The retail game will be 16+ in Germany due to blasphemous content

#1 Posted by L44 (491 posts) - 1 year, 3 months ago

It was bumped up from 12+. This is the first time this has ever happened to a game.

Thought this was a bit silly.

#2 Posted by Alexandruxx (228 posts) - 1 year, 3 months ago

Germans have the weirdest porn and the most fucked up history, and yet they consider this blasphemous content?

#3 Posted by Twinsun (388 posts) - 1 year, 3 months ago

It is a pretty disturbing game, I don't think a 16+ rating is that unreasonable.

#4 Posted by DeF (4156 posts) - 1 year, 3 months ago

@Alexandruxx said:

Germans have the weirdest porn and the most fucked up history, and yet they consider this blasphemous content?

that's exactly WHY we (?) are so ridiculously over-sensitive with this stuff ...

It's laughable but apparently we can't think for ourselves and have to have a huge age gate to jump over for the tiniest joke ... or well, it gets censored to hell.

This way the other countries are supposed to feel "safe" because nothing "evil" gets through to our children (yea right lol ...couldn't even finish that thought without laughing)

#5 Posted by Morrow (1793 posts) - 1 year, 3 months ago

@Alexandruxx said:

Germans have the weirdest porn and the most fucked up history, and yet they consider this blasphemous content?

That's exactly why they do.

#6 Posted by Seedofpower (3741 posts) - 1 year, 3 months ago

Each is their own I suppose, I don't think it will make a difference in its sales.

#7 Posted by Village_Guy (2089 posts) - 1 year, 3 months ago

@Twinsun said:

It is a pretty disturbing game, I don't think a 16+ rating is that unreasonable.

I have to agree with this, it a pretty gory game and with some disturbing content (even though it isn't realistic looking), I'm surprised this isn't about them raising the age-rating from 16+ to 18+.

#8 Posted by HarlechQuinn (375 posts) - 1 year, 3 months ago

@Alexandruxx said:

Germans have the weirdest porn and the most fucked up history, and yet they consider this blasphemous content?

Aaah, priceless... Always fun when I've to "explain" and "excuse" this and the whole Hasslehoff thing to my friends around the world...

I'll never forget the embarrasing moment when we encountered a sales sign in a little kiosk in Amsterdam which stated "Animal Porn here!" in German language... At this point we decided if somebody asks we will say that we are English or Scandinavian... at least not German ;)