"Animated Blood" in the rating (USA)?

[jwang]

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.

[VitoScaletta]

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.

[Alhanelem]

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 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.

[CSLionheart]

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.

[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 ^^

[Seraphe]

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 ^^

Since I assume that you can understand it Felis:

From the german Wikipedia (click) :

"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)"

the english wikipedia (click) says:

"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."