Games Age Rating?

[Adam3044]

Am I the only 0ne who thinks the age ratings on many games are harsh and others just wrong in general? I think PEGI are absolutely horrendous at rating games overall? I think ESRB aren't too bad but they do have seemingly incorrect ratings too...what does everyone else think?

 

[Tho]

While both have some incorrect ratings, I never really pay attention to them, much like everyone else in the country! I mean literally no one give a about game rating here! For example, when I was just 12 years old, or even before that, I would just go get games like God of War, GTA, Leisure Suit Larry and other 18+ games like that all alone and no one ever said a thing! For us here, the only purpose these rating sere is to decide what game to get, the more icons the batter!

 

[4362]

My parents are heavily overprotective,so i dont own any m rated games
I think the ratings are kinda pointless though,an mentally healthy person can tell the difference between fiction and reality
The rating system does make snese for yougn chidlren,but else,i find it completly pointless

 

[Adam3044]

My parents are heavily overprotective,so i dont own any m rated games
I think the ratings are kinda pointless though,an mentally healthy person can tell the difference between fiction and reality
The rating system does make snese for yougn chidlren,but else,i find it completly pointless

Yeah, I hate the way people say games like GTA turn people insane, they obviously were unstable before and therefore shouldn't have played the game...instead of ratings they should just have "Not recommended for young children.", and other warnings similar to that.

 

[4362]

They only need to tell them an simple thing:
Buying GTA for your teenage son who understands how the world works:Good idea
Buying GTA for your 6 year old son:Bad Idea

 

[2071]

Well there are many games that I've seen and come to disagree when I see what rating it has. Ratings sometimes do make valid points but sometimes they are overexaggerating-ish Ratings make more sense for younger children as Eightcoins said >.<

I honestly don't really care if I played a M-Rated game, having played some myself. As long as the game interests me

 

[18]

ESRB do blow things out of proportion in their descriptions (any single show of blood or such - even if it lasts a millisecond and isn't noticeable at all - is described like it's a big thing in their summaries,), but no one pays attention to them anyway. It doesn't seem to be anything but a technicality for the gaming industry so everyone can't blame video games when someone commits a crime - but lots of people blame video games anyway.

 

[Tho]

Yeah, because that's what video games do, they kill people. It's not the guns or the people playing the games, it's the games themselves! The disks just get up and go flying away decapitating people and that's why video games are accused of causing violence! Seriously though, even PEGI goes too far sometimes! I still remember PEGI stamping the "Scary" symbol on almost every Kingdom Hearts game there is! Seriously, what the hell? They consider that scary and they don't consider the Leisure Suit Larry games to contain nudity just because it's partial and not full nudity! Great work PEGI! Keep it up! Keep on making a fool out of yourselves!

 

[Megalegacy98]

There was this person my mom knows and her son played Call of Duty at 6 years or something around that. Then he told his mom he wanted to join the military when he grows up.

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[4362]

There was this person my mom knows and her son played Call of Duty at 6 years or something around that. Then he told his mom he wanted to join the military when he grows up.

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That reminds me off something,the film "Starship Troopers" is banned her ein germany,due to being considered military propaganda
Propaganda always existed,anyways(going back to ancinet greek and rome)
We have usk for videogames and fsk for films here in germany,some of their rating make sense and some others dont
(The original Dawn of the Dead is banned,but the more violent remake isnt)
Srry 4 goin a bit off topic

 

[Eric Cartman]

I absolutely agree. I have a Wii U game called The Binding of Isaac:Rebirth which is rated M for Mature for the rating and overall playing the game myself compared to reading the esrb warning in general I don't see how bad the game could really be. There was some blood and gore and some drug references so I could see this being rated T for teen or something. I guess the reason the companies Nintendo and Nicalis decided to make it M for mature as a rating because kids that don't know any better
decided to do exactly what Isaac (the main character) does like injecting syringes to their veins to get powers. This is why we cant have nice things.......

