EU Considering Regulating Sale of Violent Games

Spamicles writes "European Union justice ministers met today in order to discuss the regulation of sales of violent video games to minors. Europeans were riled up last year when a German gunman shot several people before taking his life at a secondary school. A European Union Commissioner is taking advantage of the shootings last year called for stricter regulations in the video game industry. A motion introduced last month calls for legislators to "put in place all necessary measures to ban the sale of particularly violent and cruel video games.""

Comments

Cruel?

[The Orange Mage]

"Cruel" videogames?

Like Daikatana?

Re:Cruel?

[MysteriousPreacher]

It's not illegal. You just have to fill out so many forms beforehand that no-one can be bothered.

Re:Cruel?

[10Neon]

I believe the only appropriate place to go postal is at a post office.

It can get more stupid

[Moraelin]

It can get more stupid than that.

E.g., take "No One Lives Forever 2". The original game tweaked the AI a lot, so the enemies would notice a fallen comrade, see if he's dead, etc. Except the German version came and replaced all corpses with backpacks.

So for a start you ended up hiding and/or disposing of backpacks instead of corpses. I mean, wth? Why would someone sound the alarm for seeing a backpack near a bed in the barracks? Don't all soldiers have one of those anyway?

But it gets better. Picture this: A patrol comes by and starts shaking the backpack and saying stuff like "Oh no! Are you still alive? Say something!"

I mean, WTF? Since when was a backpack alive in the first place?

All that clever scripting and trying to make it believable in the original game... just made it look stupid in the censored version.