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I'll admit, I'm quite tollerant of most games, most subject matters, etc. I usually am able to simply turn it off and not play if I don't like something. There have only been a few times when I've been offended, and that's usually when I'm completely caught off guard.

For instance, I bought an adventure game that looked cartoony, light hearted, and the reviews were positive. It was aimed for adults, due to the general humor. It looked like a game I would thorougly enjoy. Then I tried it, and the "humor" was simply bashing and insulting a specific group's beliefs. I let a couple slide, but then it was really old, really fast. After seemingly half of the jokes being that during the first 10 minutes (in a game of constant jokes/one liners), I shut the game off and wanted the $2 I spent on it back.

I guess with statements like "pays homage to the lucas arts classics", direct references and quotes from those games, and heavy influence by "family friendly classics" I expected something else.

I'm just not a fan of bashing people and their beliefs, whatever they are or aren't on. It's usually done in poor taste. It's one thing if it is done to further character developement, but just blatant bashing people for the sake of developer's personal grudges is a turn off. And with this game being marketed in a way that led me to expect something very different, I was offended. Had I been prepared for it, I probably wouldn't have been nearly as offended, or simply wouldn't have purchased it in the first place.
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jamyskis: The bikini armour thing has never really bothered me like that. I personally don't see how women are any more sexualised in this regard than men are in terms of going into battle with nothing on except a six-pack, bulging biceps and a fucking great broadsword.
It's bad on either side but is tremendously more common with women.
Diablo III: Compared to the first two, perfectly dark fantasy-themed games of the series, I find the narrative and the atmosphere of the third one so stupid (and the game essentially treats you like a stupid as well), weepy and poor that sometimes I would like to destroy my Collector's Edition with a mace.

And the ridiculous Hollywood-style ending, oh the horror....
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xngxng: In the end of the 80s to beginning of 90s there were hundreds of games all about slaughtering blacks, arabs and germans. (for example Commando Libya on c64, here remade in flash)

It didnt offend me then, I was too young and and it was seen as both comical and righteous in a bizarre perspective.
Wasn't that the game were you executed POW as a bonus level?

"That were Ghadaffi's children"

Those were the times ...

Flash version is censored :-(
Post edited November 29, 2012 by SimonG
Frank Herbert's Dune. The game itself is just a bad stealth game. But using the Dune world there? Blasphemy!
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jamyskis: The bikini armour thing has never really bothered me like that. I personally don't see how women are any more sexualised in this regard than men are in terms of going into battle with nothing on except a six-pack, bulging biceps and a fucking great broadsword.
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StingingVelvet: It's bad on either side but is tremendously more common with women.
Also, you ought to consider that the bikini armour is a fantasy of women invented by men, while the fantasy of bulging bicepts is a fantasy of men...invented by men.
Battle Raper(yeah a fighting game where you rape the loser), Left Behind: Eternal Forces, JFK Reloaded, Super Columbine Massacre RPG, Muslim Massacre, Ethnic Cleansing, KZ Manager(a concentration camp management program).

The fact someone or a group of people thought we need games like those alone is offensive to me.
Post edited November 29, 2012 by DCT
I find HOMM4 offensive. The people who made it should be killed.
Nope. Bad, boring, and no fun, but not offensive.
For PC I don't really remember but I don't think so.

For console I try to avoid buying games that I can't play in the presence of my kids. For that I watch reviews for the games I'm interested in and if I find one being too much over the top I won't buy it. So in this case you may consider I'm offended by the content. For instance
I would never buy Splatterhouse or Dante's inferno (just two examples).
I cant say I have...
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DCT: Battle Raper, Left Behind: Eternal Forces, JKF Reloaded, Super Columbine Massacre RPG, Muslim Massacre, Ethnic Cleansing, KZ Manager(a concentration camp management program).

The fact someone or a group of people thought we need games like those alone is offensive to me.
There is actually a documentary about Super Columbine Massacre RPG. I found it somewhat interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yGu_31R9bc
http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Playing_Columbine/70153294
No because I'm not a little bitch who needs the world to be all sunshine and butterflies in video games. Sometimes a game needs a strong message/theme to get it's point across, just look at games like Spec Ops: The Line.

One that always makes me laugh is apparent British people getting all ass-flustered over the fact that the British were the enemies in Assassin Creed 3...during the time of the American Revolution. I don't think they can comprehend that Britain did some pretty shitty things to America during that time. Guess it really shows how far our nanny-state has come, I miss the old sterotypes of British having a stiff upper lip.
I think the idea of having a game devoted to assassinating a real individual to be very distasteful. (i.e. JFK Reloaded and Super Columbine Massacre). Rapelay is a game that I find the very concept of it deplorable. I don't like games about cold blooded torture, and/or the stripping away of someone's dignity (yes, I'm aware it is just pixels on the screen).

I'm still not in favor of banning them, even Rapelay (and this is coming from a female). Banning something just makes me want to get it purely on principle. I don't like people trying to prevent me from having the option of getting it, and I don't like authority figures who believe they know what's best for my moral wellbeing. I'm not a child anymore, I'm an adult and I sure as hell don't want or need a nanny.

The best way to handle an offensive game, in my opinion, is to simply not play and don't draw attention to it.
Post edited November 29, 2012 by Thunderstone
I don't think games are offensive enough. More often than not it's devs tip-toeing around people's sensitive widdle feelings.