M, this game is a lot more gory then oblivion and who knows if you can kill the children or not so it seems quite violent so it deserves an M.

you saw that draughr get his head smashed in right?

Take a gander at this...

http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll16/Railage/48628036_photobucket_919_.jpg

Now reread the third word in his post.

It will be an M rating. Oblivion was... well, actually, Oblivion was a "T" but got bumped to "M" (I still have my collectors Ed. with the "T" rating) because of nudity mods. Which is odd, since that's not game content, so to speak. The characters in Oblivion had no genitalia under the loincloths.

Anyway, I hope they realize it will get an M rating, and take the artistic liberties that come with the territory, giving us satisfying combat, plenty of tasteful gore and mature themes.

Weird stuff.

it was a T rating but then the people rating it realized they screwed up when they saw the zombies and lachance

What are we considering "slightly realistic?" I'd say Morrowind qualifies for that, but Morrowind was rated T.

http://img852.imageshack.us/img852/352/46347661.jpg

Well, you fire a gun or swing a sword at them. Blood comes out and then scream in horrer, or get dismembered and die. What I mean by that is that if in the game you fire your 'flower' at them and they sparkle and fall over 'dead', that killing won't get you an M rating.

Morrowing was T because game ratings were much more lax back when it was released. They have gotten far stricter since. Also Morrowinds graphics were a fair bit worse, so maybe it wasn't 'realistic' enough.

M rating for sure, because T rating restricts the content that you can put in a game.

Where's the most realstic option for what skyrim is going to be rated? C for children.

Morrowind certainly qualifies for all of those things. Blood, scream in horror, fall to their death. I'd even say that Morrowind's death animations were far more dramatic than the typical Havok'd fall from Oblivion.

But I can see that ratings were probably more lax back then, though I don't really remember one way or the other. Ratings are never something I've concerned myself with, so I don't usually notice.

Regardless, I think we'd both agree that Skyrim will definitely be rated M. I can't imagine anything more or less than that.

I expect it to be rated 10 out of 10...




Just kidding. Well... not really.

Its gonna be an M rated game.

Todd said that they weren't specifically shooting for any rating, but it would probably be rated M.

Also, Oblivion was rated M, partially because of that infamous mod, but also because apparently they didn't show some stuff in the demo released to the ESRB, so it was changed to M from T.

M to AO either or just depends on what all they decide to put in it

I think it will be rated E-10.

it better be M or im not buying it

It will be M, and the pre 18, pre 17 (never understood any games being 18 plus when even NC-17 rated movies are, by definition, only 17 plus requisite) and even pre 16 teens will get it and enjoy it and make up about half of its sales demographic. . . and, so long as they don't become callous, deranged or murderous, more power to them. Lol.

They can put alot of stuff on it and keep the M rating lol i cant believe the wither 2 isnt AO.

Definitely an M. For those of you who think it will be lower....Skyrim will obviously have violence, blood, language, use of alcohol, possible sixual themes.....yeah rated T my left n**

Pretty much. It would only make it to Ao if they added like, SUPER extreme sixual things, which they won't. And it would only go down to T if there was no language, and they toned down the violence, and I'm quite sure they may throw around a few obceneties and there will certainly be plenty of violence.

like i said in the witcher 2 in the first 5 minutes of the game you get to see boobs and partial [censored] and its pretty gory, there a themes about [censored], people get hanged for debauchery lol

M. I would be disappointed if the game would get a T.

M ~what else?
Now-a-days anything not rated M is seen as a kids game, regardless.
If you are asking what rating will it deserve... That's entirely different.

Actually this is not new... The original Transformers movie (and I do mean the original first one), had 1 single mild swear word put into it for marketing reasons.
This ensured that they got the evening time slots, and not the early kids matinee showing. They wanted teens and young advlts to see it, and the cursing spared them the dreaded G rating.

Neither of those things would make the game an M. It's the blood and the mature themes like drugs that would do it.

As for the comments like "I won't buy it if it's not M" and such, really? This game will almost certainly be M, but 90% of what is involved in TES would fall just fine under the T rating. It's the drugs and more grizzly corpses and such that push it into M territory. Oblivion would have easily been rated T without the drugs and the more detailed gory corpses.

Pre-Morrowind sixual themes might have pushed it into M territory. In Morrowind and Oblivion the sixual themes I know of would still have been in "T" territory. People are really underestimating what passes with T.

Edit: I see this person beat me to it.