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- weirdralph, on 11/13/2007, -7/+102Ridiculous? Perhaps. But Target is well within its rights, the same as they'd be for refusing to sell Barry Manilow's Greatest Hits. I'm not seeing this as a particularly big deal as you can still go just about anywhere to get games.
- docholoday, on 11/12/2007, -9/+58Actually, I like Target. It's where I buy most of my games now. Far easier and friendlier than EB or Gamestop. Besides, who the hell cares about Manhunt anyway? It's a ***** game that's getting far more publicity than it deserves.
- jayfarer, on 11/12/2007, -1/+33They must be trying to compete with Wal-Mart on product bans.
- basic0, on 11/12/2007, -1/+33I'm against censorship as much as the next guy, but I don't see how this is a really big issue. Target simply doesn't want to sell a certain title. So what? Blockbuster doesn't rent porno movies. McDonald's doesn't sell Pepsi. The Chrysler dealership I bought my car from didn't have any Vipers. It's completely at the discretion of a retailer whether they'll sell a product or not, and if you as a consumer really want a certain product, you'll just have to go to a place that DOES sell it.
- inactive, on 11/13/2007, -5/+26What's more ridiculous is that you don't understand that a private company can decide whatever the ***** they want to sell and what they don't want to sell. It's a free market. They'll also learn of their mistake due to their imminent loss of sales. This is in no way "censorship." Stupidity, perhaps, but it ain't censorship.
- ghosttown80, on 11/12/2007, -1/+19So, anyone who wants to buy Manhunt 2 can easily go to EBGames, GameStop, Walmart, Best Buy, CompUSA, Circuit City, or any other store that happens to be in every city around the country. Also, they are a private company and can say they don't want to sell a product. If they made a decision to not sell yellow shirts, would there still be this kind of ridiculous uproar?
- Chompy, on 11/11/2007, -0/+17There was about 15 minute period of hipness for Target on July 25th, 1998 at 4:27:pm. They've got a plaque and everything commemorating the event.
- joshua5, on 11/13/2007, -2/+17THEY'RE NOT SELLING YELLOW SHIRTS?!
- TotalHalibut, on 11/13/2007, -1/+16Yes, I too balked at the tenacity of selling a title about fighting an alien menace in a schi-environment with futuristic weapons, while refusing to sell a game where you can kill a human-being with a plastic bag using gesture-based control, all the while as he's screaming for mercy and crying to be let go just so he can go and see his family again. These two games are obviously very similar.
/obligatory sarcasm tag for the benefit of the dumb. - IShouldBeWorkin, on 11/11/2007, -3/+18When the hell was Target 'hip'?
- Frank_the_Tank, on 11/12/2007, -1/+15Seems like Target jumped the gun on this, expecting a "Hot Coffee"-esque media buffet and other retailers to follow suit. I think they'll look like schmucks being the only store to do this...
- nreynolds, on 11/11/2007, -5/+19So you should be in charge of what games other people want to play?
- Netmonger, on 11/12/2007, -7/+20Bravo Target! Manhunt 2 is *garbage*.
- BlackJackJester, on 11/13/2007, -0/+12I worked at target for a couple months, and I really don't see a problem with this. Working in electronics, Target really sells very few video games. I sold at most 3 or 4 a day. They are petty much there to get kids to bring their parents into the store. Their target audience (no pun intended) is for affordable modern family living. They aren't selling manhunt 2 pretty much for the same reason they don't sell playboy, it doesn't fit the image they want to have.
- flangle, on 11/13/2007, -10/+22Wussification, plain and simp.
- Hickeroar, on 11/13/2007, -1/+11It's a business decision, not meant to offend any of you. They figure they can cast a "family friendly" image by doing this and they'll gain business from it. Target is completely justified in carrying or withholding any game they want. It's not like you can't get it at walmart or gamestop.
The game got terrible reviews anyway....why is anyone upset about this? I wouldn't bother picking it up if they were GIVING it away. An entire game completely based around the idea of creative ways to murder people is just lame...and quite frankly sick, regardless of how "hidden" the effects are. - MaTT2011, on 11/11/2007, -0/+9http://mattius2011.deviantart.com/art/TTF-Mahnhunt ...
- Hickeroar, on 11/13/2007, -1/+9Good, go prove your a non-wuss manly man and kill people in creative ways.
- whoaeric, on 11/13/2007, -3/+11Buried for the insensitive use of "retard"
- grumbel, on 11/12/2007, -1/+9I much prefer Target making up their own mind about a game then just blindly following the ESRBs rating.
- wolfboy2883, on 11/12/2007, -4/+12Good. Games are too violent these days. Now don't get me wrong, I ***** love Halo and Half Life - but meaningless gratuitous violence is bad. Ask yourself what kind of a person you are for enjoying doing these things to people. Sickos.
- swhite76, on 11/12/2007, -0/+7Target's a private company and can do what it wants. That's not censorship, it's the free market. Deal with it.
- KamikazeeDriver, on 11/11/2007, -1/+7I disagree, because the remaining sellers will be the smaller retailers, and the internet. Some games aren't even sold by the biggest retailer (Wal-Mart) because of lack of demand in this area, yet, still available online.
And if Wal-Mart is going to sell this game, then really, Target's gonna lose some dough.
