What do you think about censorship, specially games censorship?

Quoting> The government should impose the limits or everyone have the power to check if a movie/game is adequate for him or his children?

The ratings are there for every game for this particular reason. I am not sure if every country enforces the game ratings rule strictly.

If a game/film/whatever is rated for a specific age, then it shouldn't be censored... I don't get why +18 games get censored, when censoship is usually done to make something apt to a wider range of ages.

Fek censorship. Sleeping Dogs annoyed the shit out of me with that. You can split someone's head open with a buzzsaw, you can crush their skull with a huge electromagnet(?), you can impale them on metal sticks pointing from the ground, there's a scene of drilling someone's leg. But when you go get a happy massage, nothing is shown. Well lol. Violence is okay, but sex is not. GG.
Also, FUCK FUCKING CENSORSHIP IN GAMES. Yeah sure some scenes in movies are okay BUT OH MY GOD THOSE SAME SCENES IN GAMES, WE MUST CENSOR THEM OR ELSE!

There shouldn't be ANY censorship. I'm lucky that I don't live in Germany cause gamers there have a fucked up situation with green gore in games and shit. Or no gore at all lol.

There is already a thread about cut games in Germany and an explaination why the publishers cut their games here.

I just handed a research paper about this exact topic =_=' . That's an annoying one, just saying.
Anyway, I don't like censorship. Parents should take care of their kids and get them what suits them. Also, the age verification systems for online stores should be improved. Otherwise, it's just useless. Everyone can get their hands on games of all types and that's the problem. Censoring is not needed, what's needed is supervision. Older gamers can decide for themselves if to buy a game for themselves or not and censoring it will only annoy a large percentage of them, me included.

said a lot of blah blah blah blah but it's my POV :P

I do prefer some censorship in some games, (for instance the sex is often aimed at a male audiance). Children will often play games that are meant for older ages (I get that the rating are there but practically, children just play these games anyway). For these reasons, ideally, I think it should have the option to put it on and off. Give the player or parent the option to choose.(Not very practical when developing the game though, I guess.)

If u dont watn games wihout cenzorship, buy from center european countries( without gemany)
usually are uncut :) (99% games).

Germany = cenzorship

I feel ratings are good so people can understand what they are buying before they do, but do not feel censorship is the right course of action, unless there is something unlawful about the game otherwise.

Censorship denies adults who are capable of making a mature and rational decision and would be able to enjoy the content without any ill effects from doing so. What is needed is for parents to properly supervise their kids and for adults to be mature enough to realize what they can and cannot handle. And also for the media to stop blaming games for every bad thing that happens.

I think they need to ████ing stop.

One word: hipocrisy. I'm an artist and know how it feels.
People do stuff and are ashamed of it. They lie to themselves about what the world is, create taboos, create hate on what's pure and true.
They just can't stare directly at what they have been thought not to show people. It's ridiculous. People want violence and repel sexuallity. People drink blood and forget about all the sodomy they desired, hiding behind the words of their God. Pretty much it, censorship is the purest form of hipocrisy.

I don't get wildly offended by it. I know there are simply things that make people uncomfortable. I get that. Not everybody wants to see somebody get a bullet through the head in a movie or a video game. People don't seem to understand that a lot of what people are trying to censor is entirely okay to not be comfortable with. They get too hung up on shaming them as "prudes" or what have you and don't comment on the real issue that one person or one group of people shouldn't be trying to decide what's best for everybody.

As much as I love video games and as much as I detest censorship, I do stop to think once in a while when I'm playing a violent game or watching a particularly gory movie or listening to a song that may have some gruesome content, about what it is I'm playing/watching/listening to. On the whole it doesn't have a profound effect on me but I do realize that these people have very legitimate concerns. Their way of trying to deal with them is heavy handed and overbearing, but I truly believe we get too hung up on criticizing that aspect before we have the empathy to understand why this person is so upset.

But the bottom line is while they're entirely entitled to be personally offended, or to not want to take part in it, or maybe to not let their children take part in it, they are in no way entitled to that material that they've subjectively determined to be offensive being altered or removed for anybody else.

TL;DR it's still wrong, but I feel that the people vying for "censorship" deserve a bit of empathy and I believe at their core they mean well and have genuine concern.

censoring games is pointless and stupid, if a game is rated 18 then it must not be censored, then it would be for 18+, imagine if people censored porn? sounds stupid rigth?, i mean people forced rockstar to censor manhunt 2 because of the gore stuff, when the saw movies show more than that and are transmited like 6 times every day.

