On Tuesday, Will Greenwald wrote on CNET Crave about the misinformation surrounding Mass Effect, and pointed out parents can easily restrict their children from playing it on their Xbox 360. It's similarly easy to manage mature games on the Nintendo Wii. Unfortunately, if you have a Playstation 3, you're going to have a much more awkward time. Greenwald explains. (Jan 24 2008)
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
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I'm just saying :o
How about just not buying your children certain games? If a game shop does their job properly they shouldn't sell certain games to children under the set age limit for that game, and the only way for them to obtain those games is usually via their parents.
If your child does obtain a game they shouldn't have, then at least the PS3 does have parental control, albeit not one easy to understand. If Sony are going to use their own rating system, then they should at least explain it to people.
well people wanted region free gaming...this is what you get...
I guess SCe could have implemented something were you state your territory, and it will use that specific rating system...but who knows...some kid in Germany could want to import Manhunt 2, or a friend of his imported it and brought to the kids house.. (I know its not a PS3 game, just an example)...and a territory only restriction, it would play the game anyway...without the parents ever knowing...
if you really care about this kind of stuff...you will take the time to learn it...take a look at every single game your kid is playing, and figure out whats appropriate...
parents and govt. peeps that keep pushing for this to be 'as easy as possible' are going to whine and whine until its done automatically...then they will turn around and flip about because it blocks the children from some material that they feel is fully appropriate...w/e...can't win...
Parental Controls????? what in the world would you do that for......did sega genesis have parental controls when mortal kombat came out nooooooooooooo did playstation have parental controls when resident evil came out nooooooooo....so what the hell is the problem now people need to grow the hell up its not that serious, games dont influence young minds to do the things that they do its just a cop out to place blame somewhere.
It's called my foot up your @ss if you don't listen.