anyone know what age rating halo infinite will be?
Pretty sure that’s still up in the air right now, but we might get info on that in the July event.
Hopefully M for mature like Halo 3 and not T for teen like Halo 5
I don’t think anyone knows yet.
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> Hopefully M for mature like Halo 3 and not T for teen like Halo 5
Why would it matter?
Halo 5 content for rated T: - little to no blood
- cartoonish graphics while playing except for cutscenes
- no bad language
Halo 3, 2, CE, Reach rated M: - appropriate amount of blood for humans and aliens and exploding flood blood and body parts
- kept the same quality graphics while playing and cutscenes
- bad language and rememberable sayings from the famous Sergeant Johnson
So if they make Infinite rated M and have the same quality graphics from the cutscenes of Halo 5 and Halo wars 2. You got yourself the perfect age rating and game to retake that king of games again!
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It ultimately doesn’t matter, because the strength of the story is what makes the game good imo. But I understand why people want an M-rating. All the M-rated games in Halo’s history are generally liked, while H5, a T-rated game, is generally disliked.
No word on this yet. But it’s quite unpredictable at this point. But please remember to check for “blood and gore” when the ESRB rates it. Gore means the flood are returning since that is on every FPS Halo with the flood.
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> Hopefully M for mature like Halo 3 and not T for teen like Halo 5
Combat Evolved almost got a T rating. I don’t think it holds as much value anymore.
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the flood are only in m rated games
The rating doesn’t matter really, but it was annoying to play a military shooter with 0 blood and no cussing. It just felt fake to me after playing other halo games. Just make it feel real is all I want.
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> It ultimately doesn’t matter, because the strength of the story is what makes the game good imo. But I understand why people want an M-rating. All the M-rated games in Halo’s history are generally liked, while H5, a T-rated game, is generally disliked.
Halo 5 isn’t generally liked but Halo 4 is? This seems like a hopelessly arbitrary standard. Not that it matters because the whole focus on ESRB ratings is hopelessly North America -centric to begin with. PEGI (European) has consistently rated all Halo games 16+. The ACB (Australian) has consistently rated all Halo games M. ClassInd (Brazilian) has consistently rated all Halo games 14. OFCL (New Zealand) used R16 until Halo Reach, whereas both Halo 4 and Halo 5 have been rated R13. The only rating board I was able to find ratings for that flatout mirrored ESRB’s decision in any way was CRAC (South Korea) lowering from 18 to 15.
The vast majority of independent rating boards show no preference for treating Halo 5 any differently from the rest of the games. If anybody thinks that the quality of the game has anything to do with whatever the North American authority on video game age rating has decided to label the game, they need to wake up and realize that there exists a world outside North America where various rating boards from various different cultural backgrounds have decided that Halo 5 is in fact no different from prior games to any meaningful extent.
If somebody wants to hate a game based on what alphanumeric symbols are in the bottom left corner of its box art, they are free to do so. But to attribute the quality of the game to those symbols is incredibly naive.
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> Halo 5 isn’t generally liked but Halo 4 is? This seems like a hopelessly arbitrary standard. Not that it matters because the whole focus on ESRB ratings is hopelessly North America -centric to begin with. PEGI (European) has consistently rated all Halo games 16+. The ACB (Australian) has consistently rated all Halo games M. ClassInd (Brazilian) has consistently rated all Halo games 14. OFCL (New Zealand) used R16 until Halo Reach, whereas both Halo 4 and Halo 5 have been rated R13. The only rating board I was able to find ratings for that flatout mirrored ESRB’s decision in any way was CRAC (South Korea) lowering from 18 to 15.
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> The vast majority of independent rating boards show no preference for treating Halo 5 any differently from the rest of the games. If anybody thinks that the quality of the game has anything to do with whatever the North American authority on video game age rating has decided to label the game, they need to wake up and realize that there exists a world outside North America where various rating boards from various different cultural backgrounds have decided that Halo 5 is in fact no different from prior games to any meaningful extent.
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> If somebody wants to hate a game based on what alphanumeric symbols are in the bottom left corner of its box art, they are free to do so. But to attribute the quality of the game to those symbols is incredibly naive.
All the rating really serves for me personally as an individual is a caution as to what might be in the game, rather than telling me how good it is. Could have all the blood and gore and swearing in the world but still end up with a story or gameplay (or both) that’s unenjoyable - so I don’t understand this desire for an M rating. Aren’t there a lot of T-games with good stories and gameplay too?
