If The ESRB Rating For Smash 4 Was M, What New Things Should They Add?

[supercopper64]

I would love them to add more realistic weapons, blood, damaged armor, cussing, and more mature characters, that would lose a lot of fans, but gain many. I would still play smash, just not as much.

Sorry the poll was supposed to have more options, sorry bout that, not need to answer.

 

[BADGRAPHICS]

inb4 embarrassing posts about ZSS.

 

[Morbi]

I feel as though Smash should have a toggle gore option; and fatalities, of course.

 

[Thirdkoopa]

knives

snake gets back in with all the knives

 

[Hippopotasauce]

Bayonetta at most.
Anything more racy would detract from the game.

 

[Zero Suit Wario]

Pretty much a golden rule that for Smash, almost anything that could warrant an M rating would be unnecessary and/or not fitting.

 

[KiraYoshikage]

Travis Touchdown

 

[8-peacock-8]

Travis Touchdown and Bayonetta are added for some reason.

 

[PKNinja95]

They could add characters from Rated M titles into Smash and still make it T. I.e Snake

They did it with PS All Stars(Raiden, Dante, Sweet Tooth, Radec etc)

 

[Rickster]

Wouldn't an M rated game go against everything Nintendo does? Family friendly gaming company since...forever.

If it was M rated it would probably have the added gore, which has already been mentioned, along with ZSS having more pronounced features.

So...Mortal Kombat, basically.

 

[GreenReaperGod]

Zero Suit Samus, except this time she has bigger boobs and high heels.

wait a second....

 

[MargnetMan23]

Why isn't T an option? Considering that both melee and brawl were rated that, it's the safe bet =.=

 

[cmbsfm]

guns, lots of guns

 

[The Real Gamer]

Thank goodness Smash won't ever be rated M... M rated fighting games always have way too much fanservice, and we already see how many people freak out over ZSS.

And Rosalina

 

[RascalTheCharizard]

Wouldn't an M rated game go against everything Nintendo does? Family friendly gaming company since...forever..

I dunno, man. Fire Emblem is a Nintendo-exclusive series and it deals with death in most if not all games in the series. In the 4th entry, there's even **** and implied incest too. Awakening (which is more than likely the most popular game in the series) is rated M.

 

[Rickster]

I dunno, man. Fire Emblem is a Nintendo-exclusive series and it deals with death in most if not all games in the series. In the 4th entry, there's even **** and implied incest too. Awakening (which is more than likely the most popular game in the series) is rated M.

Awakening is rated T, not M.

Yeah, it has lots of death, but I don't remember there being excessive gore, and by excessive, I mean Mortal Kombat esque guts flying and characters getting ripped apart. That's not Nintendo.

 

[RascalTheCharizard]

Awakening is rated T, not M.

Yeah, it has lots of death, but I don't remember there being excessive gore, and by excessive, I mean Mortal Kombat esque guts flying and characters getting ripped apart. That's not Nintendo.

Oh sorry, I was going off of the Australian classifications. I'm guessing that T is the equivalent of our M, then. So that would make the ESRB's M even higher... I'm such an idiot.

 

[HatsuneMiku]

Jiggle physics on

 

[ChibiIceClimberz]

Wouldn't an M rated game go against everything Nintendo does? Family friendly gaming company since...forever.

If it was M rated it would probably have the added gore, which has already been mentioned, along with ZSS having more pronounced features.

So...Mortal Kombat, basically.

Well, it's not the first time Nintendo has published a M-rated title. Off the top of my head, there's Eternal Darkness, Geist, and now Bayonetta 2.

Anyway, I thought this was kind of a joke thread. I mean, those are some unrealistic stuff you got there, OP. For a game like Smash Bros., they're unnecessary, except maybe damaged armour, I guess.

 

[Smashoperatingbuddy123]

Smash bros series being rated T is pinned forever

(Especially because in the greninja trailer i believe we have a UK rated game they said pegi 12)

But if there was M rated baynetta would have a chance (besides from wonderful 101)

Do i need to talk about zero suit samus

And lets just say the mortal combat mechanic would probably get added if smash bros is rated M

I can see blood

I can see nudity

I can hear bad words

 

[Morbi]

Jiggle physics on

No Jiggle physics on ? Seems like a wasted opportunity.

 

[PKNinja95]

Pretty much 200% sure the new Smash Bros is gonna be Rated T. Like it has been since 2001

 

[Sehnsucht]

I'd add some layered philosophical exploration and cutting social commentary.

 

[KatKit]

The game would basically be like the Newground parodies.

"I fight for my friends and crack cocaine." "Show me your boobs." type nonsense.

