Thread 717788613

Are there any ratings for games that you flat out disagree with? Recent, old, what have you

Ceetmarp

I don't care what they make for ratings, but I feel they shouldn't be able to dictate what a store can and cannot sell.

>>717788613 (OP)
Ceetmarp

>>717788613 (OP)
this has always been weird to me

>>717789076
they don't, the stores themselves disallow unrated / ao games

>>717788613 (OP)
>ece10+etmaorp
what did they mean by this

>>717789563
Perfect Dark is a really weak M by modern standards. It either would have been cut down to a T or made a "full" M game if it came out today.

>>717789662
Did not mean to reply

>>717789563
It's what happens when you make a number too big in lua.

>>717788613 (OP)
Hatred really didn't deserve the AO rating it got. Nothing about it was any worse than any other violent shooter at the time.

CEET MARP

>>717788613 (OP)
I find it funny a game like Darkest Dungeon is rated T but Phoenix Wright Dual Destinies is rated M because it has 1 scene with a little girl that has some blood on her, despite the fact there's only small amounts of blood at crime scenes and 0 gore in the game.

>>717789662
was there a scene with aliens being dissected or foul language? i didnt understand why it was rated higher than goldeneye at the time.

>>717788817
>>717789087
It's eceetmarp, you cretins.

Ceetmarp

>>717788613 (OP)
Eceet Maorp sounds like a Star Trek character that tries to sell shady goods to the bridge crew.

ceetmarp

>>717788613 (OP)
halo
I genuinely don’t understand why they’re rated M besides maybe microsoft bribing the ratings boards to get to dudebros and edgefags
t. literally played them as my first fps games

>>717793431
>eceetmaorp

>>717793747
>microsoft bribing the ratings boards
If anything, they would bribe them to get a T rating.
If I had to guess, it's because there's swearing, a lot of blood and grotesque body horror whenever the Flood are involved.
Halo 5 and Infinite are T iirc.

>>717788613 (OP)
ceetmarp

>>717789563
It's like lgbbqtia2s+. They just keep adding more letters to it.

>>717788613 (OP)
Silent Hill 1-4 and almost every Soulsborne game are tame enough to be rated T

Baldurs Gate 3 should have been AO. The only reason it wasnt was for propaganda purposes, 10+ years ago it would have gotten AO.

>>717788613 (OP)
What game would constitute a eC rating?

>>717795059
any nintendo game

>>717795059
educational gaemes for babi that you get from a Staples

>>717795059
educational CD roms

>>717795090
Which one has an eC rating?

>>717795158
None, that anon is a child molester.

>>717795134
>>717795143
I remember the old educational games I played as a kid being E though.

>>717795191
Are you testifying this to the courts?

>>717795210
it's only stuff aimed at children under 5 and afaik they only did it during the early and mid 2000s

>>717795046
Exposed cocks should be an automatic AO

>>717788613 (OP)
Whatever happened to KA?

>>717788613 (OP)
Ec and AO might as well not exist. Eveeything in-between is so clearly arbitrary that parents who actually care are more likely to choose on a game by game basis rather than by rating.

>>717795334
Yeah, the rating doesn't really mean anything to a knowledgeable parent. Like my father would let me play Quake 2 and Halo when I was ten but wouldn't let me play Grand Theft Auto Vice City. A parent who isn't braindead is looking at content. Green space man shoots the aliens and saves earth was not nearly on the same radar a man smuggles drugs and hits hookers with car when I was a kid.

>>717795312
Apparently it got changed to E in 1998.
https://www.esrb.org/history/

>>717789179
Funny thing, it was E10 originally. When you release a game digital-only nobody reviews it, you just fill out a form clicking what is in the game, and many of the questions are subjective or worded in a rather vague way. Same reason the Tomb Raider I-III remakes were M rated at first.

Once it came time to go physical, there was blood in the game (pic related) that the dev either missed or figured didn't count as "blood" cause it's revealed to be staged 30 minutes later. The ESRB freaked out and bumped the rating up purely cause of this one scene.

>>717795334
I don't get the point of Ec, but AO used to mean your game couldn't be published on consoles.
It was mostly reserved to porn games, but sometimes it was used as a form of censorship that meant developers had to cut content from their games and submit again.

>>717793363
>>717789662
I think it's cause you can shoot dead bodies & get blood-effects from them, they're pretty sensitive about "postmortem damage". A few games & the IARC questionnaire I mentioned in >>717795518 specifically mention it.

