Rated E for Irrelevant - Scott The Woz
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ค. 2018
- Scott goes over his thoughts on those letters on the game boxes.
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Music Used:
"Main Theme" from Grand Theft Auto IV
"Happy-Go-Lively" by Laurie Johnson
"Rolling Badguys" from Lethal Enforcers
"Stage 1" from Splatterhouse 3
"Cornered" from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
"Titanic Monarch Zone Act 1" from Sonic Mania
"Mini Boss" from Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
"Emerald Hill Zone" from Sonic the Hedgehog 2
"Main Theme" from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
"Mad Maze Maul" from Donkey Kong 64
"Intermission from Doom" from Doom
"Turnabout Sisters" from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
"Breakout" from 3D Dot Game Heroes - เกม
Remember, If the game is rated AO that means it's A-Ok for everyone to play.
11:01
nice
It even rhymes!
I mean it rhymes so it has to be true
Google+sucksballs ignore the 18+ too
If parents are so upset games are rated M they should just turn the case upside down. That way it will be rated W for wumbo.
@Blakely Uselman dont forget Wumbology, the study of wumbo
@Blakely Uselman Wumbo, Wumboing
@Nexxarain Sh*t you right
I wonder if this height could be enough to kill me -._-.
I learned it in wumboschool
"Why is kirby E10+?"
Every kirby final boss:
Rated E for eeeek that's scary
Yea first thing that came to mind was Kirby 64 boss. That's a T for Teens right there LOL
Void Termina (roughly being translated as "Final Eternity" or somesuch analogy for the universe's heat death) is definitely worth that E10 and up rating. I don't care if beating the boss is a wholesome moment where all of our friends enchant our soul so we can turn Void Termina inside out, the concept of an eternal afterlife consisting of nothing but emptiness and inaction being given physical form and a will to drag people into it is kinda... *Woof*.
Rated E for
EXCUSE ME, WHAT THE F***?!
what about king dedede in kirby's dream land? how was that bad??
AO is so weird because it’s only 1 year more than M, so if it weren’t for pornography, it would be extremely redundant
Funny enough the rating for TV only go up to 17 (TV-MA) HOWEVER for the Redo of Healer it say "18+-DSV" in this case I fell it especially redundant since the definition of TV-MA already says "strictly for adults" (and yet 17+). Now it's still rated TV-MA on streaming (it's censored however) though what's interesting is NC-17 (which is like AO for movies) is allowed on streaming and yet the ratings for TV still only go up to 17However it seems after that Sentai did realize how silly that all was and decided to raise the age of TV-MA to 18 unofficially. When I told someone it was 18+-DSV they said "that's what Game of Thrones should be with an added L"
Now it was similar for Interspecies Reviewers, it was rated TV-MA for 3 episodes (censored) but then it got pulled off the air and on blu-ray was re-rated to an 18+ warning screen (which is usually used for p***. It applies to games too.)
Now in Australia it was re-rated for MA-15+ to just banned!
In Germany it was rated 16 with one 18 episode (that being the very one that got it taken off the air in the US...hmm).
Now they said the manga was tamer which honestly makes sense considering was rated the AO equivalent (Ironically called M) but the show was rated EVEN higher than AO (yet still no p*** somehow?)
thanks for the like man
It's because the big gaming companies self regulate these ratings. The ESA, the trade association who makes ESRB ratings (AND held E3) is sort of a joint venture of many big gaming companies (Sony, MS, Nintendo, EA, Ubisoft, Capcom, Squenix, Bamco etc.).
They themselves make the rules with ratings, which is why you'll often see somewhat random ratings, especially on their games, probably for marketing reasons.
They came up with AO to make up a reason for banning games from their consoles, to avoid situations like having corn games on their consoles or anything else deemed socially unacceptable at the time. It's 18+ because they literally can't force a higher age rating, and M is 17+ to differentiate from AO but still require someone to basically be an adult.
So AO and M are two different types of games; both are too mature to leave to kids, but AO are the games console makers don't want on their platforms, while M rated ones are desirable.
@@leonro Many porn games don't seem to be rated by the ESRB (in fact some of them say "mature audiences only 18+") which is funny because I remember this hentai "Fire in His Fingertips" which had a cut version (which is said to be TV-MA) and a porn (which was 18+ only) when TV-MA already has the word only in the definition "mature audiences only" in fact like I've mentioned before I've seen other hentai stuff that says exactly that. So it seems whoever made the "TV-MA" thought 17 was an adult. SO ALL THAT OVER ONE TINY MISTAKE? To make it even funnier I've seen blu-ray of "normal" TV shows that say TV-MA but also "for ages 18+" plus the "safe for TV" version of "Fire in his Fingertips" is still 18+ on Prime video. Since they have their own rating system (Still no porn) well they sell it physically they just don't stream it!
M 17+: oh yeah this is something my child can totally play
A 18+: no
m is because of violence and ao is because of porn
@@snivylink2119 Still with internet, you aren't showing nothing new
@@snivylink2119 basically
gore and violence: yes
boobs and asses: nope
SnivyLink2 I like both
@Brendan Milburn Manhunt 2 and the Wii control motions made you feel like a murderer. LOL
In Germany you can drink alcohol at the age of 16 but if a game includes a scene of a guy drinking it will be rated 18+
Because Germany
Germany's USK: *"Makes sense to me, I don't see anything wrong here at all"*
30secondsfacts apparently in Germany games rated 18 cant be bought online
Hey Germans make a huge fuss over a centuries old symbol so that's something which doesn't come off as a surprise.
