Explicit Games

[neddy]

Just reading this morning that the ban on explicit games will soon be over.

http://www.theage.com.au/technology...for-ban-on-explicit-games-20110722-1ht5w.html

All States except NSW have agreed to R18+ rating.

Is this a good or bad thing in your opinion?

 

[payattention]

It's great and long overdue.

 

[FirstPageResults]

It's great and long overdue.

+1

 

[djuqa]

It's great and long overdue.

I agree

 

[whiterabit]

<puts on tin hat><takes cover in pillow fort>I'm going say that this is a bad thing. So here is a list of games that have been banned in Australia for various reasons. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banned_video_games#Australia.

I notice that most of these bans are around graphic violence, drug use and or sexual themes.

Now dont get me wrong, Im a big fan of COD and there is nothing I like more that a set of knockers but are we really missing anything important by not having a R18+ rating for games? OR will having an 18+R rating system offer me any additional enjoyment from these banned games?

 

[sp@rky13]

I think that having games with high sexual content is more the issue than violence as much as MA games are violent enough anyway, so an R game with violence can't do too much more

 

[payattention]

more porn = less rape so you might be able to argue that violent games = less violence being acted upon.

I think they should ban CoD though.. you can't play FPS on a console.. need a mouse and keyboard for that son.