Video Game Age Ratings
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ค. 2023
- Today I wanted to talk about video game age ratings.
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Croc on PS1 had all three K-A/E styles. The black label release had K-A, the Fox Interactive Greatest Hits had the pixelated E, and the Ubisoft Greatest Hits had the black E.
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didn't Mario kart 64 have all of them
They can’t decide can they?
I would've said "Lego Island", but I think the og printing didn't even have a true esrb rating.
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PEGI not only has the classification, but also on the backside of every box are logos showing what is in the game. There are Bad Language, Discrimination, Drugs, Fear, Gambling, Sex, Violence and also my Favorit that should be on the front In-Game purchases
ESRB also has that, right?
@@WohaoGi don't think ESRB has icons, only text
@@nikomiller Oh yea, I'm not american so idk
Yea there’s one with a spider and I don’t understand it
Australia does that as well with warnings like online interactivity and fantasy violence, except they just straight up say it instead of showing logos
I love how the subtitles interpreted "m-rated game" as "inbred game"
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Mexico appears to have adopted its own ratings during the pandemic or around that time. It was so weird walking to the store and seeing something other than an imported esrb rating
Mexican here. I actually miss the ESRB ratings. The new ones look butt ugly and don't blend with any cover.
They're super ugly, The rating is too big, and the colored rating doesn't look good
Here in Chile we also have our own rating system, but it co-exists with ESRB and PEGI and rather than being pasted into the cover it's a removable label so it's not that annoying (and they make it cover like a quarter or third of the cover so parents actually see it LOL).
The ratings are:
-ER (Especially Recommended): Mostly for educative games because they're *especially recommended* for young kids.
-TE (All Ages): Games safe and enjoyable for any age.
-8+: May have a minor amount of "strong" language, sexual innuendoes or violence.
-14+: Moderate amount of strong language, sexual innuendoes or violence.
-18+: Important amount of vulgar language, explicit sexual material, frequent nudity or important levels of violence. Also used as a temporary disclaimer for content that is yet to be rated.
@@Kdekalcio It's probably a sticker because they're improted directly, and not actually sold there
Where as in Mexico, it's a new printed cover
@@despeinado340 are they printed on the cover the new ratings
I find the 14+ rating in Brazil really useful, some stuff is to light for 16 but too heavy for 12, like the Uncharted games
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Look,any game that’s not 18+ is okay for kids.
@@lorenzorafael4600 having your ears blown out on gta online by squeakoids will change your mind
I played the og uncharted games when I was 7
@@lorenzorafael4600 yeah right.
I love the guy that says “PEGI 18” at the start of trailers
My problem with the rating systems are just how inconsistent they are. There are games where you cut people in half that are rated pegi 16, and games that have pretty much no gore except for a little blood that are rated 18. And there are games rated e/3+ that have lootboxes , which is pretty much just gambling. I think they should rate each category like gore, swearing, gambling etc from 1-10 to help people weed out the games that have a lot of the content that they personally are not comfortable with. The current systems are just very inconsistent and misleading.
I honeslty think pegi is pretty alright, it tells you whats in the game and thats it
@@flow185 but like I said, it's completely inconsistent. For example, Star Wars Jedi fallen order was rated 16, but Jedi survivor was rated 12, despite having pretty much the exact same content
@@Japuckleif anything Jedi survivor is worse than fallen order in that area
Like WWE Is Pegi 16 Wtf
Content descriptors is already a thing
8:40 a funny rating gap for me has always been A Hat in Time.
In North America, the game is rated T for violence and blood while in Europe it has a 7 rating.
Where was there even blood? Haven't played that game in at least a year
there are a lot of games with weird age differences in countries (e.g. Persona 3 being rated pegi 12 and cero b while also being rated m for mature in america - at least on the portable version)
Us Americans take stuff seriously
@@W0NDERFULSTUFF In the case of Persona it's because of a cultural difference; a cock and balls monster (Mara) is deemed much more graphic in the US than in Europe or Japan.
@@Zippy_Zoltonmaybe owl express? haven't played in a year or two
I think PEGI has a good system and I like how they have logos for what is included (drugs, violence etc.) but I do think a numbering system could make it more clear. A logo with a small number from 1-10 would make it easier to know if a game is fine for your kids even if it has "bad" things in it.
