Article lifted from GameSpot's official website
This is bad news for the entire industry. I am disgusted at Rockstar Games, ESRB, Hilary Clinton, and pretty much everybody involved. A dark day for gaming.
GTA San Andreas now rated AO
Article lifted from GameSpot's official website
This is bad news for the entire industry. I am disgusted at Rockstar Games, ESRB, Hilary Clinton, and pretty much everybody involved. A dark day for gaming.
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I read about this earlier today. It really gets to me, but it's only getting the AO rating until Rockstar can redistribute the game with the Hot Coffee material removed.
- It was deserved.
- It's about time a game got the AO rating anyway.
- Hillary Clinton is so dumb jeez c'mon lady.
- Who cares?
Who cares? At least now they cant be held back. Expect better stuff from the newer GTA's.
It doesn't bug me so much that it got an AO rating, but more how it got it. The material in question can't even show up without a third party patch. If they wanted to get it on legitimate grounds, like the violence, language, etc., it'd be more acceptable, but it's not like this actually plays into the main course of the game. It wasn't even complete.
What Kishi said. Though giving it an AO for a mod is... dumb, but I think it should have an AO anyway. 'Cause you know what they say, "One AO leads to another."
It's not a mod, it was built into the game by Rockstar. You can unlock the mini game on the PS2 version as well.
Serious. I'd have disagreed with it if it were just about a mod.
It should have been AO anyways but I agree with Hsu.
I would also like to point out that now game developers will have even more crap to deal with. Then there is also the possibility of the government getting involved with videogame ratings.
Also there should be only and M or an AO. This isn't the smurfing movie theaters. It is retail and these games shouldn't be in the hands of someone underaged anyways. The ESRB sucks anyways. When I did work at gamestop I pretty much told parents to go home and do their research on a game because the ratings system is complete crap and then would point out things like Tony Hawk gets Teen because there were a few swear words in the music they choose for back ground music while Zelda has you fighting and killing goblins and other creatures.
I stand by the rating system sucks and that there is no real basis for any of it. smurf Hilary, the ESRB and parent groups who try to get parents to be less of a parent than they already are. Why would they even care about this unless they said it was okay to own before?
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EDIT: This was not built into the game. To get it in the PS2 version you have to mod the game with AR or Gameshark. You still use a third party device. For the PC you use a mod.
I findthe fact that they put it into the game without bothering to mention quite irritating. I'm not too fond of Rockstar games to begin with, and this does little to improve my opinion.
Although I must say that Rockstar's doing stupid stuff like this pulls the attention off the rest of the gaming companies, thus allowing us to have some respite from general whining about video games by people who've never played a game in their life.
The code exists within the game. AR and Gameshark just unlock the code.
They were going to put it into the game but took it out. You have to crack the game to do this. Like most scrapped things in game, it just gets left on the disc.Originally Posted by Behold the Void
EDIT To Yams: It is on the disc but you have to use a 3rd party means to use it even. Even then it is really long and can screw up your save files because it is imcomplete due to it being scrapped. From what I have read you have to put in a joker code to kill yourself just to get out of it once the game has ended.
I don't think games should be rated by 3rd party interferance.
Oh my... that sounds... exactly like the "Restricted 18" rating this game has already got in my country.The AO for Adults Only rating means that, according to the ESRB's official definition, the current version of the game now "should only be played by persons 18 years and older"...
Oh teh noes. A game in which your character can be rewarded for mass murder, brutal robbery and slaying of innocents, and pimping/murdering prostitutes gets a restriction placed on it? How unthinkable.
Even though the new material's only accessible via third-party interference, it's gotta be examined when assessing the game. If not, lame game companies who want to take advantage of the "OMG CONTROVERSY = FREE PUBLICITY" campaign will just start loading their games with stupid crap that you can't access through conventional means, then 'subtly' advertising the fact.
I don't have a problem with the current game classification systems. In my country, it's goverened by the Films, Videos and Publications Act, which applies to basically any other media as well. Products get a warning label as appropriate, and a legally-binding restriction (eg. 16, 18 or not legally available at all) where appropriate. It works fine.
The only problem is parents who are utterly stupid and buy their children whatever software they want, thinking that "games" are all about fun, without bothering to read the censor's warning or even read the back of the box. "Omg! I bought my 9-year old son Puppy Molester 3 and Sandbox Tentacle Tyrant, and it turns out they've got violence and sexual perversion in them! Oh, the horror! I'd better sue somebody, since that's what stupid people are supposed to do in times like these."
A little responsibility goes a long way.
Hey, Sandbox Tentacle Tyrant is a classic.
Even as a responsible retailer I still ended up selling GTA: Vice City to parents after explaining about drugs, murder and prostitution and they still bought it for their 9 year old kid who was standing right there. I will not sell it to the kid but if the parent thinks that it is okay for their kid then who am I to say no? People are just [img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img][img]/xxx.gif[/img]ty parent in general an no amount of anything will change that.
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