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Originally posted by greywolf2002
Peoplo can have their own opinions, of course, but i think complaining about this game (or any game like this) is... Hypocrite.
Why? Because sex is used everywhere, all the time, to sell things. Think about any kind of product or service, there are thousand of ads about that product or service that use sex to sell it.
Not only that: tv presenters, actors, hell even news presenters are never ugly (not non-handsome / pretty, UGLY).
If we lived in a world where anyone, no matter their appearance, could be a public image, and we all didn't really care about appearance i would understand this complaint. But things are not like that. So this complaint is hypocrital.
Go out there to change the world and stop losing both your time and ours.
None of what you followed that statement up with proves any hypocrisy at all.
Never saw so many people get hard up on cartoon boobs since Hentia first hit the local nerd shops, I mean anime stores here in the states...and they all raged with stiffies on top of it, just to hide the fact they were going to buy some, take it home, lock the door and turn the lights out as they watched it.
Pretty sure this thread is mostly there for some kind of viral advertisement.
"Hey guys, don't play this game, it's has nudity! Teh Horror! *wink* "
I am at a loss for words on how a company can sell sex to mainly kids just for a fast buck, I have seen some pretty strange things in my time playing MMO but this games advertisements takes the cake lol.
Man oh man I can see now why women get offended, we as a people use them as objects to sell things, do those devolpers even have daughters, wives, mothers lol, no wonder we as a people are so messed up, look at how they sell a video game, what's next, posters of a half nude chic eating a Big Mac on a Mcdonalds poster outside of a drive though or how about nipple pasties on Wendy from the fast food join Wendy's, yeah that will sell some double cheeseburgers lol.
We live in sad, sad time people, very sad lol.
Well said OP. It's really disheartening to watch the ongoing assault on the moral fabic of society.
Do you even pay attention to whats going on in the world? Violence is the ongoing assault, not sex. If you were truly worried about societies moral fabric you would be railing against the excess violence in everything. Commercials, movies, games, TV shows, ect.
I find it ironic the same people who think a nude woman / man is destroying society but dont bat an eyelash about their kids watching violent media or playing violent games.
I am American and I honestly do not understand this country anymore. A pair of Titties gets people so outraged, yet violence permeates everything and no one cares.
Yeah well thats what happens when people not only think its OK for anyone to own a gun, but it is enshrined in law.....
Cluck Cluck, Gibber Gibber, My Old Mans A Mushroom
I am at a loss for words on how a company can sell sex to mainly kids just for a fast buck, I have seen some pretty strange things in my time playing MMO but this games advertisements takes the cake lol.
Man oh man I can see now why women get offended, we as a people use them as objects to sell things, do those devolpers even have daughters, wives, mothers lol, no wonder we as a people are so messed up, look at how they sell a video game, what's next, posters of a half nude chic eating a Big Mac on a Mcdonalds poster outside of a drive though or how about nipple pasties on Wendy from the fast food join Wendy's, yeah that will sell some double cheeseburgers lol.
We live in sad, sad time people, very sad lol.
Well said OP. It's really disheartening to watch the ongoing assault on the moral fabic of society.
Do you even pay attention to whats going on in the world? Violence is the ongoing assault, not sex. If you were truly worried about societies moral fabric you would be railing against the excess violence in everything. Commercials, movies, games, TV shows, ect.
I find it ironic the same people who think a nude woman / man is destroying society but dont bat an eyelash about their kids watching violent media or playing violent games.
I am American and I honestly do not understand this country anymore. A pair of Titties gets people so outraged, yet violence permeates everything and no one cares.
Yeah well thats what happens when people not only think its OK for anyone to own a gun, but it is enshrined in law.....
Indeed lol. Example, Semi automatic guns used to kill children in schools, everyone is rightly up in arms about this and start to talk sensibly about banning such things, and then you allow money and coporations who sell guns to pervert this decision. Insane and corrupted and why it is one of the most hated countries in the world (unfairly so in balance)
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To the people who are up in arms about this game: Congratulations, you've made sure a hell of allot more people have heard and will likely try this game out than they would've if no one made a fuss.
