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@Tobbii Same, for some reason the skull reminds me of slightly cheesy 3D effects when they first came out. Kind of like what you'd see in 32 bit console cut scenes and the like.
... what?! Can I not even place my faith in the esrb anymore?
The list of people who aren't making stupid decisions in the industry (and world at large, really) is getting shorter and shorter.
This just in, all characters on the box art of games will be wearing long sleeved turtlenecked sweaters, because seeing forearm skin makes people think of rape.
The list of people who aren't making stupid decisions in the industry (and world at large, really) is getting shorter and shorter.
This just in, all characters on the box art of games will be wearing long sleeved turtlenecked sweaters, because seeing forearm skin makes people think of rape.
"Oh wait, I forgot. If a three-year-old glances at a bit of red on a drawing, it will instantly stab its mother in the womb and activate the suicide bomb strapped to its chest. Silly me."
I'm surprised you nearly overlooked this scientific fact. Really, mister Sterling. I'm disappointed in you.
I'm surprised you nearly overlooked this scientific fact. Really, mister Sterling. I'm disappointed in you.
Thank god they censored that rust from the metallic texture, it made me want to murder people and make holes in skulls laying about. If none could be found I was going to go dig them up.
Or maybe I should drown some people......in the desert.
Or maybe I should drown some people......in the desert.
We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene!
Wow... that red looks like someone dry brushed red paint onto some oxidized metal. It looks NOTHING like blood.
This is what it's come to... The US is fully a Nanny State now :( Hopefully the Canadian copies aren't subject to this ridiculous censorship.
This is what it's come to... The US is fully a Nanny State now :( Hopefully the Canadian copies aren't subject to this ridiculous censorship.
No blood but L4D can get away with bitten off thumbs? This isn't bad because it's unnecessary, it's bad because it makes no sense.
WHAT? FOR A RED SMUDGE? Do those guys really not have ANYTHING better to do with their time? Why do I feel like the ESRB is made up of people who watched The Good Son too many times?
@Matty
I've always thought the same thing. Murder is okay, but a sound isn't? Welcome to bass akcwards 'murrica!
I've always thought the same thing. Murder is okay, but a sound isn't? Welcome to bass akcwards 'murrica!
@Matty125
"We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene!"
Welcome to humanity.
"We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene!"
Welcome to humanity.
@Chongomaster
Bitten off thumbs are okay, but any other fingers are just too EXTREEEEME to the ESRB:
http://www.destructoid.com/left-4-dead-2-cover-art-changed-to-appease-esrb-136557.phtml
Bitten off thumbs are okay, but any other fingers are just too EXTREEEEME to the ESRB:
http://www.destructoid.com/left-4-dead-2-cover-art-changed-to-appease-esrb-136557.phtml
Not gonna complain about that. It shows lack of consistency, sure, but it's not like they censored any of the in-game content, right?
And didn't know these guys made Dead Island. Here's hoping for a sequel. Dead Island COULD'VE been fucking amazing. But, it's tedium and laughably bad characters made it just "pretty damn good".
APRIL 24TH FOR THIS GAME! MY TIMBERS ARE SHIVERIN'!
And didn't know these guys made Dead Island. Here's hoping for a sequel. Dead Island COULD'VE been fucking amazing. But, it's tedium and laughably bad characters made it just "pretty damn good".
APRIL 24TH FOR THIS GAME! MY TIMBERS ARE SHIVERIN'!
This has to be some stupid recent thing they are doing, because last time I checked, Dead Space had a severed bloody hand on its box. Just as long as there wasn't red on ground I suppose.
Is the ESRB mandatory? Even if it is, it's like the Motion picture rating system in that its enforcement is voluntary. If I ran a game store and a 10 year old wanted to buy Grand Theft Auto, there is no law that prohibits me from selling it to him. I know because I sold a copy of Dungeon Keeper to a 11 year old kid when I worked at EB. He went home and his mother came back in demanding I return his money. I just shrugged at her and told her that she should stay with her child when she sends him into a video game store to purchase something. The system is all voluntary.
