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Why Aren’t Companies Bold Enough To Make AO Rated Games?

Gaming has been getting boring to me with all these childish cartoonish lame games that come out. I want something serious like come on America 🤦🏾‍♂️ anyway these companies have billions so it wouldn't hurt them to make one. Imagine if NBA 2K was AO, gears of war AO, God of War AO...


Edit since y'all got jokes
NBA 2K beeps music to the point it doesn't even have to be a profane word 😂 same with Madden. IRL NBA PLAYERS GET EJECTED, but not in 2K🔥

TLOU is tough because it's very adult like already but some lesbian scenes of them actually having sex wouldn't had been hated right? 🤣

Gears of War: I mean, we fight robots and shit now. Gears is sweet now

Mortal Kombat - I mean more boobs physics, less clothes? Maybe have a character that have bullets shoot from her titties 😂
 
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elbourreau

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andy samberg queue GIF
 

aclar00

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Gaming has been getting boring to me with all these childish cartoonish lame games that come out. I want something serious like come on America 🤦🏾‍♂️ anyway these companies have billions so it wouldn't hurt them to make one. Imagine if NBA 2K was AO, gears of war AO, God of War AO...

NBA 2k? You want everyone to run around balls out, tea-bagging after dunking on someone? Profanity? Gratuitous sex with cheerleaders?...you said imagine, but I cant quite imagine why NBA 2k would be AO. Also, the NBA would not let them use the license for it.
 

Robb

Gold Member
Can’t really imagine what that rating would add to a game.. NBA 2K with “prolonged scenes of graphic sexual content and nudity”? Are we supposed to play basketball in the showers?
 
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Mr Hyde

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AO is the equivalent to a NC-17 rating in movies. The last mainstream movie who got an NC-17 was Showgirls by Paul Verhoeven. Look how well that turned out.
 

Bartski

Gold Member
really?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AO-rated_video_games
Self-imposed restrictions by publishers and distributors limit the availability of AO-rated games, thus the rating has been described as a "kiss of death" by journalists, and is considered essentially a ban.[1][2][3] All three major video game console manufacturers (Nintendo,[1][4] Microsoft,[5] and Sony[6][7]) prohibit AO-rated games from being published on their platforms. Steam permits them, but hides them by default.[8] Most retailers refuse to stock them, and the popular video game live streaming service Twitch forbids streaming them.[9] In light of these regulatory challenges, most AO-games have been released for personal computers, and nearly all erotic game publishers forgo the rating process entirely and sell on unregulated marketplaces.
 

Majukun

Member
because

1)you voluntarelycut yourself off an buge slice of the market
2) many shops would not even sell games with that rating
 

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Because money. And because people are pussies.


First sentence literally reads:
"I had a dog hit a trip mine. I didn't sleep well after that," USgamer guides editor Jake Green told me at one point,

Theres fucking actual real life people losing sleep over killing a virtual dog in a pixelated video game. And you bet your ass this same person had no issues chopping people to bits in the same game.

People are too soft, and anything that pushes boundaries is frowned upon, and no money is made.

Wtf is AO?
Always Online

Adult Only
 
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Represent.

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You have a good point OP, but using NBA 2K as an example.. what the fuck bro lol? how would an adults only basketball game even work? everyone just running around naked?
 

Fbh

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A lot of stores won't carry them, consoles won't allow them and I don't even know what you'd want in an AO rated game that you aren't getting in M rated ones, other than porn.
 
Can’t really imagine what that rating would add to a game.. NBA 2K with “prolonged scenes of graphic sexual content and nudity”? Are we supposed to play basketball in the showers?
No bleeping out the music? Profanity between players? Shit I wanna get ejected and slap the player when they push me after a jump ball call
 
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Sub_Level

wants to fuck an Asian grill.
and I don't even know what you'd want in an AO rated game that you aren't getting in M rated ones, other than porn.

School shooting simulator?

Not saying I’d want it, or that it should even exist, but there’s definitely things more extreme than M rated games…
 
You have a good point OP, but using NBA 2K as an example.. what the fuck bro lol? how would an adults only basketball game even work? everyone just running around naked?
Profanity and ejections
because making games is expensive and time consuming. It makes no sense to cut off a large portion of audience for something so self indulgent. I dont even think playstation or nintendo allow AO rated games
People will still buy games because they're gamers, so u saying the gaming industry would crash?
 
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Puscifer

Gold Member
Because Rockstar tried with Manhunt 2 and literally had to censor the game to be released. The damage was done, don't expect a single AO game that isn't some porn game sold underground at this point.
 
Because makes no sense. If a game like TLOU is not AO yet, I don't know what could be.
It makes sense because games like TLOU still hides behind a M rated game because it's not AO enough. This is the problem. Games made towards adult would also change the dialogue, gameplay, and graphics
 

Robb

Gold Member
No bleeping out the music? Profanity between players? Shit I wanna get ejected and slap the player when they push me after a jump ball call
Intensive violence and strong language is already covered by the M rating though, so no AO rating needed for that to begin with.
 

Deerock71

Member
In a nutshell, it cuts out too many video game players. I'm an anomaly at 51. I've got three kids and a mortgage, and I still avidly (stubbornly, some might say) play video games. But I have to admit, I probably wouldn't buy Gynecologist 3000 if it was a thing.
 

Graciaus

Member
There are a shit load of adult only games on pc. You will never see it on consoles since they don't allow it and no store would sell it.
 
In a nutshell, it cuts out too many video game players. I'm an anomaly at 51. I've got three kids and a mortgage, and I still avidly (stubbornly, some might say) play video games. But I have to admit, I probably wouldn't buy Gynecologist 3000 if it was a thing.
I mean u made that game up it must be something on your mind u want to play 😂
 
Same for gratuitous violence. Yet you still have bang bang boom in every game.
Honestly I'm with you, I never really understood complaints around the lack of gore. I don't need to see a head realistically and meticulously split open to understand that I just landed a headshot.

Well, it does add sex, which is not nothing. It is actually a very important aspect of our life, and essential to our survival.
Just wanted to point this out.
It adds explicit sex. There is plenty of sex, even fairly graphic sex, in M games. All it would change is making it actual porn. Which, don't get me wrong I love a good ecchi VN but that is like its own genre.

I get what you are saying but like with most things, less is usually more. The implication can be more powerful than the actual thing.
 
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