To the people who say the "models are obviously based on children!" .. -sighs- some of you guys need to go get checked, pronto, the elins were bad enough but seeing this
as a child when you don't see this
the same way speaks to something really broken upstairs (oh she has a baby face? sure that's a reason to say the models are based on children, not like there are millions of people out there with baby faces, myself included).
Simply amazing what people freak out about these days. Hope you don't outside such as to the beach - probably see more there than in this video game. Maybe might want to avoid all the advertisement on TV and in the outside world as well. Hell just paint your walls white, write your opinions on it, and stare at it. Seems to work great for narrow minded people.
If people put this much effort in a cause that actually mattered, maybe you would see change.
I am at a loss for words on how a company can sell sex to mainly kids just for a fast buck, I have seen some pretty strange things in my time playing MMO but this games advertisements takes the cake lol.
Man oh man I can see now why women get offended, we as a people use them as objects to sell things, do those devolpers even have daughters, wives, mothers lol, no wonder we as a people are so messed up, look at how they sell a video game, what's next, posters of a half nude chic eating a Big Mac on a Mcdonalds poster outside of a drive though or how about nipple pasties on Wendy from the fast food join Wendy's, yeah that will sell some double cheeseburgers lol.
We live in sad, sad time people, very sad lol.
Well said OP. It's really disheartening to watch the ongoing assault on the moral fabic of society.
Do you even pay attention to whats going on in the world? Violence is the ongoing assault, not sex. If you were truly worried about societies moral fabric you would be railing against the excess violence in everything. Commercials, movies, games, TV shows, ect.
I find it ironic the same people who think a nude woman / man is destroying society but dont bat an eyelash about their kids watching violent media or playing violent games.
I am American and I honestly do not understand this country anymore. A pair of Titties gets people so outraged, yet violence permeates everything and no one cares.
Yeah well thats what happens when people not only think its OK for anyone to own a gun, but it is enshrined in law.....
In the United States fists kill twice as many people as guns every year. Lets outlaw fists. That will solve the oversexualization issue too.
It's not okay for criminals and crazy people to own guns. It's illegal. So how are those laws they're not even bothering to enforce working out for you? Because they're not working for me. It's OK for me to own a gun. I'm not going to shoot anyone unless they're trying to hurt someone. Not even by accident. Feel better? You should, if you live near me my gun makes you safer even if I never have to use it.
its ok to have semi automatic guns that have been used to kill children because hey lots of people get killed by fists too (and guns are big profit)
rpg/mmorg history: Dun Darach>Bloodwych>Bards Tale 1-3>Eye of the beholder > Might and Magic 2,3,5 > FFVII> Baldur's Gate 1, 2 > Planescape Torment >Morrowind > WOW > oblivion > LOTR > Guild Wars (1900hrs elementalist) Vanguard. > GW2(1000 elementalist), Wildstar
I am at a loss for words on how a company can sell sex to mainly kids just for a fast buck, I have seen some pretty strange things in my time playing MMO but this games advertisements takes the cake lol.
Man oh man I can see now why women get offended, we as a people use them as objects to sell things, do those devolpers even have daughters, wives, mothers lol, no wonder we as a people are so messed up, look at how they sell a video game, what's next, posters of a half nude chic eating a Big Mac on a Mcdonalds poster outside of a drive though or how about nipple pasties on Wendy from the fast food join Wendy's, yeah that will sell some double cheeseburgers lol.
We live in sad, sad time people, very sad lol.
Well said OP. It's really disheartening to watch the ongoing assault on the moral fabic of society.
Do you even pay attention to whats going on in the world? Violence is the ongoing assault, not sex. If you were truly worried about societies moral fabric you would be railing against the excess violence in everything. Commercials, movies, games, TV shows, ect.
I find it ironic the same people who think a nude woman / man is destroying society but dont bat an eyelash about their kids watching violent media or playing violent games.
I am American and I honestly do not understand this country anymore. A pair of Titties gets people so outraged, yet violence permeates everything and no one cares.
