Post by Waffle Monger on Jan 2, 2007 21:01:11 GMT -5
As many of you may well know, there have been many bills against selling rated-M games to minors, that have been tried to be put into play. Some have been passed, and others have dragged along and died eventually. Even with that, some stores still don't sell games with the mature rating to anyone underage. I don't really find it difficult for me to get these games however, with either dragging a guardian along, or by shopping online. Other people, however do not find it so easy to get around the ratings... those people are not... well cleverness has nothing to do with it, they just don't think.
A simple solution to make everybody happy would be for the ESRB boards to expand their range of ratings. I find that the ESRB rating or E10+ was useless. Games with the rating of T for teens, are still sold to minors. It was a waste of time I should say, but it does give me the idea for these ratings I have come up with.
Even if the others doesn't come out, this one would be nice; the rating for M15+. Mature for ages 15+. Foreign countries go by an age rating, rather than the letter rating we follow. Some games are just borderline T/M, and it drives me nuts. Some games may just need to be mildly toned down, but some games I can see them being at a lower age group, if not T. Take Halo & Splinter-Cell Double Agent for instance. Halo's main game component includes alien gore, and the multiplayer has barely any gore, and is still unrealistic. I can't see it as a game for 13+, by how the ESRB rates games, but to makes parents happy, it is rated-M, but M still seems too harsh of a rating to give the game. M15+ would be a happy median for everybody. Splinter-Cell Double Agent includes realistic violence, but is not overly violent. Same could be said for Splinter-Cell DA.
The other two ESRB ratings I have come up with are: MV (Mature - Violent) and MS (Mature - Sex). Well, something along those lines. M should also be made for a mature game that includes all of the above, without becoming an AO game. Those ESRB ratings are rather self-explanatory. The MV rating would be for games with gratuitous violence and gore. The MS rating would be for a game with gratuitous adult situations, whether you see some of the action or the situations are inferred. Includes a lot of adult dialogue. An exmaple of a game that is currently out that would fall under the former category woudl be Gears or War, and for the latter would be Leaisure Suit Larry.
Why would I come up with those ESRB ratings (referring to MV & MS)? It is because I find that some parents worry over violence more than sex and the same could be said for the parents who say the same thing about sex over violence. Sometimes kids just don't need to play certain games.
Well I hope that I will get around to making an email to the ESRB board to make the new ratings. Of course I can get lazy sometimes. Please vote in the poll.
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(For my fellow writers, what do you think? Can you critique it? I know that I shouldn't have used "I" and any personal experiences, but I find that I am currently too lazy, tired, and busy to do a full fledged topic to be used for an article)
All I really care for is the M15+, that is all I want.
A simple solution to make everybody happy would be for the ESRB boards to expand their range of ratings. I find that the ESRB rating or E10+ was useless. Games with the rating of T for teens, are still sold to minors. It was a waste of time I should say, but it does give me the idea for these ratings I have come up with.
Even if the others doesn't come out, this one would be nice; the rating for M15+. Mature for ages 15+. Foreign countries go by an age rating, rather than the letter rating we follow. Some games are just borderline T/M, and it drives me nuts. Some games may just need to be mildly toned down, but some games I can see them being at a lower age group, if not T. Take Halo & Splinter-Cell Double Agent for instance. Halo's main game component includes alien gore, and the multiplayer has barely any gore, and is still unrealistic. I can't see it as a game for 13+, by how the ESRB rates games, but to makes parents happy, it is rated-M, but M still seems too harsh of a rating to give the game. M15+ would be a happy median for everybody. Splinter-Cell Double Agent includes realistic violence, but is not overly violent. Same could be said for Splinter-Cell DA.
The other two ESRB ratings I have come up with are: MV (Mature - Violent) and MS (Mature - Sex). Well, something along those lines. M should also be made for a mature game that includes all of the above, without becoming an AO game. Those ESRB ratings are rather self-explanatory. The MV rating would be for games with gratuitous violence and gore. The MS rating would be for a game with gratuitous adult situations, whether you see some of the action or the situations are inferred. Includes a lot of adult dialogue. An exmaple of a game that is currently out that would fall under the former category woudl be Gears or War, and for the latter would be Leaisure Suit Larry.
Why would I come up with those ESRB ratings (referring to MV & MS)? It is because I find that some parents worry over violence more than sex and the same could be said for the parents who say the same thing about sex over violence. Sometimes kids just don't need to play certain games.
Well I hope that I will get around to making an email to the ESRB board to make the new ratings. Of course I can get lazy sometimes. Please vote in the poll.
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(For my fellow writers, what do you think? Can you critique it? I know that I shouldn't have used "I" and any personal experiences, but I find that I am currently too lazy, tired, and busy to do a full fledged topic to be used for an article)
All I really care for is the M15+, that is all I want.
