http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050720/ap_on_hi_te/video_game_sex "The sex scenes had prompted outrage from parent's groups and politicians, who are demanding federal oversight of video game ratings " They object to sex in a video game, but all of the over the top violence, and harsh language pretty much make sure this game is not for children i predict this makes the game outsell even halo 2. people will want it just for the adult content
Oh, the Outrage! They were okay with there being crime and violence. But sex, that makes the game an AO. Man, does society need to put its priorities together or what? Most of us will never kill another human being, but sex and sexual situations are part of our everyday lives. What is wrong with people...? And... well, Blah. Really, other than image, what's the difference between the AO and M rating? They're just separated so some stores can pretend to be outraged and not carry AO games, but still sell M games even to minors, and get profit. Let's hope this doesn't bring more cries demanding censorship from the usual suspects who shall remain nameless... and it finally shuts them up. Really, man. GTA sucks either way...
nothing is new in good old USA i just hope the members on the forum on that continent (i am talking both about north middle and south america) are safe, untill the hurricane season is over.
I think its stupid for them to rate it ao its only available currently in the computer version maybe some one with a ps2 dev can unlock it for ps2 but the point is that it is really only unlockable in the pc version so they should only rate the pc version Ao.
It's some patch called Hot Coffee that can be downloaded for the PC...But for the PS2, I think there might be a need to either patch the disc somehow, or get a Gameshark or similar device. But since it's there... well, it could simply radiate out of the disc and somehow corrupt children's minds by osmosis or something. Oh, and Wolvie, at least down here. everything is fine. It actually hasn't rained in a couple of days - but there were a couple of big storms. Nothing out of the ordinary in this part of North/Central America. Thanks for the concern. Guadalajara is Hurricane proof, Earthquake proof, Tornado Proof, and we have like only two volcanoes nearby, so it's okay. I hope everyone in the affected areas is okay as well.
you can cut heads off, burn the first person you came across on the street, beat the crap out of someone to take is car and cash and kill for drugs. but you can't be in a bed with a girl. Yeah baby. what's so bad about this hidden sex scene anyway? haven't we seen sex scenes already in video games?
Well, we don't know the whole reason behind it. We do know Rockstar lied about the Hot Coffee mod, which may be the big reason behind it getting slapped with a AO rating (Plus, to avoid bad press by the media and politicians). However, sex in videogames have been done before. Gothic II, GoW, etc. Yeah, we have horrible priorities. You can kill a guy with a chainsaw, blow their head off with a sniper rifle, run them over with a ambulance that you just stole, but you can't show any sex.
The thing that outraged the parents and the politicians is not the hack, but the fact that the textures, etc. that depict full frontal nudity was PROGRAMMED into the game since development. Rockstar is to blame for fucking it up for the other legit developers out there, not the crazed parents or the politicians. The politicians and parents (mainly the politicians to keep loyal voters) blow it out of proportion and the good developers end up getting hurt by this too.
What do you expect from America. the conservatives think if you do not talk about it the kids will never know. Isn't that how inbreeding and 6 finger mo came about?
please, soccer moms and politicians don't even know what a texture in the video game world is. they're just ashamed because the medias tell you to do so. hell, it wasn't used in the game! how could little soccer kid who likes to cut heads in his game could ever see this? ''yeah, but if he have a pc, the pc game and internet, he could see it!'' still more difficult than taping full frontal nudity in google.
Because we all know that seeing pictures of a girl getting reamed is the goddamn bane of society. But peeing on people (Conker), beating people with their comrade's charred skull (State of Emergency), swear words (too many games to count), racism (Grand Theft Auto...all of 'em) and super realistic killing (Rainbow Six, Socom, and even fucking, America's Army)? That's just an M rating kids. Have fun.
well action replay and code breaker codes have been aval, they do in fact work, still whats funny is that a game like god of war had a sex game in it and it was aval without even any code blocking but then again the game is not as popular as grand theft auto. Plus they are fully clothed when doing it, still its rockstars fault for not bothering to just fully take it out of the game instead of just leaving it in there and being lazy by not taking out the data, though i can imagine it was a rush descision and that they probably didnt have enough time to take it out due to debugging and all, still whats funny is they are considering sueing the makers of action replay and code breaker for damages. I can see it now, cheat devices being banned, nintendos wish might be finally granted. As well, im curious if the the psp release is going to be theroughly checked.
Thats another thing, the more popular the game is, the more scrutiny it gets from the public eye. I remember when Black and White was being protested by the conservative families because in a nutshell you play as God in that game and those families don't want their children to think they have power over their lives I guess. Too much of this stuff going on and the government, here in US, will have to do something to shut them up.
it's always interesting what else those groups will come out with next in US.. though US isn't the only country that deals with such thing... over hear we got Leisure Suit Larry got banned 'coz our censoring body thought seeing cartoon titties is too much for our weak and naive(?) mind... though you can get the same title from NZ without much hassle... and then there's a talk of trying to ban another art film that deals with the controversial topic thanks(?) to one of christian group using the tax payers money... so the question is it'll be alight to have movies where "real" actors doing it as long as it's x-rated but not so where "virtual" characters doing it in games regardless whether it has AO/X-rating... game industry is money driven just as much as any other industry... if sex sells they will create games catering that audiences... by the way this is nothing new... game titles exclusively deal with sexual content have been around since personal computer was introduced in 80s... anyone in Japan will know what I mean...
Apprently they are either marking the ones out now AO and selling them or not selling them at all. Another M version will be released with the hot coffee stuff taken out.