Yeah well thats what happens when people not only think its OK for anyone to own a gun, but it is enshrined in law.....
In the United States fists kill twice as many people as guns every year. Lets outlaw fists. That will solve the oversexualization issue too.
It's not okay for criminals and crazy people to own guns. It's illegal. So how are those laws they're not even bothering to enforce working out for you? Because they're not working for me. It's OK for me to own a gun. I'm not going to shoot anyone unless they're trying to hurt someone. Not even by accident. Feel better? You should, if you live near me my gun makes you safer even if I never have to use it.
The laws aren't enforced because successive U.S government have systematically neuteured the agency that is supposed to enforce them the ATF.
While I personally thinkt here should be limits of what tyhpes of weapons shoudl be available for private use and maybe even the number in each household I think that's nowhere near as important as creating a national database for registered weapons and owners coupled with comprehensive backgroudn checks.No law abiding citizen has anything to fear from those two things IMO .
I also think there should be less emphathisis on owning weapons as a right and more on weapon owning as a responsibility and grerater consequences for not living up to those responsibilities.
Back to the original topic though.I personally never saw any of the models as children personally even though there are soem more petite models for some of the classes,there is also more petite women out there too so it never occrued to me.
Of course this accusation is made about anything anime related and may have some merit and so argument in discussion is healthy.I don't have any problem with expressions of sexuality personally and can also tellt he difference between reality and fantasy.I do not think we shoudl censor games just because parents are to lazy to actually supervise their children.I do mine.No nanny state thank you.
To the people who are up in arms about this game: Congratulations, you've made sure a hell of allot more people have heard and will likely try this game out than they would've if no one made a fuss.
To the people who say the "models are obviously based on children!" .. -sighs- some of you guys need to go get checked, pronto, the elins were bad enough but seeing this
as a child when you don't see this
the same way speaks to something really broken upstairs (oh she has a baby face? sure that's a reason to say the models are based on children, not like there are millions of people out there with baby faces, myself included).
I bet you dont have children. You post is horrifying btw, you would allow games to be marketed to children in this form, really? (and there are far younger models in scarelt than the above, which is borderline as it is quite frankly. The difference with the image at the bottom is that it is not aimed at children (or worse, was it?)
If you do have children, would you show them the above image? bet you wouldnt, so ask youself why.
rpg/mmorg history: Dun Darach>Bloodwych>Bards Tale 1-3>Eye of the beholder > Might and Magic 2,3,5 > FFVII> Baldur's Gate 1, 2 > Planescape Torment >Morrowind > WOW > oblivion > LOTR > Guild Wars (1900hrs elementalist) Vanguard. > GW2(1000 elementalist), Wildstar
You guys need to come back from la la land. I have seen and heard "mature rated game" and how does this stop anyone from playing? Lmao its made for adults? Really? Talked to them have you? This world is changing and not for the better.
We see some people for what they really are. Keep letting this stuff creep in and just hide and watch it will only get worse. Grow some and stand up and say something. Think of others ..
Its a awful game and sticking up for it ..my guess are people that hang out at the local porn store.
I honestly think that we live in degenerated society, full of hypocrites and religious demagogues
Games and films where u crush heads, head shots gives bonus points, etc. are generaly accepted with teens ratings. Add boobs and u have ppl calling it porn and ratings are automaitcly 18+. Yet I hope my kids will have healthy dose of sex in life and will never have to do head shot in reality ...
You guys need to come back from la la land. I have seen and heard "mature rated game" and how does this stop anyone from playing? Lmao its made for adults? Really? Talked to them have you? This world is changing and not for the better.
We see some people for what they really are. Keep letting this stuff creep in and just hide and watch it will only get worse. Grow some and stand up and say something. Think of others ..
Its a awful game and sticking up for it ..my guess are people that hang out at the local porn store.
This argument is so silly. Why aren't you growing a pair and standing up to say something about the gratuitous violence depicted in every MMO on the market? It's amazing that the violence is accepted but some pixelated tits are an outrage.
