Like I said, Ratchet.

NO. Banning things is bad. Come up with a stronger rating than 18+ and just do with it what Japan does with their Z-rated games - sell them, but keep them under the counter instead of on the shelves. That way, if anybody actually wants to buy them, they can - but they're still kept away from shelves, and not advertised, meaning the average person probably wouldn't bother to ask for a copy. It does hurt sales, but geez, that's the excuse everybody uses.

Why does he want to ban Resistance, though? Is it back to the cathedral thing, or does he just think it's too violent or something?

Informed, calm response:
I agree that this is just dumb. If the current ratings aren't appropriate, create a higher rating/better system.

Rockstar should include Vaz as final boss of their next game, portraying him as brutal, bloodthirsty and oppressive dictator (which he dreams of becoming anyway). Now that would be an "excellent decision". Since it would only be a game, he shouldn't be offended. In real life, however, a life sentence would be enough for him, for promoting censorship and repression and degrading UK's democratic ways.

A ban on Manhunt I can understand, but not support. A ban on Resistance, however, is purely politically motivated. Vaz is a censorcrat. Better to let him and his ilk die out and be replaced by people who grew up with games, who actually know what they're talking about.

Seeing how Resistance Fall of Man is an average FPS, if it's banned in the UK, all the FPS will be banned.

Cept if Vaz is getting some sweet MS money, like that company that fought Sony over it's vibration function on the controllers, and he only wants to cripple Sony games...

Castrate the Labour Party. These F@#kwits need to learn that people with common sense are not on their side.

Whenever I see that picture of him, I always think it makes him look like Porky Pig. I guess it's Dennis' intention to make him look as ridiculous as possible, though.

"Whenever I see that picture of him, I always think it makes him look like Porky Pig. I guess it’s Dennis’ intention to make him look as ridiculous as possible, though."

Well, to use a common British term, the man IS considered to be a complete prick by most people ;)

sorry for double post but i don't think resistence was the only game to feature a church in it. try other games and see how many of them you see with churches

Sorry for double post.

Aside from all this, I really do feel that there is a lot of political modivation aside from being lined with greyscale lies. How many other games involve churches though? I know that Call of Duty and what not does. You have huge fights in those things and they aren't banned.

Vaz says "all aboard the Ban Games Bandwagon!"

Gil Says:
@#$% you. @#$% you, you big, ugly squirrel man hiding things away in his cheeks.

Hahaha, he seems very hamster-like to me in that picture. ;)

That's the problem with the Manhunt 2 ban. It hasn't opened the floodgates for banning games, brought about a new order, or represented a victory for those who campaigned against it... but the anti-gaming lobby is sure as hell going to see it as one.

"The BBFC agrees! Games are teh ebul! Good going, the BBFC!" they cry, casually glossing over the fact that the BBFC gave the evil apocalypse-inducing Columbine simulator Bully a tame 15 rating last year.

The BBFC banned a single game because they concluded it was just too awful to be sold to the public. People on both sides of the argument are seeing the same slippery slope where none exists - it's just that Vaz and his ilk are seeing it more like a waterslide.

If this isn't a good example of banning one thing leading to bans on other stuff, I don't know what is.

I personally thought he looked like a turtle...

Oh, it won't be, but when dealing with people like Politicians you have to assume you are dealing with a 3 year old, and that simply letting them get their own way will only change the content of the screaming, not the volume.

As much as these guys are jumping on it, I just want to know one thing. How many of them have actually SCENE the content of Manhunt 2?

Dude Res has nothing to do with AO material it barely deserves the M rating....

To Austin Lewis:

That's why the sensible people are saying that Vaz is talking a load of cotton wool balls, and why Resistance was approved for sale by the BBFC.

To Austin Lewis:

Hey, thanks for calling me a retard! Really appreciate it!

@ Matthew

Not only he is talking a load of cotton wool balls, he managed to fill his mouth with said cotton wool balls :P

Who is the Joker, and why have I not heard of him? For that matter, why are all these "ban the game" people the most ugly, not even a mother could love, unimpressive and obnoxious people the world has ever seen? I just noticed this. Why didn't I notice this before?

y'know if we just raise a bit of money you can pay him to change his opinion, after all all the politicians in this country are whores.

This is the kinda crap that stops me from voting, no matter who i vote for i still want them dead.

Keith Vaz is a self publicising idiot who's jumped onto videogame violence because most people don't really understand them in the first place, and it's with a few well chosen screenshots, and a fair amount of ignorance, you can make it sound liek you CARE. Like that Jack Thompson fellow you have over there.

He was also connected to some 'cash for passports' scandal from a few years ago, but managed to escape censure, and refused to resign, insisting he had done nothing wrong despite the evidence to the contrary. Ah, Politicians, eh?