Does ESRB have too much power?
202 days 5 hours ago
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AuToFiRE
Warning: This is my opinion, please refrain from flaming even if you feel insulted
With the recent 'suggestions' by the ESRB to change the cover of Left 4 Dead 2, I feel it is time to bring this to the attention of others.
I feel gamers and developers are giving the ESRB too much power over the influence and production of gaming, originally, the ESRB was only supposed to rate the game to help consumers better understand the content within a game, but now they are getting too involved in the production of gaming itself, limiting the developers' ideas and the full beauty and artistic storyline, gameplay, and graphics to a dulled down version of dog excriment in a blender.
Video games are just like movies, and you dont see many movies being dulled down to such a level a small child could watch it, so why should games? Games rated M for Mature are goign to be played by people ages 17+, they see the gore and violence on basic cable television, why should a game that CANNOT be sold to minors have to be dulled down? I feel this is a great step back in the evolution of not only gaming, but a step off a cliff into a machine that will grind you into a sticky paste to be sold in canned dog food. We are gamers, we are MATURE gamers, why should we be subjected to games that are not to its fullest, most bloodiest and gruesome nature? Goto a video store and goto the horror movie section, look at those covers, they havent been dulled down, Ive seen covers with severed arms and brain matter, what is a little rot on a video game box compared to that?
We as a community have to stand up against the ESRB, we are not children anymore, we are adults, and adults should be treated as such, give us the gore, give us the guns, give us the nudity and hot coffee, we dont want to be stuck played childrens games, we want to play what we desire.
Thank you. and please place comments as to what you think.
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