Why does it feel like it should be rated K-8? The whole Halo 4 experience felt like someone was holding your hand telling you that ‘everything going to be okay billy, it’s just a game, those baddies won’t dun diddly da-do-dah hurt you now’
This is not a rant, just voicing out my opinion.
Games can be rated M for realistic violence and language without them being super Adult themed.
You’re shooting other humans. In the face. With a high caliber sniper.
That’s totally fine for kids.
As the guy above me said, game are rated for more than just the theme and adult content.
It’s rated M but made to appeal to kids with it’s gameplay
> You’re shooting other humans. In the face. With a high caliber sniper.
What Halo are you playing?
Its like Batman Arkham city being rated T for Teen. I don’t think it makes much sense as Online interactions aren’t rated or moderated so there basing reviews and ratings off the singleplayer and offline content.
> Why does it feel like it should be rated K-8? <mark>The whole Halo 4 experience felt like someone was holding your hand telling you that ‘everything going to be okay billy, it’s just a game, those baddies won’t dun diddly da-do-dah hurt you now’</mark>
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> This is not a rant, just voicing out my opinion.
I’m honestly curious how you got this impression.
Anyway: Maturity can be measured by many different factors, and I would say that Halo 4 has been the most mature Halo story ever told in a game.
> Games can be rated M for realistic violence and language without them being super Adult themed.
In Uncharted you’re actually shooting people and it’s rated T for teen. Care to rebut? This game if anything should not be rated M for mature considering it’s mass appeal to children.
> > Why does it feel like it should be rated K-8? <mark>The whole Halo 4 experience felt like someone was holding your hand telling you that ‘everything going to be okay billy, it’s just a game, those baddies won’t dun diddly da-do-dah hurt you now’</mark>
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> > This is not a rant, just voicing out my opinion.
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> I’m honestly curious how you got this impression.
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> Anyway: Maturity can be measured by many different factors, and I would say that Halo 4 has been the most mature Halo story ever told in a game.
You’re joking right? Did you not grow up in the era where games were actually a challenge to play?
And fyi, Reach was the most mature Halo story in the series.
> > Games can be rated M for realistic violence and language without them being super Adult themed.
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> In Uncharted you’re actually shooting people and it’s rated T for teen. Care to rebut? This game if anything should not be rated M for mature considering it’s mass appeal to children.
Also, game companies don’t choose the ratings, the ESRB does it for them.
So if Uncharted ends up T and Halo 4 ends up M, the ESRB are the ones who decided as such.
So no, its not 343 trying to call it M so kids will play it.
Also, the gameplay does not attract children, they want super violent games like CoD that contain blood and massive explosions.
> > You’re shooting other humans. In the face. With a high caliber sniper.
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> What Halo are you playing?
Every single Halo’s multiplayer?
> > > Why does it feel like it should be rated K-8? <mark>The whole Halo 4 experience felt like someone was holding your hand telling you that ‘everything going to be okay billy, it’s just a game, those baddies won’t dun diddly da-do-dah hurt you now’</mark>
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> > > This is not a rant, just voicing out my opinion.
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> > I’m honestly curious how you got this impression.
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> > Anyway: Maturity can be measured by many different factors, and I would say that Halo 4 has been the most mature Halo story ever told in a game.
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> You’re joking right? Did you not grow up in the era where games were actually a challenge to play?
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> And fyi, Reach was the most mature Halo story in the series.
Maturity and how hard a game is are not the same thing, and rarely dependent on each other.
And I was just giving my opinion. Reach was more mature than most Halo titles, but Halo 4 has a lot more content to deal with, it’s themes a lot more subtle than anything seen in previous game entries.
Being on this forum makes me sad to call myself a Halo fan you all need to stop complaining about every tiny little detail about this game seriously.
Not only did it have violence, it also had a beautifully large chested partially nude blue chick throughout the whole thing
Have you read any books? They actually curse in them. It seems a little weird that the game has no bad curse words but the books do. I guess that’s just how it is.
When I showed my 7 (at the time) year old nephew Halo, he asked why I was shooting the Aliens. I realized that I couldn’t explain the concept of a Holy War to him, or how they had destroyed hundreds of worlds and killed billions of people.
Ask yourself WHY and you’ll figure out how the Halo games are mature.
The OP shot himself in the foot by being over-dramatic and saying the game feels like K-8 but he does make a valid point about the rating of Mature.
Halo 4 is rated Mature and the only listed labels are “Blood” and “Violence” which is very typical of a Teen rated game. Those labels aren’t even maxed out, Mature games will usually carry “Blood and Gore” or “Intense Violence” and for reference Uncharted 3 carried a Teen rating with the listed labels being blood, language, and violence sporting 1 more than Halo 4.
Note: Complexity of the story is not a factor in determining game ratings. A game can be entirely about quantum physics but if it has no bad language or violence it will still be rated E. Portal 2 sports an E rating for Fantasy Violence and Mild Language while having numerous puzzles most 10 year olds cannot solve.
Halo 4 is very tame compared to other Mature games and very easily could have been rated Teen.
With that being said I honestly don’t care about the content rating of a game nor do I see why it bothers someone so much. I never even look at the ratings anymore I just get whatever looks good.
> When I showed my 7 (at the time) year old nephew Halo, he asked why I was shooting the Aliens. I realized that I couldn’t explain the concept of a Holy War to him, or how they had destroyed hundreds of worlds and killed billions of people.
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> Ask yourself WHY and you’ll figure out how the Halo games are mature.
The aliens are bad guys who kill people. Done.
The Halo 4 story is shallow and rather embarassing. But by modern videogame standards that’s pretty normal.
If you’re saying Halo should be rated T, I’d agree with you if it weren’t for Cortana. They need to slap some clothes on her. And the one scene where the scientists get composed.
If you’re saying it should be more gory, no please.
If you’re saying it should have more intense language, no please.
You don’t need those for a good game. In fact, if anything, they just detract from the game. I don’t want ridiculous blood spurts and F bombs every 5 seconds. Yes, I realize that’s what the real world is like (with the cursing anyway lol), but don’t we play videogames to escape real life? And I think we can all agree how laughably ridiculous Gears is.