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3/20/2013 8:17:00 PM
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Destiny NEEDS an "M" rating
I know that often times, developers and gamers alike don't really care what the rating on a game is, but from what I've heard (all speculation of course), is that Bungie is aiming for a "T" rating for Destiny.
If this is the case, which I hope it isn't, it will be a huge mistake. The story for what Destiny is claiming to be, cannot be done justice if Bungie doesn't allow for the grit, violence, language, etc that would come with that setting, it can't be believable.
If the world is almost completely wiped out, and the human race is having to fight several other species in a last ditch effort to survive, you better bet that there will be "F bombs" dropped, there will be people being shot (meaning decent amounts of blood), etc.
Bungie, please, don't let yourselves be held back by a rating in order to get more sales. Make this game an "M" rated game. Anything less would be simply uncompelling and unbelievable, and would really detract from the story and mood that would be present should this situation in this game ever really happen.
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1 ReplyStrong language should indeed be implemented to sort of let the seriousness of the situation sink in at times.
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Knowing Bungie, they aren't going to allow their vision for the game to be held back by anything. If they are going for a teen rated game, that would be because they are going for a teen rated game.
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1 ReplySwearing is a literary tool just like anything else. I think it's inclusion/exclusion would effect little to nothing of the content within the game. Also as I recall none of the Halo games used the "F" bomb. And if you're expecting graphic nudity/violence, I daresay you'll be disappointed. We here in the Bungie Community prefer "Carnage", which is like graphic violence, but with class. So to answer you: No. I don't think it NEEDS an M rating.
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7 RepliesI suspect that the "strong language" is going to come from other players. NPC's will probably not be nearly as foul-mouthed as the human participants.
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1 ReplyThere are plenty of more meaningful ways to express the gravity of a situation without using language. There are plenty of games that do it. Just because COD swears to be edgy doesn't mean that Bungie has to. They are true storytellers who don't need to rely on little cultural quips to get their point across. They put in plenty of violence without making it grotesque like some other games. If that means that more people can play it, then all the better.
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Halo might as well have been rated T after the first game, but that's beside the point. It doesn't have to have swearing and limbs being blown off to tell a good story.
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People don't want to play games rated T (unless you a little kid or something, obviously), as the devs would lose a core fanbase and it's money by making it too juvenile. But it doesn't really matter, I guess.
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While I agree with you that completely eliminating curse words from some stories does make it feel silly, Dragon Age: Origins and the word "sodding" as an example, I don't think that Destiny is that type of game. If it was that the Last City was under constant bombardment and people were dying everywhere then I would agree that it should be more "mature" for lack of a better way of phrasing it. But that isn't this game. Even from what little we've seen int he vidoc Destiny is just an adventure, and one filled with hope. If you want to take a game and make it more serious and darker then yes add all the curse words and "grit" you like. But that will not be this game.
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Edited by tastyjerk: 3/20/2013 8:50:35 PMHonestly - and I'm trying not to be confrontational - if someone doesn't buy Destiny just because it doesn't have profuse swearing and gore, then I feel like their priorities are in the wrong place anyway, and they'd be better off playing something else. There are plenty of games out there to slake whatever bloodlust or machismo that people feel like they need to get out, but if Bungie wants to make a game T, then they're doing it to make it as [i]accessible[/i] as possible. I hardly think they'd do it to make it "kiddy," they're still just going to make it as epic as anything they've done before, if not more so.
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Adult content =/= good game
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I'm in favour of Destiny being accessible to more people, so more people can share Bungie's brilliant creation. I don't care for games that are overly edgy and gory just for the sake of it, they seem to cater to male teens who are overly eager to prove that they are "manly" and gore doesn't put them off. I'd rather play a game which focused on making the atmosphere immersive.
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2 RepliesI approve of a T rating... The screamers tend to shun anything that isn't M rated and/or CoD. My ears would thank Bungie. also: [quote]Adult content =/= good game[/quote]
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6 RepliesI approve of a Rated T game there is no reason why a game can't still be great without what we see today as mature aspects of a game (gore,violence,sex, language). Pure example of this is Mario (one of the best games ever made) and It's even lower that game is rated E.
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Edited by Froboy: 3/20/2013 9:27:20 PMFor real? I want the space zombies and others things to be scary though. I know they want to basically replace Star Wars with this but a T rating screams little kid. I want times when the game is slightly scary (like Flood levels in Halo).
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6 RepliesHaha I love how you tell them to not hold back for sales. Bungie is a business and a business is supposed to make money. Second, I thinks its foolish for you to think that in order to have a great game you need intense graphic violence and foul language. Halo should have been T for gore and language and was confused it was a M rated title. I hope Destiny is T so there can be just that many more players in the world we are about to get into.
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As if a lower rating is going to gain the game any more sales. I've never heard of these T-rated suspicions before now, but I severely hope they are wrong. Science fiction is all about existentialism and fear and other deep emotions, I don't want to see "space zombies" that [i]don't[/i] scare the shit out of me.
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2 RepliesWhether it's rated T or M we will still have the 12 year old kids.....
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4 RepliesGod knows that there doesn't exist a single good story without blood and f-bombs. It's one thing to say that Bungie shouldn't let ESRB rating goals interfere with their vision for the game, but saying that Destiny "NEEDS" an M rating is silly.
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Edited by Prototape: 3/21/2013 8:31:48 AMThis isn't a steroid fueled shooter like Gears of War. Destiny appears to have more class. A dark story can be told without an excess of swear words and gratuitous violence; such cases are just so anomalous that it seems a bit awkward when one comes along.
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2 RepliesBecause you already know the story right? Because you already know the setting right? Because you already listened to all the dialogue right? You're a -blam!-ing idiot. Muted.
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No, it doesn't.
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4 Replieslots of blood and gore = lots of sales ? how ?
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1 ReplyIt should be rated B. [i]For Bungie.[/i] But seriously, Destiny doesn't need to be dark and edgy, and that certainly isn't what I'm expecting. It's fantasy; it's been likened to Star Wars. It should be bright and just plain awesome. Humanity may have been forced to their knees, but they're still in the fight. They still have one last stronghold left. They're still clinging on in a distant future where the whole galaxy is against them. They still have hope. Also, if it's bright, the dark bits will be so much darker by contrast.
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42 RepliesWe're making the game we want to play. We don't design toward a rating.
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I find it odd how you think a gaming company makes it's game around a predefined rating. It baffles me even more to think you would even QUESTION Bungie on whether or not they are .....limiting themselves...*shudders* Bungie is known for pleasing it's masses. I don't doubt this game will be spectacular no matter how far in the Alphabet it gets.
