The Shrine

A late ballot changed last week's news

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/05/06 ... 23804.html

No, it looks like it will go to the House. Every time a bill goes into state/federal Congress doesn't mean that it will automatically pass. I wish people would get that through their skulls...

Particularly those of us in Canada who have a completely different political system LMAO

After watching the movie Crash, I start to wonder, maybe thios will be a good thing for California. You know, because movies are accurate portrayls of real life events, situations, and all.....

I am actually in favor of the bill. Minors can't rent R-rated movies (to my knowledge), and I think games are far more potent. Besides which, it may be a step towards a little more respect for games as a form of media.

Mental wrote:I am actually in favor of the bill. Minors can't rent R-rated movies (to my knowledge), and I think games are far more potent. Besides which, it may be a step towards a little more respect for games as a form of media.

Minors can't rent R-rated movies as a matter of policies within the companies, not because of state laws. The only ones that are really restricted are X-rated games. Besides, this law is basically ditching the well-established ESRB rating system in favor of their own definitions.

As far as the quality of games, it only makes the rating system hypocritical and mostly useless. Just look at the movie industry. The NC-17 rating is NEVER used for major motion pictures because most theatres won't show it, where as the R-rating is getting abused and more and more hypocritical to its standards. A movie that would normally get a NC-17 rating gets an R-rating because the movie studios pay off the MPAA to give them that rating and get it shown on all theatres.

It's already starting to happen with video games. Wal-Mart has their ban on M-rated games, just because parents are too fucking stupid to read the ratings and filter out their children from playing these games themselves. More widespread use of this will eventually dilute the T-rating in games just like the R-rating in movies.

Zeus wrote:Particularly those of us in Canada who have a completely different political system LMAO

You still have to vote to get laws passed, though. You can't just write a law and say "Whoop, there it is!"

Yes, but when it passes, it passes. We don't have 85 levels of government. They put it to the floor (provincial level), they vote, it goes to law