[R4di4ti0n.]

Will not buy. Its going to be nothing than a shoddy console port with 60FOV default and im going to have to mess with my .ini to actually make it playable. I learned my lesson with borderlands.

 

[crazypsyko666]

Lets hope that anything they take out becomes 'locked content'?

 

[sunpop]

Wow this would get them in a lot of trouble if it were actually going to be finished. Sadly Gearbox will somehow go out of business before they finish working on it as that is the ways of the curse.

 

[k-ossuburb]

If the BBFC starts messing with The Duke then they'll rue the day they messed with the nerds of the 90's.

 

[lacktheknack]

I think I speak for everyone when I say the ESRB can go eat dick.

You speak for a minority. Most of us realize that the ESRB is some of our best friends.

They're keeping the government's grubby hands off of our content! If they give an inappropriate rating, the game can be banned or reclassified (see: GTA). Without them... they'd just be banned.

Maybe it's just the anti authority side of me but i don't think anygroup should be telling me what kind of games people should are shouldn't be playing. The ESRB and the PMRC are government groups, and it's the fact that parents are too dumb to know that kids shouldn't be playing a game called GRAND THEIFT AUTO.

Now, imagine you're a parent who is completely clueless, and decide to buy a random game with an ambiguous title like, say, Silent Hill. Or Penumbra.

THAT'S what ESRB is there for.

 

[Logic 0]

Duke Nukem is only Duke Nukem when too crude is an understatement.

 

[redisforever]

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

I hope Gearbox is cool with us pirating it then.

Well, you can just send $60 or $70 to Gearbox, then pirate it. Also, why don't we send a petition to the ESRB and tell them we want it to be rated M. With a warning on the box. Oh well, I'll be 18 by the time this comes out. Oh well. I'll be fine.

 

[L-J-F]

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

Nope Sounds way too fun, not anywhere near as hyper-conservative as befits the Australian politicians and anti-fun police.

"but it might have to be toned down before it hits the shelves." Noooooooooooooooooooo ...

 

[vanthebaron]

I think I speak for everyone when I say the ESRB can go eat dick.

You speak for a minority. Most of us realize that the ESRB is some of our best friends.

They're keeping the government's grubby hands off of our content! If they give an inappropriate rating, the game can be banned or reclassified (see: GTA). Without them... they'd just be banned.

Maybe it's just the anti authority side of me but i don't think anygroup should be telling me what kind of games people should are shouldn't be playing. The ESRB and the PMRC are government groups, and it's the fact that parents are too dumb to know that kids shouldn't be playing a game called GRAND THEIFT AUTO.

Now, imagine you're a parent who is completely clueless, and decide to buy a random game with an ambiguous title like, say, Silent Hill. Or Penumbra.

THAT'S what ESRB is there for.

Turn over the game case, they have picture of the content on the bck.

 

[lacktheknack]

I think I speak for everyone when I say the ESRB can go eat dick.

You speak for a minority. Most of us realize that the ESRB is some of our best friends.

They're keeping the government's grubby hands off of our content! If they give an inappropriate rating, the game can be banned or reclassified (see: GTA). Without them... they'd just be banned.

Maybe it's just the anti authority side of me but i don't think anygroup should be telling me what kind of games people should are shouldn't be playing. The ESRB and the PMRC are government groups, and it's the fact that parents are too dumb to know that kids shouldn't be playing a game called GRAND THEIFT AUTO.

Now, imagine you're a parent who is completely clueless, and decide to buy a random game with an ambiguous title like, say, Silent Hill. Or Penumbra.

THAT'S what ESRB is there for.

Turn over the game case, they have picture of the content on the bck.

...won't help you much with Penumbra. It looks like a mine exploration game (and it is... in a sick way...)

 

[EHKOS]

Can't they just go over the ESRB's head? What if they release it as something like an interactive porno. Sure it wouldn't be sold in Gamestop but then again only 18+ should be playing anyways. Or Gearbox could just have it download only straight from their site.

 

[ckam]

Well, why don't we just have an unrated version? Movies have those, why can't video games?

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

Well, you can just send $60 or $70 to Gearbox, then pirate it.

Here in Australia that $60 or $70 will be closer to $110AU, despite our respective Dollars being almost equal.

The OFLC will refuse it classification due to its content, but unless the game is region locked (GTA3 and Vice City had region coding preventing be able to use in game prostitutes) then we will be able to import it just fine.