If anyone finds this I just wanted to know what most people think on Halo Infinite’s age rating. I know it doesn’t really matter but I really wanted to see the flood in infinite especially since we’re going to be on Installation-04. I’m definitely not a big fan of Halo 5’s campaign or multiplayer but I feel people called it a baby game when it got a T rating. I didn’t think it mattered since, yeah there was blood splatter and some decent gameplay so why did it matter. Even though I know it will probably be T I just wanted to see what y’all think.
It prob T if you are in the US. Realistically, even the flood wouldnt push it to M. Halos gore and even body horror is pretty tame by todays standards and given everything is aliens, its not too hard to keep it T
Anyone who calls something a “baby game” is clearly a child themselves. I don’t think a T rating will matter, nor do I think it would have any impact on the flood being/not being in this game. Halo got M ratings in the past more because the ESRB had different standards, if it was released today it would be rated T.
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> Halo got M ratings in the past more because the ESRB had different standards, if it was released today it would be rated T.
I think CE definitely deserved it’s M rating at the time. I remember hallways filled with Covenant blood on 343 Guilty Spark.
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> If anyone finds this I just wanted to know what most people think on Halo Infinite’s age rating. I know it doesn’t really matter but I really wanted to see the flood in infinite especially since we’re going to be on Installation-04. I’m definitely not a big fan of Halo 5’s campaign or multiplayer but I feel people called it a baby game when it got a T rating. I didn’t think it mattered since, yeah there was blood splatter and some decent gameplay so why did it matter. Even though I know it will probably be T I just wanted to see what y’all think.
Personally, I’m not a fan of it.
But I’m also indifferent. Halo 3 and onward were rated M when they probably shouldn’t have been considering some of the other games that were out during that time (Gears, L4D, GTA).
Halo 1 and 2 had some insane blood staining and is probably one of the reasons I played it when I was younger. People said it was violent and not for kids… and that made me want to play it even more. If 343 is trying to capture a younger audience they should probably lean into violence and go for an M-rating imo (but what do I know? Fortnite is rated T and kids love that -Yoink-).
Kids seemingly dominate M-rated games. A T-rating makes a lot of sense for current Halo but probably comes across the same way it did back then “haha your parents wont let you play M-rated games.”. Kids are jerks lol. It’s just kinda lame that they can’t get the same gore the old Halo fans did.
It’s likely being targeted for T again, I couldn’t tell much of a difference between Halo 5 and 4 in terms of violence or blood. Plus that means it’s easier for kids to get ahold of so there is going to be a bigger audience.
Age rating doesn’t really make a big difference with Halo’s content. The flood don’t make that big of an impact aside from adding “gore” into the rating when featured in the FPS campaigns. Halo Combat Evolved was almost rated T if not for the language used.
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> > Halo got M ratings in the past more because the ESRB had different standards, if it was released today it would be rated T.
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> I think CE definitely deserved it’s M rating at the time. I remember hallways filled with Covenant blood on 343 Guilty Spark.
>:) BLOOOOOOOOD YES
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> Anyone who calls something a “baby game” is clearly a child themselves. I don’t think a T rating will matter, nor do I think it would have any impact on the flood being/not being in this game. Halo got M ratings in the past more because the ESRB had different standards, if it was released today it would be rated T.
100% truth… but that is also kind of missing the point. Kids don’t make good arguments, they are literal children lol. Kids will still tease other kids and act superior just because they play an M-rated game. Everything else you said is 100% tho, times change, ratings change, and the ESRB changed. I don’t think the T-rating will mean ‘no flood’ or affect the sales.
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> Age rating doesn’t really make a big difference with Halo’s content. The flood don’t make that big of an impact aside from adding “gore” into the rating when featured in the FPS campaigns. Halo Combat Evolved was almost rated T if not for the language used.
Destroy All Humans has worse language than Halo 1 and 2. It was 100% the blood and gore that got Halo an M-rating lol.
To be fair, the previous Halo’s we released during a time where ESRB were insanely cautious because they didn’t want government intervention. Most Halo games wouldn’t even be Mature in today’s landscape.
I remember when I bought Halo ODST I was told I needed ID as it was 16+. Walked home, came back to the store and it was a different clerk who did not ask for my ID. Wonderful.