If you're going to draw the line at Scarlet Blade and it's cartoon boobies why aren't you going after every MMO and FPS game for the violence? I'm sorry but this is just pure hypocricy, plain and simple.
I'm not advocating the game here but I'm just astounded at the visceral response to some fairly tame cartoon semi nudity, which is no worse than we saw in Age of Conan, and yet at the same time it's apparently perfectly acceptable to devastate the local wildlife and indigenous populations of these games.
You guys need to come back from la la land. I have seen and heard "mature rated game" and how does this stop anyone from playing? Lmao its made for adults? Really? Talked to them have you? This world is changing and not for the better.
We see some people for what they really are. Keep letting this stuff creep in and just hide and watch it will only get worse. Grow some and stand up and say something. Think of others ..
Its a awful game and sticking up for it ..my guess are people that hang out at the local porn store.
This argument is so silly. Why aren't you growing a pair and standing up to say something about the gratuitous violence depicted in every MMO on the market? It's amazing that the violence is accepted but some pixelated tits are an outrage.
If you're going to draw the line at Scarlet Blade and it's cartoon boobies why aren't you going after every MMO and FPS game for the violence? I'm sorry but this is just pure hypocricy, plain and simple.
I'm not advocating the game here but I'm just astounded at the visceral response to some fairly tame cartoon semi nudity, which is no worse than we saw in Age of Conan, and yet at the same time it's apparently perfectly acceptable to devastate the local wildlife and indigenous populations of these games.
Bit of a double standard, don't you think?
lol this arguement works if someone is 'drawing the line' with this game. if the sexualisation of a game is wrong, it doesnt become ok because there is worse elsewhere, i.e people disgusted with this game is dis gusted bo other things as well.
Tame nudity? I you arre referring to the sexualisation of child-like chars. perhaps you have been desensitised by the things you have seen for years, its a major problem on the internet isnt it. Ask yourself, would you allow childen to play this? If you wouldnt allow children to play this why is it ok to market this game to childen.
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Contrary to what some people think, video games aren't just for kids anymore. The avergae gamer is in their 30's. Yes, it looks sexist. Yes, it looks like utter crap. The great thing is if you don't like it then you don't have to buy it. If enough people do this then the game will die. If that doesn't happen and it becomes popular...yay capitalism? Different strokes () for different folks.
Edit: I bet the OP has no problem killing thousands of virtual people and creatures in an MMO but boobies??? STOP THE FREAKING BUS!!!
Yep, love that. You can have a game where you can tear someone's arm out of their socket, and proceed to beat them and several other people to death with it while blood is squirting all over the place, or rip someones throat out with your bare hands. Or run around with a chainsaw decapitating people.
But the moment there is a nipple on the screen AOPUWHERD)*!@Y!*YH)@$*#YH OOOOOOHHHH MY FUCCKING GOOODDDD !!!!!! THERE IS A... A..... A NIPPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SWEET MERCIFUL FUCK WHO LET THIS HAPPEN!>?!??!!!111
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
I'll just say this once, without getting all too far off topic (since it seems noone has actually read or seen the Bill of Rights), here it is word for word off the document itself:
"Article the third ...... Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Article the fourth..... A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
Basically the 1st says you cannot be in trouble for anything you have said or (due to the Supreme Court saying that art is a form of speech) drawn, sung, etc. However, there is one way. Under petition from the people something can be outlawed, and only through petition. This is were alot of people get it wrong, including the governement. The Government actually has absolutely no power to say whether something is right or wrong when it comes to speech. Only the people who petition it can say. That's why things like child pornography are outlawed.
The 2nd says that under no circumstance that "the right of the people to keep and bear arms" declared in the Declaration of Independence as an uninalienable right, cannot be infringed upon. Basically meaning they can't touch it. However, through loopholes, people tend to think it's ok to, since right above it, the 1st can be changed and outlawed through petition. The 2nd does not have this part added to it, thus it should not be infringed upon. Whether you like it or not, that's the truth...
This thread perfectly encapsulates the issues with today's society: Not our fault, it's someone else's job!