Thats like Australia. if a game is let say M rated, then it will tell you why its M rated. Exmaple Zelda: Breath of the Wild is M rated in Australia and the rating tell you its because it has fantasy violence
@@DAVID-ANDERSONit's literally the same for European games, in the back of game boxes, it'll show content descriptors in boxes. Content descriptors here have never changed, apart from an online one that was removed in 2015.
I used to have a friend who’s parents ACTUALLY PAYED ATTENTION TO AGE RATINGS so he couldn’t play teen games until he was 13
@@Whiteman2.0 imagine you're 11 and wanna play TOTK in europe and then your parents are just like: "nahhh"
@@CrunchySpon haha. It was exactly like that
I found it always weird how videogame age ratings appear to be way more strict compared to movies and tv series. Many tv series with a lot of violence, blood and drugs often only get a 12+ rating in my country but videogames almost always get a 16 or 18 rating. Even racing games usually get a 12+ rating which doesn't make any sense to me. Why should a 11 year old kid not be allowed to drive a car in a videogame? You can't even be violent because there are no pedestriabs in those racing games.
My guess is in a TV show you're watching characters make choices that may be judged as bad by the universe itself, but in a game you make your own choices which may even be rewarded if evil.
You are comparing two completely different mediums
It’s just to be safe so that the companies don’t get sued by parents
PEGI is incredibly strict, any gambling is an instant 18
It's probably because videogames are an interactive media, which ended up making blood and violence something rewarding.
Wasn't expecting you to talk about the Brazilian rating system, pretty nice surprise! I don't think I ever saw a videogame with one of those, most of them just use the ESRB, since they are usually imported (from the US), specially if you're talking Nintendo.
Actually nowadays a lot of games have the Brazilian rating, even Nintendo games since they started to distribute their games officially here, sadly without a translation tho.
Nintendo's oficial games realeased in Brazil comes with the classInd! I got a copy of TOTK with the 10 classification in the cover and It's pretty neat ^^
PEGI is just substantially more hardcore with gambling than the ESRB is. For reference, Trails from Zero is a game you outlined as T for Teen/PEGI 18.
The ESRB Page for the game references
>Cries of pain, gunfire
>Female characters with deep cleavage, lines referencing said cleavage
>A fictional drug crucial to the game's plot, described as "the real serious kind", which is also shown to leave people unconscious
>A casino where you can use ingame currency to play blackjack, poker, and slots
>uses of the words Bullshit and Ass
The PEGI page just mentions that the game teaches and encourages playing blackjack and poker. Nothing else.
Persona 5 has gambling in it but it got a Pegi 16 and ESRB rated the game M
@@demosneokleous4877 just looked through it, according to PEGI Trails from Zero encourages gambling and actively teaches how to do it to the player while Persona 5 does not.
Its worth noting that some countries like Russia rate some games drastically differently due to their more strict and oppressive LGBTQ+ laws. E.g. Miitopia is rated 18+ in Russia, but PEGI 7 here in the UK, presumably due to the high-level relationships Miis can obtain with each other suggesting romance
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The USK here in Germany is trigger happy with banning games but they’re relaxed with giving explicit games a low rating. For example: Persona 4, which is rated M in the USA, is only 12+ in Germany.
Yeah Persona 4 isn't a game I'd recommend for 12 year olds considering... a couple dungeons being a bit explicit to the point of having one of THOSE clubs. I still love it to pieces but I don't wanna think what Kanji and Rise's dungeons would do to a 12 year old
That's... interesting, considering Shadow Rise.
@@SliminBlueI did play P4 and 5 as a 12 year old, honestly it coulda been worse. I can’t say they included content I wasn’t already aware of, a 12 year old can definitely handle both games’ themes, just maybe not fully understand them. I got a lot more depth from replaying them more recently
As much as I loved P4 Golden, I still find Rise's and Kanj's dungeon design to be one of those thing to be quite questionable, considering they are both 15 and are high schoolers. Not something I'd be comfortable playing in front of my parents if I got the original PS2 version instead of the now released steam port. This is random, but characters like Kanji and Junpei to me, look much older than they are, I used to think they got held back or something.
Yeah, which is also the same rating as many “dark” Lego game IPs were released under.
Whoa, I was not expecting you to cover the Brazilian Rating System. Classificação Indicativa translates to "Indicative Classification" and for games their are automatic, each of them relating to one from the ESRB
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and the "L" is for "Livre pra todas as idades" = "Free for all ages"
@@igorcallofduty i think its spelled "Parabéns"
@@veronicabermudez4802it does
@@violakazooie that's Portuguese
Prior to PEGI the UK went 3, 7, 12, 15 and 18. We still use TBC (To be Confirmed) when games are listed on the market while in development.