Okay, not that I really give two shits, because that cover looks lame anyways, it doesn't even look like blood, and are we really going to start going this route?
Next thing you know, they won't allow guns or weapons on box art, like Microsoft did with Avatar items.
Also, ESRB: Dead Space (1) has a disembodied forearm/hand on the box, if you're going to censor shit, at least make sense. (Not that I want them to censor anything.)
Next thing you know, they won't allow guns or weapons on box art, like Microsoft did with Avatar items.
Also, ESRB: Dead Space (1) has a disembodied forearm/hand on the box, if you're going to censor shit, at least make sense. (Not that I want them to censor anything.)
I really don't understand why the ESRB exists at this point. They are completely worthless. Do we really need them to list off the couple of retarded reasons why they give 90% of retail games an M rating? Language? Violence? Oh dear. Complete waste of time.
@arg
Oh no! Someone said fuck! Before you were 17! *gasps a gasp of pure, unadulterated horror*
You are now completely scarred for life!
/sarcasm
Oh no! Someone said fuck! Before you were 17! *gasps a gasp of pure, unadulterated horror*
You are now completely scarred for life!
/sarcasm
Um. Is this a recently adopted policy or something? As I recall, Dragon Age had an entire dragon silhouette made out of blood on its cover (I'm assuming that's blood anyway, what with the spatter marks around it and the "Blood Dragon Armor" content found in-game bearing its likeness).
OBVIOUSLY, WE NEED TO PROTECT OUR CHILDREN IF THEY SEE BLOOD THEN THEY'LL BECOME THOSE GODDAMN COMMIE TERRORIST SCHOOL SHOOTERS
Are we really becoming such a psychologically frail society that we can't simply put the color red behind some bones?
A hanging body I might be able to see, even though I feel it is silly, but the color red? Guess we'd have to change a lot of things then.
Guess we have to change Coke cans -- Don't want to allude to there being bodily fluids in there.
Guess we'd have to ask our bodies to make different colored blood --can't possibly have it getting out that our blood might be red.
Guess car companies will have one less color -- don't want people thinking we've simply run over people.
Seriously.. Its red.. Live with it.
A hanging body I might be able to see, even though I feel it is silly, but the color red? Guess we'd have to change a lot of things then.
Guess we have to change Coke cans -- Don't want to allude to there being bodily fluids in there.
Guess we'd have to ask our bodies to make different colored blood --can't possibly have it getting out that our blood might be red.
Guess car companies will have one less color -- don't want people thinking we've simply run over people.
Seriously.. Its red.. Live with it.
@Felix Kyo Grnewald
Is it really? Thats hilarious considering what we know about the German ratings board. Wonder what this will get/got in Australia then.
Is it really? Thats hilarious considering what we know about the German ratings board. Wonder what this will get/got in Australia then.
Is blood such a big deal that they have to censor some generic blood splatters? Its not like its someones live head getting cut off its just a little blood splatter. It looks like a generic pirate game.
How could you even consider that to look anything like blood? Also, I swear I've seen "real" graphic covers that they paid no mind to. What happened to those? Why does it even matter anyway? Is the game not rated mature? Are they really trying to "protect" the eyes of the children who might happen to gaze upon it in the store? If that's the case then they're doing a terrible job to begin with.
It's still a rated M game... what difference does it make if the cover art looks like it has blood on it or not? Would changing the color red on the cover of Splatterhouse have made it any more kid friendly? No, and I bet it would have sold even less copies than it did.
maybe it was too communist?? like Homer Simpsons red shirt? and yeah cover isn't a blast anyway. but the game itself is worth trying.
This doesn't really sound like a case of censorship. This sounds more like a case of the ESRB just loves to troll Deep Silver.
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