• Unlike Every Past Halo FPS, Halo 5 Earns a Teen ESRB Rating
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[url]http://www.gamespot.com/articles/unlike-every-past-halo-fps-halo-5-earns-a-teen-esr/1100-6429576/[/url] [QUOTE][URL="http://www.gamespot.com/halo-5-guardians/"]Halo 5: Guardians[/URL] has received a Teen rating from the ESRB, making it the first of the Halo first-person shooters to earn anything other than a Mature rating. The newly published [URL="http://www.esrb.org/ratings/synopsis.jsp?Certificate=34053&Title=Halo%205%3A%20Guardians&searchkeyword=halo%205"]ESRB listing[/URL] highlights the standard Halo violence you'd expect: "Players use pistols, machine guns, grenade launchers, and futuristic weapons to kill alien and human enemies in frenetic combat. Battles are highlighted by realistic gunfire, explosions, and occasional blood-splatter effects. Characters can also use 'assassinations' to kill characters by snapping their necks, or by stabbing them with bladed weapons."[/QUOTE] to be fair halo has always been pretty tame save the flood. not super surprising.
Alien and human enemies? Since when did you kill other people in Halo?
[QUOTE=Starlight 456;48437951]Alien and human enemies? Since when did you kill other people in Halo?[/QUOTE] in multiplayer
[QUOTE=Starlight 456;48437951]Alien and human enemies? Since when did you kill other people in Halo?[/QUOTE] Every single second since Captain Keyes gave you that pistol
Halo doesn't even have regular blood, let alone gibs. Everything in multiplayer is ragdolling, and when you kill the Covenant it's green goo. I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner.
[QUOTE=Cock Boner;48438166]Halo doesn't even have regular blood, let alone gibs. Everything in multiplayer is ragdolling, and when you kill the Covenant it's green goo. I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner.[/QUOTE] I mean, at most there is a little bit of blood when shot with human weapons but not that much. Make sense too, at least for multiplayer, since everyone is in suits of armor that would probably stop a lot of the blood seeping out.
This is surprising considering the assassinations were the only reason halo reach was rated M.
I thought Halo was pretty deserving of its M rating. I remember in the first one, I would melee attack dead Elites until there was so much blood that the framerate dropped to like 2.
Still going to be bad because I can't play it with my brother splitscreen. Also esrb is a pretty arbitrary rating system which few parents pay attention to anyways
#alienlivesmatter
[QUOTE=MightyLOLZOR;48438459]I thought Halo was pretty deserving of its M rating. I remember in the first one, I would melee attack dead Elites until there was so much blood that the framerate dropped to like 2.[/QUOTE] Yeah, but that's alien blood. Alien blood is ok for teens, just not regular blood.
[QUOTE=UncleJimmema;48438702]Yeah, but that's alien blood. Alien blood is ok for teens, just not regular blood.[/QUOTE] Alien blood and cyborg juice.
guitar hero is rated T, and so is super smash brothers brawl.
[QUOTE=UncleJimmema;48438702]Yeah, but that's alien blood. Alien blood is ok for teens, just not regular blood.[/QUOTE] you can do that with humans as well, just as much human blood
[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;48438829]I dunno, I never saw Halo as an M rated series. It's violent, but nothing a 13 year old couldn't handle.[/QUOTE] Shit, i played halo when i was 7, i never thought it was too violent.
I heard the earlier games were only rated M because of the depictions of the Flood.
The ESRB is kinda weird, they could of just applied for a T just to try their luck and got someone to sign off on it.
[QUOTE=Wayword;48438758]guitar hero is rated T, and so is super smash brothers brawl.[/QUOTE] Wasn't Brawl rated T because of Wario's farts and Snake's guns or something
[QUOTE=Keychain;48439322]Wasn't Brawl rated T because of Wario's farts and Snake's guns or something[/QUOTE] Melee was rated T too, and it wasn't for the farts, it was for "comic mischief".
[QUOTE=Joakim Lindb;48438890]Shit, i played halo when i was 7, i never thought it was too violent.[/QUOTE] Ratings don't mean a thing. There isn't an arbitrary age you reach where you can suddenly handle adult themes. Different kids have different tolerances for these types of things. Instead, treat ratings as a listing of adult themes a game has and make your own judgments.
Halo reach shouldn't of had a M rating either.
[QUOTE=Fangz;48439355]Melee was rated T too, and it wasn't for the farts, it was for "comic mischief".[/QUOTE] Melee was T rated because of Giga Bowser according to an interview.
Once Gears came out the M rating changed meaning
[QUOTE=BlindSniper17;48440115]Melee was T rated because of Giga Bowser according to an interview.[/QUOTE] Huh. Such odd standards and such all around. While this news of a T-rated Halo is interesting in view of the franchise I don't think it will really effect much, maybe extend sales a touch??
I haven't played any of the games after Reach, so I can't speak for them, but the first Halo was the only one I thought was anywhere near an M rating. The first game was bloody as shit, but after that the series got really tame.
Great! Now bring it to PC!
[QUOTE=Starlight 456;48437951]Alien and human enemies? Since when did you kill other people in Halo?[/QUOTE] Always? In MP, when you kill enough marines, in Halo 5 you're hunting Chief.
I wonder if this means the AIs will be wearing clothing in the new game.
[QUOTE=Fangz;48439355]Melee was rated T too, and it wasn't for the farts, it was for "comic mischief".[/QUOTE] Melee was likely rated T only because E10+ did not exist yet, as Smash 4 got the E10+ rating. (Funny enough, the reverse happened in Europe with Melee getting a 3+ rating and Smash 4 getting a 12+ rating) Brawl on the other hand did have some moments that I felt were a bit more deserving of a T-rating than Smash typically is, such as Snake's codecs, Snake's necksnapping, Samus vs Ridley and the Pikachu Generator. Some of the beta elements suggested they were once going to embrace having such a kind of rating worldwide even more with stuff like battle damage and the scrapped Beatmania remix port, but eventually was toned down to what we got.
Could this mostly be due to evolving standards on content in media?
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