They could have put blood and swearing in Halo 5 (Both traits are usually relatively rare or at least mild in Halo games anyway right?) and put the M rating on it, but would that really have made it a better game? I feel like it’d have been criticized just as much as it is now regardless if it was T, M, or whatever.
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It doesn’t matter a ton, but the age rating dictates the “darker” tones and freedom that 343 can take on the story. Microsoft heavily watered down Halo 5. The other Halos could have been a T rating, but it was leaning more towards the M rated side than the cartoony and less bloody game than 5 was. I guess people just want to know what the rating will be so they can speculate on how the gunplay and fights will turn out, and if the flood will be back.
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> All the rating really serves for me personally as an individual is a caution as to what might be in the game, rather than telling me how good it is. Could have all the blood and gore and swearing in the world but still end up with a story or gameplay (or both) that’s unenjoyable - so I don’t understand this desire for an M rating. Aren’t there a lot of T-games with good stories and gameplay too?
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> They could have put blood and swearing in Halo 5 (Both traits are usually relatively rare or at least mild in Halo games anyway right?) and put the M rating on it, but would that really have made it a better game? I feel like it’d have been criticized just as much as it is now regardless if it was T, M, or whatever.
People are anxious to see that “Blood and Gore” title under the rating because that could indicate the Flood being in the games again. But even then, T rated games have blood and gore. No matter the rating (unless microsoft heavily watered down the game like 5), it could either be a bad or great game.
No idea what the rating will be yet. The rating will heavily depend on whether the Flood appears in the game, though, since they are the sole reason for the “and gore” warning in the original trilogy, and being rated for gore is an almost guarantee of an M-rating in a shooter.
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> The vast majority of independent rating boards show no preference for treating Halo 5 any differently from the rest of the games. If anybody thinks that the quality of the game has anything to do with whatever the North American authority on video game age rating has decided to label the game, they need to wake up and realize that there exists a world outside North America where various rating boards from various different cultural backgrounds have decided that Halo 5 is in fact no different from prior games to any meaningful extent.
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> If somebody wants to hate a game based on what alphanumeric symbols are in the bottom left corner of its box art, they are free to do so. But to attribute the quality of the game to those symbols is incredibly naive.
I woke up from the sound of a mic drop.
I want it to be M, I feel like aspects of the story would be held back if it wasn’t and game in general.
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> If somebody wants to hate a game based on what alphanumeric symbols are in the bottom left corner of its box art, they are free to do so. But to attribute the quality of the game to those symbols is incredibly naive.
I agree with you that the rating ultimately doesn’t matter. Some random rating agency slaping a letter/number on the side of a box is hardly authoritative on what makes a game good. I was just pointing out that I do understand, to a certain extent, why OP wants an M-rated game.
It’s been covered ad nauseum here on the forums, but it will be T or M. I think MS wants it to come in as T rather than M in terms of making it accessible to a wider audience (Although ESRB ratings don’t dictate a game’s end user audience nearly to the degree they once did, M ratings are still inherently less accessible to purchase at retail for minors and can be locked with parental controls on digital platforms).
Unlike a lot of people here on the forums, I think it’s a bit of a moot point. From the ages of about 12-15, I suffered from the misconception that a game having an M rating made it somehow better in and of itself than any T rated game.
Let’s all be honest, our beloved original Halo trilogy doesn’t often warrant the M rating it was given–certainly not when compared to the stuff coming out today. A few sequences with the Flood are all I can honestly hold up as the sorts of things that would still be considered M in the modern games landscape. Tonally, in spite of it being a lower quality narrative, Halo 5 feels decidedly more grim and dire than any of the original three games ro me, and it got a T.
If Infinite isn’t pushing the edge beyond what the original games did, I honestly don’t think it needs to be rated M. MS and 343i have been trying to widen the audience for Halo into younger age brackets (Scholastic Books and Mattel Toy licensing). I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, and I don’t think a T rating will make the game automatically worse that it would’ve been otherwise.
i can understand why you need an m rated game but we also need to remeber halo 5 was t for no cussing and it had quite a bit of it so maybe halo infinite will be the same it also says on the page that it is rating pending to mature so that means they are thinking about making it mature and prob will