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Just because something is rated AO doesn't mean it should get a release. Thats why the damn rating even exists. #manhunt
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shouldn't* #manhunt
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Youll be seeing torture, peole dying in the most brutal and painful fashion and very gory bloody guts and carnage showing all the veins/bone/organs/eye balls ,ect spalltered everywhere.
jee I'm starting to feel sick lols #manhunt
10/31/09
As for the idea of taking Watchmen's violence and multiplying it, I'm honestly not sure I can handle that. And I usually don't get creeped out by massive amounts of violence.
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I'd always gotten the impression that the game was, in terms of gameplay, about sneaking around and waiting for an opportunity to strike, rather than "running and gunning" blindly. Not to say that most shooters nowadays, even, are about "running and gunning blindly" ...
Really, though, I am a big fan of games like Splinter Cell. (I know, I'm stretching things here.) I love the rewards of patience, I love the almost intimate feeling of atmosphere where it's just your character sneaking along in the silence.
I just don't like the story concepts of the Manhunt games (a battle-royale show and an asylum-based quest for revenge, am I right?), and I think I'd find that much gore to be distracting from what I really wanted in an action game. Thanks for your comments, though! #manhunt
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The uncensored version was just taking an extracted copy of the regular game with the censor-feature removed via some patching. It required a modded PSP with CFW, but it wasn't that hard to do. It never really made the game all that different, just more entertaining since you weren't restricted by dark screens.
If they've added more to it than this, I'd be impressed as well as curious as to how they'd push the bar considering this game had a decent story compared to the all out snuff game that was the original Manhunt. #manhunt
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Um...Excluding the console love, I believe that is what the AO version of Manhunt 2 is going for. Zero censor. #manhunt
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Makes me wish I had more than a cruddy ol' PC. =( #manhunt
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10/12/09
If parents want their precious ratings so bad, they should pay for them themselves. Don't foot the bill to publishers.
10/12/09
Besides, if the ESRB didn't exist, which does cost money to run... The government would have both its feet in gaming regulation and that wouldn't lead to anything good...
10/13/09
10/13/09
If they can't factor in 800 dollars, then they shouldn't be making games.
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It's clearly much more preferable than paying the current $2500 bill.
10/13/09
Then how come apple doesn't have the ESRB rating requirement for their games?
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10/13/09
Do you see an ESRB rating on your Microsoft Office 2007 box? Of course not.
That's what the App Store started out as and the lack of ratings on the App Store is reflected by such quality titles like the iFart application.
10/13/09
We don't need no stupid $800 dollar fee. The ESRB should die IMO.
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10/12/09
Do you *really* think Sony would rather have the bad press of some sort of "Columbine RPG 2" or a game with deliberately racial or sexist content in it? The fallout from that sort of 'ratings free' disaster would be hard to recover from - particularly with the internet so keen to repeat any mantra that can be used to beat Sony (and the PSPGo in particular) around the head with.
Ratings are there for a reason. Videogames have ratings and have had for years. How much content for *mobile phones* or *mobile media devices* has ever been subject to compulsory ratings classification? I'm not talking about a movie you slap on your iPod but content specifically made for such a platform. I can't think of any.
The issue here is that people are insisting on seeing two different things (iPhone / PSPGo) as the same and then getting all bent out of shape when one has different ways of doing things than the other.
I have *never* seen Sony say the PSPGo is a response to Apple's products. I've seen commenters, the press, and everyone else just assume that and run with it. All of a sudden it's assumed this is exactly how it's been positioned and treated as fact. Then when it does stuff differently they frown and ask how come Sony are doing it a different way from Apple? (And should Sony do something the same as Apple you can bet the same people will criticise them for copying instead of doing something their own way).
All this "PSPGo is a response to iPod" talk is kinda crazy, because I recall another mobile gaming machine that got a new model recently. It had amongst it additions: internet browsing, music playback, built in camera, the promise of downloadable apps and even a rather blatant lower-case "i" added to its title and yet nobody seems to think any of that has any relevance to what Apple is up to.
It's amazing how people can miss the blatantly obvious because they're so busy reading *between* the lines and concocting hidden meanings in things they can't see what's right in front of them!
As for supporting/enticing developers - the cost and availability of development kit is the barrier to entry, not the cost of an ESRB rating.
10/12/09
10/12/09
They're immediately jumping to that assumption (unless authoritatively confirmed or denied it remains an *assumption* regardless of how convinced you are - and, as such, blaming another party whilst working on an assumption is a fundamentally flawed argument) and criticising it for competing in that market.
Then, when it shows it's bound by processes of a different market (games rather than mobile media devices) MORE criticisms come forth.
It's criticised for being the same. It's criticised for being different.
Folk would do well to find an argument and stick to it instead of constantly looking for any angle to launch criticism from.
10/13/09
Do you really believe that absurdly objectionable content would be released if we didn't have the ESRB? Sony screens games as well, and it's not as if the ESRB has the Eyes of the Chosen that no one else has. The average person knows what's questionable and what's not.
I'm not saying that ratings are useless, but ESRB ratings should not be mandated on the PSPGo, as there's no reason to have it other than because Sony is used to working with the ESRB. As long as retailers are not involved, games are not required to carry a rating.
10/13/09
Your thinking's way off there guy.
10/12/09
That'll level the playing field, and perhaps limit the amount of shovelware on both platforms.
10/12/09
By that usage, it's voluntary only from the ESRB side.
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But really, how dare they price their PSPGo $50 less than an iPod Touch with similar features?
10/12/09
Your excuse has been invalidated. Try again Sony.
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