This game will be fun no matter the age rating although I appreciate the concerns this could mean no flood. Not for definite though they could have found a workaround or potentially standards have changed.
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> I remember when I bought Halo ODST I was told I needed ID as it was 16+. Walked home, came back to the store and it was a different clerk who did not ask for my ID. Wonderful.
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> This game will be fun no matter the age rating although I appreciate the concerns this could mean no flood. Not for definite though they could have found a workaround or potentially standards have changed.
Halo 3 ODST is actually the perfect example why we don’t have to worry about a T rating; The description of it’s M rating is exactly the same as the description the ESRB used for the current T rating of H5.
Oh and by the way “Halo: Spartan Assault” has a teen rating and has Flood in the game, so no problems there.
I’ve been seeing people assume that just because its T rated there’s going to be no flood involved. I don’t know how one could come to that conclusion.
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> > I remember when I bought Halo ODST I was told I needed ID as it was 16+. Walked home, came back to the store and it was a different clerk who did not ask for my ID. Wonderful.
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> > This game will be fun no matter the age rating although I appreciate the concerns this could mean no flood. Not for definite though they could have found a workaround or potentially standards have changed.
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> Halo 3 ODST is actually the perfect example why we don’t have to worry about a T rating; The description of it’s M rating is exactly the same as the description the ESRB used for the current T rating of H5.
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> Oh and by the way “Halo: Spartan Assault” has a teen rating and has Flood in the game, so no problems there.
Oh dang. I didn’t know that.
There still might be hope for the people who want to see the flood in Infinite lol.
I do hope that it goes for M rated so if anything nasty needs to happens it does, like the transformation of the marines to floods on halo 3
A lot of people today have a shared opinion that Halo doesn’t deserve a Mature rating, and I wholeheartedly disagree. The RTS games are one thing but the FPS titles up until Halo 5 (Yes, even Halo 4 to an extent) appealed to a demographic of High School and College students, moreso during the Xbox days when Microsoft’s console was taking flight in an Underground aesthetic approach. Labeling the Halo franchise as “cartoonish” just because it’s art style and sense or realism isn’t the same as the 15 years of World War II and Modern Military shooters, or because the blood, gore, and violence isn’t the same M for Mature as Gears of War is just dishonest to the series’ history. Bungies games are definitely more reserved in their depiction of intergalactic holy war genocide when compared to contemporaries, but having a shooter that isn’t dropping swears by the second or liquefying every enemy into red (er… purple) paste doesn’t remove the game from telling a serious and mature story. I’ll give credit to Infinite to bumping things up from just “T for Teen with Violence” to ”T for Teen with Blood, Violence, and Language,” but that’s still a Teen rating with near Halo 2 level content warning, so color me doubtful it’ll be any less sanitized than Halo 5.
TL;DR: Teen ratings don’t belong in FPS Halo
It’s cause they wanna sell Megablocks and other -Yoink-
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> A lot of people today have a shared opinion that Halo doesn’t deserve a Mature rating, and I wholeheartedly disagree. The RTS games are one thing but the FPS titles up until Halo 5 (Yes, even Halo 4 to an extent) appealed to a demographic of High School and College students, moreso during the Xbox days when Microsoft’s console was taking flight in an Underground aesthetic approach. Labeling the Halo franchise as “cartoonish” just because it’s art style and sense or realism isn’t the same as the 15 years of World War II and Modern Military shooters, or because the blood, gore, and violence isn’t the same M for Mature as Gears of War is just dishonest to the series’ history. Bungies games are definitely more reserved in their depiction of intergalactic holy war genocide when compared to contemporaries, but having a shooter that isn’t dropping swears by the second or liquefying every enemy into red (er… purple) paste doesn’t remove the game from telling a serious and mature story. I’ll give credit to Infinite to bumping things up from just “T for Teen with Violence” to ”T for Teen with Blood, Violence, and Language,” but that’s still a Teen rating with near Halo 2 level content warning, so color me doubtful it’ll be any less sanitized than Halo 5.
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> TL;DR: Teen ratings don’t belong in FPS Halo
I feel you, Bungie’s Halo games were very mature in the literal sense of the word (and I’d love to see Infinite be M-rated).
However I don’t think Infinite being T-rated will mean a dumbed down story. Even T-rated games have impressively competent narratives.
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> It’s cause they wanna sell Megablocks and other -Yoink-
A what?
M