How Much do you care about ratings?

[Jack_the_White]

Just how much to you care about video game ratings. For me: I just use them to find out if the game is for little kids or not.

 

[Butterfree]

The Pokémon games are rated 3+/E/whatever the equivalent in your country, you know.

I don't think I've ever looked at video game ratings as more than a curiosity.

 

[Storm Earth and Fire]

I don't look at them... Mostly something parents would be concerned about, I think.

 

[Charizard Morph]

*Shrugs* I don't pay much attention to them, of course, i don't play much besides pokemon, so there you go.

 

[Tailsy]

I actually went "Video games have ratings!?" there.

Shut up I don't buy games ever. ;;

 

[Dannichu]

I don't pay too much attention to a game's rating. Generally I know what kind of content a game'll have before I see what the European Board of Game Raters (or whoever) gave it - I don't need to be told that the newest Resi game will be full of blood, or the next Shadow Hearts will be creepy as hell, because that's what the games are about.
I don't think the rating's ever been a deciding factor in whether or not I get a game. The reason for the rating, possibly - I don't like much of the content in GTA, for example - but not the rating itself.

 

[ultraviolet]

Well I'm old enough to buy whatever I want, almost, and if I ever decided to get something I wasn't able to I've got plenty of adults that would buy it for me.

So not at all really. It does matter to me slightly if I'm buying something for my sister (who is five) but only in that I don't buy a game that's too young for her.

 

[S. E.]

Did you know there was once a game called Tom & Jerry: War of the Whiskers, and it was rated Teen?

Yeah. I don't pay too much attention to ratings. Occasionally I'll look on the back of the cover to see their little 'classifications', such as Alcohol Reference in Digimon World: Dawn/Dusk (...What?). But only to snicker at them.

 

[goldenquagsire]

PEGI ratings? Never gave a crap about them, tbh. Lots of "teen" or "mature" games are utter shit, and lots of kiddie games are actually really amazing.

 

[Valerunner]

I don't even notice.

I thought we were talking about reviews.

 

[Rai-CH]

Video Games have ratings? I never noticed O.o

Though I guess they're more for parents would don't want their kids to see blood or guns or whatever.

 

[Bombsii]

I think I once saw a digimon game on the PS2 that was a 12+ game ratings are retarded. Games like Madworld and Dead Rising dont interest me that much anyway.

 

[Evolutionary]

I don't care, I go on forums and things to see if I want certain games or not. Stuff the rating.

 

[Yarnchu]

The only way it affects me is if I game I want is Mature or AO, then I can't get it. Most of the time they don't make sense anyways.

Shadow the Hedgehog (E10+): Real Guns, death, lots of violence and swearing.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl (T): Closest to real guns are Snake's explosives, no swearing, no actual death(cept possibly Master Hand in the SSE.), and just cartoon violence. Samus in a skin-tight suit.

....I don't get it either.

 

[Dewgong]

I don't pay too much attention. Usually I just read up on the game, and then buy it. I'll pretty much know if it's something I want to play or not. My parents don't want me playing M games or anything, and I don't really want to either.

I have plenty of games that are rated T that my parents have bought me though, and they have pretty much no reason to be rated that. I have a couple other games that are rated E but should probably be rated T. Eh.

 

[foreign contaminant]

my parents don't want me to play m-rated games, either, but i play what i want to. the subject matter in my m games is no more graphic than the subject matter of my t games. i can understand why persona 3 was rated m, though; though i like to think i'd be a good enough parent to talk to my kids about it, i wouldn't really want them to watch kids pretend to shoot themselves in the hand numerous times in the space of an hour.