3rd November 2007, 9:46 PM
ABF, that's exactly it. It would be one thing if the knowledge of this unavailable but still present-in-code content made them change the rating, but it didn't. They even said they would have made it a higher rating and more or less strong armed the company INTO censoring the game in this way. No, that's not a really good excuse. It COULD have been, but not this way.
Sex worse than violence? Sometimes it seems that way doesn't it? However, I have yet to see Leisure Suit Larry get any media watchdog focus of any kind. I think with video games it's still this. I think that hot coffee thing might have just been "unexpected" or something, like caught off guard. I think with games at least the violence is still the bigger attention getter, and that at least makes more sense but it's still pretty stupid.
Sex worse than violence? Sometimes it seems that way doesn't it? However, I have yet to see Leisure Suit Larry get any media watchdog focus of any kind. I think with video games it's still this. I think that hot coffee thing might have just been "unexpected" or something, like caught off guard. I think with games at least the violence is still the bigger attention getter, and that at least makes more sense but it's still pretty stupid.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)