Most recent article I could find in a google search was from 2008, but....




M rated games:
2005 - 12%
2006 - 8%
2007 - 6%

Even if there's been an upswing, it's still doubtful that it's even 15-20%.

But like the article said - they get the press. (Also, as a fan of M rated games, you pay more attention to them.)



Personally, I have no problem with T-rated games. But that's because I like all sorts of different genres of games. SSX snowboarding games, Ratchet & Clank platform games, puzzle games, Wii golf & bowling games, etc. "M" isn't some great special thing that suddenly makes a game better, any more than "R" is as a movie rating. :shrug:

(huh, just checked - I'd forgotten that the SSX and R&C games are actually rated E, not even T. )

I don't think that they rate games at all here but for the market overseas probably T

Hopefully this game has a more mature tone. Not ridiculous gore like Fallout 3 but just an element of gore where blood doesn't look comical and mature themes well executed in the writing of the story.

Btw the poll would have been better if you did it based on age rather than 'T' and 'M' as we aren't all from your coutry.

True, in fact, Morrowind falls squarely into a T rating despite having blood in it (Though to be fair, a red puff when you hit someone is not quite the same as a sizable spray of semi-realistic looking blood that stains characters and objects it touches.) But since I recall Todd Howard saying he expected the game to be rated M, I'm inclined to trust him on the matter, after all, he has seen a lot more of the game than I have, I'm sure, so I'd imagine he could form a better estimate of what rating it would get than me, so I'm expecting an M rating, but we'll know for certain by the time the game is released, and while I'd be surprised and maybe even a little dissappointed if it doesn't get rated M, I still expect to play it regardless.



Indeed, the tone of the setting really isn't what earns the game an M rating, at the most, it might ensure the game can't get a rating lower than T, it's the gore, violence, drugs, language, and six that earns games M ratings. If a darker tone meant an M rating, than one might argue that Morrowind was more deserving of an M rating than Oblivion, considering that it's setting is often regarded as darker than Oblivion's, and yet ESRB never felt the need to change Morrowind's initial T rating to M, which is probably because in terms of violence, the only way it could be more tame is if they cut out the blood entirely, or told you that the people you hack to death with large swords or burn to death with fireballs simply "fainted", rather than actually being dead, and what sixual themes it has are all implied, the most explicit part being in a rather confusingly written book, and all the swearing in the game uses fictional words, which can therefore slip past ESRB's radar, and the drugs too are probably judged much less harshly since they're fictional ones.

Pegi 18

That's what the Amazon UK pre-order had, certainly. So yeah, I'd guess you Americans would have it M-rated. A certain type of action would make it AO, I take it?

Also, Oblivion in the UK has an official BBFC rating of 15. (legal requirement; Morrowind was released before this so has no BBFC rating).

7 people have not played very many M games.

The overall feel and depth that Skyrim goes into, to me constitutes as an M game
Blood and Gore
Drug References
Alcohol consumption
Strong Language
Some sixual Content/references

So in my mind, if Skyrim has.. say at least 3/4ths of that, itll be an m rating game

http://www.esrb.org/ratings/ratings_guide.jsp

Someone has talked about people hitting the "Dislike" button on Youtube.

There needs to be blood and gore purely because of the type of game it is. There is no point making a game with swords if you can't visably see the damage to enemies. If you have realistic graphics you need realistic effects from actions, not somone laying on the floor after a fight looking as if they have simply dozed off.

Hopefully enmies will get torn clothing cuts across their bodies and when eventually defeated.... well a bit of realism please. I would also extend that to your character where the lower your health the more visible the injuries are on you. When your armour is damaged, show that is damaged (dents, scratch marks etc) until it is repaired.

I hope the languge used in the game is more mature as well and I don't mean that I want to here f**k or s**t every 2 seconds, but a little less disney would be better.

Also I hope the women in the game actually look like woman and not the drag queens seen in oblivion, give them some sixuality.

If it is anything other than an M rating then something will be seriously lacking from the game

It will be a M rating for sure, and do not talk about killing children EVER this closes posts as soon as reported !

M...it wont be worse than OB, I know todd said skyrim wont have as much gore as fallout 3 had so...there you go.

MA i think i remember todd saying there will be dismemberments but not in the same way as oblivion

I actually hope its an M (or 18 over here in england) I want alot of violence and dismemberment to add to the action,

It's rated M, confirmed multiple times.

They should release two versions. One M and one T.

Why don't you just add the option of gore etc one might ask. This would avoid the need for 2 versions!

Well, legally you couldn't sell and M rated game as a T with 'options' and you couldn't sell a T rated game as M as it would negate the ability of the 'T's to buy the game!




I reckon it'll be M though

It's already rated PEGI 18 wich is ESRB M

Maybe this was the right wording.

Personally I would prefer it to be "advlt only", the game is a bit too tame for me as it is. People, not even bandits, never swear, there is not a single brothel in the world, not a single outhouse. I mean come on, there is so much potential, take for instance the fact that nobility gets beast-race six slaves because they don't produce offsprings which is only mentioned in books. Sunshine and bunnies fantasy has become a bit stale over the years.

But that would mean that beths would get less money, which in turn means that's not going to happen. So I'm voting for "M".

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mr. howard said in one of his interviews, that skyrim will likely get an m rating

im hoping there is so much realistic graphic and violence (this is a civil war after all) that they have to come up with an entirely new rating just for skyrim.

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Id bet on M rating but would also welcome an AO rating.

I read somewhere on the net bodies will fall apart in a bloody mess the way they did in Fallout 3. So everything should be fine and dandy.