Censored versions of games

[NickmasterX]

The Movie & Music industries do it, couldn't the game industry? Then there would be alot less Jack Thompson/courtroom drama, and kids could play the games they want to play. Granted, it would take some time to do it, and not every game would have to. There could be a free patch that could be applied to take out swearing and blood. BUT... most games are violent anyway.

[njiska]

You sir deserve to be shot. Nothing personal but censorship is a slippery slope and to suggest that is an option is ludicrious. At least your option does refer to after the fact censorship, as opposed to before the fact like Walmart did with Duke-Nukem, but it's not the answer.

Besides it would cost money to develope those patches and all they would do is prove the otherside right. it would be an admittal of fault. Education is the answer, not censorship.

[jajaja]

Some games have this build in. Like you can select the gore level, color of blood etc. It shouldnt be nessessary to censor the games tho, the rating should be enough.

[steveant1636]

not a bad idea if you want every game to cost over $100.00. Who do you think is going to pay the software companys to make 2 copies of a game. If you are under age to play a game then maybe you shouldn't play the game. I wish more people would understand this.

[Push Upstairs]

Did we not learn anything from "Mortal Kombat"?

Kids don't like sanitized games.

[Half Japanese]

Why don't people grow up and learn to deal with the fact that everything doesn't have to be puppies and rainbows?

The movie and music markets are both coming to realize that people DON'T want censorship. Go look at the stats for "clean" vs. standard album sales. Also feel free to look up the hooplah centered around the censorship of films like E.T., the classic Looney Tunes cartoons, etc.

There is no excuse, given the ratings system, to NOT know what you're getting into when you buy a game now. Those of us that can handle a few "bad" words and virtual violence shouldn't be held back by a few whiners, and the creators deserve more respect than to have their work chopped up for the mass-market.

[bangtango]

There are plenty of perfectly safe games out there, which are very good, for people who either can't hack more mature games or who have parents that won't let them play those games.

[Xizer]

This is one of the worst threads I've read in a long time.

[tom]

Games are being censored, even in the USA. Read 'Game Over', many NES games were censored before they arrived in USA.

The Sega CD game 'Snatcher' was censored for the USA market too, as stated in EGM.

Games get censored for the USA market still now, you just don't know about it.

Be lucky though, in Germany they just don't get released in the first place (started with 'Krull' for VCS in 1983, no German release due to it's violence).

[theshizzle3000]

This is without a doubt a pointless thread, but I will put my two cents in nonetheless. I will continue to stand adamant with the real reason being that parents need to stop buying games that are mature for their kids. I am tired of seeing grandparents buying Grand Theft Auto and Mortal Kombat for their kids and not being able to figure out why the hell there kid keep cussing and talking aboiut chopping peoples heads off. Oh well the stuffs not going to change and eventually something will come along and overrule video games as it did for Movies, which did it for music, which did it for comic books, and etc.. I could go all the way back to books if I wanted. Alright I am done ranting...sorry for wasting everyones time.