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Ask The Weekly Geek: AO Ratings and You photo

PAX knocked me on my ass, so it's been a while, but welcome back to a brand new edition of Ask The Weekly Geek! This week, I will use my MASSIVE BRAIN to tackle yet another inquiry by you, the intrepid Dtoid reader. Prepare yourselves for a cranky rant about morality, it's anecdotally delicious!

Q: What will it take for the AO rating to be legitimate and not just a death sentence? (Thanks, A New Challenger!)

Adults Only. What a strange rating to have. While the name implies that only mature, responsible people should partake in said rated media, it holds a deeper, darker connotation. Boobies. Gore. Swears. More boobies. Yes, a game marked Adults Only is sure to be filled to the brim with so much depraved material as to choke a horse (I believe horse choking also garners an AO rating). Most recently we have seen Rockstar's Manhunt 2 scarlet letter'd by this AO mark of evil, which effectively banned it not only from stores like Wal*Mart, but from entire consoles as Nintendo and Sony's policy is to keep all AO games off their systems. This is a major blow to Rockstar's profits should the game be released, being that Wal*Mart owns the world, and Nintendo sells a metric butt-ton of Wii systems. So what is the purpose of the AO rating if it just functions as a way for the moral police to say what we can and cannot show in games?


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  38 comments   latest by angry_poster:
" its sad really. i've heard (read) this argument so many times. i don't see what the big deal is. what they ought to do is make the AO games download only. i mean, thats how i get my adult materi..."...
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Ask The Weekly Geek: a new feature for your enjoyment photo

Greetings! I am Chris Furniss from The Weekly Geek podcast, here to bring you a brand new feature aptly named: "Ask The Weekly Geek". Why should you ask me anything, let alone believe anything I say? Because I am known to have an encyclopedic knowledge of things Geek, and it is clogging up my brain tubes. I must eject some of this knowledge or else my head will explode. Help my head not explode!

I like to rant. I am passionate about things, either rabidly for or rabidly against said things. I take video games way too seriously, just like you, dear reader. And with that, let us begin!

QUESTION: "Why does Nintendo insist on ignoring the hardcore gamer base and marketing to my grandma?"

Ah, yes. You are obviously referring to Nintendo's new marketing strategy where they release a metric ass-ton of games that make you waggle your arms in order to have fun. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not a Wii hater, nor am I a Wii fanboy. For the record, I love Nintendo, and always have; I even sport a Triforce tattoo on my wrist. That said, the Triforce on my wrist burned like hellfire when I was forced to swing my Wii remote around to make Link's sword slash in Twilight Princess, but I digress. First, let's get a little context.

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  61 comments   latest by Grover G Grover:
"@Furn Gully "My theory is just that we are going to get more of the same. A great game every 3 months or so, while the rest of the time is filled with new ways to train your brain, or fantastical..."...
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