2005's 10 Most Violent Games

Andy writes "The family media guide has released a statement detailing the 10 most violent videogames of 2005." Gamasutra reports: "Ironically, the games that the Family Media Guide singles out include some of the ESRB M-rated titles (not buyable by those under the age of 17) which have been most critically acclaimed so far this year, including Capcom's Resident Evil 4 (of which the site notes: 'it's possible to find the corpse of a woman pinned up on a wall -- by a pitchfork through her face' ..."

Comments

Interesting difference in censoring method..

[Lord Bitman]

(the following uses segments taken from the San Andreas review, but a quick browse through any other review will show the pattern exists elsewhere)

When listing "Profanity details", some words are not censored, others use "fill-in-the-blank" censoring, while others are viewed as so horrid as to be referred to only by their first letter:

"F-Word, C-word, A*s, A*shole, Balls, B*stard, B*tch, Christ, C*ck, Crap, C*m, Damn, D*ck, God Damn, Hell, Jesus, N*gger, Piss, Pr*ck, P*ssy, Screw, Sh*t, Tw*t"

I also note that though not listed in the profanity section, the "sex details" section additionally lists "tits" and "wanking"

I'm not sure what exactly this means, but I do find it fascinating. Does anyone have enough understanding of how the minds of these people work as to be able to explain this behavior?

Hmm.. I do wonder if the lameness filter will let those quotes through :)