I’m not bashing the game being a teen rated game but I noticed at 1:15 in the cinema first look you can see multiple human bodies decaying from a battle that looks years older than the covies amd blue teams fight.
So I just wondered why this wouldnt be in the more mature side of ratings than teen.
The ESRB has become less restrictive over time than it used to be. Also blood seems to be their main concern, not really sure why.
Is having a M rating really that important?
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> Is having a M rating really that important?
Did you not read that i said i wasnt bashing the game for not having an m rating?
I was curious to see why it hadn’t.
As games have become ever more ridiculously violent and gruesome, such as in HM2 and MKX, the ‘M’ rating has become stretched thinner and thinner. Do you really think the captured/tortured marines in Reach measure up to reducing a person to literal paste in a Mortal Kombat fatality? The delta has gotten so wide that eventually something had to change, be it the ratings themselves or the standards by which they are judged.
Over in Europe we don’t have this problem, as the system goes 3, 7, 12, 16, 18. We have middle ground between T and M. Halo has always been a 16 here, by the way.
Simple because it isn’t gta bad or gears of war graphic and gorey
I seriously hope that could mean the Flood may appear, now that decaying corpses are not M anymore…
Except Halo 3 and Halo Reach, every Halo Game was rated 16 over here in Germany which seems to be the same as your teen rating… So I wouldn’t give that much on it.
Additionally games get more and more brutal today (MKX???) so ratings water down a bit, when I was young games like COD would have had no chance to be published, like what happened to all MK games here in Germany, they were put on the index immediately so you could just get them from other countries.
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> Except Halo 3 and Halo Reach, every Halo Game was rated 16 over here in Germany which seems to be the same as your teen rating… So I wouldn’t give that much on it.
Germany, just like most of Europe, goes by the PEGI ratings, which trend to be the same for an ENTIRE video game series, since they don’t bother to check every single game as deeply as the ESRB.
well in the UK we still have a PEGI 16 for Halo 5
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> The ESRB has become less restrictive over time than it used to be. Also blood seems to be their main concern, not really sure why.
Coz blood is so horrible and unnatural in their opinion 
I am used to blood, its only natural part of humans and animals.
But yeah its probably rated T coz the restrictions have changed.
Well, Destiny got away with skeletons all over the place, so I don’t see Halo 5 with roughly the same thing with some skin still on it going too far.
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> Well, Destiny got away with skeletons all over the place, so I don’t see Halo 5 with roughly the same thing with some skin still on it going too far.
Also don’t forget, that once you headshot a Brute Chei- I mean uhh Cabal enemy, their head explodes and their blood (I swear, its crude oil) spews out of their head. Also, Destiny got away with Thralls eating organic remains. In some missions, if you’re stealthy enough, you can watch em. Its kinda wierd
I wouldn’t worry about the rating. Remember this is the same game that has a “Back Breaker” and “104 ways to die” assassinations.
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> Well, Destiny got away with skeletons all over the place, so I don’t see Halo 5 with roughly the same thing with some skin still on it going too far.
Spooky scary skeletons…
The disintegration from promethean weapons are nowhere near as bad as people getting their limbs sawed off in Gears of War, or peoples hearts getting ripped out in Mortal Kombat. Halo has never been a game that was all about gore, I mean, the most blood we’ve ever seen is when you shoot somebody and it makes a tiny puddle below them… Halo has always been serious and never really cared to use blood, and now it shows with the leniency of the system as compared to a few years ago.
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> I’m not bashing the game being a teen rated game but I noticed at 1:15 in the cinema first look you can see multiple human bodies decaying from a battle that looks years older than the covies amd blue teams fight.
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> So I just wondered why this wouldnt be in the more mature side of ratings than teen.
if it isn’t graphic and there is no blood flies etc. then it wont be. There is nothing wrong with a skull or a bone finger.
I believe gore is there main concern followed by sexual references
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> The ESRB has become less restrictive over time than it used to be. Also blood seems to be their main concern, not really sure why.
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> Except Halo 3 and Halo Reach, every Halo Game was rated 16 over here in Germany which seems to be the same as your teen rating… So I wouldn’t give that much on it.
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> Additionally games get more and more brutal today (MKX???) so ratings water down a bit, when I was young games like COD would have had no chance to be published, like what happened to all MK games here in Germany, they were put on the index immediately so you could just get them from other countries.
ha funny thing halo 4, halo 3, halo wars, halo 3 ODST were M (similar to Americas T) in Australia and the rest were MA which is similar to Americas M
I actually like a game with swearing a blood. As long as it isn’t as gory as gears of war when you use a chainsaw on a guy (that -Yoink- was over the top). There is obviously going to be swearing in war. In halo 3 if you had the IWHBYD skull the Marines would say you sack of -Yoink-. Also the blood makes it seem more realistic .