Not right. In Germany you can buy beer and wine with 16, not other alcohol. Use of alcohol does not make a game 18+ here, and you buy 18+ games online. Swastikas are nowadays allowed in games.
When I was like 12, I went to GameStop to buy a Mortal Kombat game, they wouldn’t let me buy it without an id, so I went home and told my dad and he took me back bought the game for me and told the manager that if I ever went in there I had my dads permission to buy any game I want. I went in a few years later to buy something else, the worker went to ask me for my id and the manager jumped in and said nah he’s good, his dad said he could buy whatever he wants.
Bro you must’ve felt like a king anytime that happened lmao
Dude really got the special dad pass
To be honest, that GameStop manager is probably the one who DOESN'T encourage his workers to shove membership info down consumer's throats.
@@Superspeed209For all you know, it was Xbox One.
Now that's just wholesome!
“kid goes into a store, buys playstation network box, buys bloody mcsex scene the game and becomes genghis khan”
-Scott
like c'mon I though we got rid of that guy
*Shows Wii Music
@@bluejay21. Yup, that'd do it.
I heard that “GENGHIS KHAN, *WAS JUST A F*CKING GUY”*
Parents: Ask for rating system
*they get it*
Parents: *act like it doesnt exist*
"But my kid still wants the game..." like have they just thought it'd work that way?!
Parents:Mmm
ESRB: *Violence, Bad language, Gore, Drug-related content Sexual content, Not suitable for children*
Parents: yeah, lets buy this game.
Also parents: *OMG THIS GAME IS SO VIOLENT HOW MY KID PLAYS IT, ITS ALL DEVELOPERS FAULT SUE THEM AND BAN THE GAME
To be fair. Those new parents were the children of the parents who asked for the ratings. Like if your parents asked for ratings and you didn't like it. So you act like it doesn't exist when you become a parent.
Lalboi Manlun but then they complain about it
*Parent looks at game*
Oh! It's rated M for "My child can play this!"
EnricosUt yeah that's how it should be in many cases. A ten year old boy shouldn't be playing any gal gun games.
Lol
Splat! Splat! Splat!
Father: What game are you playing?
Son: Zombie Chopper 3
Father: That better be rated M, son.
Son: It is! (he,he)
"M for mature? Great! If I can make my brats mature faster, I won't need to waste time actually parenting them!"
shit is crap either your 12 with shitty parents or you’re a shitty parent yourself lol
Sega: We made this game, but it’s for adults only.
Adults: How dare you make a game for adults only!
440 likes and no coments let me fix that!
If I were given a choice between passing 4 kidney stones to stop these comments and ending climate change I would pick the former
*visible confusion*
This doesn’t make sense
“Hey Mommy, can I get Smash Brawl?”
“I dunno, it’s rated T”
*It’s Smash Bros.*
I've never understood why Melee and Brawl are rated T when every other Smash game is E10+
amen
@@mldavid4056 Melee was made before the E10+ rating was made, so I guess the ESRB didn't think it was tame enough for an E, as for Brawl, yeah I have no idea on that one. Ultimate and Smash 4 have Bayonetta and are still rated E10+, so obviously some standard is not being held up somewhere.
@@jacobmonks3722 That actually makes sense. I always forget E10+ came later.
@@Chad_Eldridge I heard it was because they put Snake in.
I remember playing Smash Melee around the age of 8 or so and my grandfather took it away because it was rated T...Thanks ESRB
In europe it still was legal from 6.
Atleast he actually cared about the rating. My 9 year old cousin recently received a PS4 Slim for his birthday, and his dad bought him GTA FUCKIN 5
I was playing melee straight from Christmas 2007 and it was rated T, my parents were ok with it at least.
@@TusharSundarka he did the right thing
@@AltPlus30 Depends on the kid.
By far the biggest shining moment in the ESRB was their description of Scribblenauts for the DS. I quote:
"Steak can be attached to a baby to attract lions."
Pure gold.
Trvial 10/10
Yeah, you could also make Nukes and let's just say,...
i started a nuclear war in scribblenauts
Trvial
Clubs can be summoned to attack animals, rockets can be lobbed at a man.
Real things in the ESRB of Scribblenauts
I wonder if they even noticed the fact you can summon Satan. Not even exaggerating. And Cthulhu for that matter.
You gotta be f****** kidding me
“That’s why CJ isn’t in smash brothers”
Bet CJ will be announced for smash at e3
@@ryrythebigfrickinidiot2654 Kazuya
@@dexei3150 i was false
@@ryrythebigfrickinidiot2654 poor guy
@@ryrythebigfrickinidiot2654 bet CJ will be the final smash character
"Why not be a parent and regulate what your child consumes and not blame the media itself"
That is pretty much the message of the south park movie and it's shocking how 21 years later and that message is still true to this day
Really sad tbh
South Park was based af
@@softnoobgirl73 true
The government wants to take away guns? BULLSHIT! The government wants to take away violent video games
The Modern Guide to Good Parenting.
Step 1: Allow your child to have unfiltered access to media
Step 2: Complain loudly when they find age inappropriate content
Step 3: Blame someone/everyone else for your blunder
What if your child is age 15 or above?