Very unnecessary though possibly humorous. At most, I'd like the crowd to say occasional swear words. Though Smash will never be rated M (obviously), but it doesn't need to be.

 

[R0Y]

inb4 embarrassing posts about ZSS.

Birthday Suit Samus

 

[Cap'nChreest]

I would fear for the character designs of Zelda, Peach, Wii fit trainer, Rosalina, Sheik, and Zero Suit Samus... Zero Suit Samus is bad enough already...

I'd like for Krystal to be a character as it is. She'd be in for sure if it were rated M... Oh gosh....

Also characters with no pants...... need to get some quick....

 

[Khao]

Unless you want the game to become a gorefest, full of unnecesary swearing (seriously, not even Snake swears all that much in his games) or be filled with a heck of a lot of fanservice, I don't think you should be advocating an M rating.

Considering the type of game this is, and what character it's using, that would be a terrible idea. They'd have to really enforce those things and throw them in your face for them to reach the M rating, and at that point, it'd be an M rating just for the sake of an M rating, which is simply pointless.

Heck, you don't even need M to have a little bit of blood, Monster Hunter comes to mind, each time you hit a monster, there's a gigantic explosion of blood instead of the typical sparks, and it still has a T rating. Games only really gets rated M when there's extreme explicit violence and stuff like that. I mean really, there's a lot of stuff you can do within a T rating, just look at the Arkham Batman games, or Fire Emblem like other people mentioned already.

 

[BADGRAPHICS]

Multi-Man mode replaced with zombies.

 

[Moon Monkey]

I want jiggle physics...



























...on Wario's ass cheeks.

[collapse= His hips don't lie]

[/collapse]

 

[eenertv]

The game shouldn't be a gorefest and an M rating may turn potential young customers away, so I wouldn't want it. But if there was I would say blood.

 

[Sol0ke]

If it was M...

Blood. Lots of blood.

 

[Pazzo.]

No. No. No. No.

Did I say no?

 

[Superyoshiom]

Man, I don't even know if I'd buy the game if it was really rated M with what you guys suggested.

 

[PKNinja95]

I know one thing. The sells would be god awful

While Smash is T, it doesn't show anything flat out bad. It is inn a tier I call "Low T".
ex-

Low T: Smash Bros series, Earthbound(Wii U VC), PS All Stars

Mid T: Tekken, SF, Disgaea, KOF

High T: Blazblue, Bat man Arkham

Low M: Dead or Alive

High M: No More Heroes, Ninja Gaiden, MGS, DmC, Mortal Kombat

 

[KatKit]

Multi-Man mode replaced with zombies.

A bunch of Redeads could definitely raise up the rating. All of that creepy personal space invading.

 

[Superyoshiom]

I know one thing. The sells would be god awful

While Smash is T, it doesn't show anything flat out bad. It is inn a tier I call "Low T".
ex-

Low T: Smash Bros series, Earthbound(Wii U VC)

Mid T: Tekken, SF, Disgaea, KOF

High T: Blazblue, Bat man Arkham

Low M: Dead or Alive

High M: No More Heroes, Ninja Gaiden, MGS, DmC, Mortal Kombat

Oh my God! Earthbound is rated T?! Why? Wasn't it marketed to young boys when it came out on the snes?

 

[R0Y]

I know one thing. The sells would be god awful

While Smash is T, it doesn't show anything flat out bad. It is inn a tier I call "Low T".
ex-

Low T: Smash Bros series, Earthbound(Wii U VC), PS All Stars

Mid T: Tekken, SF, Disgaea, KOF

High T: Blazblue, Bat man Arkham

Low M: Dead or Alive

High M: No More Heroes, Ninja Gaiden, MGS, DmC, Mortal Kombat

Wouldn't say Dead or Alive is low M, the ESRB has more concern over sexual content than violence it seems. I'd switch it with MGS (prior to Ground Zeroes) or DmC

 

[R0Y]

Oh my God! Earthbound is rated T?! Why? Wasn't it marketed to young boys when it came out on the snes?

It was rated K-A, the ESRB's equivalent to an E Rating in 1995. They re-rated it for Wii U Virtual Console release and decided it warranted a T on closer inspection.

This was given an E way back when.

EDIT: Woops, SORRY FOR DOUBLE POST!!

 

[8-peacock-8]

Ed Boon replaces Sakurai as the director.

 

[Tetraplex]

Wouldn't an M rated game go against everything Nintendo does? Family friendly gaming company since...forever.

Takeshi's Challenge is an NES game where some of the first few things you are required to do to advance is quit your job and divorce/murder your wife. Not exactly gory, but Nintendo's made some less family-friendly titles in the past...

But no, I don't think anything raising this to M would be worth the trouble.