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Aging gaming populace looks to see games: age as well. Mario is fine. But Mariana is finer. Really, as the tech improves and developers can craft with better tools, the medium should reflect maturity not in just graphics but content. The content, like magazines, or films should not be freely available to minors, but not smothered and prohibitioned for adults. The more tasteless stuff will find a way to hurt the inspired and worthwhile, but then, the media gravitates towards itself, . . I mean towards what sensationalizes, scandalizes, and sells. Hot Coffee is a big mistake on the game developers part. Clean your code. Having "Hot Coffee" is the shame, "forgetting" about it when submitting material for board review is, especially in a world where a mature gaming culture looks to dissect code for easter eggs, exploits, cheats, and areas of exploit/alteration. Hot Coffee is fine for the context of telling a story, it may have meant a different rating, and the right audience would have been able to purchase it while the young audience would have to legitimately wait . Same for magazines and movies.

But the media and politicians have to climb off their real and fake soapboxes and see the real statistics of the influence of games, the media itself, movies, parents, neighbors and stop making scapegoats of the things they barely understand, whether it be Elvis, hiphop, movies, the record player, the steam engine, . . . heralding the evils on "today's" youth. . .; Posted by: Boot_Agnostic Posted on: 09/30/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use