Not to mention the media and politicians blame videogames for societal ills such as mass shootings, and violence despite the fact there is has been a decrease in violence as games increase in popularity, they tend not to look at "access to gun" as a reason for the shooting, and is clearly just a red herring
It's just like that line from the South Park movie "We must blame them and cause a fuss, before somebody thinks of blaming us"
@@aidanredding8058 Yep
or just the first step
Plastic $2 gun toy for kids
Government: I sleep
Plastic $2 gun used as a controller for a game
Government: *R E A L S H I T*
Oh no! The kids are playing digital toy gun games instead of real life toy gun games! Wait...
@@JOCoStudio1 THAT'S EXACTLY THE SAME THING. EXCEPT THE TOY GUNS ARE EVEN WORSE1
Actually toy guns have had some major fucking controversy over the years.
Ramses production That’s the joke...
Bradley McQuade
Realistic toy gun that actually shoots nerf darts
Government: Yeah that’s fine
Plastic, fake looking gun used as a controller
Government: Holy sh*t we gotta do something
It's honestly weird how all my friends in 3rd grade played M rated games. My parents didn't let me play M rated games as a kid, and, as a result, I never got into the first person shooter genre (which I am fine with). Besides when I played games at my friends' houses, the first time I really played an M rated game was at 17.
My parents are also very strict, all my friends were playing GTA at 7 while I played Mario 64 DS for YEARS. I had to wait 2 years before I could buy Smash Bros for 3DS because of the rating
@@Bugauanga Yeah. My friends were all playing FPS games, while I was playing Wii and Wii U games as a kid. The only shooting game I’ve ever played was Fortnite during its peak.
My mother bought me assassin's creed games at 10
I never really got into the fps I was more into minecraft sonic and horror games at the moment and if I feel like it pokemon
I’m fine with my super Mario galaxy and mariokart wii 🔥
I love how the M rating is 17+ and the AO is 18+. Don't want those 17 year olds getting any ideas.
for TV the highest rated is TV-MA for 17 yet Redo of Healer found a way to surpass that since the blu-ray says 18 +-DSV as if a TV-MA-DSV wasn't enough
I see I got 10 likes. If you liked that I remember telling someone Redo of Healer was 18 +-DSV and they said "that's what Game of Thrones should be with an added L"🤣
They should have made it like "21+" or something.
@@doggo6471 well in that case Game of Thrones should be 21+!
@@cradica blu ray is uncensored tho
No matter what time period it is, one thing remains constant: parents & politicians will always find a scapegoat to blame instead of looking at the mirror & realizing that they're part of the problem, if not the main problem
NumberOne#1 Especially when they are extremely uninformed. I wonder what THEY would do if people start making negative accusations about their field of expertise and falsify being uninformed, just for them to have a taste of their own medicine.
Remember when they were blaming tv and movies, and then tv, movies, and games? Where are they now?
That sounds like KND propaganda. And yet, that's true.
Morbidcrab reminds of meme that said "freakin white people and their *draws from deck* water" and showed an article complaining how a white guy drank water at college
They don't appear in mirrors is part of the problem.
the whole reason that kirby is 10+ is because of a choking hazard
wow
It’s because Kirby accully has more buttons other than walk or jump. He has succ
And also cult leaders sacrificing themselves to a dark deity of destruction...
Kirby games are fun am I right?
I'm laughing like a fucking retard, and I'm at a camp at 1:04 AM
Send help
Kirby Dream Land ,Triple Deluxe,64 all have blood but they are Rated K-A/E
Yet Return to Dream Land and Star Allies doesn’t have blood or kill a character and it’s E10
"Politicians will always try to get on games because it is easier to target it more than real issues. Video games are easier to target than anything"
Civvie 11
Eyyy bojack profile, hell yeah. I mean it looks like it’s from when Sarah Lynn died but yknow
@@alexschneider1667 Don't remind me of Sarah Lynn, it makes me real 😢😢
Kyle Rittenhouse trial
@@shadestrider1033 video games weren't a major talking point during the Rittenhouse trial. It's usually the GOP who scapegoats with video games because they refuse to address bigger issues, and the GOP were all behind him.
@@KonkeyVG Yep, pretty much. If we can continue getting money from the NRA, we will scapegoat violent videogames.
7:17 this shot is gold, had me rolling on the floor for a minute
and he fully sold it with the guy game
because that too is just full of-
7:17
ESRB rating according to parents
E - everyone
T - this is suitable for children
M - mmmm, safe for my children
A - ahhh, great for children
also
PG-13
pretty good for children under 13
R
Really good for my baby
E10+ = everyone gets 10 points
Yeah then they complain when they see the game
a for amazing for children
AO - Amazing fOr children
nothing more American that a bunch of old people sitting in a room talking and making rules about things they know absolutely nothing about.
like women's rights or internet laws
Sometimes, I wonder... and I happen to live there.
cough cough FTC cough cough COPPA cough cough TH-cam
@@snivylink2119 wasn't it the EU that did the internet thing
@@scott5388 and coppa
“Night Trap will never appear on a Nintendo console”
That quote aged like milk
On what Nintendo console is Night Trap on??? I've never heard of that happening...
@@SB-Out51d3R- it released on the Nintendo switch (and every other console in 2017) it even got a physical copy for a short time
@@superlonk406 Never heard of a physical being re-released. Then again,I haven't been to GameStop in awhile(only place that I could've seen it physical at,if they carried it,even)...
Was it only in certain countries? If it was just in EU or JPN,I wouldn't have heard(w/o Game mags,I'm kinda clueless these days,unless a WM gets it)...
After like 30 years??? Grow up.
@@MrStGeorgeIllawarra You must be fun at parties
I remember playing a 10+ game when I was eight I thought I was a badass
I watch an 18 + show when I was 17 LOL!