Yeah, we used the ELSPA rating system before PEGI in the UK.
i remember when just cause 2 was pegi 15 but then swiftly changed it to pegi 18
And also occasionally the BBFC used to rate video games as well up until 2012.
Another notable thing about the Australian rating system is that for a long time, they refused to classify any games as R18+, because I guess games are for kids and so can't be for adults? This led to some games being refused sale on absolutely oversensitive grounds, but also frankly led to a lot of games being under-rated as MA15+ because banning them would have gotten bad press, like GTA IV.
My copy of Borderlands 3 on PS4 has Pegi 18 on the box but on the disc it has the Australian MA15+ rating
Brazilian here. The "Classificação Indicativa" is the same that is used for TV shows. They started using it on games around 2013. Games would often come with a sticker or a cardboard box with the brazilian rating on top of the original box, as up until that point we used the ERSB rating from USA.
I'm not sure how it was before the ERAB here, because the Classificação Indicativa in TV shows wasn't a thing before mid 2000's. At least this incarnation of the rating. Only recently with some major PS4, PS5 and Xbox games games are printed with our rating on their original boxes. Switch retail games aren't officially sold here, instead Nintendo sells gift cards with the download codes.
Not sure if any game has been banned here. I remember there has been talks about banning GTA Vice City when it came out, the whole videogame are evil witch hunt. But you can still buy GTA games in all other platforms. Also, one big box dept store near my house had an original copy of the PS2 version of Manhunt 1 for years.
Antes do ClassInd, a Tectoy tinha a classificação própria deles, por exemplo, e a Gradiente (Nintendo) usava uma versão traduzida da ESRB.
cs 1.6 was banned in brazil in 2008 or 2009
Some thoughts of mine:
-Older T-rated games seem to be able to get away with much more than modern T-rated games, simply because the graphics were less polished. Look at Weaponlord's finishing moves for example and you'd see there is no way that would be allowed at a T-rating if the graphics were 3D.
-The game Crime Scene on the Nintendo DS seems to have the biggest disparity between ESRB and PEGI, as the former rated it M while the latter rated it 7. Worth noting that PEGI in its early days seemed to allow much worse content at the lower ratings. For example, 2005 Altered Beast getting a 12 even though you can cut enemies in half or decapitate them and there are grisly body horror images.
-The BBFC film ratings board in the UK used to rate video games prior to July 2012. They didn't rate every game, admittedly. Comparing them to the ESRB and PEGI leads to many interesting results, such as how Mass Effect 1, Dragon's Dogma and XCOM: Enemy Unknown, all rated M by ESRB and 18 by PEGI were rated 12 by the BBFC instead.
-The Australian ratings board originally didn't use the R18 rating for games, prior to late 2012 (don't remember the exact month, but Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge was the first game to get an R18). This was a factor in why so many games got banned or censored.
R18? Isn’t that for porn? It is in the UK with our BBFC. The bbfc was a lot less strict until around 2015.
In the UK, that is true, but in Australia, R18 is the regular 18 rating, while X18 is their version of the UK R18
Zapper (2002) was a game on many platforms rated PEGI 3 on Windows (but ELSPA 3+ on other platforms). One of the common death animations is the mani character being cut in half, with intestines visible.
I can’t believe he didn’t mention when Miitopia got an 18+ rating in Russia because of same-sex relationships
I could probably make another video just talking about how strangely some games were rated in different territories.
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Huh, at least it didn't get outright banned
Yeah i heard about that, it's fucking stupid
The sims 4 is 18+ in Russia as well. They almost didn’t sell a wedding game pack in Russia because of its trailer featuring a straight couple getting married, but the bride ended up marrying her best friend (who even helped them plan the wedding) instead
The Pokemon Red and Blue rerelease got a PEGI 18+ for a time because of the gambling corner while it got an E for Everyone in the US
Oh yeah I remember hearing about that, that was weird
That's literally not true. The new legislation did not apply to legacy titles as long as the content remained unchanged on rereleases. Their rating got increased to PEGI-12 back when they released on 3DS, but that's about it.
