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[Diablohead]

Could nintendo not put that warning on the back, and then just use the normal uk standard age badges on the front?

 

[pilonv1]

Yes Nintendo has the power to disobey federal law.

 

[Rocked]

Groan.

Those are Australian boxarts, right?

But what's the deal with this?

Are UK boxarts gonna start having the same ratings as movies now? Or is this a different country?

 

[reminder]

Jesus, could those age ratings BE any bigger?

 

[JonathanEx]

Those are Australian boxarts, right?

But what's the deal with this?

http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000K86CHC.02._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V36133366_.jpg

Are UK boxarts gonna start having the same ratings as movies now? Or is this a different country?

I think it's still an opt-in thing for BBFC ratings. I guess publishers who are doing movie games like that would prefer a BBFC rating, but first party, Nintendo is still doing PEGI.

 

[Dilemma]

Phoenix is like the next Electronic Arts. Scary stuff.

 

[MadFuzzy]

I think it's still an opt-in thing for BBFC ratings. I guess publishers who are doing movie games like that would prefer a BBFC rating, but first party, Nintendo is still doing PEGI.

It's not entirely opt-in. PEGI rules state that if your game has got "non-interactive content" in it (e.g. footage that isn't from the game in it, like movie footage in the case of this game, or DVD-style extras like "making of" features), it has to go to the BBFC for a seperate UK rating. The PEGI rating is applied for the rest of Europe though (bar Germany).

 

[Infernal Monkey]

<3 <3

 

[Infernal Monkey]

Free rumble pak to .. make up for the impossible delay this has had to suffer?

 

[wordless]

Was this posted?

 

[Infernal Monkey]

I love how they've got the 'Only for' on it. =|

 

[Diablohead]

This wins so hard :lol

 

[VOOK]

I love how they've got the 'Only for' on it. =|

The Aussie one is more honest

 

[Infernal Monkey]

The Aussie one is more honest

Ahahaha ='D

 

[Infernal Monkey]

....

 

[Wollan]

That is pretty cool.

 

[Infernal Monkey]

 

[reminder]

Nice

I knew that these weren't final.

 

[Shiggy]

January 12th:

January 12th:

January 19th:

 

[RSP]

Jesus, could those age ratings BE any bigger?

 

[neopokekun]

Phoenix replaced the Joe Blade 2 cover for the game with this.

AKA Soroeru Puzzle Douwa Oukoku

 

[Infernal Monkey]

Phoenix replaced the Joe Blade 2 cover for the game with this.

Oh Phoenix :lol

Wow I bet it's even more thrilling than RIG RACER 1.

 

[Chittagong]

Phoenix replaced the Joe Blade 2 cover for the game with this.

Phew. I was worried for a while that they'd put out an ugly boxart.

 

[Danj]

Contacting Ghostlight is like getting blood out of a stone, their spam filter is extremely overzealous and even filters the address to which you are supposed to report problems. If anyone does actually have a method to get hold of them, can you ask them if they'll publish Persona 3 over here?

 

[Dimmuxx]

oh, fap fap fap.

 

[LocoSWE]

OMG, when is FFXII being released in EU?

 

[Mallika]

Image of Matthew Perry, AKA Chandler Bing

Yep, exactly what I was going for.

 

[Morbid Angel]

OMG, when is FFXII being released in EU?

February.

 

[hirokazu]

January 12th:

weird, why do the Europe boxes still have the triangle on the spine like with GC? Nintendo Australia has done the right thing and moved the triangle to the back cover, and made it much smaller, which is what should've been done in the first place on GC, IMO.

 

[wind_steaker]

weird, why do the Europe boxes still have the triangle on the spine like with GC? Nintendo Australia has done the right thing and moved the triangle to the back cover, and made it much smaller, which is what should've been done in the first place on GC, IMO.

what are they for anyway?

 

[hirokazu]

what are they for anyway?

it is an indicator of sorts for which part of Europe the game (and box and manual) is intended to be sold in or something.

 

[Alpha_eX]

what are they for anyway?

Think it's to say what part of Europe it comes from, I think purple is Netherlands and green is Germany. I'm not sure, I heard that before from someone so could be true.

 

[Kaworu]

Originally Posted by LocoSWE: OMG, when is FFXII being released in EU?


February.

23/02/2007

 

[Infernal Monkey]

 

[Rocked]

"Oh no you didn't"

 

[Coen]

Think it's to say what part of Europe it comes from, I think purple is Netherlands and green is Germany. I'm not sure, I heard that before from someone so could be true.

Wow, I'm from the Netherlands and more than half of my collection consists of blue triangled boxes. :O

 

[zon]

These boxarts needs more boobies

 

[gogogow]

Wow, I'm from the Netherlands and more than half of my collection consists of blue triangled boxes. :O

A friend told me that blue=published by Nintendo.

 

[hirokazu]

Wow, I'm from the Netherlands and more than half of my collection consists of blue triangled boxes. :O

that probably means blue is for Netherlands.

in Australia, we get brown, but some third parties don't bother to print Australian version boxes, but instead just slap Australian classifications on European boxes so we also get some that are green or pink.

 

[ram]

 

[Katana_Strikes]

Didn't realise VT3 had been announced for the PC...

Pretty boring boxart.

 

[Infernal Monkey]

 

[neopokekun]

 

[Infernal Monkey]

Oh gawd, a Little Britain game.

 

[Xavien]

23/02/2007

God, i hope there's no nasty borders or slowdown like all other square-enix PAL games of late.

Otherwise i may just have to get my PS2 chipped and buy FF12 from the US.

 

[Danj]

God, i hope there's no nasty borders or slowdown like all other square-enix PAL games of late.

Otherwise i may just have to get my PS2 chipped and buy FF12 from the US.

They already said they were going to use the process they used for KH2 on it, I thought? So those problems you listed shouldn't be an issue?

 

[FortNinety]

wtf...

 

[meppi]

The colour codes on Nintendo games indicate the different language versions of the games.

It's been that way since the Nes. For instance the Dutch only releases are indeed blue with the HOL code and instructions as well as the boxes are in Dutch and nothing else.
While over here in Belgium(Flanders) we almost always get the orange ones with the FAH code. (French and Holland perhaps?)

These are bi-lingual in Dutch as well as French.

Green are UKV and only in English, while the purple ones (EUR-M) come in 8 different languages.

I've seen others as well for Spain, Germany and some Scandinavian countries. Not sure how many there are in total.

 

[Infernal Monkey]

Hey they didn't bugger it up this time!

 

[Neo Child]

Get in, I've been waiting 3 years for this. It better be worth the hype.