@Bladestorm: If you truly are a parent try doing some parenting if you're worried that games, not only scarlet blade, can somehow fuck up your kids because I grew up within an era where parental control mechanisms within my country were non-existent, I remember being able to watch hardcore porn in the middle of the day when I was 10 years old and I've watched allot of violent movies as a young kid too but here's the funny thing: My parents were there to explain stuff to me or had done a good job up until that point such that there was no need to so your fear of your kids being exposed to something so mild as near nudity in games or violence of any kind speaks of your faults as a parent and not of society's fault for not making it a lemming run in parenting for you. You decided to have kids, man up to it and actually do what needs to be done, if you work when you get home or on your free days sit your ass down next to them and talk to them.
What I said to Bladestorm is universal, the issue these days is parents neglecting their kids or outright abusing them not the oversaturation with violence, sex, whichever boogieman you wanna cook up next.
Addendum: The only games which deserve an outcry against them and them being banned outright are games like Rapelay or ZOG's Nightmare as those games have absolutely no redeeming qualities and serve only to spread either propaganda or outright hatred towards your fellow man based on any number of superficial considerations.
Contrary to what some people think, video games aren't just for kids anymore. The avergae gamer is in their 30's. Yes, it looks sexist. Yes, it looks like utter crap. The great thing is if you don't like it then you don't have to buy it. If enough people do this then the game will die. If that doesn't happen and it becomes popular...yay capitalism? Different strokes () for different folks.
Edit: I bet the OP has no problem killing thousands of virtual people and creatures in an MMO but boobies??? STOP THE FREAKING BUS!!!
Yep, love that. You can have a game where you can tear someone's arm out of their socket, and proceed to beat them and several other people to death with it while blood is squirting all over the place, or rip someones throat out with your bare hands. Or run around with a chainsaw decapitating people.
But the moment there is a nipple on the screen AOPUWHERD)*!@Y!*YH)@$*#YH OOOOOOHHHH MY FUCCKING GOOODDDD !!!!!! THERE IS A... A..... A NIPPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SWEET MERCIFUL FUCK WHO LET THIS HAPPEN!>?!??!!!111
I Must admit I would play a violent game if it was fun here, but playing with sexualised child like characters is something I would feel deeply uncomfortable about and would not do. Nipples ok, nipples on children, um no. Adults playing such games - weird quite frankly or worse. Children should play neither.
edit, in reply to post above, i do not allow my children to play such games, although my teenager moans his face about it because some friends in his class are allowed to /9call of duty). Some parents are not on the ball (read some posts here - they will be parents eventually) and need support, i.e if this crap is removed, all to the good.
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I can't decide whether I find the people who act as "righteously offended by what appears to be pixelated depiction of human body features" amusing or just slightly pathetic.
For those of you who find games are getting more sexist... Please come out back: Duke Nukem wants a word with you in 3D.
For those who pulls the "pedo" card... Please, PLEASE for the sake of humanity: Don't procreate.
Never heard about this game, but now I feel I need to support it financially on principle :-S
We dont need casuals in our games!!! Errm... Well we DO need casuals to fund and populate our games - But the games should be all about "hardcore" because: We dont need casuals in our games!!! (repeat ad infinitum)
I see no wrong with video games. Heck I used to play the original mortal kombat. Pulling out people's spines and what not. I think I'm a well-adjusted, contributing, member of society...not some crazed serial killer, that people who have never played a video game in their life, tend to think.
You guys need to come back from la la land. I have seen and heard "mature rated game" and how does this stop anyone from playing?
Nice argument... So tell me, how does having a screen with a yes/no age verification question stop anyone underage from accessing an explicit website? Not the same thing? Why not? Are you telling me kids are more likely to play this and be "scarred for life" than by having access to the internet in the first place (which you'd need in order to play the game or even see the ads on this site).
It's not an issue of the KID making the decision whether or not to listen to the warning, it's an issue of the PARENT making that decision. The kid's not going to censor himself ffs. The mature rating isn't for them, how do people not get this?
