This reminds me of when I was watching some Starcraft 2 tournament, and my wife came over to ask if I was watching ESPN because she overheard the commentary from my headphones.

i have no fear of making the “yeah, but video games aren’t sports” argument, but since ESPN devotes air time to poker, competitive eating and scrabble...i’m gonna leave that particular bullet in the chamber.

I don’t think that will happen, I have a theory about what’s going on. We all know Kojima has tried to stop directing Metal Gear Solid for years, that’s nothing new. Every new iteration he receives demands, threats, and fans pleading with him to give them more. I think what actually happened is that Kojima and the…

But it´s not child porn. No children were harmed to make it, they don´t look or act much like real children and I don´t think people are made more likely to molest actual kids from looking at it. To call loli “child porn” is like calling for stuff like Saw or GTA to be banned as “snuff films” or Pokemon as illegal…

Well, I agree. What I don’t understand is if someone isn’t going to like, say, Agarest, they won’t like this.

You’re oversimplifying. In that culture, it’s okay to sexualize anything because the fact that it is completely contrived means that situations that would not and could not occur in real life are able to be brought into the closest kind of reality possible. That doesn’t mean that stigmas don’t exist within the…

No, of course they’re not, yet. But Americans are trying hard to change that.

Right, except that they won’t be allowed on PSN and no big shop will stock them with that rating. But that’s part of the problem.

I did, what about you?

Exactly, ive seen all the pics that some are speculating are the ones that were cut and the most offensive one is the one POSTED in this damn article. The other ones are just fully clothed (in skimpy clothing but still clothed) wrapped in bondage like scenes.

Still don’t understand why the **** we need someone else to tell us what we can and cannot play.

The Meckagon guy has it right. ESRB is just a racist organization. That’s all there is to it. Double standards.

yaa ive been wondering why this is happening myself. Some of these western games have full frontal nudity and lots and lots of sex but hunie pop shows 2d nude art gets censored immediatly.

Don’t get why this censorship actually exists. Steam seem perfectly content hosting games like The Witcher which aren’t censored but contain virtually the same sort of content. I can understand them censoring games that feature people who are or appear to be children participating in sexual acts but this just strikes…

Wonderful use.

I just died!!! This is so perfect!

They have really damaged their image with this debacle.

Thanks for that

LMAO!!! that is so perfect. Probably not far from the truth either though =(