What do you think? I say it should not be banned. It is just a game and if kids cant handle it the parents shouldnt buy it.

Age restrictions are alright, but banning is absolutely wrong. What about freedom? Even though the game is disgusting, it's not right to ban it because of that.

Half care, half don't, probably not so bothered since I think these sorts of games accommodate the same people who like their cheap thrill gore-fest films, such as Hostel. Something I'm not really in to.

Then you're an even bigger ****ing idiot than I thought. Think for half a second please. Is it really that hard to understand why censorship is wrong (ok, I realize half of my fellow Americans don't realize this in their "if you criticize us, you're a traitor" idiocy, but Republicans don't count as people), and why that line must never be crossed? Are you honestly naive enough to expect the morality police to stop at the worst examples? Once you make the big leap to censorship of "offensive" material, it's an infinitely smaller step to simply expand the definition of "offensive" a bit. And it's not a slippery slope fallacy to say that, there are already plenty of people who want to ban ALL violent video games, not just the most extreme ones.

Of course the fact that you have a "Board of Film Classification" capable of censorship in the first place is just utterly insane. If you had any common sense, you'd be protesting this idiocy, not just waiting around for your turn to be hit by it. In conclusion, I will quote a rather well-known poem:

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.

When they came for the Republicans,
I cheered them on.
Republicans don't count as people.

Peregrine the champion of Freedom... yeah, right.

Please get a sense of humor, then go fix your post to something a bit less embarassing. I don't actually think that Republicans aren't people, I'm just embarassed of how painfully stupid most people in this country are.

Oh, I lol'd. Quoting myself; how entertaining:



I could have made a big hoo-har about censorship, maybe tried to throw my e-peen around the place a bit, but at the end of the day I decided to leave it nice and open and go play the Quake Wars beta. A tiring Peregrine arrival was inevitable in this thread ... work it out. Hint below.



Ironic.

I dont want to be rude and off-topic but isnt this about Manhunt 2 being banned

You BOTH need a sense of humor

Well, I don't know if it should be banned. I've played Manhunt, and it is quite violent (ok, very violent) but I agree on what ItWotBeSoonBeforeLong said, parents shouldn't buy it if it offends them.

On the other hand, any teen of thirteen years old can get a copy of GTA (like me several years ago), wich has the same rating (if I'm not mistaking). They can get the game without their parents knowing it...

Is there a commotion about this game in the US? Here in the Netherlands there is... Governement was to have it banned, but they don't know if they are authorised to do so...

CYA


Fritz

If my memory serves, Manhunt was only semi-violent (weapons that don't kill people), but also kinda boring. I'm half tempted to believe that this whole thing is just to create a stur over a sequal so that more people end up buying the game to see how bad it is. Yeah, they may have stepped up the violence, but it isn't unthinkable that they did so primarily to cause this sort of thing. It's a marketing ploy and people are accepting it.

If my memory serves; you had a man speaking to you during some of your killings telling you to make your murders as sick and gruesome as possible. The original game was released when I was 18 and I remember, distinctly, a friend telling me on the bus to college, about how he stalked a guy for 10 minutes as he went into a dark alley, at the beckoning of an NPC, and cheese-grated the guy's neck, from behind. Definately as gruesome as the new game.

IIRC the storyline revolved around you being destined for the chair on death row before a man pulls you out and tells you you can live if you do gruesome and sick murders for his pleasure. Epic plotline.

Oblivion should be banned unless they take out the DB questline!

"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."

My memory must be crap then... Different game probably. My guess that this is mostly for marketing still stands though.

A friend of me has the game as well... Have you ever heard about the bit of iron wire? He (the person in the game - NOT MY FRIEND IN REAL LIFE) uses it to decapitate his victims, then takes their heads and can use it as a weapon... Or the glas shard, which he uses to poke out an eye before killing his victims...

cya

Fritz

Probably is a marketing ploy, and it's not like there aren't other games out there that are similarly bloody ("fatality"...anyone?). Will be interesting to see how the appeal goes.

As far as I'm concerned, banning and censorship are bad. I just dunno why people make these games, but censorship is still bad.

I mean, I'd rather the game didn't get made in the fist place, but censorship is invariably the self-termed morally superior going, aww, wittle kiddie can't handle it!

But that was my faviorte part...

It's not america here.. atleast not here in europe, so it's pure nonsence to ban games.
Restrict them before they get created then.

As far as government goes, they DO NOT have the right to censor and ban products on the market. It is the PEOPLE who have the right to boycott goods.
Its as simple as this: People hold the power to 'ban' what-ever-the-____ they want. No government affiliation required.


The DB quests were AWESOME!!!

<praise be the night mother>

Manhunt 2 banned already?!


aaah lame!! i remember the first one still.. haha, good times

Everyone in this thread has a sense of humor except for me!

... oh crap.