I played legos as a 5 year old when it said ages 6+ on the box
Pretty hyped for the release of Bloody McSex Scene: The Game.
In which you become genghis khan
@@ashtar3876 And that's Genius Khan. 😎
Same
you mean wii music?
Market Pliers, run. DELETE YOUR COMMENT NOW BEFORE THE DREADED WOOSH COMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Yeah i knew the joke)
7:17
This was the most amazing use of the 1UP theme I've ever witnessed.
What game is that from?
That's it! Thanks. Haha
@@smb6282 Sonic the Hedgehog 1 one up theme
sanic the 420 blazin it hoodgehaggg
@@gonk__ Sonic 1 & 2 for sure.
My mom drove me to a Game Crazy store, i went in with the sole purpose to buy "The Warriors" on ps2, when i came out of the store holding a copy of Bully, she knew something was wrong, i told her they wouldn't let me buy the game i wanted because it was Rated M, and my mom went in and bought it for me, i ended up getting both and they were two of my favorite games on the system. There's a lot of talk about parents not caring about what they buy their children, but my mom did, she had let me play rated M games back when i was like 8-10, i don't remember if she ever sat me down to discuss like "this is fiction, yada yada" but it was always obvious to me that video games aren't real, the same way movies and tv aren't. I grew up playing games from all over the ratings board and i don't remember ever being "that kid" who would only wanna play the most violent games, i was all about gameplay and genres. I liked the open world of grand theft auto, the fun combo fighting systems of The Warriors and Bully (all Rockstar titles interestingly) but i also loved games like Tony Hawk, Ea Skate, Little Big Planet, Fallout 3. Having a nephew who is now 13 going on 14, i fully understand the problem though, he is awful, his mother never let anyone curate what media he consumed until he was already 10-11, now she is overly strict and i can sympathize with both of them while also resenting spending time with them. I think the take away is that you should definitely take an interest in what media your children are consuming, but that doesn't mean you need to immediately censor and coddle them. Children are a lot smarter than we give them credit for, but their perceptions and personalities can be easily swayed if you don't sit down with them and just talk, get to know each other, don't make them view you as some abstract authority figure.
I mean like Bully is already like the kid version of Grand Theft Auto
Played Half-life at 10
Bully and The Warriors? Man you've won the jackpot.
This comment NEEDS more attention!
7:17 You can tell that Scott can hardly hold back any laughter. Can’t say I blame him, this scene had me in tears the first time I watched.
**everyone complains that there is no rating system** **creates rating system** **complains there is no way for parents to know what's in the game they are buying their child**
well, you can read the back of the box
or make ESRB scale the ratings boxes to the M A X
This just proves that our society's brains are shrinking by the day.
Haha look at Australia's rating system.
Super spark ours makes sense to those who actually pay attention, its just the people that choose the ratings me and many other people have a problem with. They dont actually play the games just google it.
Sega in 1990: "We want less censorship on our console than Nintendo so we can appeal to the mature demographic."
Nintendo in 2019: *uncensored hentai*
What game has uncensored hentai?
Probably talking about the Senran Kagura games on Switch. Doesn't help the fact Sony is censoring games like that
@@electrix_panadal00 Sony used to be the console for teens and adults, now it's basically the basic bitch console every kid owns.
Not quite but I get what you mean
Electrix_Panadal00 Senran Kagura is more so just ecchi due to it being completely fanservice. There’s no sex, so it really isn’t an eroge (hentai game).
2:58 Imagine if we brought those politicians forward in time to the here and now and showed them Mortal Kombat 11 with it's photorealistic blood. They'd probably jump to outlaw all video games, even Mario and Kirby.
Even Pokemon and other franchises will victims of it
To be fair if there was ever a game to be banned for showing blood and gore to children it would be kirby
Yeah. Good point.
@@slimewizard7350 I agree lol.
@@FRANZTENDO64Philippineshese guys were beyond boomers. Like literally. These guys were boomers before boomers became a thing.
9:41 ok so Dual Destinies having an M rating is actually pretty warranted seeing as you see Athena’s mom on robot repair machine with her stomach messed up, young Athena covered in blood, and the phantom getting shot in the face by an unknown sniper
Holy shit that’s fucked up
Scott The Woz: Rated U for Underrated
_Scott the God_
Executer 66
Best comment because it's true. Scott is seriously underrated as a TH-camr.
Wii U
coincidence
i think not
Executer 66 this man got 100k in less than a year
Yeah underrated
U for Universal.
“Bloody McSexscene the Game”
*shows Wii Music*
If there's one game that's gonna make you a serial killer... it's Wii Music.
wii music teaches you how to kill
With a trumpet!
Wii Music turned me into a furry with the dog and cat suit instruments.
Where?
Something many people don't know about is that in the early days, Pinball machines were more akin to Pachinko machines, as they lacked the flippers and bumpers which allowed user input after the initial pull of the plunger. So in the 1930s and 1940s, they were considered a serious form of gambling, not that different from slot machines.
