Well the nice part there is someone could come up with an online store that did sell AO games. Just because Wal Mart doesnt sell Playboy doesn't stop the gas station up the street from doing so.
I'd be nice to see AO taken more seriously, if you ask me -- than being some sort of Kiss Of Death like the NC-17 rating is for movies.
I'm only interested on seeing where this goes because AO games are such a rarity. I've never looked into it. How popular are they? Where are they sold? I'm assuming the majority of them are on PC and in Japan, but maybe thats not true. What sort of plan do they have here? Sell the box itself and its games entirely over the internet? I guess if they had physical copies that porn shops could carry them.
I have no idea, as well -- a lot of good questions there.
I'd assume if anyone would sell AO rated games, porn shops would sell AO Rated games -- but, do they even have a section dedicated to AO rated PC games? Anyone got an answer to that question? I sure as hell don't know.
Singles: Flirt Up Your Life was released in its AO glory -- if you wanna call it that -- via download from Eidos. I don't think its sequel Singles: Triple Trouble got a USA release, BTW.
I think AO is useless, myself.
And is this AO stuff going to be mostly porn games? Thats sadly what the rating seems to be used for, but theres a lot more to stuff being for adults than having sex involved. Though I guess M rated games are basically for adults already and can tackle that stuff, so the AO rating is kind of mislabeled. Should be P for Pornographic.
Sorry...rambling.
Well, Manhunt 2 in its full violent glory would be AO -- now, if we can get a company with the balls to publish it as such and a retailer to also do so, we'd be getting somewhere.
I think AO and M are a silly rating, when it comes to the age factor. Look at the set-up -- EC is 3; E is 6; E10+ is 10; T is 13. Then suddenly, we have M is 17 and AO is 18. That's really not much difference in age, if you ask me. One's supposed to be just more graphic than the other, basically -- whether it's sex or violence; it shouldn't matter. But, as we know, it's easier (here in the States) to get a AO b/c of graphic sexual content than a AO for very graphic violence. See a game like Singles getting AO, yet the violent-as-hell Dead Space winds up M. Am I missing something?
My next question -- why isn't there a rating designated for say 21+? We have all these games -- T for 13; M for 17; why such a short gap (18) for AO? Shouldn't AO be 21+? Or maybe M should be re-rated back to 16 and AO to 18 to make the gap not one year? I dunno.
I'm rambling too, now...
