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Should they make an M-rated Metroid game?

Yes!! 79 62.70%
 
No 47 37.30%
 
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spigelwii on 09 April 2017
VGPolyglot said:
RolStoppable said:
Making M-rated games isn't a sign of growing up, it's a sign of being juvenile. This idea is merely another path to create a mess like Other M. People who are attracted by an M-rating don't have the brains to handle Metroid, people who like Metroid don't want a dumbed down game.

Really? Silent Hill would be almost impossible without an M-rating, is that game considered juvenile?

But we're talking about turning an established, classic series that is perfect the way it is and turning it into an M-rated gorefest just for the sake of appealing to the mass market. Silent Hill has always been M, and will always be M (if they ever make another one).



I'd rather be playing Metroid Prime

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VGPolyglot on 09 April 2017
spigelwii said:
VGPolyglot said:

Really? Silent Hill would be almost impossible without an M-rating, is that game considered juvenile?

But we're talking about turning an established, classic series that is perfect the way it is and turning it into an M-rated gorefest just for the sake of appealing to the mass market. Silent Hill has always been M, and will always be M (if they ever make another one).

It doesn't have to be a gorefest, though. The original Halo games were really tame yet still had Mature ratings.



Goodnightmoon on 09 April 2017

I don't care as long as is good



spigelwii on 09 April 2017
VGPolyglot said:
spigelwii said:

But we're talking about turning an established, classic series that is perfect the way it is and turning it into an M-rated gorefest just for the sake of appealing to the mass market. Silent Hill has always been M, and will always be M (if they ever make another one).

It doesn't have to be a gorefest, though. The original Halo games were really tame yet still had Mature ratings.

So tame I would argue they probably could have been rated T, like Metroid Prime was. I think it's funny how one letter apparently affects how we see and judge games by their cover, so to speak. Is Halo really that much more mature than Metroid Prime just because it happens to be rated M and Metroid Prime is rated T?



I'd rather be playing Metroid Prime

curl-6 on 09 April 2017

Prime 1 was already pushing an M-rating with its mangled corpses and splattered alien goo. Keeping that same kind of content but doing it with more realistic graphics and playing up the horror angle would probably get you to an M-rating without the need for any juvenile excesses.



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VGPolyglot on 09 April 2017
spigelwii said:
VGPolyglot said:

It doesn't have to be a gorefest, though. The original Halo games were really tame yet still had Mature ratings.

So tame I would argue they probably could have been rated T, like Metroid Prime was. I think it's funny how one letter apparently affects how we see and judge games by their cover, so to speak. Is Halo really that much more mature than Metroid Prime just because it happens to be rated M and Metroid Prime is rated T?

Well, Metroid itself doesn't need to be rated M, but Nintendo should have at least one franchise that caters to that. Like Eternal Darkness.



Pemalite on 09 April 2017

I don't care what it is rated as... But if they can capture everything that made Super Metroid one of my favorite games of all time. (Even with the amazing looking-but shit bosses) I will be onboard.




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curl-6 on 09 April 2017
RolStoppable said:
curl-6 said:

Prime 1 was already pushing the T-rating with its mangled corpses and splattered alien goo. Keeping that same kind of content but doing it with more realistic graphics and playing up the horror angle would probably get you to an M-rating without the need for any juvenile excesses.

The player engaging in violence against humans or human-like beings is what yields M-ratings. Corpses and alien goo mean hardly anything. Heck, your proposal would probably not be enough to convince the German ratings board to make it 16+.

The Convenent in Halo were hardly any more "human" that the Space Pirates in Prime.



VGPolyglot on 09 April 2017
RolStoppable said:
curl-6 said:

The Convenent in Halo were hardly any more "human" that the Space Pirates in Prime.

There's also a multiplayer mode. I don't quite remember it, but I think it had ragdoll physics which makes deaths look more realistic.

Minority Report: Everybody Runs had ragdoll physics ans was rated T.



VGPolyglot on 09 April 2017
RolStoppable said:
VGPolyglot said:

Minority Report: Everybody Runs had ragdoll physics ans was rated T.

There are many things that can factor into ratings. I have mentioned a couple of common things, but I don't know all specifics for Halo. That game was way too boring to play through its campaign.

So, the question is, what do you like? Do you dislike any game with an M rating? (Or I guess 18 rating for PEGI).