The ESRB is slapping
Borderlands with an “M for Mature” rating. If you’re familiar
with the cover art -- or, hell, even glimpsed at what
we’ve written about the substance of the sci-fi shooter -- this shouldn’t be a surprise. The rating as a whole isn’t interesting, but what is hip about all of this is the ESRB’s summary, the place where a poor soul at the organization breaks down the game’s naughty bits.
The summary mentions that players will “kill hundreds of enemies” ranging from human bandits to the “mercenary soldiers with a “wide variety” (read: millions) of guns. As the targeted are reamed with bullets, players will hear a “moan” or a “scream” emitted from their mouths and the damage “results in large spurts of blood, dismemberment, and decapitation.”
Basically, the ESRB is saying that
Borderlands is
totally f’ing metal.
The full listing is available after the break and there’s plenty more to see, including references to numerous swear words like, say, d--kbag as well as references to other kinds of metal, uh, we mean adult-specific, slayings.
Rating summary: This is a sci-fi first-person shooter in which players assume the roles of mercenary treasure hunters on a mission to the fictional planet of Pandora. Players undertake missions/quests that increase characters' skills, eliminate an assortment of mutant creatures, and drive and collide with advanced alien vehicles. Players kill hundreds of enemies (e.g., human bandits and mercenary soldiers) over the course of the game by using a wide variety of guns (shotguns, sniper rifles), explosives, and special ammo types (fire, acid and electricity, etc.). The combat is frenetic, and enemies moan or scream when they are hit. Damage from weapons also results in large spurts of blood, dismemberment, and decapitation. When a human or creature is decapitated, an effect resembling a fountain of blood will shoot from the neck for a few seconds and stop. Some weapons cause enemies to split in half, the top being separated from the waist. During the course of the game, characters make jokes about streaking, body parts, rape, and mothers (e.g., "…more busted than my momma's girly parts"). Strong profanity (e.g., "f*cking," "sh*t," "p*ssy," and "d*ckbag") can be heard in the dialogue.
Contest:
6:00 PM on 09.08.2009
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I've been budgeting for about the past month or so in order to afford both this and MW2. Not to mention I'm aiming to pick up a decent HDTV by the end of November in order to play said delicious games on.
So simple, albeit immature, words offend you, but the image of a person being split in half by a shotgun blast is perfectly acceptable for the young'uns.
The good thing is both of these come out pretty much on my birthday. I get enough to buy them both, after I've paid off some debts. I'll still probably get MW2 first though.
What you stated makes no sense... (Maybe Halo 3 could help you with all of that :P). As it says in the descriptions they make jokes just because the words are there doesn't mean that the characters only spurt out F*ck every time they see a dead body or create one. It's just telling you what kind of language the game uses at times.
deadline: You know what's immature? Getting offended by a couple of fucking words.
There are 50 million people without health insurance in the United States. That is fucking offensive. Women are getting acid thrown in their faces in Afghanistan because they're trying to go to school. That is fucking offensive. People are letting their children DIE because they think their imaginary friend Jesus doesn't want them to go to the doctor or get a blood transfusion. That is fucking offensive.
Quit being such a twat and have some fucking fun once in a while.
you know what's immature? BEING AN ASSHOLE.
or let me do this in your style...
hpv: You know what's immature? Getting offended by someone who finds a couple of fucking words offensive.
There are 50 million people without health insurance in the United States. That is fucking offensive. Women are getting acid thrown in their faces in Afghanistan because they're trying to go to school. That is fucking offensive. People are letting their children DIE because they think their imaginary friend Jesus doesn't want them to go to the doctor or get a blood transfusion. That is fucking offensive.
Quit being such a twat and have some fucking fun once in a while.
LOL. So basically, you're full of shit. Thanks for letting us know.
Some parents, usually good ones, try to avoid stuff like coarse language as much as possible.
He's not doing anything wrong so please don't attack him. He's just upset that he can't enjoy what appears to be an awesome game with his son.
Easily one of my favorites comments of all time.
PS: C'mon, the guy wanted to play Borderlands with his son, he deserved the comment. This game has always been advertised as brutal and heavy.
swears = OMGPONIESBADFORCHILDREN!!!!
Obviously it would be nice to just be told you're a fucking retarded dickbag by a kid compared to having you're head blown off by one playing with daddies gun. But does violence in video games really make kids want to do that? I think violence like WCW is much more prone to getting enacted in reality than murdering people with guns, and not just because you need a gun for the latter, but people don't like killing people unless they're really bad like evil bandits in a distant universe. Sci-fi FPS set in the future on some distant planet this and even the NYC of GTA is so far off of the reality we live in, I don't think anybody with an ounce of sanity will feel the need to see what it's like in reality. (And then there are all the tards who join the Army to shoot shit).
They sure know how to promote a game. :)
I'm sure you have your own reasons for it, but it strikes me as a bit strange that you'd let a kid witness someone's legs be ripped from them but not someone say "dickbag".
Nonetheless, it's your money to do as you please, so yeah. There might be a filter for it anyway, ask one of the devs.
Word of the year.
Anyways, METAL FUCKIN ROCKS!
This game looks completely awesome. I Can't wait.
If I ever become a games developer, I swear that will somehow make it into my first title. Credited to you, of course.
Not complaining, just saying :)
Children should be shielded from those horrendous references but should be encouraged to simulate acts of psychopathy in a virtual environment, makes sense.
(i will be purchasing borderlands)
They didn't.
Awesome.
METAHL!
This game should replace teh language w/ sem nices boobiez though men.
And it's all a government program, and your family gets the bill for your execution -even though you were innocent?
An electric meat grinder as a melee weapon?
Where when you fall off a cliff your organs pop out like a water-balloon?
Where ALL the dead bodies actually stay on the ground for the entire match without magically disappearing?
And if it's got game saves, like in Fallout3 where you do pass over the same land from time to time, shouldn't the bodies decompose and get all moldy over time?
Or just grab a shovel and unearth mass graves. Mass graves of all the characters from other video games who have died and magically disappeared.