{"id":4051,"date":"2010-03-15T22:17:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T04:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=4051"},"modified":"2010-03-15T22:17:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T04:17:07","slug":"game-store-clerks-and-bad-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/15\/game-store-clerks-and-bad-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Store Clerks and Bad Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"imageses\"MATT ASKS: are these people payed to lie? I wanted to get dragon age\u00a0origins and my mom was with me. when I was about to pay, the clerk\u00a0said that they are full-frontal nude girls and your character runs\u00a0arond covered in blood. I said “no it’s not i’ve seen videos on it”\u00a0but he ignored me and my mom didn’t get the game. To prove him wrong\u00a0I rented the game and showed my mom she agreed they exagerated… A\u00a0LOT. the closest to any nudity at all is the desire demon and you run\u00a0around for 2 minutes with little dots of red on you. We were really\u00a0angry with the clerk for wasting our time but we didn’t say anything.<\/p>\n

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GamerDad Answers: \u00a0If you’re going to say something, say it to the manager. Let’s look at the ESRB description first though:<\/p>\n

Content descriptors:<\/strong> Blood and Gore, Partial Nudity, Suggestive Themes, Violence<\/p>\n

Rating summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a role-playing game (RPG) in which players control a group of warriors through missions and battles in ravaged, mythical lands. The combat system in the game is similar to other third-person RPGs in which users select a target (e.g., soldier, stone golem, snake beast) and an action (e.g., “attack,” “kill,” magic spells), then watch as the game executes the move. Players use swords, axes, knives, and magic to attack enemies that react to damage with splashes of blood; large pools of blood are occasionally depicted near dead bodies as well. Cutscenes may depict an imprisoned innocent kicked into a lava pit, a fire golem tearing a man in half, or an insect-like creature feasting on the entrails of the dead. Some characters engage in suggestive dialogue\u2014mostly a dwarf character that makes several comments about sex, mistresses, and breasts. In one sequence, a demon character appears topless.<\/p>\n

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Sounds like he was off, but not by an astronomical amount. Since your mother ended up disagreeing with him, it sounds like he was being way too conservative here… but it’s probably better for the store to err on that side than the other. A mom led to believe the game isn’t so bad who then finds it bad is far more likely to complain.<\/p>\n

Oh, for the record, clerks are likely warned to wave off most parents but not to try not to sell the game. This guy was going too far, but still doing what he was told. No, he wasn’t paid to exaggerate though, of course not. Next time, before you buy or try to buy the game show your mom the ESRB.org info, any You Tube content or go to WhatTheyPlay.com or CommonSenseMedia.org. \u00a0(ALL three were inspired by me and my old KID FACTOR features.) They specialize in giving this info in a nonbiased, nonsensational manner. Game clerks can be very helpful and they usually don’t do what I don’t do. I try very hard to NOT talk about games I haven’t played. \u00a0Since Dragon Age is one of those, I can’t give you MY opinion. \u00a0Hope that helps! Enjoy the game!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MATT ASKS: are these people payed to lie? I wanted to get dragon age\u00a0origins and my mom was with me. when I was about to pay, the clerk\u00a0said that they are full-frontal nude girls and your character runs\u00a0arond covered in blood. I said “no it’s not i’ve seen videos on it”\u00a0but he ignored me and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-askgamerdad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}