'GTA' Game Rating Changed to Adults-Only

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In message <BoydnX8cBrmeT0PfRVn-gQ@centurytel.net>
"towelie" <bugoNOSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Because the US is full of puritan, fundamentalist prudes.

So is the UK....

I can see us good normal (And most of all *sane*) gamers are going to
get tied up with another Manhunt-style argument on gaming violence.

I still think it's really funny how other companies who produce just as
violent games are not taking as much flak as Rockstar Games are. Was
there this kind of outrage when the original Tenchu was released on the
PSone?


Cheers,
Rob
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Chris Wright wrote:
>
> >> Because the US is full of puritan, fundamentalist prudes.
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning.
> >> A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.
> >> - Maynard James Keenan
> >>
>
> >
> > so's the UK. Just presently they don't have much clout.
> > --
> > Paul (And I'm, like, "yeah, whatever!" )
>
> We don't have religion-based elections in the UK just yet like they do in
> the US. No preachers here telling people that God wants them to vote
> Republican.

no preachers ))

Ole Mary W had a lot of clout in her days.
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On the subject of videogames influencing people:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/viort.htm

Look at the sharp downturn in violent crime, which co-incides with the
popularity of first-person shooters (Doom came out in 1993).
Co-incidence? Maybe. Was there some change in U.S. policy or culture
around this time?

Phil Hibbs.

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Rob White wrote:
>
> In message <42DF77A3.AC9615BF@blueyonder.co.uk>
> Paul Heslop <paul.heslop@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > soft targets. They know Rockstar, like the makers of Postal, don't
> > have much of a leg to stand on. Probably why there IS that moral bent
> > on CJ.
>
> I thought of another instance just after I posted.
>
> A while ago when Acorn computers were still going fairly strong,
> Krisalis and a few other companies ported a load of quite recent Amiga
> games, such as Sensible Soccer, Lemmings and it's numerous sequels and
> Cannon Fodder.
>
> I can still remember a chap who sent letters to all three of the main
> Acorn mags outraged that such (And I quote) "Horrific violence on out
> humble system". Portent of doom about the whole video-gaming violence
> thing or what?
>
> I suppose it didn't help that Cannon Fodder had a theme tune called
> 'War Has Never Been So Much Fun', but sheesh, they're cartoon pixels
> firing machine-gun pixels at other armed pixels. GTA (And all other
> even slightly violent games) are just a lot more detailed and graphic.
>
> Maybe it's subliminal messaging: "Play our war game, join the Army!
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
> --
> .__ __ |__ |__ .|__ __ | Rob White, Half Man Half Biscuit.
> | / \| \ | | || ||| /__\ | mflt35@dsl.pipex.com
> | \__/|__/ |_|_|| |||__\___ | Wimbledon, London, England.

I'm sure they're just looking for easy targets. Anyone who can get
really turned on or incited to use violence in real life from these
pixelated fun factories has a serious problem which needs medical
attention.

We just have to look at harry Potter (Which I ****ing hate!) and the
kick up from silly religious fanatics and attention seekers saying it
was teaching our kids about the occult. Jees, even the kids can see
it's just a story.
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"Gumbo ..." wrote:
>
> My question is this and sorry if this has been asked before but
> jumping in the thread late...
>
> If Rockstar is having the game pulled and changed to an AO rating of
> Adults Only... Does this mean they are going to unlock the code to
> have the sexual mission in the game now without the Mod?
>
> I mean if the only way to see it was with the Mod and the game was
> rated M for Mature and now it's going to be rated AO; Adults Only then
> screw the Mod... I'll take my game back and buy the AO version and
> expect the sexual mission unlocked...

I have serious doubts they'll unlock it deliberately.
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Razor wrote:
>
> "Paul Heslop" <paul.heslop@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:42E0427A.D1F7C449@blueyonder.co.uk...
> > Rob White wrote:
> >>
> >> In message <42DF77A3.AC9615BF@blueyonder.co.uk>
> >> Paul Heslop <paul.heslop@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >> > soft targets. They know Rockstar, like the makers of Postal, don't
> >> > have much of a leg to stand on. Probably why there IS that moral bent
> >> > on CJ.
> >>
> >> I thought of another instance just after I posted.
> >>
> >> A while ago when Acorn computers were still going fairly strong,
> >> Krisalis and a few other companies ported a load of quite recent Amiga
> >> games, such as Sensible Soccer, Lemmings and it's numerous sequels and
> >> Cannon Fodder.
> >>
> >> I can still remember a chap who sent letters to all three of the main
> >> Acorn mags outraged that such (And I quote) "Horrific violence on out
> >> humble system". Portent of doom about the whole video-gaming violence
> >> thing or what?
> >>
> >> I suppose it didn't help that Cannon Fodder had a theme tune called
> >> 'War Has Never Been So Much Fun', but sheesh, they're cartoon pixels
> >> firing machine-gun pixels at other armed pixels. GTA (And all other
> >> even slightly violent games) are just a lot more detailed and graphic.
> >>
> >> Maybe it's subliminal messaging: "Play our war game, join the Army!
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Rob
> >> --
> >> .__ __ |__ |__ .|__ __ | Rob White, Half Man Half Biscuit.
> >> | / \| \ | | || ||| /__\ | mflt35@dsl.pipex.com
> >> | \__/|__/ |_|_|| |||__\___ | Wimbledon, London, England.
> >
> > I'm sure they're just looking for easy targets. Anyone who can get
> > really turned on or incited to use violence in real life from these
> > pixelated fun factories has a serious problem which needs medical
> > attention.
> >
> > We just have to look at harry Potter (Which I ****ing hate!) and the
> > kick up from silly religious fanatics and attention seekers saying it
> > was teaching our kids about the occult. Jees, even the kids can see
> > it's just a story.
> > --
> > Paul (And I'm, like, "yeah, whatever!" )
> > -------------------------------------------------------
> > Stop and Look
> > http://www.geocities.com/dreamst8me/
>
> What!?!? Ah thanks Paul. First Santa and now this!

) Sorry... but did you spot this little story for silly buggers?

"Potter ending revealed to drivers

Scores of fans of the latest Harry Potter book have had their
enjoyment ruined after pranksters revealed the outcome of the book on
a banner.
Motorists heading along the A442 near Telford came across the banner
complete with the plot-spoiling words on Thursday morning.

Council workers had removed it from a footbridge by lunchtime.

The long-awaited sixth edition of the Harry Potter series was issued
at midnight on Friday.

A spokesman for Telford and Wrekin council said: "People in the know
tell us it had the outcome of the Harry Potter book on it.

"This does have a serious side to it as if the banner had fallen down
it could have serious consequences for motorists."


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In message <42E0427A.D1F7C449@blueyonder.co.uk>
Paul Heslop <paul.heslop@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> We just have to look at harry Potter (Which I ****ing hate!) and the
> kick up from silly religious fanatics and attention seekers saying it
> was teaching our kids about the occult. Jees, even the kids can see
> it's just a story.

<I'm going to get flamed for this I know>
<off-topic> I mean, where else can you read about a ginger kid who has
not one, but TWO friends at school?


Cheers,
Rob
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I think part of this might have to do with the fact that Rockstar Games is
owned by Take-Two Interactive, and they already got in trouble over The Guy
Game, where one of the girls filmed flashing her breasts for the game was
actually under 18.





"Rob White" wrote

I still think it's really funny how other companies who produce just as
violent games are not taking as much flak as Rockstar Games are.