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Ah so this is what Chibi-Robo fans felt like when Zip-Lash came out.
It might be because Starfy is a platformer while Mother 3 is an RPG. Yeah, Starfy is story-focused, but compared to Mother 3? Where the story is LITERALLY THE MAIN APPEAL? They probably felt it'd be easier to justify leaving it as is.
With due respect to Starfy, it's because these are fairly simple platformers accessible to children and Mother 3 is an RPG that lives and dies off its story. Its core gameplay is reliant on text. Even though something is lost by not entirely being plugged into Starfy's narrative - I only played the DS one, but I recall it having a substantial amt of text to move the story forward - you can still theoretically complete the game without much trouble.
Nintendo would 100% include enough to Smash to bump the rating up to T rather than cutting all of the T rated characters to maintain an E10+.
It just feels jarring to have Nintendo bring attention to this but not go the extra mile at all. While others have raised points about other games not being translated but put on here anyway, it stings more when it happens to a game that's behind the more expensive Expansion Pack. I don't usually go for this kind of angle, but I genuinely don't see why I should go out of my way to get the Expansion Pass for this when I could just watch fan-translated playthroughs instead (there do exist videos for that, FYI.)
This kinda gives me hope for Fire Emblem 6 and MOTHER 3.
That would be amazing.it really isn't. the anger rod has is based around completely different things from the anger people had over zip-lash.
I'm in the camp of wait-n-see. I hadn't even heard of there being changes to ESRB and until now it's been very vague in terms of what actually will or won't happen. Basically until it's learned Snake is being cut because of this or Smash 6 gets a higher rating to avoid losing him, etc I'm not losing sleep.
Bayonetta would probably be a better measurement of that right now.
I don't know if Nintendo would want Smash to get a T-rating out of fear of alienating the game's target audience of kids, and Game Freak might also completely pull all involvement in the game if they go for a higher rating.
I mean its USK 12+ In german so i dunno!
It's 2024, people do not care about T-ratings these days lmao. Fortnite is rated T and it's played by countless kids.
). They'd be foolish to act like it's suddenly an issue.
I guarantee he replies to this with "The E10+ rating didn't exist when Melee came out" and nothing else, not debating anything of substance.It's 2024, people do not care about T-ratings these days lmao. Fortnite is rated T and it's played by countless kids.
As for GameFreak, I mean, Brawl and Melee already exist. They've been through this song and dance before. Hell, they've already made their bed with the M rated characters that have representation already (
I mean... nothing really? People will still know who the characters are. It seems like they're only doing this just to not piss off the ratings boards.
Given how many crossovers there have been post this ESRB change with major m-rated series and kids games, I get the impression most companies don't really care lol. Any non-indie or nintendo series probably isn't going to turn its nose up at Fortnite no matter what.
seems like a pretty big flaw for a rating system if it be get around like that
The rating system only exists because of a 90s moral panic over Night Trap and Mortal Kombat. It was never anything more than a bit of performative grandstanding to get in the good graces of a conservative voting population. "Think of the children" and all that.
ah yes.
Literally nothing. This is a very "my work here is done" "but you didn't do anything" cape swoosh kind of a rule.
The idea itself does have value. It's good for parents to know what their child is getting themselves into. There are some flaws like really vague categories and bias within the system, but overall it's a good thing that it exists.
When I was 12, I watched my aunt buy my cousin Black Ops 2 and GTA V without hesitation.
There's no accounting for adults being dumb. lolWhen I was 12, I watched my aunt buy my cousin Black Ops 2 and GTA V without hesitation.
He was 9.
Melee and Brawl were rated T.
I'd argue that there are some T rated games that you probably don't want little children to play but then again, this becomes a matter of doing parents' job for them.
The ratings system was founded in the 60s, are you saying you're 60 years old?
I don't any reason to not at least provide parents with the information easily so they can decide for themselves.
I was not involved in this story. I don't remember when this was said to have happened, but it was before my time.
Wait, really? That's super weird. From what very little I've seen of both the show and the movie, it looks like the movie is more dramatic with its stakes, so maybe that's why? Still pretty weird.
The PG rating is joked about that it now stands for "Practically G" due to all the movies made for little kids that have it.
Well I'm not exactly today's 5 year old, but I couldn't handle that movie even at age 10.
One thing to note is that PG-rated movies from the 80's can get TV-14 ratings when aired on TV. That's the same rating that some R-rated movies get, as well as the rating a lot of classic South Park episodes now have as of 2012.
PG meant something totally different back in those days though.
