Hitman nor True Crime never had AO ratings. Unlike manhunt killing people in those games where treated with discretion or outright discouraged. Manhunt basically told you to brutalize people in various gory ways with tools(Plastic bags to choke people with and knifes to gut them). Besides no one cared that much of True crime anyway to make a big fuse about it other than NYPD and that was for the police portrayal.
Manhunt basically had to get remade to get it even in the stores because everybody was banning it.
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Last edited by Phanteros on Sep 23rd, 2010 at 03:32 AM
However in Bioshock, I think that's the only current example you can actually kill a kid without a mod. The old fallout series you can kill kids with lazers. However in Fallout 3 you can't unless you mod it.
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Last edited by Phanteros on Sep 23rd, 2010 at 03:39 AM
my point is that you dont understand that theres a difference between shooting a grown man who is a police officer and shooting a child is because you hate cops. im just explaining your confusion.
Police being killed in games are still chewed out but not as enforce like children. Saints Row series have been a major target by this accusation but as long as a kid isn't being killed in it, its ok.
Police are grown men that can defend them selves typically with fire arms, children can't. usually.
What "notch" though, and how far? It just seems arbitrary, because to what scale would you apply a spectrum of gore and cursing?
I think the reason Sony and Nintendo are afraid of the label is because they know kids will get their hands on them anyways (like cigarettes and porn). So its basically legal bet-covering, I would surmise.
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Actually it's because they would make far less money off of such a game. AO games often are not sold in stores, and never sell as well as a lesser rated game.
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Mow down grownups by the dozen, and no one cares. But hurt a kid, and people go nuts.
Nothing really confusing about it, though.. It's an old cultural meme to value children over full grown men.
What confuses me much more, is the taboo against anything sexual. Kill a full grown man in cold blood, and it's an action game, but show a nipple and it becomes fodder for every news media outlet for the next six months.. (Remember the Hot Coffee incident?)
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Last edited by Nemesis X on Sep 23rd, 2010 at 04:29 AM
Yup. Manhunt 2 was originally going to be slapped with an AO rating so they redid the game to lessen the violence and get an M rating so it could be sold. GTA: San Andreas was re-rated as AO because of Hot Coffee and pulled from shelves; only the Greatest Hits version of the game has an M rating and is all that can be sold.
Retailers refuse to stock AO titles, and hence developers and publishers won't make them.
Sex in games isn't unusual and by itself isn't enough to warrant stronger than an M rating most of the time. The problem with Hot Coffee, which got GTA: SA rerated as AO, was that it was a pornographic sex minigame. Sex doesn't necessarily mean porn, and when it's the latter is when it earns the AO.
However, yes, I do agree in general that I find it ridiculous that people are find with ridiculous amounts of blood, gore, and violence, but anything sexual is bad and horrible and shameful.
Come to think of it, God of War had full nip-page.
No censuring or anything. Even had an "off screen" sex game, which I'm surprised got past the watch dogs (Because they're usually pretty anal about even implied sexual content..)
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