ESRB ratings.

[TheCreeper]

From your experience, how reliable are the ESRB?

[Sparse Dunes]

Vlady Puts Fegelantic Master님이 먼저 게시:

i prefer reviews from PEGI or russian companies, they tell what specific age group a person can play a game such as 0, 3, 7, 12, 16 and 18 for the bad stuff ;)

You mean to tell babies with zero motor skills can play vidoe games?

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HardDisk Productions님이 먼저 게시:

in the usa gratuitious violence and gore is ok, but a pair of boobies is AO inmediately.

Running away from mother nature and the truth is a sign of mental illness...
I think boobs should be allowed for everyone, the problem starts with acted sexuality and sexual fantasies - these are nothing for a kid´s still developing brain. Same with the use of gore, violence and fake and awkwardly, negative fantasy world concepts (including Santa Claus).

Everything should depend on the reality the majority agrees on (so my idea to forbid Santa Claus would fail immideately), or if that is not possible to reassume to create a label we have to trust experts in their research on this kind of truth. That´s why I think that you always should compare all ratings and labels and then decide what kind of medicine or poison you want to give your child. If you´re a child you should not follow your stupid friends that are poisoning themselves with drugs or digital poison and try to understand that you are a part of something bigger and that people have been in your place before and try to help you, even when you didn´t really deserve to be helped.

[JJ, Professional Fool]

ESRB is pointless in a modern gaming world. Parents dont honestly care what the child plays anymore. That or they force a smartphone / digital pad in the kids hands to be as distant from reality as possible. A smart person would research a title before purchase, or check balanced reviews on the game before purchase, so they know what is being exposed in the game. But that is a delusion most high anymore. Thus the countless kids on most modern shooters, and the hype of titties on recient games. Sex and Gore are generally in every mature or 18+ ESRB rated game anymore. Teen or 13+ is Violence or Mature Themes, anything lower is deemed "safe" but is highly ignored anyways. Whatever is popular or hype is generally taboo or foul.

This is just my opinion mind you. But gaming is now a young mans procrasination. The older folks can handle what is thrown at them, but the babies, they only absorb the cesspool. Sweet delicious pixelated cesspools. And thats not even including online interactions or voice communications.

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Sparse Dunes님이 먼저 게시:

Vlady Puts Fegelantic Master님이 먼저 게시:

i prefer reviews from PEGI or russian companies, they tell what specific age group a person can play a game such as 0, 3, 7, 12, 16 and 18 for the bad stuff ;)

You mean to tell babies with zero motor skills can play vidoe games?

to be fair, the 0 means there is no age limit to play :D

[Secret Lobster]

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Parnold Prunce님이 먼저 게시:

Most times they over exagerate. Most M games are fine for anyone 10-14 depending on the individual.

This is so wrong. Gotta accept there´s people more wise and educated to judge what is right or wrong for kids. As many of the scientists making the ratings have seen a world before digitalisation they can compare young people before and after the digital business mania started and understand the psychological traps young people can fall into a little better than the potential victims.

You should trust the ratings, even as a young kid. Not trusting elders is foolish in most cases. I recognized as I grew up and didn´t listen so many times. They just try to protect youngsters from harm these young people don´t understand yet.

Scientists? No, they're just a group of self appointed people who think they know what every child can handle. Also I've seen REAL scientists saying Grand Theft Auto is fine for most people around 13. They are trying to do the right thing, I get that, but the fact is like adults, kids are not all exactly the same. I mean, look at the ages of people who do go on shooting sprees. MOST of them are 17+. Also, I think of the 17+ being the maximum age that a normal person can understand the content, not a minimum. What I mean is that if you don't understand that kind of stuff by 17, that's a bit odd. Remember, it's fully legal to sell an M game to a minor, as long as there is a parent with them. I think that shows that the ESRB knows some minors are easily fine with this, they're just providing an optional system which I admit, can be pretty useful for people.

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Now i cant really talk about ESRB since in Europe we have the PEGI system but other than that:..yeah,

To put my opinion about this in a context, lets take the simpsons game (not a pc game, i know) which had at the content rating the following l: violence, swearing, sexual content
violence: mostly fantasy one so nothing that bloody
swearing: there was like maybe ONE swear word in the whole freakin game and yet this warrants the swearing content logo.
sexual content: apparently suggesting themes in a level (Grand Theft Scratchy which is basically a GTA parody one with striptease bars and other buildings) is enough to warrant this content warning. Note that in the whole game there is absolutly no visible nudity or any other sexual act, at least if they are not as conservative to consider kissing scenes as such)

This in a nutshell shows just how laughable some of these content rating can get. Im actually wondering at what level these companies are even objective

anyway answering your question: you should always use your personal decision (for example if you are a parent) as to whether or not the game is safe or does have undesirable content, ratings can only help as to give you a general idea of what you can expect whithin the game
things get even more complicated with online features as these are, obviously enough, not rated by ESRB (not like it would be even humanly possible, lets add)

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Sparse Dunes님이 먼저 게시:

Vlady Puts Fegelantic Master님이 먼저 게시:

i prefer reviews from PEGI or russian companies, they tell what specific age group a person can play a game such as 0, 3, 7, 12, 16 and 18 for the bad stuff ;)

You mean to tell babies with zero motor skills can play vidoe games?

its only to show the general advised audience for x and y game really

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[Secret Lobster]

Zetikla님이 먼저 게시:

anyway answering your question: you should always use your personal decision (for example if you are a parent) as to whether or not the game is safe or does have undesirable content, ratings can only help as to give you a general idea of what you can expect whithin the game
things get even more complicated with online features as these are, obviously enough, not rated by ESRB (not like it would be even humanly possible, lets add)

Yeh, the best way to do it (if you're a gamer) is to just buy the game for yourself and play it, then if it's OK give it to them. If not then at least you've got a fun game for yourself.

[Sneaky_Beaky]

It's meh.

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Not bad, for a shadow organization that keeps the identities of its members secret.

[GLaDOS]

yeah