The rating you are looking for is “E” for everyone. That is a game that is family oriented. The “T” rating is more like the “PG” or “PG13” movie rating. Parental Guidance is needed.
I said in my post I thought the T rating was wrong and that it should be M (more so for the violence really… the “romances” are pretty “tame” and just a bunch of cheesy lines and a lot of “fading to black.” Pretty much what you see on network TV anymore–there is nothing graphic about the sex. TV daytime soap operas are more “graphic” in that respect than the game. There is graphic violence though).
I did check the rating and it was M for 17 and older but it does sound like this company Bioware has a very strong agenda if all of its games (Mass Effect 3, Dragon Age 2 Star Wars, The Old Republic -- ) including a game for 13 year olds have gay romance and** Jade Empire** has menga-a-trois romances.
That what I would have thought about the sexual content (sounds like it is not really sexual)and that wouldn’t posed a problem as long as there were no gay romance in it,
I haven’t seen the game but I am getting two different points of view. One person is saying it too violent and one saying it is mild. If it is a mild and doesn’t have gay relationships then it T and I am OK with this. This is a Catholic site.
I search for WOW game, which my son play and one 17 year old male on the internet said the average age is 16 to 22 and he rarely meets anyone pass that age.
According to the Daedelus project, which is a study on the demographics of MMO games, “the average age of the WoW player is 28.3 (SD = 8.4).”
May I ask what realm(s) you play/played on?
I think it is just another way of normalizing homosexual relations to the young and need not be there. If they want to put in the T game level (13) then the level should be M for 17 and older. It is agenda driven. So I guess I will have to agree to disagree with you on this. Gaming Companies are responsible to parents who buy these products and that I think is the purpose of the rating system.
We could do a whole new thread on average- median, means on video games and how they come with these figures.
There is an agenda, but not the one you think.
I completely understand that and that is why they are keeping this as a T(13) rating so it will have wide appeal in the market. No problem with that but once they put in homosexual romances then the rating should jump to M(17). They want their agenda and their low T rating. I get it but it is not what parents should put up with. They should complain to BioWare.
Thank God I don’t have you as a parent (and I say this as someone who’s had strained relationships with his own due to philosophical differences).
I’ve played Dragon Age 2 and I have to say that one thing that you should take from BioWare games like that is the decision aspect. You’re free to make decisions and take note of their consequences.
And this game is rated appropriately with a M rating.
But it does. They rate games for a reason. otherwise why even bother doing a rating system. This game is rated T(13) and it may or may not be correct. However if you ad another factor such as being able to choose homosexual romances then I think the rating should be adjusted to a more mature rating. There are billions of dollars spent on video games and parents are looking at these ratings. Why try to have it both ways.
I actually know of some homeschooling families who have a “no video game” rule and I don’t think it has hurt those children at all. They are in their late teens and early twenties(very social) and moving onto adult relationships. One family has 4 sons which really impressed me.
Exactly.
Right. It is pretty simple. I look at a rating. I read the content descriptors.
Now, language in a game isn’t a big deal for me. Blood and gore with violence would get a second look. Sexual Themes would take me to the store to talk to someone that plays the game. Or on line to read about why it got that rating.
Yes but there’s a fine line between helping and asking something to make judgments for you. Believe me, I’ve played a ton of T-rated games and they’ve had expressed world views that are far worse than espousing homosexuality. Then again, it’s not like homosexuality is a forbidden subject for teens either. Heck my high school Theology class did quite the coverage on the subject (with a wider coverage on human sexuality as a whole).