I like how when he starts talking about law the ace attorney theme started playing
kids at gamestop: i wanna buy gta 5
employee: it 18+
kids at gamestop: i wanna buy a 50$ gift card
ESRB dont matter anymore
employee: *buy our membership idiot*
@@procommentr actually when I go in gamestop's without getting ask to get membership
Me:reality can be what I want
then go to walmart or a store that doesn't need a membership
waluigi number one
bro, gimme sum of you’re intelect
It matters to parents
Kirby games are rated E10+ because of *succual* themes
I think that would warrant at least an M rating
Man of Matt i mean, kirby lore is kinda fucked
Or because of the sex scene specifically in rainbow curse
I’d assume cuz of the unholy eldritch abomination bosses that spurt blood out of their eyeballs
I can vibe with this statement. Bless you
1:29 he really did put on that outfit for just a few seconds of footage
that was a clip from another video
@@mrsandman6328 "should I, I dunno"
-A redditor.
Thank you Scott, for helping me write an Argumentative Essay about Video Game Violence and the ESRB.
Hey, he was also one of the reasons why I wrote the same essay. Glad we're on the same page.
@@Spider-Man-257 I thiink I will make one as well
Scott: "How many times have you seen a T rated game this generation"
Nearly every JRPG: *exists*
Heh, Scott's not a big fan of the genre
He meant actual games.
@@blau6832 th-cam.com/video/GPXkjtpGCFI/w-d-xo.html
@@blau6832 this is such obvious bait, hope nobody falls for it
@@juicyjuustar121 Nah, it's a bit of bait and a bit of truth.
I still remember when I was so scared because I was buying a LEGO CITY game for the 3DS and it was 10+ and the cashier didn’t care at all. Only thing that sucks is when you wanna get a M rated game and the cashier has to get a parents permission and you and the cashier know that’s it’s a stupid rule and that nobody really cares.
when i was 16, i saw the Elder Scrolls anthology for like 20 bucks, so i took it to the register and instead of asking for an ID, the guy just asked me what my birthday was, so i just lied and told him i was a year older than i was, lmao
@@quinnmarchese6313 literally because he can't ask you for an ID when you're bying a game. Many courts and scientists have stated that it doesn't affect minors. Moreover, many kids nowadays usually less soft than their parents at current age.
@@AltPlus30 dog, i worked retail at a target like a year after i bought the elder scrolls anthology, you dont know what your talking about, we scanned IDs for M rated games.
Well, it’s LEGO city.
I HAVE THE GAME
7:17 Imagine walking by and seeing that on the TV.
The fact that sega technically created ESRB is astonishing
*A game about shooting people and doing drugs exists*
Companies: this is fine
*A game about shooting people, doing drugs, and has a partial nudity scene*
Companies: *UNNACEPTABLE*
BC J I smell a money lose in here
Remember kids, TV violence is ok, as long as you don't show a nipple
Aidan Redding someone can be brutally ripped apart but you can't say fuck
There are lots of E rated games with drugs in them. For example, Mario and his mushrooms, and the coffee shops in roller coaster tycoon
Just beat the Witcher 3 and well gotta say it’s got the most nudity I can remember being in a game
"How are so many Kirby games rated E10+?"
Have you seen the nightmare fuel that is Kirby's final bosses?!
That would literally be the only reason for it to be E 10+.
Dark matter in Kirby's dream land 3 was definitely bleeding blood
Came to coment exactly the same, if you look deep into Kirby's lore you would find a nice and sweet collection of lovecraftian horror, ancient and forbiden cults and a sweet sweet genocidal interdimensional warrior...
And then there is Dedede, what the hell is his deal? How the fuck is he still alive?
Ikr, look at the Kirby star allies final boss
Especially Star Allies, with [REDACTED DUE TO SPOILERS]
"all we had to do, was follow the damn law CJ!"
We have PEGI here in South Africa, which is also used in Europe. Its a bit more clear because there is a bright red sticker for 18+ games. It's impossible to miss for anyone. They also actually give the 13 rating and a 7 rating to some games, while ESRB rarely gives out teen ratings.
Though can be stupid
Carmagedin had 3 18+’s on it but on the back was suitable for 15+ instead
"Night trap promotes violence against women"
Me who remembers the games goal is to save the women: 👁️👄👁️
Da Boop lmfao
Da boop Yeah, who cares about doing research before saying that a game is terrible? ;---;
@@TheCatmadilloLizard Exactly
Super Mario teaches men to kidnap women. Why? Because research be damn
Bruh Moment
Nintendo: hates on sega for violent video games
Also Nintendo: made a game about killing ducks
Hunters: *sweating*
Classic "animals aren't as important as humans" mindset!
But they duck
But it was cartoonish, it's like if you blamed smash for being violent lol
To be fair Nintendo of Japan made the game while Nintendo of America was a bunch anti-American commie pussys.
the Kirby E10+ thing is so much funnier in light of Kirby 64's T rating
The T rating is actually a rating for the entire NSO Expansion Pack app.
Sin & Punishment is the only T-rated game there but it bumped the entire collection up to T.
0² does bleed, so it makes sinces
I appreciate the amount of Ace Attorney Soundtrack in this video.
Fun fact: increasing the size of the logo for the age restriction was exactly what happened in Germany
Germany's got the full deal: The ratings take up a sizeable portion of the cover, they are colour coded and freaking ugly! Seems like we hit the jackpot.
Michael they would look kind of nice if they were smaller
In chile they decided to stick an extra big sticker on the wrap paper, with both the rating and some extra text on why and what that means. Parents still buy M rated games for their kids ¬¬
It is a Nazis reference?
@LeCoolFace On the bright side, Wolfenstein II made it through without having to censor swastikas; they're starting to get better
"Buys bloody McSex scene the game"
*shows Wii Music*
Ooooooooo
Same thing
I heard "Slutty McSex Scene"
Dude you watch Scott
Please do a Q&A with eteled and stop watching this
the fact that he added ace attorney music when he started talking about the government made this video much funnier
7:17 I almost fell over the floor laughing. Brilliant.
