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lultor on 12 April 2008
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Kasz216 said:

ESRB likely should exist... but at the same time, it's all up to the parents.

If the parents want to buy the Kid Manhunt, it's their buisness. Really though if the kid can buy Manhunt without the parents knowing there is something wrong with those parents.

What ISN'T good is how the ESRB has turned into some sort of psuedo censoring board. The "Adult Only" label... or whatever it's called is considered death to a games sales... so rather then accept the rating, crappy games like Manhunt 2 keep editing until they are just underneath that bar.

It's only a 1 year difference between Adult Only and Mature (for 18 and up instead of 17....)

yet they treat it like it's the freakin plague all of the sudden.

Also, yeah I think violent games and stuff can effect you like that... but really it's going to depend on the parenting. Which... if the parenting is that bad to where they aren't paying attention to what your playing and giving you proper context... then the ESRB isn't going to save the kid anyway.


Then they should remove the adult only label, but i think it was originaly put in place for movies that had pornographic content, and retailers dont want to stock pornographic films so their policy is automaticly to not sell it (im not sure of the details but i saw something about that on a documentary).

But there are other controversies such as a film/game gets better ratings when there is no blood, this means (especially in films) you can shoot the crap out of someone yet there isnt any blood, does this send kids the right message?