Avoid Dice: Pan-European Ratings System Expanded Europe's PEGI (Pan-European Game Information) ratings system, which for four years has been warning young kids off things like medicine, sex, punching electricity, spiders and small black children, just received an upgrade. It will now be covering online and mobile games as well, much to the delight of EU Commissioners like Viviane Reding, who says the extra safety it affords European kids is of "great importance". Or, it would be if anyone could ever actually understand the things.
this is all very well, but it will have no effect cos NO FUCKER EVER READS IT!!
games need proper BBFC age ratings and retailers should be forced to adhere to them.
Also, parents need to be educated in regards to paying attention to the kind of games their kids play or want to play. Parents shouldn't be going out buying their 10 year olds GTA without questioning why the kid can't go buy it himself.
Apparently BF2 is 16+ LightningFist*, S.T.A.L.K.E.R is 16+ Hyposyringe** LightningFist.
If they put info on games like they do dvds (language, sex, violence etc.) we wouldn't have the problem of no-one having a clue.
For example, manhunt would have "Violence: Running around committing senseless murders" on the back, and then parents might think twice about buying it.
Proper (as The Incredible... says) BBFC style ratings wouldn't go amiss either.
Personally, I don't give a fuck who buys what games for who. What I care about is games getting the blame for mental children and bad parents, We should put the ball back in their court by labelling games properly and clearly.
*Well, clearly this is a game that features punching people, maybe a chuck norris themed game?
**Maybe a game about medicine? hospital sim maybe?
Last edited by Dr. kitteny berk on July 8th, 2007, 10:09, edited 1 time in total.
Dr. kitteny berk wrote:Personally, I don't give a fuck who buys what games for who. What I care about is games getting the blame for mental children and bad parents, We should put the ball back in their court by labelling games properly and clearly.
Avoid Dice: Pan-European Ratings System Expanded
Europe's PEGI (Pan-European Game Information) ratings system, which for four years has been warning young kids off things like medicine, sex, punching electricity, spiders and small black children, just received an upgrade. It will now be covering online and mobile games as well, much to the delight of EU Commissioners like Viviane Reding, who says the extra safety it affords European kids is of "great importance". Or, it would be if anyone could ever actually understand the things.