And to anyone who might chime in with, 'well my online parental control software censors internet websites, but I can't censor what they play,' you're so far beyond hopeless I don't think anyone can save you...
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None of what you followed that statement up with proves any hypocrisy at all.
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Now playing GW2, AOW 3, ESO, LOTR, Elite D
Pretty sure this thread is mostly there for some kind of viral advertisement.
"Hey guys, don't play this game, it's has nudity! Teh Horror! *wink* "
Yeah well thats what happens when people not only think its OK for anyone to own a gun, but it is enshrined in law.....
Cluck Cluck, Gibber Gibber, My Old Mans A Mushroom
Indeed lol. Example, Semi automatic guns used to kill children in schools, everyone is rightly up in arms about this and start to talk sensibly about banning such things, and then you allow money and coporations who sell guns to pervert this decision. Insane and corrupted and why it is one of the most hated countries in the world (unfairly so in balance)
rpg/mmorg history: Dun Darach>Bloodwych>Bards Tale 1-3>Eye of the beholder > Might and Magic 2,3,5 > FFVII> Baldur's Gate 1, 2 > Planescape Torment >Morrowind > WOW > oblivion > LOTR > Guild Wars (1900hrs elementalist) Vanguard. > GW2(1000 elementalist), Wildstar
Now playing GW2, AOW 3, ESO, LOTR, Elite D
To the question in the title:
To the people who are up in arms about this game: Congratulations, you've made sure a hell of allot more people have heard and will likely try this game out than they would've if no one made a fuss.
To the people who say the "models are obviously based on children!" .. -sighs- some of you guys need to go get checked, pronto, the elins were bad enough but seeing this
as a child when you don't see this
the same way speaks to something really broken upstairs (oh she has a baby face? sure that's a reason to say the models are based on children, not like there are millions of people out there with baby faces, myself included).
Simply amazing what people freak out about these days. Hope you don't outside such as to the beach - probably see more there than in this video game. Maybe might want to avoid all the advertisement on TV and in the outside world as well. Hell just paint your walls white, write your opinions on it, and stare at it. Seems to work great for narrow minded people.
If people put this much effort in a cause that actually mattered, maybe you would see change.
its ok to have semi automatic guns that have been used to kill children because hey lots of people get killed by fists too (and guns are big profit)
rpg/mmorg history: Dun Darach>Bloodwych>Bards Tale 1-3>Eye of the beholder > Might and Magic 2,3,5 > FFVII> Baldur's Gate 1, 2 > Planescape Torment >Morrowind > WOW > oblivion > LOTR > Guild Wars (1900hrs elementalist) Vanguard. > GW2(1000 elementalist), Wildstar
Now playing GW2, AOW 3, ESO, LOTR, Elite D
The laws aren't enforced because successive U.S government have systematically neuteured the agency that is supposed to enforce them the ATF.
While I personally thinkt here should be limits of what tyhpes of weapons shoudl be available for private use and maybe even the number in each household I think that's nowhere near as important as creating a national database for registered weapons and owners coupled with comprehensive backgroudn checks.No law abiding citizen has anything to fear from those two things IMO .
I also think there should be less emphathisis on owning weapons as a right and more on weapon owning as a responsibility and grerater consequences for not living up to those responsibilities.
Back to the original topic though.I personally never saw any of the models as children personally even though there are soem more petite models for some of the classes,there is also more petite women out there too so it never occrued to me.
Of course this accusation is made about anything anime related and may have some merit and so argument in discussion is healthy.I don't have any problem with expressions of sexuality personally and can also tellt he difference between reality and fantasy.I do not think we shoudl censor games just because parents are to lazy to actually supervise their children.I do mine.No nanny state thank you.
I bet you dont have children. You post is horrifying btw, you would allow games to be marketed to children in this form, really? (and there are far younger models in scarelt than the above, which is borderline as it is quite frankly. The difference with the image at the bottom is that it is not aimed at children (or worse, was it?)
