Associated Content: Since 1994, the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) rates video games hitting the store shelves. Ratings can help gamers and parents decide which games to buy. Although, there are times when I feel the ESRB gets the ratings wrong. Here are video games undeserving of their ESRB rating and why.
A gorgeous real-world Miraidon from Pokemon Scarlet and Violet has been created in Japan by the Toyota Engineering Society.
JDR thinks the gaming industry needs more licensed IPs. It's basically a cry for Firefly: The Game, and why not? JDR delves deeper into why more isn't adapted for the interactive screen.
Nah. Video games are their own thing they wouldn't be improved by leeching off Hollywood more.
Read the article and it gives no mention of the many problems prevalent with licensed IPs, such as games and dlc being delisted when their licenses expire, Adult Swim games being the most recent example.
Only if they're good, if its going to be a 2D sprite art game, you can get away with a small team and small budget. But if you're going to make it a 3D polygonal game, you're going to need a large team with a large budget, and often times these licensed games are quickly pushed out the door, unpolished, rough, boring, bland, snorefest at best, and downright broken at worst.
We have an Indiana Jones and James Bond game currently being developed by two veteran teams with I assume fairly sizeable budgets. Let's hope they turn out to be worthwhile.
A new Mad Max game to coincide with the upcoming film would have been awesome. I loved the first game, I'm guessing it didn't sell too well as they never bothered following it up.
"The Game Music Foundation are today very proud and pleased to announce an additional concert, circling back to the roots of Game Muisic Festival in Poland. On April 28th, 2024, the National Forum of Music in Wroclaw will once again become a place to celebrate the art of video game music, featuring scores from The Last of Us and The Last of Us Part II." - The Game Music Foundation.
Devil May Cry series. Other than a word here and there, plus Dante pulling himself up from a sword impaled in his chest, not too bad.
Finally! Someone who recognizes the craziness that is the ESRB. Super Smash Bros. Melee only for 12 and up? Ludicrous. It has pikachu for heavens sake. PIKACHU.
In Halo I think the Flood are the deciding factor has you can see corpses or even in some cases living people transform pretty violently into them. I tried going back to the first Halo game a few months back to play through the game and I found some of the stuff pretty depressing, like the cries for help the marines would call out for when they were stuck with a grenade.
Joseph Staten from Bungie has stated that he thinks Halo 1 was rated M only becuase of 9/11.
Honestly they're really should be another rating implemented [T+]
The [T] rating has a massive range. I do agree that Uncharted 1+2 should have been rated [M] but in this case it's rated [T] let's compare games:
Both of these games are rated [T]
Super Smash Bros: Brawl [T]
-Cartoon Violence
-Crude Humor
Uncharted 2 [T]
-Blood
-Violence
-Suggestive Themes
-Language
Both of those games have the exact same rating. Uncharted 2 should be AT LEAST [T+] Meaning it's a higher rated T game, just like they have [E10+] As I work at a video game retail store it becomes very difficult to deal with customers who will not purchase a game for their 10 year old child because it's rated [T] And we're talking games like SSBB. I ALWAYS have to explain that [T] has a large range and it really only contains minimal violence (for the lower rated [T] games)
Implement [T+] please.