Partnership Forms to Redo Games for Middle East Release

[subject_87]

This has potential; these games should get a chance to show themselves in the Mideast.

 

[Generic_Dave]

Sends a dirty shudder down my spine. How about a 1984 where Winston lives happily ever after? A Bambi where the mother doesn't die?

If games are our art how can we not decry such defacement? But isn't this just an extreme example of our rating systems generally? Our "Taliban" players, Australian blanket bans on mature content and the toning down of imagery or gore for an region (Germany and China I'm looking at you). It is all of one is it not?

 

[MorteSphere]

There's more to it than just the violence I think...it's about their mindset being still stuck a few centuries in the past while the rest of the world has moved on when it comes to such social issues. And that'll be a whole lot wider a gap to bridge than some gore effects.

Implying religious laws are not centuries old

There's more to it than just the violence I think...it's about their mindset being still stuck a few centuries in the past while the rest of the world has moved on when it comes to such social issues. And that'll be a whole lot wider a gap to bridge than some gore effects.

you know..........Islamic countries [a very good portion of the Middle East] follow laws based on Islam.

They are not stuck in past centuries, they are just following religious laws.

Yes...which are still using centuries' old reference texts (in this case the Quran - hope I spelled it correct) for their belief structures and hence forming a mindset that is stuck a few centuries in the past (at least on certain social issues, such as the status of women in society being very strictly defined ever since the dark ages). It's not hard to follow is it?

you know..........Islamic countries [a very good portion of the Middle East] follow laws based on Islam.

They are not stuck in past centuries, they are just following religious laws.

Oh right, because religious laws are so contemporary to our modern culture... If anything, he should have said a few millennia in the past.

State of all of you.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatwa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiqh


seriously, do try to attempt to do some research on your part before posting.

{see: please keep up with the class}

>Yet again implying that those are not all centuries old religious laws that governments use as a part of their retarded, oppressive theocratic regimes