If you do have children, would you show them the above image? bet you wouldnt, so ask youself why.
rpg/mmorg history: Dun Darach>Bloodwych>Bards Tale 1-3>Eye of the beholder > Might and Magic 2,3,5 > FFVII> Baldur's Gate 1, 2 > Planescape Torment >Morrowind > WOW > oblivion > LOTR > Guild Wars (1900hrs elementalist) Vanguard. > GW2(1000 elementalist), Wildstar
Now playing GW2, AOW 3, ESO, LOTR, Elite D
"TS A MATURE RTED GAME"
You guys need to come back from la la land. I have seen and heard "mature rated game" and how does this stop anyone from playing? Lmao its made for adults? Really? Talked to them have you? This world is changing and not for the better.
We see some people for what they really are. Keep letting this stuff creep in and just hide and watch it will only get worse. Grow some and stand up and say something. Think of others ..
Its a awful game and sticking up for it ..my guess are people that hang out at the local porn store.
as in life its the same in games, sex sells it seems.
....Being Banned from MMORPG's forums since 2010, for Trolling the Trolls!!!
s*x sells, it's not just this era only lol, it's always been like that.
"going into arguments with idiots is a lost cause, it requires you to stoop down to their level and you can't win"
I honestly think that we live in degenerated society, full of hypocrites and religious demagogues
Games and films where u crush heads, head shots gives bonus points, etc. are generaly accepted with teens ratings. Add boobs and u have ppl calling it porn and ratings are automaitcly 18+. Yet I hope my kids will have healthy dose of sex in life and will never have to do head shot in reality ...
This argument is so silly. Why aren't you growing a pair and standing up to say something about the gratuitous violence depicted in every MMO on the market? It's amazing that the violence is accepted but some pixelated tits are an outrage.
If you're going to draw the line at Scarlet Blade and it's cartoon boobies why aren't you going after every MMO and FPS game for the violence? I'm sorry but this is just pure hypocricy, plain and simple.
I'm not advocating the game here but I'm just astounded at the visceral response to some fairly tame cartoon semi nudity, which is no worse than we saw in Age of Conan, and yet at the same time it's apparently perfectly acceptable to devastate the local wildlife and indigenous populations of these games.
Bit of a double standard, don't you think?
lol this arguement works if someone is 'drawing the line' with this game. if the sexualisation of a game is wrong, it doesnt become ok because there is worse elsewhere, i.e people disgusted with this game is dis gusted bo other things as well.
Tame nudity? I you arre referring to the sexualisation of child-like chars. perhaps you have been desensitised by the things you have seen for years, its a major problem on the internet isnt it. Ask yourself, would you allow childen to play this? If you wouldnt allow children to play this why is it ok to market this game to childen.
rpg/mmorg history: Dun Darach>Bloodwych>Bards Tale 1-3>Eye of the beholder > Might and Magic 2,3,5 > FFVII> Baldur's Gate 1, 2 > Planescape Torment >Morrowind > WOW > oblivion > LOTR > Guild Wars (1900hrs elementalist) Vanguard. > GW2(1000 elementalist), Wildstar
Now playing GW2, AOW 3, ESO, LOTR, Elite D
Be the Ultimate Ninja! Play Billy Vs. SNAKEMAN today!
Yep, love that. You can have a game where you can tear someone's arm out of their socket, and proceed to beat them and several other people to death with it while blood is squirting all over the place, or rip someones throat out with your bare hands. Or run around with a chainsaw decapitating people.
But the moment there is a nipple on the screen AOPUWHERD)*!@Y!*YH)@$*#YH OOOOOOHHHH MY FUCCKING GOOODDDD !!!!!! THERE IS A... A..... A NIPPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SWEET MERCIFUL FUCK WHO LET THIS HAPPEN!>?!??!!!111
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I'll just say this once, without getting all too far off topic (since it seems noone has actually read or seen the Bill of Rights), here it is word for word off the document itself:
"Article the third ...... Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Article the fourth..... A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
Basically the 1st says you cannot be in trouble for anything you have said or (due to the Supreme Court saying that art is a form of speech) drawn, sung, etc. However, there is one way. Under petition from the people something can be outlawed, and only through petition. This is were alot of people get it wrong, including the governement. The Government actually has absolutely no power to say whether something is right or wrong when it comes to speech. Only the people who petition it can say. That's why things like child pornography are outlawed.
