With the news that PEGI has become the UK's sole game rating system, a brand new set of game rating symbols have appeared. These new symbols share similiarities with the old PEGI ones, but have been given a splash of color and are due to appear on the front and back of all videogame boxes once PEGI fully takes the reigns.
The old descriptors on the back of the box (pictures of spiders and fists and other abstract things) will remain exactly the same, giving parents a quick at-a-glance idea of what kind of questionable content lurks within each game. While most parents are too lazy, stupid and inept to pay attention to these new ratings, they are very clear and distinct, which at least should mean it'll not be the game industry's fault if Little Timmy Twatty gets a copy of GTA in his hands.
What do you think of the new logos? Will you buy the official T-shirts or the plushies?
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8:00 AM on 06.17.2009
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1) Government pays people so fucking much to sit at home, not work and have kids.
which leads to...
2) millions of parents who are lazy, didn't REALLY want kids, don't really give a shit about their kids and would rather give their 12 year old an 18+ game than put up with their whining, or god forbid; discipline them!
It's got nothing to do with the ratings, the parents just couldn't care less.
you could put a massive sticker, covering the whole box saying "DO NOT LET CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 18 PLAY THIS GAME" on a high profile game and you would still have millions of parents buying it for Timmy Twatbag for Christmas.
Being well over 18, and over 21, i have a serious worry that this new ratings board will be a bit ban happy, last thing i want is the next manhunt-esque game to come out and for it to be fully banned over here.
i like me a bit of graphic violence and disturbing images.
Also, Germany has 12 cm² big signs on every game (even the ones with no restrictions) and yet children still get the game which is 18+. Heck, these signs are so big, companies have to edit their cover so it fits with the cover.
As long as games are clearly marked, no-one cam complain so im glad this is being sorted out.
The colour system is a good improvement, which we've had for ages in the U.K. Now its going to be all over Europe is a good thing, so much so, that I really hope the U.S ratings adopt the same system eventually. Using colours works.
What Sexual says is spot on, though. A lot of U.K parents are like that and think their kids can do no wrong.
It's not games that make me violent. It's pictures of the number 18 with a red background >=(
@SexualChocolate and CowboyTTop
Actually some kids can in fact handle more violence than other without going crazy and should not be punished for some idiots but I agree on the whole. I knew 9 year-olds who played Grand Theft Auto! WTF!?
The reference was in their relationship with their games rating system rather than their film rating one. I would have thought that would rather be inferred by the fact that I posted the comment on a gaming blog.
I wont deny the BBFCs liberal stance on film rating - in fact that's why I found their conservative stance on games ratings so disappointing.
Also the BBFC has only recently begun to be so liberal - even in film. During the 70s and 80s they were far more conservative.
Also your comment about Antichrist is incorrect the MPAA DID NOT censor the film - IFC chose to do that themselves. In fact they released the UNCUT version in some cinemas (mainly on the coast). There were ALWAYS two versions of the film as evidenced by it's appearance at the Cannes film festival with it's 'Catholic' and 'Protestant' versions.