I remember playing Minecraft when I was 9 and every time I saw that E +10 symbol when I started it, it was like “I’m a criminal”
How are you me?
Lol I played it when I was six
tbh e10+ shouldn’t even exist cause I can’t name a single game that’s rated e10+ that shouldn’t be rated e
I forbid myself from owning Super Smash Bros Brawl when I learnt it was T for Teens. Sure didn’t stop me from playing it at my younger cousins house when we played Wii.
for my 10nth birthday, my dad got my a street fighter game. i didnt wanna play it because it was rated t for teen, while i was only 10.
Nintendo 1994: We don’t want a game with a slightly disturbing scene in it on our systems
Nintendo 2019: _Censorship is for the weak_
HENTAI GAME
Nintendo with smt 5: The censorship you worship is dead.
Earthbound final boss meanwhile be like
Well... kind of. While several eroge and such have been ported to the switch, they're all the censored versions. So, while the original may have adult content, that's still not present on the console release.
Its ironic that pinball machines were banned as gambling but games with actual gambling in them are rated e for everyone now
The only time I notice the ratings is when I watch the trailers.
9:26 most kirby games end you with fighting something that looks like it came from hell. I think the rating is justified
Nintendo: “Night Trap would not pass our ratings, it is the most heinous thing ever made.”
Nintendo 35 years later: “Hey kids! you like violence?”
Kids: Yeah yeah yeah!
Nintendo: Wanna see me stick Nine inch Nails, through each one of my eyelids?
Eminem: HEY THAT'S MY LINE!!!
Nintendo old days: every single game must be for kids ages -7+
Now Nintendo released Xenoblade Chronicles 2
@@cringyguy1302 now they also have doom eternal on switch... welp, they lied
Man I almost got brawl when I was like 5 but I didn’t get it cause it was T for realistic graphics and it’s a fighting game but my dad didn’t know what it was and said no my first M rated game was Titanfall 2 ultimate edition cause it was on sale and that was less worse than smash imo
@@AlexandreSantos-yv2tj dang I was about to make the Eminem joke...
"Sex Scene: The Game" *Immediately cuts to Wii Music"
well that does deserve an m rating.
@@digitalgamer457 AO*
*Bloody McSex Scene: The Game
The intro jingle is intense. I got in trouble just opening the disc channel with the game in.
7:17 lol I love scotts comedic timing
"Small children bought this"
I didnt know small children had money and could go to the store and buy games by themselves
Small children have their own fucking iPads, I don't see why they wouldn't have their own goddamn Amazon accounts too.
@@straightupanarg6226 now and days yes but that was in the 90s when he said that
Birthday/Christmas/Allowance Money.
Or their parents gave them money.
Every holiday where I got gifts and my birthdays, I’d ask for money after a certain age. I thought it’d be more efficient because I didn’t really want much growing up, and I’d rather get that than clothes that my family thought I’d like only bc they knew it’s what my cousins liked.
It’s amazing how someone who isn’t a parent knows more about parenting than many parents
IKR?
Adults were kids at one time.
They know what parents did when they were kids, and what their friends parents did.
They know their perspective and they have informed opinions.
Just because someone might not have a kid doesn't mean they don't have valid ideas on parenting.
@@billybobjoe198 It's not that Scott is an amazing parenting advisor, it's just the stupid ass parents in the world who have a child and fail to take proper care of them because they never wanted one in the first place
There's a high number of people that should not have a kid
@@shadow4040 True.
"Promotes violence against women."
Ahh, I see. A game where you are meant to PREVENT people from dying, a game where you are berated for letting the women die, is promoting violence against women...
WHAT
Reminds of me of when Anita Sarkeesian released a video about video games promoting violence against women and showed footage of a game (can't remember which one) where the player murdered women and used it as evidence of this. Except the actual objective was to protect those women not kill them meaning they purposely did the opposite for the sake of selling their bullshit narrative.
+Flrs91 If I recall correctly, it may have been Hitman? I do remember one of these "feminists" trying to say that video games promote violence towards women, by murdering NPCs in Hitman, who were female strippers.
Even though, the point of Hitman is that you SHOULDN'T kill people if it isn't necessary, because stealth is the aim of the game, and the dialogue that they bothered giving the women makes you feel sorry for them (e.g. references to one of the girls having to perform sexual acts for her boss, just so she doesn't get fired, because she needs the money, to provide for her young daughter, as she's a single mother).
:P
Reminds me of the "virtual rape" news report that showed players online in GTA "hacking the game, and performing graphic and realistic sexual acts" (i.e. Mild humping gestures whilst a traffic cone floats above the player's head).
Evan Blenkinsopp Some things just never change. Uninformed people making decisions for those who do know better, people saying something even though evidence explicitly points against it in order to push some bullshit rhetoric, what Flrs91 said, etc..
gotta love the current outrage metoo sjw culture
Flrs91 Welcome to faux news! We make shit up and try to make people dumber! Let's use concrete evidence and turn it against itself because that makes sense!
Remember, Americans hate logic and many are flat-earthers, neo-nazis, or feminazis.
Btw I'm very ashamed to live in country where a 6 yr old runs the country like a dump.
Its so funny seeing how outraged parents were in the 90's seeing their kids playing "gory" videogames with digitized red spatters while in present day kids my age grew up on the internet where we were exposed to porn and gore at a young age lol.