The 2nd says that under no circumstance that "the right of the people to keep and bear arms" declared in the Declaration of Independence as an uninalienable right, cannot be infringed upon. Basically meaning they can't touch it. However, through loopholes, people tend to think it's ok to, since right above it, the 1st can be changed and outlawed through petition. The 2nd does not have this part added to it, thus it should not be infringed upon. Whether you like it or not, that's the truth...
This thread perfectly encapsulates the issues with today's society: Not our fault, it's someone else's job!
@Bladestorm: If you truly are a parent try doing some parenting if you're worried that games, not only scarlet blade, can somehow fuck up your kids because I grew up within an era where parental control mechanisms within my country were non-existent, I remember being able to watch hardcore porn in the middle of the day when I was 10 years old and I've watched allot of violent movies as a young kid too but here's the funny thing: My parents were there to explain stuff to me or had done a good job up until that point such that there was no need to so your fear of your kids being exposed to something so mild as near nudity in games or violence of any kind speaks of your faults as a parent and not of society's fault for not making it a lemming run in parenting for you. You decided to have kids, man up to it and actually do what needs to be done, if you work when you get home or on your free days sit your ass down next to them and talk to them.
What I said to Bladestorm is universal, the issue these days is parents neglecting their kids or outright abusing them not the oversaturation with violence, sex, whichever boogieman you wanna cook up next.
Addendum: The only games which deserve an outcry against them and them being banned outright are games like Rapelay or ZOG's Nightmare as those games have absolutely no redeeming qualities and serve only to spread either propaganda or outright hatred towards your fellow man based on any number of superficial considerations.
I Must admit I would play a violent game if it was fun here, but playing with sexualised child like characters is something I would feel deeply uncomfortable about and would not do. Nipples ok, nipples on children, um no. Adults playing such games - weird quite frankly or worse. Children should play neither.
edit, in reply to post above, i do not allow my children to play such games, although my teenager moans his face about it because some friends in his class are allowed to /9call of duty). Some parents are not on the ball (read some posts here - they will be parents eventually) and need support, i.e if this crap is removed, all to the good.
rpg/mmorg history: Dun Darach>Bloodwych>Bards Tale 1-3>Eye of the beholder > Might and Magic 2,3,5 > FFVII> Baldur's Gate 1, 2 > Planescape Torment >Morrowind > WOW > oblivion > LOTR > Guild Wars (1900hrs elementalist) Vanguard. > GW2(1000 elementalist), Wildstar
Now playing GW2, AOW 3, ESO, LOTR, Elite D
Confused...
I can't decide whether I find the people who act as "righteously offended by what appears to be pixelated depiction of human body features" amusing or just slightly pathetic.
For those of you who find games are getting more sexist... Please come out back: Duke Nukem wants a word with you in 3D.
For those who pulls the "pedo" card... Please, PLEASE for the sake of humanity: Don't procreate.
Never heard about this game, but now I feel I need to support it financially on principle :-S
We dont need casuals in our games!!! Errm... Well we DO need casuals to fund and populate our games - But the games should be all about "hardcore" because: We dont need casuals in our games!!!
(repeat ad infinitum)
Nice argument... So tell me, how does having a screen with a yes/no age verification question stop anyone underage from accessing an explicit website? Not the same thing? Why not? Are you telling me kids are more likely to play this and be "scarred for life" than by having access to the internet in the first place (which you'd need in order to play the game or even see the ads on this site).
It's not an issue of the KID making the decision whether or not to listen to the warning, it's an issue of the PARENT making that decision. The kid's not going to censor himself ffs. The mature rating isn't for them, how do people not get this?
And to anyone who might chime in with, 'well my online parental control software censors internet websites, but I can't censor what they play,' you're so far beyond hopeless I don't think anyone can save you...