The Giant Bomb Quick Look Thread 2

wolfmat said:
No, that's because of corporate greed. One is allowed to sell violent games, but not allowed to openly advertise them. So they'd rather put retarded censorship into games instead of admitting that some games aren't cool beans for kids. So they can advertise them openly. That's pretty much it.

I know, reality is boring.
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Lately though, a lot of violent games got an 16 or 18 rating that were pretty damned violent. Spec Ops: The Line is uncut and rated 18, for instance, and I hear there's some really brutal stuff in that.

That said, I don't get how censoring violent content is connected to sexual content. It's not like developers are trying to balance the lack of violence with more sex or something.
 
Rufus said:
Lately though, a lot of violent games got an 16 or 18 rating that were pretty damned violent. Spec Ops: The Line is uncut and rated 18, for instance, and I hear there's some really brutal stuff in that.
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Yeah. That is because gamers are adults more often than not (do the math: 2012 - 18 = 1994). So it makes sense to not treat them like children, otherwise, they buy a title less, or import it.

Ideally, the market starts to adjust to the social reality around here; so there's a shop for adult game content, and it's completely normal to get the more bloody titles there.

Also, proper age verification on digital distribution platforms is overdue. It's ridiculous as it is right now on that front.

That said, I don't get how censoring violent content is connected to sexual content. It's not like developers are trying to balance the lack of violence with more sex or something.
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The connection is made by comparing how sex is treated in the US vs how gore is treated around here, and vice versa. Like, it's totally acceptable here to see a pair of tits on public TV at 18:30. That would be impossible over there. And here, movies before 22:00 are carefully cut to pieces, with ridiculous results, like the cut version of Bloodsport.
 
wolfmat said:
Ideally, the market starts to adjust to the social reality around here; so there's a shop for adult game content, and it's completely normal to get the more bloody titles there.

Also, proper age verification on digital distribution platforms is overdue. It's ridiculous as it is right now on that front.
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Didn't even have to wait for all the old people to die.

wolfmat said:
The connection is made by comparing how sex is treated in the US vs how gore is treated around here, and vice versa. Like, it's totally acceptable here to see a pair of tits on public TV at 18:30. That would be impossible over there. And here, movies before 22:00 are carefully cut to pieces, with ridiculous results, like the cut version of Bloodsport.
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Yeah, I'm aware of that. It's an odd comeback to me, regardless.

Anyway, video games.
 
Ahahaha, Big Jeffrey.

"Not only do we have the world's scariest coasters, but also you will have an opportunity to potentially get killed by the king of the Everglades, Roscoe."
 
Big Jeffrey says,
"Drop 'em!"

QL had me laughing so hard. Great one.



So many quicklooks this weekend. I kind of am (sickly) interested enough in Dark Eye to add it to my wishlist. Thomas was Alone has a really great look to it, but not sure if I'd ever end up buying it. The Real Texas looks like a lot of fun, and McPixel appears to be an amusing little thing to play around with.
 
Yes, best QL in a while.

Big Jeffrey's belongs in the "theme parks you wish were real" thread. He destroys the octopus within us all.
 
Jo-El said:
I can't believe Valve rejected Mutant Mudds and The Pinball Arcade yet accepted something like this. At least it made for a hilarious video. :P
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A lot of times steam rejects games it's for technical reasons. If MM couldn't give a proper fullscreen or resolution support that's probably the reason. I can see that maybe being trouble for a dsi ware game.
 
SteveWinwood said:
A lot of times steam rejects games it's for technical reasons. If MM couldn't give a proper fullscreen or resolution support that's probably the reason. I can see that maybe being trouble for a dsi ware game.
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Exactly, Steam (just like Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo) don't go around and turn down games simply because they don't "like them". The only kind of judgment call that could apply is if the game is overly offensive (racist game for example). Other than that, it's all technical stuff.

You have no idea how much work it takes to get a game on a console (steam is not nearly as bad but there's still some specific requirements). I do that for a living and believe me, those companies can be a pain when you want to release a game on their platform.
 
Rapstah said:
About that 3D mode, are there actually monitors that do 3D that way? Are you supposed to play the game cross-eyed?
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I think the monitor takes in the image as a split screen but then stretches each screen out into full screen and alternates between them at a high framerate. So it goes stretched left, stretched right, stretched left, etc. It saves rendering all those pixels or something.
 
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