I swear! It’s like can you imagine showing them mortal combat today? People’s testicles exploding? They’d have an aneurysm!
My dad bought me saints row 3, 4, and skyrim when I was in elementary school. He saw he made a mistake but instead of taking it away he always made sure to remind me when he watched me play that I should know the difference between the game and real life. I feel like that helped me a lot more than just telling me the game was bad for me. I already knew the difference, but I feel like that would work with other kids by completely separating the games from being applicable to reality instead of pretending it can have an effect on the real world.
One of my old teachers bought her 6 year old nephew GTA cause she though M stood for "Moms approve"
.....heh
USBYDProductions that teacher can’t be serious
outstanding move
Did she not see the bold *17+* on there? Or the white, bold, all capital *MATURE?*
She's going to be angry when she finds out what it really means.
M stands for "Midgets declined"
That happened.
Yoshi's crafted world RATED M FOR EXTREME VIOLENCE
You can SWALLOW your enemies. This game encourages cannibalism!
@@Felixr2 How does that encourage cannibalism?
Especially that one level you know the one
Anibal Osbaldo do you know what a joke is?
"Guns don't kill people, videogames do"
-rockstar games
4:25. This is why I love Scott. Lmao.
Parents:"VIDEO GAMES ARE MAKING OUR KIDS VIOLENT"
Also:*Ignores what their kids are playing and decides to blame gaming companies for their own idiotic faults
Their*
@@erex0998 uh what are you correcting. Are you drunk or something?
@@lmao7922 i think he's correcting the "ignores what THERE kids..." line.
PARENTING 101
@Kosorou Gaming Archives ?????
3:03 *Scott discussing a court hearing while using Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney music*
Well played
Palathaxx *OBJECTION*
@@nameman9997 *HOLD IT*
Hold me...
ILL CUT THOSE WOR-
wait wrong thing
Take That!
"I want to state that Night Trap will NEVER appear on a Nintendo system."
2018 Nintendo: "Night Trap will appear on a Nintendo system."
Howard Lincoln at 3:52: _Night Trap promotes violence against women._
Me: _Mr Lincoln, your main franchise has a dragon turtle that repeatedly kidnaps a princess. Sit down._
Rare Replay: E - M
*Everyone liked that*
*sees M*
*laughs in conker's bad fur day*
@@GhalidiusTrident
*Scott:* We need to expand the size of these things!
*Me:* (Holds up a picture of the boxart for Conker's Bad Fur Day, pointing to the large M rating) I think Rareware beat you to it.
When I look at Xbox is m
@@GhalidiusTrident Honestly, if they did a full on remake with nothing being changed but the graphics getting better and it getting more gorey, I could see it getting an adult only rating. Like I love bad fur day, but I don't know how they got away with it.
f in the chat for early childhood (best one), rating pending (second best one) and adult only (ok this one is bad)
"So that's why CJ isn't in Smash Bros."
This gives me painful memories
@SUPERNOVA for his neutral special, he wields a gun
169 likes lmao
That line doesn't make sense since Joker, Bayonetta and Snake are in the game.
7:18 is truly a glorious moment
I am beyond happy that I was old enough to purchase my own games by the time E10 was implemented. My parents actually did their duties when it came to buying their child video games. But they were a little overzealous about it in my opinion. I remember my dad not renting a game for me because it was K-A. He saw the 'A', and just, "noped"! Lol
He was being cautious. Love that goofball.
Writing was once viewed as a bad influence. Not a specific piece of writing, just writing in general.
Anything new will be seen as 'a bad influence', because people don't understand it
No, not just because people don’t know what the stuff is, it’s just because humans are sh*
OH EGAAAHDS! MY CHILDREN ARE BECOMING ........
LITERATE!
*dun dun dduuuuuunnn*
Philosophers thought it would reduce the importance of memory. Fortunately, keys were invented.
@@guyinbluu Yeah, didn't Aristotle say that if people wrote stuff down to remember it instead of just trying their hardest to remember they would use their brain less? And therefore writing would make people more stupid. I also remember hearing that bikes were considered a bad influence when they were invented, and radios as well. People will hate on anything new for all of time, it's fucking crazy.
Lincoln:Night trap will *never* be on a Nintendo system
nintendo switch: *are you really in charge here*
I got my copy for $1.50 off the eShop a few months ago.
Everyone knew it would happen
Scott your vids are exactly like you advertise. No ads no bs. Good one brother.
Fun Fact: I think due the such thing like "Why are Early Childhood rated "not for everyone"?" or "If they're Early Childhood rated games that means that Everyone rated games des it means that Everyone rated games are a lie?" or something like that, the Early Childhood rating is taken down.
honestly i feel like EC games should just be like those E rated games that have no descriptors in the back, some E rated games has nothing on the back that suggests anything bad, so why isn't it EC?
I don't think that the EC rating conflicts with the E for Everyone rating as EC implies that there's an educational aspect to the gameplay that only young children will actually get enjoyment out of while E for Everyone means that everyone can enjoy it.
@@allthelonely4287 That's the most-correct assessment of the difference between EC & E,that I've ever seen. I think the official ESRB explanation is essentially what U just said. But,without saying that only young children would enjoy the game(they seem mindful of the repercussions of saying that & the way ppl treat them like they're a branch of the gov,or something)...
