"Animated Blood" in the rating (USA)?

This has been bothering me since 1.0. If this game had the rating for Teen (USA) and one of the descriptions for animated blood, where exactly in the game did it show animated blood? I do have the 1.0 benchmark and while the scene plays out with the jellyfish being slaughtered on the ship, there is a spray of purple liquid, which I assume is blood. But throughout playing the game, I've never really seen any animated blood other than that one scene (and it was jellyfish juice, not NPC humanoid blood). So really, where is the supposed blood?

I know that in FFXI with your character fighting enemies, when you would get hit by an attack, there would be a spray of purplish blood from being hit. Though there was no blood or spray when you were to hit an enemy, which is odd.

i haven't seen any blood spray in 1.0 and if it did have i didn't take notice to it too much. Me personally i really could see having animations for the player along with the mobs having bruise marks, cuts, gear wear and tear/aging, slouching, fatigue, dislocated body parts, etc etc. Blood spray in my opinion is unnecessary and doesn't need to be all over the place in a ff game, im not squeamish when i see blood its just i don't care for it. Like i said in the ladder i rather that then seeing blood spraying and coming out of the player and the mob.

Yeah, I really don't see how the game got rated for animated blood when there really isn't except the Limsa Lominsa opening scene. I also don't understand why FFXI had it, though.

and the point of this topic is...?

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Originally Posted by Naraku_Diabolos

This has been bothering me since 1.0. If this game had the rating for Teen (USA) and one of the descriptions for animated blood, where exactly in the game did it show animated blood? I do have the 1.0 benchmark and while the scene plays out with the jellyfish being slaughtered on the ship, there is a spray of purple liquid, which I assume is blood. But throughout playing the game, I've never really seen any animated blood other than that one scene (and it was jellyfish juice, not NPC humanoid blood). So really, where is the supposed blood?

I know that in FFXI with your character fighting enemies, when you would get hit by an attack, there would be a spray of purplish blood from being hit. Though there was no blood or spray when you were to hit an enemy, which is odd.

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one secene is all it takes to affect the rating.

Put a hidden stripper scene in the game that you have to unlock with a code, itt'l still get a M or AO rating even if there isn't anything in the normal gameplay.

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Originally Posted by stanleyyoung

i haven't seen any blood spray in 1.0 and if it did have i didn't take notice to it too much. Me personally i really could see having animations for the player along with the mobs having bruise marks, cuts, gear wear and tear/aging, slouching, fatigue, dislocated body parts, etc etc. Blood spray in my opinion is unnecessary and doesn't need to be all over the place in a ff game, im not squeamish when i see blood its just i don't care for it. Like i said in the ladder i rather that then seeing blood spraying and coming out of the player and the mob.

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The other thing to remember is that this game is going to be played by a wide variety of ages. It certainly isn't something I enjoy when I pull out Skyrim and I have to admit that would be the kind of thing I would not allow to be played for my children had that been a option when they were in their teens. I am sure other parents feel the same.

Fortunately the Japanese are in charge and they don't seem inclined to make that sort of thing as realistic as they want to go in the US.

No blood? But, but...my immersion!

Better run Naraku, here they come.

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Originally Posted by Naraku_Diabolos

Yeah, I really don't see how the game got rated for animated blood when there really isn't except the Limsa Lominsa opening scene. I also don't understand why FFXI had it, though.

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SO MUCH BLOOD!!!

I'm pretty sure the "purple mist" that occasionally popped up when you got hit is what counted as animated blood, at least in XI. Not sure about XIV.

purple stuff use to come out of the mob when you hit it, when they made the mobs smaller or larger, the purple stuff disappeared on alot of the mobs, not all but they were mostly the ones scuttled to the 4 corners of the realm never to be conquered again.

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Originally Posted by rina_inverse

and the point of this topic is...?

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The ESRB is retarded.

I'm pretty sure there was blood in the "Calamity Cometh" quest where your character would use the echo to see who stabbed Niellefresnel.

Let's just have killing mobs look like this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctXJkwWz7bk I kid, I kid, but rending mobs into chunks was always the best part of that game.

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Originally Posted by Punainen

Let's just have killing mobs look like this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctXJkwWz7bk I kid, I kid, but rending mobs into chunks was always the best part of that game.

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More like Ninja Assassin blood bath XD! j/k but i wouldn't mind if mobs show in a way you are cutting them down

It's likely they mistook an effect for gore. Happens more often than it should.