You know.. 10 years ago there weren't much of violence/sex and different stuff that could ruin child. Now there are A LOT. So this boy is addicted to PC games and actually use violence that he learned from games in his every day life, next (and this is not only for models), young girls try to look like adults and where the hell is childhood with teddy bears, ponies, beauty animation with no violence, sex scenes and etc? So I think in order to prevent things, there should be censorship. And sometimes even for me now when I'm 25. Just sucks how games/films and etc can be soooo violent or like porn :|

Sometmes its good. I wouldnt mind someone censoring crap music I hear on the radio every day or any TV channel that just has celebrety shit on. This is dumbing down everyone.

In a perfect society, this wouldnt be needed but right now censorship has a lot of power and its questionable who should have that kind of power.

I hate it, simple as that, the games should look and play the way they were meant to be, if some country doesn't like that game then simply don't sell it at all, because most of the people will rather pirate it and play it as it was meant to be than to play child version with rainbows instead of blood from some horror game.

In my opinion things shouldn't get censored. Most times the reason that games or movies get censored is "to save the children", in my opinion parents should check which games their children get. When a kid is old enough to know how to get the games in the internet without parents then it should also be old enough to know what are video games and what is the reality. Not every kid that plays violent games will kill people in their life.

And for the adults that don't like this violent games or movies: Just don't watch/play them. No one forces you to do it. Most people want violence or nudity in their movies or games, else they wouldn't sell good and the companies wouldn't produce these.

It's f***ing bull****

I don't believe in any kind of Censorship, when it comes to movies and games and series and stuff, it's not the governments place to tell others what they can and cannot do when it's not an illegal act, watching a R rated movie or play a 18+ game, it's the parents place to teach their children what they can and cannot do, censoring is just a lazy thing to do, it fucks it up for everyone, not helping the parents or squeamish people. Everyone has a right to choose whatever they want to do and if it's something bad they will get punished for it but at least let everyone has a choice instead of just locking out that option entirely.
So yeah, Censorship is wrong, it's the parents job to teach their kids, not the governments place.

The ESRB in North America needs to be re-looked at and re-worked out. As it stands now, video game companies are afraid to go the extra mile by including nudity and sex because they want to avoid having their rating switched from M to AO (adult only). The main problem with AO-rated games is they're not allowed to be sold in many popular retail establishments, such as EBGames/Gamestop, Wal*mart, etc. Clearly for them this is the right choice to make from a business perspective.

ESRB is a tricky system. Sexual innuendo is usually alright in a T-rated game, as long as there's no specific wording to it. It's also alright to dress female characters in risque outfits in a T-rated game, but that's starting to push it. Often times games will be rated M on principle just to avoid the hammer.

In my honest opinion, the M rating should allow sex and nudity and most everything else, as long as the game contain proper maturity in all those things. The Witcher series is a great example of this. It bothers me to a certain degree that other games like Dragon Age and Mass Effect, which are heavily focused on character development and interaction, don't include any nudity in their love scenes. I'm not saying this because I'm a pervert and want to see nipples and other kinds of genitalia, I'm saying this because why even have the love scenes if they're going to be painfully awkward to look at? I'd rather they just cut to black and have the mere assumption of the love scene rather than show it in the pathetic manner that they do.

In Australia we finally got R18+ last year.
Censoring games it silly, a game gets a rating for a reason. No need too censor a game so little kids can play it!

As long as there can always be a rating to say "This game will offend/scare the fuck out of you/make you feel sick" there should be none of this censorship like Germany and Aus (did they stop all the game censorship in aus ?) Also Comedy, people who get trouble for the comedy is silly to.

I do know the MPAA is a shadow organization made up of a bunch of people from various backgrounds who all think the same way. Their names and locations are shielded from the public. Why should we agree with what they say as if they are literally the voice of God?
Movies should be rated based on their merit and less about mere words and violence. Something that tells of a positive message would be unavailable to a large segment of the public because someone said a few choice words. If a movie is all about swearing and racism like a Spike Lee movie, it should be trashed.

The parents should censor their kids.

I disagree with censorship, I agree with having a rating system so the adults can filter what they want their children exposed to, but once you are an adult you should be able to decide for yourself what is acceptable in games you play.

I guess that most people agree that a rating system is ok, but not censorship. I would like to read some stories about censorship tries. In Brazil, a state representative tried to remove the movie "Ted" from theatres because he went with his son (10 years old) to watch the movie, despite the rating was 14+.