Though, they do have a choice to chose what they sell, I doubt Target's choice is gonna make them decide to quit making games for Adults. Especially considering Adults work the jobs, and therefore chose what they purchase for theirselves and for their kids - Vash3001, on 11/11/2007, -0/+6but you can buy unrated copies of Saw and Hostel at Target. Those movies are far worse then Manhunt 2
- MWeather, on 11/12/2007, -6/+12When one of the largest retailers refused to sell a game, it's a great incentive to no longer make games like that. I find that to be a particularly big deal.
- redrock34, on 11/11/2007, -3/+9Buy it somewhere else, if you usually shop at Target and wanted this game it's clearly their lose.
- TotalHalibut, on 11/10/2007, -1/+6It's little more than a misguided attempt at being a 'responsible' retailer. Misguided it may be, but don't begrudge them for the sentiment. It's simply a shame that they seem incapable of focusing such potentially positive principles elsewhere.
- Gir53457, on 11/11/2007, -0/+5Double standards. I work at Target, We have all three Saw movies, yet not Manhunt 2.
- Lane, on 11/10/2007, -3/+8What's is ridiculous is that we live in a society in which Target preemptively has pulled nothing more than a game because it has a legitimate fear of moronic protester's picketing. It's not like their pretending to be moral police openly condemning those who would play such a game. I guarantee you if I could deliver on doubling their bottom line Target would be selling dildo's and hardcore porn at the very front of the store. It's just a game and unless your a terrible parent it should never under any circumstances fall into the hands of anyone under 17.
- allisonaxe, on 11/11/2007, -0/+5and yet, target still has copies of Saw at the checkout counter.
- fezzler, on 11/12/2007, -1/+6I work at Target, and I don't understand how Manhunt 2 isn't okay, but a book with a picture of Ann Coulter on the cover is.
- kixxster, on 11/11/2007, -0/+5i just love the fact that there's a cat attached to that baseball bat
- BrettTheUser, on 11/13/2007, -0/+5What censorship? You want to force companies to sell things they don't want to now?
- Ashkc88, on 11/12/2007, -0/+4Speaking of shirts, I think Target has some cool shirts. I bought a few AC/DC shirts and a Donkey Kong shirt there, they were cheap too.
- daizaru, on 11/11/2007, -0/+4Throwing all the controversy aside, I personally think Manhunt 2 is going a little too far and is a truly disgusting game. I would support to death it's right to exist, but I'm not surprised if a company decides they don't want to sell it. Lots of things are deemed to graphic for some stores and they don't carry it. Target may sell DVD's but nobody would expect it to stock hardcore porn, in some ways I don't see this as much different and if anything it just shows how much the game industry is evolving.
Anyways, as many have stated... it's not going to prevent anyone from finding the game. So I don't see the point of getting that worked up over something so insignificant. - jonsangster, on 11/13/2007, -1/+5"...then I suppose..."
Hartman's Law of Prescriptivist Retaliation never flails. - kufu91, on 11/11/2007, -3/+7"Target will not be selling Manhunt 2 because you can potentially view the game uncensored by altering the game code"
thats like saying a book can describe sex and use swears if you change the words, or make a picture into porn if you change the pixels. - scbysnx, on 11/11/2007, -0/+3@ jimmy So are Target shoppers locked in to shopping at target? Target isn't imposing their views on anyone, imposing their views would be taking the game away from customers when they bought it somewhere else. Their decision not to sell it is just that 'their decision'
- aflaks, on 11/10/2007, -0/+3who cares what target does, just use the internet
- omgroffles, on 11/12/2007, -2/+5I'm 19 years old and have played way too many violent games.
But I can admit, Manhunt entire premise and gameplay is just in bad taste, and though I don't have any opinion on Target's decision it's not hard to understand why they decided to not sell the game. - turpenine, on 11/10/2007, -0/+3they will probably lift the ban in a couple weeks like they always do, they are just covering their ass if it does turn out like that.
- SuperflyTNT19, on 11/11/2007, -1/+4Target still cool. Target still cool.
- bjornski, on 11/11/2007, -2/+5I'll do ALL of my holiday shopping at Target because of this.
- Hickeroar, on 11/13/2007, -1/+4LOL. Gamestop sucks...across the board. Target is just a standard retailer of *stuff*, but even so comparing Gamestop to Target is like comparing gristle to filet mignon.
- Gir53457, on 11/12/2007, -7/+10Cry censorship all you want, but Manhunt 2 is still a horribly offensive game and Target refuses to sell it. You can still buy it other places all you want, assuming they aren't offended by it to the point where they refuse to sell it.
- LilJimmyNordin, on 11/11/2007, -1/+4I'm ovewhelmingly glad you have no power over what the rest of us get to play.
- usaf1984, on 11/10/2007, -0/+3right on good parenting is the only thing that will ever solve the esrb problem for good
- usaf1984, on 11/12/2007, -0/+3ive gotten some pretty cool shirts too i dont think they change there stock enough here though.
- BrettTheUser, on 11/11/2007, -0/+3How is this ridiculous or retarded (as the poster claims)? It's a sound business decision. If people have complained about the game, and the media makes a big deal out of, not carrying it only serves to save your ass from any potential trouble. It's their choice to risk potential revenue to do just that; that's how capitalism works.
It's not some hidden lobbyists or monopoly making them do it. It's their own choice, and you can retaliate by buying the game elsewhere. - michael1406, on 11/10/2007, -0/+3People who rate games don't have a ***** clue. Great artwork!
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