FF has never been a particularly bloody game. I think FF8's opening scene had more blood than most of the series combined.

It's not even a realistic game. No need to put realistic blood/gore/dismemberment/penises/etc in it.

Well, Dragon Age series have a lot of blood being sprayed around, although I would still prefer FF to remain a largely blood and gore-free game...

I would - love - to see a SE Final Fantasy graphic style game made for adults, gore and all... Would be amazing! lol

Although, I dont think it would be good to add it to the numbered Fantasys - just influence from :P


But as Alhanelem said, if it happens once, anywhere, then it happened for the rating. Its important (ESRB) for parents who dont know crap about video games lol (Or at least the ones their kids are playing :P)

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Originally Posted by Shougun

I would - love - to see a SE Final Fantasy graphic style game made for adults, gore and all... Would be amazing! lol

Although, I dont think it would be good to add it to the numbered Fantasys - just influence from :P


But as Alhanelem said, if it happens once, anywhere, then it happened for the rating. Its important (ESRB) for parents who dont know crap about video games lol (Or at least the ones their kids are playing :P)

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id rather a child play a T-Rated game then let them watch some of these PG13 films that come out, the ESRB is a hindrance to game developers and its in serous need of revision. if a boob pops out out in a film its all lolololol, but if it happens in a game people go ape crap retarded and gets an A/O rating and never sees the light of day.

Nothing says immersion like hitting a mob over the head with a sharp instrument and notice their brains are made of sparks.

I welcome blood in this game and any other, theres a simple 'parental control' tab on most games nowadays anyway.

This is probably a case of Rate M for Money. For some reason people seem to think that having "kiddy ratings" mean less people would play it. Throw in a bit of animated blood, bam! You're no longer a "E for everyone" and now you're in the cooler "T for teens" group, where everyone's emo and cutting themselves.

FFXI was rated T for teen, it also had sparks galore. I wouldn't really care if this game was rated M though, these games are driven by reputation, the younger crowd doesn't exactly know what that means. M just means that theres bare tits at some point in the storyline, or someones head gets chopped off. Same for movies, one nudity scene = R rating.

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Originally Posted by Shorty

Well, Dragon Age series have a lot of blood being sprayed around, although I would still prefer FF to remain a largely blood and gore-free game...

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I really don't care one way or the other about blood and gore, though when it is there I prefer it to be a relatively normal amount rather than buckets like mortal kombat.

I can tell you that Dragon Age's rating doesn't have a whole lot to do with the blood spray and it would probably still have the same rating without the blood.

The ESRB doesn't actually play games when they rate them, they just watch a video containing various game footage and come up with a rating based on that. I'm not sure how long or extensive these videos are/have to be, but it's not surprising that one scene could influence the rating. Since they haven't actually played the game, for all the ESRB raters know there are more scenes with "blood" that they simply didn't see.

On the EU box there is sex written in the rate description (rate is Pegi 12), but I didn't found the sex scene yet ^^

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Originally Posted by Felis

On the EU box there is sex written in the rate description (rate is Pegi 12), but I didn't found the sex scene yet ^^

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Since I assume that you can understand it Felis:

From the german Wikipedia (click) :

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"Nacktheit oder sexuelle Handlungen (bzw. Anspielungen darauf) werden gezeigt (bei PEGI12: Wörter oder Taten mit sexuellen Anspielungen, bei PEGI16: erotische Darstellungen und Nacktheit mit sexuellem Bezug, bei PEGI18: Sexdarstellungen)"

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the english wikipedia (click) says:

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"12: Suitable for ages 12 and older. May contain violence in a fantasy setting, coarse language, mild sexual references or innuendo, or gambling. Similar to BBFC's 12 rating and ESRB's Everyone 10+ (high end) and Teen (low end) ratings.
16: Suitable for ages 16 and older. May contain explicit violence, strong language, sexual references or content, gambling, or drug use (encouragement). Similar to BBFC's 15 rating and ESRB's Teen (high end) and the Mature (low end) ratings."
18: Suitable for ages 18 and older. May contain graphic violence, including "violence towards defenseless people" and "multiple, motiveless killing", strong language, strong sexual content, gambling, drug use (glamorisation), or discrimination. Similar to BBFC's 18 rating and the ESRB's Mature (high end) and Adults Only ratings."

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