 

[Ramphy]

Well if it has any sort of talking with strangers ingame, PEGI rates it 16. Take things like Halo 5 where it has no blood at all but is rated 16 for communication. I knew when to and not to talk to strangers when I was 4. Come on PEGI, make your ratings better..

 

[Tho]

Well if it has any sort of talking with strangers ingame, PEGI rates it 16. Take things like Halo 5 where it has no blood at all but is rated 16 for communication. I knew when to and not to talk to strangers when I was 4. Come on PEGI, make your ratings better..

Actually, that's not true. HALO was a 16+ because of the violence mostly. If what you said was true, then Pokemon would be a 16+ too, not a 3+! You can talk to others using the Shoutout messages (kinda like a text chat) and it also has the Game Chat, where there is absolutely no language censorship!

 

[Ace]

I absolutely agree. I have a Wii U game called The Binding of Isaac:Rebirth which is rated M for Mature for the rating and overall playing the game myself compared to reading the esrb warning in general I don't see how bad the game could really be. There was some blood and gore and some drug references so I could see this being rated T for teen or something. I guess the reason the companies Nintendo and Nicalis decided to make it M for mature as a rating because kids that don't know any better
decided to do exactly what Isaac (the main character) does like injecting syringes to their veins to get powers. This is why we cant have nice things.......

Spoiler

I think this was M rated because Issac's mother tried to sacrifice him to inner voices that claimed to be god.
(There have been similar cases IRL where mothers did the same thing for different reasons.)

 

[4362]

For the love of my life,i will never get,why games get high age ratings,because of religious symblosim

For the binding of isaac,its the gore,theres lots of blood
You might say "But 8,its 8bit,it doesnt look real",but remember,that nowadays people are REALLY easily offeneded by almost everything
I dont get the whole offense thing,i have seen more violent films irl than in R rated films and M rated videogames

 

[Ramphy]

Actually, that's not true. HALO was a 16+ because of the violence mostly. If what you said was true, then Pokemon would be a 16+ too, not a 3+! You can talk to others using the Shoutout messages (kinda like a text chat) and it also has the Game Chat, where there is absolutely no language censorship!

No but you have to register FC on the Nintendo 3DS, whearas HALO has 1-1 speaking capabilities. Also, you cannot send offensive words on pokemon as they have a restriction but in HALO you can say anything.

EDIT: Also in media, anything anatomically explicit is censored, even in 8bit games

 

[Tho]

No but you have to register FC on the Nintendo 3DS, whearas HALO has 1-1 speaking capabilities. Also, you cannot send offensive words on pokemon as they have a restriction but in HALO you can say anything.

EDIT: Also in media, anything anatomically explicit is censored, even in 8bit games

About the FC registering for the 3DS, need I remind you the reason Nintendo Letterbox/Swapnote got disabled? People were exchanging FCs with random people over the internet just to get items or unlock different Friend Safaris and ended up being sexually offended! Also, if you so much as Trade/Battle two times with anyone in a Pokemon game, there is an option to add the to your friend list, so there's that too!

 

[Ramphy]

About the FC registering for the 3DS, need I remind you the reason Nintendo Letterbox/Swapnote got disabled? People were exchanging FCs with random people over the internet just to get items or unlock different Friend Safaris and ended up being sexually offended! Also, if you so much as Trade/Battle two times with anyone in a Pokemon game, there is an option to add the to your friend list, so there's that too!

But both players have to request the FC by asking to battle and both players have to agree to dd to FC

 

[Tho]

But both players have to request the FC by asking to battle and both players have to agree to dd to FC

Tell that to Nintendo and get them to enable online sharing on Swapnote/Letterbox then! It got banned because people are careless and there are also many minors playing the games, even 7-8 year olds! All it takes is a delinquent adult posing as a kid!

 

[Ramphy]

Tell that to Nintendo and get them to enable online sharing on Swapnote/Letterbox then! It got banned because people are careless and there are also many minors playing the games, even 7-8 year olds! All it takes is a delinquent adult posing as a kid!

But Nintendo systems are more for kids and the family if you know what i mean