This rating seems like something that shouldn't exist. Not only is the AO rating only made for porn games (with a few exceptions such as Hatred or Manhunt 2 but those usually get AO slapped on only when enough people get upset over it) but it implies that sex is something so bad that even a woman getting her spine ripped out is more appropriate to see. Even worse when AO is considered a death sentence to anything physical because most stores, Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo don't allow said products on their shelves/consoles. Seems more like a tool to demonize sexual content instead of it just being a rating.
How do you guys feel about the AO rating?
Andrew Murphy
who cares
Nathaniel Anderson
But sex is bad OP, the magic crucified kike told me.
Chase Harris
Teen and AO are the only ratings publishers care about. Teen grabs the largest audience while AO is a death sentence. Some companies, like NOA, while censor things to justify the Teen rating. Of course their reasoning is most likely bullshit and they probably censor so much to justify them getting paid more for their culturalization.
Blake Brown
I don't understand why amerifats can't just use PEGI like the rest of the civilised world.
Brody Russell
isn't pegi just european? Not exactly civilized.
Ian Anderson
They know exactly what they are doing.
Dylan Hughes
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Jose Fisher
Ratings mean shit.
Every time you go to a R rated movie, it's full of kids.
Christopher Williams
Fuck off Eurocuck, go lick Islamic anus.
Joseph White
The only people who would care about ratings are underage faggots that can't get the game, which leads me to believe you are an underage faggot who should stop posting on 8ch during school.
Gabriel Jenkins
Don't forget COWADOODY, RATED M FOR MATURE.
Even AIDSMoby is a better parent, not letting his son play BONERSTORM 3: THE BLOODSHITTENING at a young age.
Blake Parker
Why do you care about the AO rating, you're not under 21 are you?
Evan Kelly
He probably is, it's still summer.
Ethan Russell
Can we just make this a Kamidori thread? Leguna > Melodiana > Uya > Kohakuren >Yuela > Everyone else >>>> Wilfred
Zachary Bell
Welcome to the US of Autism
Ryder Jenkins
You've finally caught up with the rest of us OP. No shit the ESRB is moral policing and a total scam to regulate the industry, and NA has completely backward understandings concerning violence and nudity. Next week you'll post a thread about your revelation that used games are where stores make their profit, and that video games don't cause violence.
Logan Watson
The Gods are not that merciful.
Parker Mitchell
What. His entire post is about how AO is a death sentence for a game since nobody will carry it and that the only thing that will guarantee such a rating is sexual content, hence it generates a chilling effect.
Bentley Murphy
What's funny is that DOAX3 didn't even get an American release despite the fact that it wouldn't even have gotten an M rating.
Wyatt Murphy
I might just end up making a Kamidori thread soon.
Brandon Bennett
But is has an English option because they knew Americans would want it, so you can order it through an importer and play it without the moonrunes.
Josiah Gomez
The AO rating would be fine if it just worked like PEGI18. Sadly ESRB AO rated games can't be sold in shops while PEGI18 rated games are.
Secondly why doesn't Sony or Valve have a special "18 only" zone on their store?
Videogames isn't just for kids anymore.
Logan Perez
Ratings are bullshit at this point.
Carson Ward
Wow it's nothing. How old do you have to be to see something in the US if you're with your parent?
Logan Lee
Yo, I would be up in that. Hit me up when you do.
Matthew Garcia
I'll be sure to PM you the link.
Ryder Nguyen
There's G, PG, PG-13, R and NC-17 in the US. If you're with your parent as a child, you can see everything including rated R films. The only films children can't see at all are NC-17 films which are as common and as supported as the AO rating in videogames.
Jonathan Martinez
Well sex is a private thing between a man and a woman. Maybe you should learn to stop being a massive fucking degenerate who only thinks with his dick.
Wyatt Rodriguez
There are great stories of parents taking children to see Deadpool, only to complain
Adam Richardson
It's good that the AO rating exists, it's bad that retailers and platform manufacturers decided right off the bat that anything bearing it deserves to be banned from sale. That is what has led to this abominable situation where the AO rating is to be avoided at all costs. Not that the ESRB is that draconian in applying AO. Publishers and their affiliated localization teams mostly use it as a bullshit excuse to cut things they find distasteful, or things that might keep them from the "broader audience."
Angel Young
the AO is more of a threat to developers than an actual rating. as hatred showed us, the AO rating is arbitrary and has no foundation in relation to levels of violence or sex in a game. a handful of yahoos at the ESRB dictate it without even playing the game
Aaron Brown
It's like no one even reads the whole post before posting. It's about demonizing sex, using the AO rating as a tool to control what's created instead of to warn the customers, and implies that somehow murder is more appropriate to see than sex. It's an ass backwards system as people in this thread have already shown.
Noah Evans
Having healthy sexual views is hateful and bigoted, goy.
Carson Cooper
Welcome to America.
Wyatt Davis
We should do away with ESRB as videogames are just fiction and it's scientifically prove that they don't have an effect on your psychology. Do fucking books need an ESRB? No.
Oliver White
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Justin Baker
How much nutrients you intake, your environment, ethnicity, and how your peers treat you has a much larger affect on how any child develops. My brothers grew up watching porn and playing violent video games yet they didn't turn out to be sexual deviants that only get off to guro. Despite all the resources we have today, the biggest problem for children growing up are bad parents who would rather put the blame on fictional works than actually raise their children.
Hunter Wood
Can you have sex with 11 year old boys with blonde hair in Sweden?
Sebastian Walker
Nope. More games should either disregard censorship and govts/parasites, or be made for Adults.