Poll: Age Options.
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While I have nothing against the ability to turn mature content off, there are two points that I'm inclined to weigh in on. Firstly, that not all things are so easily measured in an on/off state (ie. mature themes, writing, background imagery, etc.) and, secondly, that not all simple toggles are as simple as people like to think they are.
When possible, sure, I've got no issue with this. It's just not always as possible as people think.
When possible, sure, I've got no issue with this. It's just not always as possible as people think.
That is a good point. But if parents could password protect it it could work... though only for some games. A game like GTA or Playboy: The Mansion or any nudy game like the Playboy one would just be nigh impossible to sensor. Also, you couldn't sensor scary games like Condemned for young folk. But games that are rated M for swearing and blood could easily be censored.Time Travelling Toaster said:
Tell me how this makes sense. You can be 17+ to play a mature game but you have to be 18+ to watch a rated-R movie.
No. Think about the developers. They would have to code all of this take up valuable real estate and would make development time take longer. All for the option for a person who is not mature enough to play the game. I would be willing to bet that if Cliffy B and the boys had said screw this rainbow and butterfly option in GOW 2 we would not be waiting for Dark Corners extra mission now.
it wouldn't be anything new. a lot of older games did this, and if you do it right it can keep out even the older people XD. if anyone has ever played Leisure Suit Larry on MS-Dos, then you'll know what i mean. it asked you a series of the toughest questions meant for really old people...so unless you have another computer near by, you'd better have been alive in the 50's. otherwise, it wouldn't even let you see the start menu.
Many games with 18+ ratings have things that, if removed, destroy the game. Some games just can't be underage-ified by removing blood and gore. Cutting someone's head off is bad regardless of whether there's tomato juice or not.
I read an article that said that in chine cigarretes vending machines had face analisis technology to recognizes buyer's age decide if it sold the cigarrets ot not based on the age features of his face, acne, wrinkles, etc. Of course it wasn`t 100% accurate, maybe the could install something like that to consoles...
Yeah that would be cool I guess. Like what Hideo Kojima did with MGS2. Although those little fuckers will eventually be exposed to violence.
You know what, if it keeps up sales and pleases over-protective parents, pussies and walking suits with ties, why the fuck not?
Although i'm pretty sure people will still argue about it.
Personally I believe all decisions like this are inherently futile.
Maybe, instead of an age option, we should install an option to vote someone into office via Xbox Live or other online networks. It'd be great! We get to us ethe opinion of basement dwellers or otherwise home bound video game players who can't be bothered to leave the house.
Although i'm pretty sure people will still argue about it.
Personally I believe all decisions like this are inherently futile.
Maybe, instead of an age option, we should install an option to vote someone into office via Xbox Live or other online networks. It'd be great! We get to us ethe opinion of basement dwellers or otherwise home bound video game players who can't be bothered to leave the house.
Ooh! New idea!
What about an option adults could use to make [i\]E[/i] and [i\]T[/i] games mature? Instead of the other way around?
That way I could play [i\]Pokeon[/i] for the nostalgia, find the option titled "MATURE MODE" and suddenly, the main character is a jaded geneticist who's wife was killed in an accident on a journey to find the source of immortality by capturing latent elemental creatures.
And there'd be blood, and sex, and drugs, and gambling and all the stuff that... mature people... like.
What about an option adults could use to make [i\]E[/i] and [i\]T[/i] games mature? Instead of the other way around?
That way I could play [i\]Pokeon[/i] for the nostalgia, find the option titled "MATURE MODE" and suddenly, the main character is a jaded geneticist who's wife was killed in an accident on a journey to find the source of immortality by capturing latent elemental creatures.
And there'd be blood, and sex, and drugs, and gambling and all the stuff that... mature people... like.
Well this fails completly on its face, no child is gonna turn off the mature content on an 18 rated game. Im all for it, then maybe those fucking politicians will get off our backs and those stupid fundamentalist christians can fuck themselves too. I dont see it being practical or even used, but it can have advantages
I don't think this would appeal to the developers somehow...
I mean, the game they make is their creation, like a piece of art, and they want it to be experienced in it's full glory.
That's like if you painted a painting, but somebody only wants to display half of it on their wall. It's not what you wanted people to see and it doesn't express your full creativity.
I mean, the game they make is their creation, like a piece of art, and they want it to be experienced in it's full glory.
That's like if you painted a painting, but somebody only wants to display half of it on their wall. It's not what you wanted people to see and it doesn't express your full creativity.
no, if you are scared of say blood/guts ect in an 18+ game, dont get the game, they have the choice, they just are to scared of it.