Ace Attorney Dual Destinies was rated M, but I can't find a cover with the M on it.
It seems like all of the re-releases are T now.

>ceetmarp
>pegi

>>717795334
they got rid of ec because of a "lack of use", which is really weird because there are even less ao games out there

>>717795307
they used to, GTA IV broke the dick barrier.

I miss when we didn't have e-10 and there would be stuff like random licensed games and ssbm that would get rated for 13+ only

Dog's Life should be E (or maybe E10 due to literal dog shit) but the ending is a little fucked up.

This should be an M, but you're brutally murdering teddy bears so it's okay.

>>717788613 (OP)
Yeah there should be a T16 or something like that replacing the blanket e or t ratings. I don't care about gays, trannies, etc but its getting ridiculous on whats being allowed in children's games

He ceet all over those guys, marpedly

>>717795059
shit like this

>>717788613 (OP)
I still find it funny that they created a new category specifically for DK

>>717788613 (OP)
I don't think I've ever actually seen an eC game before.

>>717795059
I know AO games are banned but I legitimately don't remember a SINGLE EC game in the last 15 years, that rating might as well not exist.

>>717796501
This was before the E10 rating was a thing. I think the dog shit was why it was rated T.

I don't care about ESBR, but CERO can go fuck themselves

>>717788613 (OP)
>>717789662
Reminds me of Halo, which 100% only got an M rating instead of T because unlike the otherwise equally violent shooters of the time like WW2 era COD and MOH, blood landed on the ground and walls instead of being just a short-lived particle effect.

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>>717799681
Man, that reminds me of when the rating first came out. Somehow KH2, having the same content as 1, got bumped up to that level. Chain of Memories had Axel say "hell", and Final Fantasy Dawn of Souls had a couple "damn"s and "hell"s of its own. Crazy shit when you're young, swear words still make your friends giggle, and retarded american puritanism made you think swear words were some real taboo shit.

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ceetmarp

>>717799950
I swear I remember hearing somewhere that the first game was almost given a T-rating but then 9/11 happened so they bumped it up to an M. I can't find the source on this.

>>717800247
Can agree. I think parents and the elderly back in those times were way too overbearing with everything. Fake Blood, Swearing even a hint of death was really taboo for kids shows. Glad to live in an era where at least ESRB is not as harsh as it was back then.

>>717796775
I think it's because it's anthropomorphic and not a real Bear.

>>717788613 (OP)
Space channel 5 being rated T never made sense to me

ceet marp is two words you fucking shitminks

>>717803150
how do i update my spellcheck to consider martian?

What was the name of that one plateformer on the PS1 that was rated E for Everyone but had gruesome death scenes in it?

>>717788613 (OP)
I found a secret one. What does the "N" stand for?

Do ratings other than M even matter? What parents have ever stopped their 9 year old from playing an e10+ game, or 12 year old from playing a T game.

>>717803748
The nigger word

>>717789563
ece10+etma balls

ceetmerp

>>717789563
It's the anti LGBTQ+ABC if you think about it.

>>717803959
dawg?

>>717803738
Heart of Darkness?

>>717795158
Not him, but:

>>717795191
I will never be "convicted" of child molestation. I will never be "tried" in court.

>>717793787
>®ec®e™10+e®t®m®ao®rp

>>717793787
The smaller letters that overlap the larger ones are more like diacritical marks.

>>717788613 (OP)
All of them.

>>717795796
and yes the corpses can be re-killed by a less-humorous uncanny form

>>717788613 (OP)
>eCE10+ETMAoRP

>>717788613 (OP)
when australia tried to ban atelier totori but at most had to slap the R18 label on it instead for a series that is considered E10+ or T everywhere else.

>>717811050
HIGH IMPACT

eCEETMAoRP

>>717811843
ayyy lmao

>>717788613 (OP)
The original Neptunia MKII was the only nep game rated M. It could have been because of one particular ending but the vita port of the game was rated T and even had a CG scene of little girls getting licked by a monster.

Jak II could have probably got away with a E10+ if there wasn't any swearing.

>>717795334
fun fact: the last title to get an AO rating was a decade ago and it was just a physical release of a visual novel

>>717802821
Never played that one but the re-release of part 2 got a description. Was this stuff in the original as well?