I didn't think it would apply if it wasn't real money because a lot of games have some sort of mini game that can be interpreted as gambling.
i have firered and leafgreen while it was still 18 becuase my dad got it
I am obsessed with age ratings and even expecting knowing most, if not all of the info on it, I entered directly to it to see your take on informing people about it and I think you did an outstanding job on explaining everything and giving fun facts.I even learned stuff I didn't knew like the last Ao game or the fact that Rating Oending possibly mature exists. Awesome coverage and really entertaining, it's always funmy to see how the actual gamers know more about this than the parents who are who should csre
In Ireland, for years when I found a game in a store, it was a coin flip whether it was the PEGI age rating or the British age rating, the BBFC. I got away with playing call of duty World at war when I was younger because the box had the UK rating of 15+, but I only discovered recently that the PEGI rating was 18+ for the same game and I wasn't allowed play those games at the time.
Just thought I'd share how it seemed for ages that we could have a game that could have 2 different age ratings on a shelf next to each other.
I live in the UK, and most of my games have a PEGI rating. The only BBFC ratings I have are for games such as Your Shape, and Samba De Amigo I believe, which I assume contains primarily video content which made the BBFC rate it instead?
On Nintendo games since the GameCube (technically GBA but it's placed differently on those games) btw, if a game is intended for a UK audience, on the side where you usually just see the consoles logo and the games name, you may be able to see a green triangle which indicates that the box art is intended for the UK (purplish triangles are intended for the EU)
@ExperiencersInternational that's interesting, I thought it was random cause most my games do have pegi ratings but world at war, dead rising and some of the nba games have the bbfc ratings. I must check and see if they have those triangles you're talking about
r.i.p 15 rating
@@noroultra truly rip
@@Skyblue-bq6ev aw right, that would make sense since I haven't seen any newer games with the BBFC rating. Jeez mass effect at 12, that's wild
I got curious and went to look my PS2 games for the ratings and died after seeing GTA: San Andreas with the pixelated E for everyone on the CD XDD
One of the most interesting age ratings for a game I recall is Pokémon Red and Blue. The original Gameboy games had the ESRB rate them as E and PEGI rate them as 3. When they where rereleased on the 3DS Virtual Console though PEGI increased it to 12 due to it having the Celadon Game Corner. It’s the main reason most future games no longer have a Game Corner, even the Ruby and Sapphire remakes got rid of it
There's a legit chance it would be 18 rated now.
The last few years PEGI introduced a rule that any casino style gambling is a automatic 18 which might include the slot machines in Pokemon.
Thats why Trails from Zero is PEGI 18 and ESRB T rated, it has poker in it.
HeartGold / SoulSilver also got rid of the game corned, and only in the Western versions, so I suspect this was a last minute change, especially given how sloppy their removal was. It also sucks because all the TM's available in the Game Corner in the JP version are much, much harder to get in the Western versions.
@@K1ttenface its not even gambling if its a game of skill (pressing buttons at right time)
on the ds ones
@19Szabolcs91 I doubt it was a last minute decision considering that platinum was the first one to get censored in Europe
This is an very good video explaining about these video game ratings just like the movie ratings and the tv ratings.
As a dutch person (netherlands is in europe) I remember being young and when seeing a Pegi 18 Rating me and other kids would be very excited about that game, because if it got that rating we would really want to play it. lol
So PEGI 18 was basically the opposite of a death sentence, it was a mark of approval
Yeah I really disagree with the AO ban
Assuming it’s not something like CP I don’t see why they should ban it
Ducking hell San Andreas got it because of a hack that was as erotic as an action fugue pike up
I don't know how many Americans are here but I hope that everybody knows where the Netherlands is.
@@mildlydispleased3221 you’re lucky if they don’t call it Holland
Its in benelux region next to germany and Belgium @@mildlydispleased3221
@@mildlydispleased3221 I could, but fail to see the purpose or relevance of that comment. You're just trying to drum up an animosity circlejerk. Let's be realistic; if I asked the average European to point out Arkansas or Minnesota on a map, I doubt they could.
Crazy to imagine that a certain early 90s violent video games, got them to bring up the rating systems on every game they release. Adults Only is still one of the most rare rating system in video games.
was hoping to see the arcade classifications here. I love the color coded stickers and how instead of numbers or letters, everything has to be written out (life-like violence strong, for example)
You're videos are very entertaining to watch :D
I'm surprised you didn't mention the AV15+ classification for Australia. It was used specifically for violent content (adult violence) and I remember my first time ever seeing it on TV. I have no idea what movie it was and it was the only time I ever saw it. The AV15+ classification was merged with the MA15+ rating in 2015 and the 'strong violence' sub-text was put in place of it.