Anyway,it can easily be read online what their "official" definition is. But,for an off-the-cuff explanation,I would say U nailed it... :)
-Peace
The reason Ec exists is to specifically indicate edutainment games aimed at pre-school through to kindergarten and 1-2 grade children. Those kids can play Everyone rated games, but they may be too hard or complex for them, or not appeal to young children. A truck simulator, football game, and cartoony platformer could all be rated E for Everyone it applies to a vast range.
EC is dead now due to being used rarely but I think it existed to show parents that older kids (like 6 or 7) wouldn't want to play it. For example a Barney, Caillou or Peppa Pig game wouldn't be enjoyed by kids out of kindergarten, granted with those franchises, that's pretty obvious but if it was an original game, it could be harder to tell. Also E rated games might require a lot of reading (Pokemon for example) that a 5 year old wouldn't really be able to do.
My parents reaction to M rated games: They aren’t real and my child knows they are fiction.
Absolutely Same,They knew who I was already and They knew that I wouldn't go overboard in M rated games
My parents (I’m 12 and I deem myself mature so tell me if this is an appropriate reaction) UR GONNA GET DESENSITIZED TO REAL WORLD VIOLENCE SO EVEN IF YOU DON’T KILL ANYONE YOU WILL GO eh IF YOU SEE SOMEONE GETTING ASSAULTED. On a side note, my parents don’t think games cause violence, just desensitization to violence.
S D I've been playing violent games from a very young age, and I know if I saw real violence I would be scared out of my mind, but that's just my 2 cents
Ryanator everyone knows that
I know that when I was 5 and playing gta vice city
For freaks sake.
The Last of Us 2: Has a literal sex scene in the game
ESRB: (crickets)
GTA San Andreas: Has sex scene in the game files that are inaccessible without hacking
ESRB: Has an aneurysm
To be fair San Andreas came out in 2005 (edit: never mind, got that confused with the year of the Hot Coffee leak)
@@cdvideodump 2004, not 2005
@@ThunderStruck115 Yeah, after doing some research, I got that confused with when the Hot Coffee mod leaked out. My bad
you forgot mass effect and that got controversy by fox news saying seXBOX?
@@nolanepstein8588 don't forget GTA and Jack Thompson. He called Bully a school shooter simulation. GTA VC had a bunch of shit thrown at by him as well.
Im rewatching this for like the 3rd time and i just realized that when scott talks about the court hearing (3:18) you can hear the ace attorney theme scott you beautiful genius
Thank God for the ESRB, I was worried I would have to actually parent my children. 👍
ESRB makes PEGI almost look professional
Ikr
The PEGI rating system look almost like Brazilian's rating system, applied for series, movies, cartoons, videogames. The list with their background colors:
L - Green (L means "Livre", which means "Free", free for all audiences)
10 - Blue
12 - Yellow
14 - Orange
16 - Red
18 - Black
The truth is... it should be enough... if a game is 17+ then being a few years younger isn't a big deal, but you shouldn't let a 10 year old play it.
@J The Nerd Yeah, they could just change the word, replacing the bad word, and the game will come back to 3+ or whatever Sonic games usually have in Europe.
*P E G I 1 8*
I love how some people remove the context from games and their content to suit their needs.
A game about preventing deaths is treated as glorifying attacking women.
A game about killing demons is treated as a way to recruit people into demonic cults.
A game with probably the best single anti-terrorism scene in any piece of media ever is treated as an incitement to enact terror.
Catherine Whittaker so which games are you talking about here?
I'm guessing the second one is Doom.
@@apollojustice5338 1. Nighttrap, 2. Doom, 3. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
or really just context from any situation
A game about killing Nazis and stopping their war is treated as promoting racism.
Yeah, basically.
The first Scott vid I ever watched!
10:10 that joke was already gold, but the Wii Music footage elevates it to a higher plane of existence
I agree.
So true
Millennials : Damn you kids that shouldn’t be playing GTA
Also Millennials: GTA San Andreas is my childhood
This is why I can't understand my elders when I talk about games. They complain that I play DOOM (Except my dad, he loves DOOM).
My mom is ateict, but she basically had f-zero growing up so...... she was never exposes to awesome shooter games.
It's not millenials
It's boomers
Get it right
@@HeyJinx actually it would be more Gen X than boomers.
@@HeyJinx no cuz millenials grew up in the 90's and 2000's which is the millennials
@@HeyJinx how old do you think San Andreas is?
It's funny how Super Smash Bros Brawl was rated T (probably because of Snake)
Melee was also rated T... but that was before E10 existed, so they probably didn’t have any other choice
@@camo6465 true
Chase8080
Brawl was rated T because of the sound effects along with another reason I think.
The reason Brawl and Melee were rated T was because of what the standards at the time were. The ESRB was a lot more strict back then, but now Smash games with Bayonetta are getting rated E10+. Just changing times.
@@adamsmith2122 True
A mom on Facebook asked if there were any “child friendly games” for her son and I recommend doom
Never played it but it looks like a Christian game
I work for GameStop and working there has taught how much of a joke the ESRB ratings are, I had a mother bring in her elementary school aged children in to pick out some PS5 games and we have at least three signs notifying customers about the ESRB ratings. The daughter picks up The Quarry and asks her mother for the game and she says no because it is a scary game and turns to me for confirmation. She then tells her to put it down and the mother says “Here why not this one instead? Uh Doki Doki Literature Club!” my brain went into full panic mode as I tried to explain why her child shouldn’t play DDLC without using words that could cause my management issues.
“Oh it’s only some depression, a little bit of body horror, and some existential crises, she can handle it!”