More and more people are simply
downloading things instead of grabbing games at retail stores or
holding on to discs and things. That being the case, it is getting
harder and harder to keep track of ratings. However the games are
rated and I will try and show you where. This link will take you to
a Steam page for the game EVE Online. EVE is a space MMORPG, and is
therefor an online game and only the content of the game itself is
rated. What people do in the game cannot be monitored all the time,
so there is no way to rate these interactions, which I will explain
in the next post. If you go down the page a bit and look at the panel
on the right side of the page you will see the rating “T”
but the word “violence” is not
written in the box with the rating but beside it. I do not know why
this is. Maybe it is because dwonloadable games on sites like Steam
are harder to rate because many of the games are indie titles, a lot
of them are still in beta (testing and early access), which means
that some of them are not yet rated or even have “RP” instead of
a rating. So finding the ratings on these games i hard, especially if
you are looking and there isn't one. A note though is that if the
game doesn't have a rating but it has a trailer/film, watch it
because it may have a disclaimer/rating/content warnings. If you
would like to check this page out for yourself, go here!
On the Playstation Network they
re-released one of my favorite games, Suikoden II from the
Playstation 1. It is kind of an old time Japanese role playing game
and has always been dear to my heart. However it is rated “T” for
Teen.
Notice this is the same lone “T” as
they had for EVE on Steam and written next to it is “mild violence
and suggestive themes”. This is in the information on the left hand
panel instead of the right. On the Playstation Network, there will be
much fewer games that are not rated because most of these are to
download to consoles. So most games here will have them. Just keep
your eye on the info panel and scroll down and you will find it. If
you would like to see this page, go here!! Thank you for reading!!
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