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Forums - Gaming - Only 1 in 20 games are M-rated, sharp decline in past years

Conegamer on 16 March 2011
Jay520 said:
Conegamer said:
radiantshadow92 said:

Rating really doesn't matter anymore. Games can be good no matter what rating anyways.

Agreed

Rating is placed too highly nowadays, but plenty of people won't buy a game because it's a 3 (Or E?), because they believe it's 'childish'

 


That's how my friends feel about Ratchet & Clank. Not because of the rating though, just because of the clean nature of the game.

Well you can quite happily tell those people they're stuipid for thinking like that and they are missing out on one of the best gaming series of the past 10 years



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

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noname2200 on 16 March 2011
radiantshadow92 said:

Rating really doesn't matter anymore. Games can be good no matter what rating anyways.

If HBO has taught me anything, it's that blood and titties make everything better.



*Sound Of Rain on 16 March 2011

I always thought that having an "E10 & Up" rating was stupid. The game is either rated E or T and making a between rating is pointless IMO. Also, half of the games that have a "T" rating should be turned into a "M" rating and I don't know why publishers make games less "bad" in order to get that "T" rating. If they are suited for blood add it LOL.



amp316 on 17 March 2011
noname2200 said:
radiantshadow92 said:

Rating really doesn't matter anymore. Games can be good no matter what rating anyways.

If HBO has taught me anything, it's that blood and titties make everything better.

You must be a Joe Bob Briggs fan. 

Wait, he wasn't on HBO...



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libellule on 17 March 2011
RolStoppable said:

Percentages can be misleading, raw numbers would be more telling. Without having those, I assume the percentage drop of M-rated games since 2005 can easily be explained by publishers flooding the DS and Wii with shovelware which naturally isn't going to aim for an M-rating. The amount of M-rated remained pretty much the same since 2005, but the overall amount of software released increased every year.

I do not even need to post ;)

Note that 3-4 years ago, in a VGC thread, a guy said mature games will disappear because of the Wii success !
The very old VGC member "bodhesatva" answered as you did  ;)



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zgamer5 on 17 March 2011

because of the wii/ds and the phone games. yes we dont hear about wii software coming everyday but theirs a lot of it.



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