God hates me and I hate him back. I respect freedom of religion and go ahead, believe whatever you want. Just don't push the heavily flawed and self-proclaimed "best-seller" The Bible onto my face, it won't help anything but blow my top and beat you up.

At least it seems that they are actually background checking the people they let on the air now. :x

meh gambling is a ""addiction",well technically anything can be, humans are silly like that.

I hope all goes well. I look forward to watching this.

So do they need to make a specific disorder for everything someone could be psychologically addicted to? Are they getting paid by the page or something? If they keep going this route, the DSM-V will be very thick.

"you think next time mr. Halpin drops you a line you could ask him what the ECA is doing about informing nintendo and sony that adults also own their systems, and restricting developers to making teenager only games is ass backwards? (ie. games are not just for kids)"

YES!!! What is the ECA doing about the gamer outrage over the Manhunt 2 banning? They haven't even issued a damn statement! Are they going to take people's money and do nothing?? I emailed them, but I haven't even been replied to. What's the deal? Where's the action?

If the ECA doesn't do anything they will have lost all credibility and I will make it my mission to expose them for taking money and not doing anything for gamers!

@ tempo --- Nice. But I doubt the ECA will do anything about the issue.
@ Silver_Derstin --- Thank you for your intelligent, well-informed contribution.

Silver_Derstin
I would not not say that MK and Eternal champions where Adult class games (of their time) It would be interesting if MS decides to fully support AO games on the 360(lets face it DOA X is gettign damn close),I'd buy 2 if they did just because they would half way support AO titles.

GamerDad
ah Compulsive and obsessive behavior=addiction thus to some it is a disorder ,altho like anythign else in PC life to much of "anything" is a "disorder" and we need to be "protected" from it 0-o

@Terminator44

a cool head on you, good thing.
i hope you are right, and Hal and his group are planning as we speak. i have been thinking of joining the organization.. but i'll wait to see what happens with this i guess.. also, i've been finding myself not really 'needing' to work much lately... and was thinking of getting a sister thing going in berlin.

as the readers of this site are most likely aware, censorship is alive and thriving here in germany, particularly in gaming.
it is disturbing.
i don't buy games in the country i live in (ok some wii party games and a couple driving titles) because they are censored.

Silver_Derstin, trust me, playing GTA with green blood, actually does change the experience. it is a very different feeling, and is not the same game the talented designers had envisioned.

imagine the first ten minutes of 'saving private ryan' (or w/e) with green blood. it is a different movie.


this sets a horrible precedent. the ESRB does what they intended; they inform the public about the content of games. good.

they assign MH2 an Ao rating. they are probably correct, its a slasher flick, not a kids game.

nintendo and sony announce, 'we have a policy, our console are for teenagers, not adults'.

'oh shit' say the ECA and gamers, 'we didn't know there was a policy, sorry, we'll just roll over'

the problem here, and the precedent here is:
it has now been established that anything the ESRB deems to be a gaming experience for adults, will not be produced. the console makers only allow games for teenagers. 'games are for kids' is what they are telling us.

and this Silver_Derstin is going to make developers (distributors) nervous, this is going to change the way games are developed.

what do you want to play next? 'God of War 3' or 'God of War 3: hugs and puppies'

i think this is important.
i think this is what.. i thought the ECA was about..

@GP
sorry for being of topic, (ranting) i feel strongly about this, and didn't know where else to put it.. also the poll on the right, to me, reads like ' how should we just give up, because 'they' have a policy' . . .
also from the ECA...

This sucks.. i was kinda hoping i could play the game, as much suck as it probally was going to be.

But this is the hitch... at least with ps3. If i remember correctly, the ps3 is region free. Thus R* releases it for other places, if of course they are allowed to. (japan?) Then US & UK gamers Import from japan.

If not, soon there will be a 'leak'...

Damn! I missed it. I hate my job more every day.

@Sean:

Anything noteworthy? I missed it, too.

Oh.

To GamerDad.

"Gaming addiction doesn’t exist.
Compulsive and obsessive behavior, does exist.

Don’t believe the hype!"

Haha, I agree with you on this one! Sorry anti-game cronies, this world is not just only about working and kissing people's asses all the time, there are also times when we can enjoy ourselves by entertainment so if you don't like it, come and find us, just hope that you boys are ready to fight.

@JQuilty

How did you get to watch it? I have IE6, and the video wouldn't start.

Terminator: I used IE7. Which is why CNBC is now evil. They made me use it.

haha...

Dr Alexander Thomas, go somewhere based on religion, they will probably give you the reaction you desire. You won't get it here.

To Dr Alexander Thomas,

I'm with Tom too. Go take your statue of your precious holy God and get out of here and don't expect me to believe in your God because he hates me and so do I.

Dr Alexander Thomas
what lil world do you live in to deem fiction bad no matter what that fiction is, good god you ever read the bible?