Wa-hey, it's nice to see Critical Miss going back to it's roots again. Though I feel Erin's anger about how the ESRB's ratings system are a little archiac.
Is anyone arguing that Bulletstorm doesn't have all this? "Childish" language aside, I think it's a fair measurement of the mature content of the game.
I've always found the ESRB summaries to range from fair to fucking hilarious. I find nothing wrong with this. If I was a parent, I would read the ESRB summaries for the games my child wants and it may expose that I don't want my child playing that...it may also expose that the same game is so awesome that I myself want to play it. Here is an example
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Here's one that should go on the ESRB's office wall. And just think, this is the GOOD option, the industry done version. Imagine if another government bureaucracy got the job? Oh. Australia. Poor Yahtzee.
Hehe, good one. Reminds me of Moviebob referring to the Academy as a retirement home, for some reason. Like the art, too! (Is something different about it?)
Honestly, the amount of ridicule/ire directed at the ESRB's expanded ratings these days is rather confusing to me - as the point of the ESRB is to inform parents (including those who would rather not immerse themselves in bad language - yes, such people do exist) of the content of the game, and has no bearing on older, more responsible people's access to said game that I can see, it seems rather childish to poke fun at them for doing their job - a job that indirectly benefits the gaming public!
The ESRB expanded rating isn't meant for the hardcore gamer! Heck, it's not even meant for the casual gamer! It's meant for the parent trying to see if the content of the game fits within their particular standards for their children's access - similar, in all honesty, to a "family" review site for films. Yet it gets ridiculed up and down the Internet - and for what? For censoring coarse language? For making a list of all the possible "infractions" a parent might find in the game? Honestly...
I see that Slowbro still lives on in the comics heart. Seeing him on the whiteboard made me actually call the word "Slowbro" And I guffawed quite heartily over this comics. Brawah again good gentlemen.
Irridium: I don't know if I can cope with all the severe language in this comic. I think it needs to be censored more. My poor, sensitive ears just couldn't take it.
Frylock72: Are you guys kidding me? No one picked up on the Dr. Frankenfurter reference in the one-liner at the bottom? I have lost all faith in you guys
I was about to say the same, but we can affirm each others faith in humanity. It's the Transylvanian Way.
Irridium: I don't know if I can cope with all the severe language in this comic. I think it needs to be censored more. My poor, sensitive ears just couldn't take it.
I concur! He was using penis jokes again :O
My innocence is being shattered as we speak.
Secondly I loved the SlowBro up on the white board behind him
RanD00M: I see that Slowbro still lives on in the comics heart. Seeing him on the whiteboard made me actually call the word "Slowbro" And I guffawed quite heartily over this comics. Brawah again good gentlemen.
I got a good laugh out of this one. Helps I have played Bulletstorm. I know I showed it to my dad, and the uncomfortable adjusting in his seat made it clear the language was making him more uncomfortable than the violence.
P.S. - I Love the Rocky Horror Reference. That was golden.
It is my sad duty to inform you that this comic had shown people directly referencing swearing, and as such, after reading this, my generic and completely real son has devoted his life to the destruction of everything good in the universe.
That's alright, all game's journalists are teenagers, or wish they were.