Why did this game get labeled USK 16?

[Lamiosa]

There is no explicit violence, "corpses" only being the NPC on ground, no questionable morality topics, no sexual content, nothing. Even in Sims I could get more adult content then in Starfield. Why is it labeled for 16+ and not 6+?

[Kennedy]

Nguyên văn bởi vadeN:

Nguyên văn bởi Kennedy:

That doesn't mean anything. In Stronghold you can produce torch-slaves that run into enemy strongholds and light themselves on fire to burn it down, running around and screaming in pain. Game is 12+ here.

But it doesn't look realistic, it's not very graphic if you put them side by side now is it?
A child isn't likely to get nightmare's from a guy dying a fiery death in 20 pixels.

Of course it is graphic and looks realistic. Similar games got their rating rejected (similar to AO rating in the US), which bans it from public stores. The old Mortal Kombat pixel graphic games were banned here and you could get in trouble, if you owned it. In Empire Earth 3, they had to rename the Nuke to "Huge Bomb" or something in Germany and everything regarding BC warfare had to be removed and it's still 18+, while other countries rated it uncensored 12+.

[Lamiosa]

Nguyên văn bởi Kennedy:

Nguyên văn bởi vadeN:

But it doesn't look realistic, it's not very graphic if you put them side by side now is it?
A child isn't likely to get nightmare's from a guy dying a fiery death in 20 pixels.

Of course it is graphic and looks realistic. Similar games got their rating rejected (similar to AO rating in the US), which bans it from public stores. The old Mortal Kombat pixel graphic games were banned here and you could get in trouble, if you owned it. In Empire Earth 3, they had to rename the Nuke to "Huge Bomb" or something in Germany and everything regarding BC warfare had to be removed and it's still 18+, while other countries rated it uncensored 12+.

Then I still do not get why realism is worse than explicit violence / questionable morality. If people could not separate a realistic game from reality, it makes no difference if it is cartoonish to me. The issue is not the realism, but the people who cannot differ fiction from reality.

[Rommel]

Nguyên văn bởi Lamiosa:

There is no explicit violence, "corpses" only being the NPC on ground, no questionable morality topics, no sexual content, nothing. Even in Sims I could get more adult content then in Starfield. Why is it labeled for 16+ and not 6+?

Ask your German friends why......

[Zalzany]

Drugs there is a number of stimulants you can take in battle in game. Its rated M in USA as well. They tried soften it down but the drug use alone plus smashing people with melee weapons even if there is no blood stil ldid it. I am sure the mods will have some stuff banned in many countries as well once the mod kit is out lol

[Korinth]

There's an entire city based around drugs so I think it's that.

[VadeN]

Nguyên văn bởi Lamiosa:

Nguyên văn bởi Kennedy:

Of course it is graphic and looks realistic. Similar games got their rating rejected (similar to AO rating in the US), which bans it from public stores. The old Mortal Kombat pixel graphic games were banned here and you could get in trouble, if you owned it. In Empire Earth 3, they had to rename the Nuke to "Huge Bomb" or something in Germany and everything regarding BC warfare had to be removed and it's still 18+, while other countries rated it uncensored 12+.

Then I still do not get why realism is worse than explicit violence / questionable morality. If people could not separate a realistic game from reality, it makes no difference if it is cartoonish to me. The issue is not the realism, but the people who cannot differ fiction from reality.

That's the thing. These ratings are not for you and me who can tell the difference. The rating is for the lowest common denominator. So that people who can't tell the difference don't get PTSD or go shooting in their schools.