dragon age

Rating summary: This is a role-playing game (RPG) in which players control a group of mythical warriors through missions and battles in the ravaged lands of Ferelden. The combat system in the game is similar to other third-person role-playing games where the user does not usually have direct control over combat moves. Instead, players select a target (e.g., soldier, stone golem, dragon, bear, etc.) and an action (e.g., "attack," "kill," and magic spells), then watch as the game executes the move. Players use swords, axes, knives, and magic to attack enemies that react to damage by emitting splashes of red blood; pools of blood are occasionally depicted near dead bodies as well. The most intense instances of violence occur when players have the option to kill non-combatant civilians: A prisoner can be stabbed to death in order to steal a key; a merchant who overcharges refugees can be slashed in the throat; and a boy possessed by an evil demon can be killed off-screen. During the course of the game, players are able to visit a brothel where a hostess asks what they are interested in. If players select "Surprise me," they can sometimes wind up face-to-face with a woman, a man, a transsexual, or an animal; sexual activity is never depicted during these brothel encounters. Players can also initiate brief cutscene sequences in which couples (male and female or same sex couples) can be depicted kissing, embracing, and caressing one another as the screen fades to black. Though the game never features human nudity, one female demon character is briefly depicted with bare breasts. Some profanity (e.g., "sh*t," "b*tch," and "a*s") can be heard in the dialogue.


not their best writing I think

" "During the course of the game, players are able to visit a brothel where a hostess asks what they are interested in. If players select "Surprise me," they can sometimes wind up face-to-face with a woman, a man, a transsexual, or an animal"

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I hate surprises.

Hot blue aliens or no deal.

There job isn't to entertain you with witty and well written summaries. It's to lay out the cold hard facts about content present within the game.

" There job isn't to entertain you with witty and well written summaries. It's to lay out the cold hard facts about content present within the game. "

" There job isn't to entertain you with witty and well written summaries. It's to lay out the cold hard facts about content present within the game. "

" @The_A_Drain said:

" There job isn't to entertain you with witty and well written summaries. It's to lay out the cold hard facts about content present within the game. "

This.

The ESRB provides services in the form of letting any interested party (hopefully parents) read summaries of games and get detailed justifications for the ratings that have been given out to help people make better purchase decisions. Anyone reading that description could easily say "well, that sounds alright for my 16 year old, I've let him watch movies like that; but I definitely don't want my 14 year old to see this" and then they can set their house rules accordingly. What's wrong with that?

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" "During the course of the game, players are able to visit a brothel where a hostess asks what they are interested in. If players select "Surprise me," they can sometimes wind up face-to-face with a woman, a man, a transsexual, or an animal"

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" @trophyhunter said:

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jayge you just don't get it "

Then explain it to me, hotshot. Unless you're talking about something ridiculously stupid like how entertaining the description is.  "

" "During the course of the game, players are able to visit a brothel where a hostess asks what they are interested in. If players select "Surprise me," they can sometimes wind up face-to-face with a woman, a man, a transsexual, or an animal"

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" @Jayge said:

" @trophyhunter said:

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jayge you just don't get it "

Then explain it to me, hotshot. Unless you're talking about something ridiculously stupid like how entertaining the description is.  "

it can't be explained to someone who has a rod shoved up their ass an far as yours "

" @trophyhunter said:

" @Jayge said:

" @trophyhunter said:

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jayge you just don't get it "

Then explain it to me, hotshot. Unless you're talking about something ridiculously stupid like how entertaining the description is.  "

it can't be explained to someone who has a rod shoved up their ass an far as yours "

Are you fucking serious? "

" @trophyhunter said:

" yeah the rod up jayge's ass has a rod of its ass "

Did I like, make you drop your ice cream cone or something? "

"@Jayge said:

" @trophyhunter said:

" yeah the rod up jayge's ass has a rod of its ass "

Did I like, make you drop your ice cream cone or something? "

do you know what the phrase "you have a rod up your ass" means?it has nothing to do with anything gay "

" Hot blue aliens or no deal. "

That sounds like my kinda brothel.

This isn't at all very surprising from ESRB. ESRB focuses, as they are expected to, on the content that may or may not warrant those buying it to decide if the content within is questionable for their tolerance and enjoyment - or more often, the ones they intend to purchase it for (minors). It is to, I believe, follow their summary explanations for their 'M' rating of the game such as Intense Violence, Sexual Content, etc...

It's just safe to say, don't expect to go to ESRB expecting to find a good summary of what the game actually is. It's like looking to a chemical formula to find the flavor of a strawberry - wherein it will simply give you a chemical composition of it.

And I'm sure it's no slight to BioWare. Just business as usual. And I can assure you, there is no actual beastiality in the game.

" @Jayge said:

" @trophyhunter said:

" yeah the rod up jayge's ass has a rod of its ass "

Did I like, make you drop your ice cream cone or something? "

FUCKING WIN!

Also, I'm pretty sure he's saying that it isn't as outlandishly humorous to read as some others due to how the ESRB poorly censors itself in writing descriptions sometimes.  I find the humor in those situations, but I find it more important that the people who are checking the ESRB summaries out (all 2% of them, and those are more than likely the forum users here at Giant Bomb more than any parents) are actually getting details on what to expect from the game.

Let's face it, though:  the ESRB is a joke.  I mean, seriously.  Battlefield: Bad Company gets a T rating just because they have no blood and don't drop the F bomb but they can say "shit" every other word...while Halo 3 gets an M for what is basically the equivalent of virtual paintball thanks to alien blood?

It's a fucking joke, sir.

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" "During the course of the game, players are able to visit a brothel where a hostess asks what they are interested in. If players select "Surprise me," they can sometimes wind up face-to-face with a woman, a man, a transsexual, or an animal"

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I'm still not convinced that this game will make me stop playing Baldur's Gate 2.

It's like a really dull erotic book.

" @Metal_Mills said:

" "During the course of the game, players are able to visit a brothel where a hostess asks what they are interested in. If players select "Surprise me," they can sometimes wind up face-to-face with a woman, a man, a transsexual, or an animal"

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This truly is the age of fucking dogs. "

fight! fight! fight! fight!

yeah expect to see that on fox news?  that's nasty enough for a news story.

"@Jayge said:

" @trophyhunter said:

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jayge you just don't get it "

Then explain it to me, hotshot. Unless you're talking about something ridiculously stupid like how entertaining the description is.  "

it can't be explained to someone who has a rod shoved up their ass an far as yours "

Still, I don't see what's so scary or anything about a brothel and sexual preference.

I won't purchase unless you can bone dragons.

" "During the course of the game, players are able to visit a brothel where a hostess asks what they are interested in. If players select "Surprise me," they can sometimes wind up face-to-face with a woman, a man, a transsexual, or an animal"

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" And I can assure you, there is no actual beastiality in the game. "

@DeviantJoker said:

" And I can assure you, there is no actual beastiality in the game. "

Weak. "

" "During the course of the game, players are able to visit a brothel where a hostess asks what they are interested in. If players select "Surprise me," they can sometimes wind up face-to-face with a woman, a man, a transsexual, or an animal"

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