We where barely ably to get Reach, because of the mild “M” rating. So my Brother and I really want to pre-order H4, but we still don’t know the rating, and i don’t want to get all excited after preordering it, then find out we can’t get it when we see what it’s rated. So my question is…Does anyone know how long it usually takes for a game to get its rating? I know it will have at least blood/violence. So far it looks like we can get it,but still not sure.
It isn’t rated yet, but a big part of the rating system is what ratings previous games in the franchise got. If every other game in a franchise is M, the next title will almost always carry that rating as well by default.
What makes it M is the fact you are using guns. Guns to kill aliens (aliens are sentient beings regardless of hostility) and other humans (Spartans). Blood comes forth from wounds inflicted by most if not all weapons in Halo and blood is a very nasty thing to have all over the place or do i need to direct some fools to Ninja Gaiden II and then show you what it’s like to dismember someone in real life?
As we all know, Guns remove life from this world and murder is not something to take lightly. It’s a video game i know but that’s how it works in rating these games when the ESRB does work.
Just because the characters aren’t consuming alcohol, cheap -Yoink!- scenes by choosing the right dialogue and not spouting the word -Yoink- or crap every five seconds doesn’t void a game from being mature. In fact, if a game can resort to making a better without an overabundance of sleaziness and cursing, it’s in fact more mature IMO. Well at least for Halo, it works in other games like Fallout, Gears, Mass Effect etc.
I think Violence, Blood, and Mild Language will cause it to be M.
Sometimes I don’t agree with ESRB because they sometimes don’t even give the the AO rating to games that need the AO rating. Halo is usually toned down in violence, blood, generally no gore, just with the flood, and even then, they only appeared in 1, 2, 3, and Wars, but Wars wasn’t up close and personal so I leave that out, and language isn’t that bad, I don’t see certain language being used unlike in games like GoW, COD, and BF3, but yes, it does seem like it needs to be M rated unless they want to get sued like what happens when give a game that deserves more of an AO rating and gets an M rating, happened several times.
> > Thanks, guys.
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> > I know it will be M, but not sure what will make it M.
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> How about when you assassinate people you stab them and you can also break their neck.
> > Rated M for Mature :
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> > <mark>Language</mark> <mark>*possibly not as Reach didn’t have language on it</mark>
> > Blood
> > Violence
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> I wonder why mild language or just language wasn’t on the rating info…
just check out. Only Halo 3 and ODST had language warning.
> > > Rated M for Mature :
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> > > <mark>Language</mark> <mark>*possibly not as Reach didn’t have language on it</mark>
> > > Blood
> > > Violence
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> > I wonder why mild language or just language wasn’t on the rating info…
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> just check out. Only Halo 3 and ODST had language warning.
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> Halo CE, Halo 2 and Reach are language proof.
> > > > Rated M for Mature :
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> > > > <mark>Language</mark> <mark>*possibly not as Reach didn’t have language on it</mark>
> > > > Blood
> > > > Violence
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> > > I wonder why mild language or just language wasn’t on the rating info…
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> > just check out. Only Halo 3 and ODST had language warning.
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> > Halo CE, Halo 2 and Reach are language proof.
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> Halo 2 had a Language warning…
We regret being alien -Yoinks!-, we regret coming to Earth, and we most definitely regret the Corps just blew up our raggedy–Yoink- fleet!