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E10+ - A Black Falcon - 4th March 2005 http://pc.ign.com/articles/592/592778p1.html New rating, between E and T. :) E10+ - Dark Jaguar - 4th March 2005 If anything I thought they should compress it, not expand it. They should just stick with the basic movie ratings. You know, G, PG, R. 13 doesn't really seem to serve a purpose if you ask me... Besides that, those terms kinda nail what the ratings should be doing a lot better than ones based on age groups. "General", "Parental Guidance", and "Restricted" basically say all that's needed to be said without tacking on any extra meaning like "its FOR CHILDREN, CHILDREN CAN PLAY THIS" or "THIS IS MATURE AND ALL THE POSSIBLE INTERPRETATIONS OF THAT WORD APPLY TO THIS". E10+ - A Black Falcon - 4th March 2005 E is G, E-10 is PG (yes, this is the rating cooresponding to PG. PG-13 already exists in games in the form of T... :)), T is PG-13, M is R... and all of them definitely serve a purpose. There's a big difference between a 10 year old and a 13 year old and the ratings should reflect that... it makes sense to fill in that gap for games as well. E10+ - Great Rumbler - 4th March 2005 Instead of coming up with new ratings, they should just use the same ones that movies do so that parents can't say that they don't know what the ratings mean. E10+ - Dark Jaguar - 4th March 2005 Which is what I said. Hey ABF, what I mean is, what's the difference between PG and PG-13? I mean, Parental Guidance applies to ALL kids right? What, is PG-13 like only applying to kids under 13? I mean, PG-13 has some specific age number, but PG doesn't specify JACK, so where does it fall? I still think 3 ratings is sufficient for a parent's needs. They don't need to know the age group, just that the content is something they need to keep an eye on or avoid altogether. They can view and decide for themselves if it's right for their kid's age group, rather than just blindly trust in some entity to decide what's appropriate, like too many parents do. E10+ - Great Rumbler - 5th March 2005 Here's the difference: "G" means the movie is suitable for everyone while "PG" means that parents might want consider various factors before allowing their children to see it, and "PG-13" means that is isn't suitable for children under 13. E10+ - Dark Jaguar - 5th March 2005 So like PG means parents want to consider factors for... what age group OF children? They don't specify! Just drop the 13 bit if you aren't going to be specific with the other one. E10+ - Great Rumbler - 5th March 2005 Okay, so you drop PG-13 from the rating system, then do you lower R to include movies that don't fit PG or you do you raise PG to include movies that don't fit R? E10+ - Dark Jaguar - 5th March 2005 So PG is lower than PG-13? Could ya answer that for me? Really, I have no idea. What age group is normal PG supposed to cover? E10+ - EdenMaster - 5th March 2005 PG represents parental guidance <i>suggested</i> for any children to be watching the movie, while PG-13 represents parental guidance suggested for anyone under 13. Simple really, although I don't see the need for either, because both say "parental guidance suggested". Suggested, not necessary. A kid could go see a PG movie alone, and a fairly mature looking kid could go see a PG13 movie alone. The only real roadblock in movies, as with games, is the R (M) rating. Everything below that is interpretive to the individual person playing it. That's just my opinion anyway. E10+ - OB1 - 5th March 2005 PG-13 was invented for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom because it was too dark and violent to get a PG rating and Paramount was afraid of getting an R. So they came up with an in-between. E10+ - lazyfatbum - 5th March 2005 So... so wait... We have E, for everybody. There's T, for teen. (13 and up) Then we have M for Mature. (17/18 and up) and of course A, for adults only. (21 and up) Now we have a rating for people between the ages of 10 and 12? What the shit?? Now we'll get a rating for people 19 to 20 or a rating for people with one eye. E10+ - OB1 - 5th March 2005 Yeah I think we should have a different ESRB rating for every single age, 1-95. E10+ - lazyfatbum - 5th March 2005 "This game is rated WTF by the ESRB because we dont know WTF to rate it since we keep making shit up for no reason and trying to jack-off the politicians and soccer moms of America so that everybody's happy and if another 12 year old shoots his school up they can blame the parents for buying him the M rated game and we're totally out of the loop, maybe they'll blame rap music or something.... oh, yeah, almost forgot; this game is progressive scan and also a 4 player game which uses 3 blocks on your memory card." E10+ - Great Rumbler - 5th March 2005 Quote:PG-13 was invented for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom because it was too dark and violent to get a PG rating and Paramount was afraid of getting an R. So they came up with an in-between. However, Temple of Doom didn't get rated PG-13, the first movie released as PG-13 was Red Dawn which came shortly afterword. Now that I'm 18, though, I don't really care what a movie is rated anymore. E10+ - OB1 - 5th March 2005 Huh, you're right. What's the deal with that? E10+ - Great Rumbler - 5th March 2005 According to IMDB, Temple of Doom and Critters were difficult to rate because they had more violence than most PG movies, but supposedly because they had the Speilberg name on them they were rated PG anyway. After that though, they introduced the PG-13 rating for movies that weren't quite PG or R. E10+ - Dark Jaguar - 5th March 2005 Okay, according to EM PG means for ALL children, meaning anyone who isn't an adult legally. And, PG-13 only applies to those under 13. According to others PG-13 is like a higher rating... and I guess PG should really be called like what, PG-10? Also, apparently PG-13 was a way around some movie studio getting the rating they actually deserved. Anyway, books are not rated. Just thought I'd remind people of that. E10+ - A Black Falcon - 5th March 2005 If you want ages, it's basically... Ec: up to 6 (young kids' educational games) E (G): 6+ (okay for anyone) E10+ (PG): 10+ (some material not good for young kids) T (PG-13): 13+ (because children are quite different at 13 from how they were at 10, they realized another category was needed... otherwise you say "okay, is this a high PG or a low R?" and aren't really quite satisfied with either.) M ®: 17+ (some content restrictions, but not as many) Ao (NC-17): 18+ (very few games in this category, and no major commercial titles.) As for books, it's true that they aren't rated, but they are seperated -- children's books are put in one place, adult's books in another, in either a bookstore or a library. That serves for the most important purpose, seperating kids' from adults' stuff... but anyway, how would you content-rate a book? It seems like it'd be harder than movies or games... you could do it, I'm sure, but obviously no one has made an issue of it so it's not been tried. Just banning unpopular books alltogether. E10+ - Great Rumbler - 5th March 2005 Here you go: Quote:G:"General Audiences-All Ages Admitted." There. |