Parents should be aware of Parental Controls in online storefronts. We all know that video of Bowser being a responsible parent, but I'm pretty sure as early as the Wii, Nintendo had a Parental Control feature to require a password when buying games above a certain ESRB rating. So the gift card loophole shouldn't be a huge worry if you're parenting properly
Here in Brazil we use the same parental rating system (Sistema de Classificação Indicativa) on everything, from games to movies, TV series, TV shows and even streaming services content. The only exceptions are books, comics and manga
To be fair, there isn't a widely used rating system for books.
@@el-karasu6070 some comics and manga have self-imposed ratings in the US!
I have the cartridge for the pixel e for everyone rating for Donkey Kong Land 2. So I can confirm it's real.
🇧🇷 As a Brazillian, i was not expecting our rating system appear here, i'm happy about this 🇧🇷
for some reason when I got paper mario the origami king for my birthday, I got the PEGI rating system instead of the esrb system, this copy sort of felt special to me for some reason
Lol that last point was hella relatable. It's how I was able to play a shit ton of M rated games in my teens. I remember playing them with a single earbud, that way I could listen to the game and hear any footsteps approaching my closed door.
I remember in Chile during late 2010's they made a weird experiment, using (horrid but fortunately easy to throw away) paper labels saying TE (All audiences), +8, +14 and +18 and a generic description of the rating, the same ratings used in film. And Mexico started using their own ratings print on the label saying A, B, C and D replying their own film ratings (and their icons look so... "graphic design is my passion")
In 2022 Chile said "Screw it, we're gonna stick with ESRB", thank God
Miitopias rating is super interesting. In America it got E for everyone the lowest rating available. In Russia it got an 18+ rating. It got 18+ because the game features same sex couples and Nintendo refused to censor the feature. Good on Nintendo for staying true to their values.
While it's really bad for Russia having such rule, since children can also be LGBT. But it's still good that Russia still allows it from 18 at least. Like, they could have outright banned it, but they made a compromise at 18.
Still shouldn't be a thing though.
@@Liggliluff how does a kid become lgbt? what did you guys do to them?
I remember my dad buying me The Sims: Superstar when I was a child. Online now it has the game is 7+ but I definitely remember it being 12+ rated. The person behind the counter at PC World asked me to step to the side in order to explain the content in the game to my dad (I was definitely too young to know what "WooHoo" was alluding to).
thank you kiro for *always* putting flashing lights warnings
Thank you for giving me ideas.
What I always found interesting was that there almost certainly must be differences between what each rating system considers okay for certain age groups. From what I understand, things that are okay in some places can be considered problematic in others, and hence those places wouldn't grant approval for the same age groups. It's not even a matter of questionable choices every time, as even when the standards are enforced correctly there's still disagreements between rating systems. This must drive devs/publishers trying to aim for specific age groups rather crazy if they aim for international releases.
one weird instance of different rating systems giving a game a wildly different rating is with the game, Deponia: The Complete Journey. It is rated 6 by the USK, 12 by PEGI, and Mature by the ESRB.
Likely cultural differences but i don't know
I'm not surprised about Germany rating games this low considering most of our kids cartoons have explicit swearing. I've gotten so used to watching shows and movies in english that once I sat down to watch the german dub of Puss in Boots I was caught off guard by how often the characters said "ass" and "shit" completely uncensored
The UK used to use PEGI but eventually started to use the BBFC rating system (used for films) in around about 2006 I think because I remember trying to buy From Russia With Love (the first game I ever saw with a BBFC rating rather than PEGI) that was a 15 (as I was at the time) and the shop assistant initially refused to sell it to me because I was under 16 but when I pointed out the rating said 15, he acquiesced and sold it to me.
for future note, "Classificação Indicativa" is literally just "Indicative Classification", no formal name or anything, quite intuitive
You forgot to mention prior to PEGI. We actually used the ELSPA rating in EU countries (mainly UK) which was basically used from the SNES to PS1 era of games which rated from 3+, 11+, 15+ to 18+. Especially if you collected PAL releases of games back then.
Heck, at one point in the UK specifically, they used BBFC rating for some games before the creation of PEGI. If you checked from PAL games prior to 2003. You would see that rating would be present on those releases. So, I think PEGI was basically created to mainstream version those rating systems.
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 had the BBFC "18" when it was released in the United Kingdom and the first BBFC classified game was "Dracula" rated "15" for the C64 back in 1986.
It feels so weird having games with the Film rating.
Makes sense though.
@@rhodrage Welcome to the world of 80s to early 2000s UK gaming. We had a lot of issues with ratings. But we got there in the end. Seriously, if you had a PAL console, you went from BBFC to ELSPA to BFFC again for some reason and then PEGI in 2003. It's pretty crazy lol. The USA had it easy.
@@Retrofuge Being British myself, I'm fully aware.
Yeah like if you had a PS2/Xbox game collection in the UK (hell even Europe) half of the spines had BBFC ratings and half do not.
I have a fond memory of needing to get my dad to call Nintendo customer service because the 5th ace attourney game was rated M among the rest of the series at T, and my 3ds account age was too young to buy it
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@@timelymirror7826 It's true. I think it was because there was lots of blood (or perhaps too much blood in a traumatic scene) that caused the rating to rise.
I remember when HGSS was at risk of getting a higher age rating because of the Game Center.
Also, congrats on 50K!
But it was already cut and replaced in Platinum
@@enoyna1001 only in European versions
Its kinda funny that Night trap and mortal kombat were the games that made people think its a problem, while back in the 80s there was Chiller and Splatterhouse which I would say is way more violent and gory, though the age rating on games was not a thing back then. I love that on splatterhouse there is a text on the turbografx16 cover that says ''The horrifying theme of this game may be inappropriate for young children...and cowards.''
Also many movies and games had differences which country it was in. Like I own movies which has both 18+ and 15+ on the age rating depending which country you are in. Probably because the neighboring country has a higher age rating compared to the one you're in, but its funny seeing mutiple age ratings on the same disc.
Seeing how the countries takes ''recommened age rating'' differently. Shadow the hedgehog is 10+ in usa and 12+ in europe. Also Ratchet and Clank is 3+ in europe while in USA its teen.
Oh my God! You just unlocked my memory. I played spaltterhouse a lot when I was a kid.
I don't really think it was that violent compared to DOOM. It just had a few bosses that looked ugly.
But you are definitely right about Chiller. That thing was straight up sadistic
I remember hearing about the E10+ from ESRB, where Burnout 3 got a T rating, since E10+ wasn't thing back then, then Burnout Revenge, which takes on a grittier aesthetic and a greater emphasis on taking revenge and more reckless driving, is E10+ compared to the tamer Burnout 3.
Also in Mexico 🇲🇽 uses his own game rating called “Sistema Mexicano de Equivalencias de Clasificación de Contenidos de Videojuegos/SMECCV”
in english “Mexican System of Equivalences for Video Game Content Classification”
so the SMECC or the MSEVGCC?
@@mrqwerty567officially in Spanish is called SMECC, but in English translation is MSEVGCC, but the English translation is not official
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me, a European, has seen a couple of pegi 17 ratings.
17, the most popular rating in the US.
The Australian Classifications for video games actually used to have another version before 2005, before they were changed to be the same as movies. They were just white squares with the rating in bold black text, and the Australian Coat of arms at the top. They were:
G
G10+
M15+
MA15+
Aren't they the same as films?
@@goatbonethey are now. in fact, they’re so uniform one family could never tell the difference if they can.
@@matthewkrenzler1171 But wasn't that the same system for films (besides the exclusion of the R rating for games)
@@goatbone oh. that’s only since 1993 that it wasn’t.
As a portuguese, I actually didn't know we had some unique ratings, which prompted me to check my PS4 games and got this:
Rated 4:
PES 2016
Gran Turismo Sport
Rated 6:
Minecraft
Ratchet and Clank
Kinda interesting how I'd never noticed that
Oh no Minecraft is gonna become a kids game
Oh no!
Ngl these logos are soo sick at the cover
i think the japan one is the most cleanest and simplest thing i ever seen
Oh, here’s a bonus fact about the Australian ratings… they didn’t used to be exactly the same. The PG rating was only implemented around 2004. Prior to that, Australia used to have G8+, which served the same function. But now they’ve been standardised to match the film ratings
but isn't there also a P and C for Australian TV used for children's programing?
@@cradica can’t say I’m familiar with that one… not saying there isn’t, because they have got ratings that are slightly different
@@Alpha-oo8 well that's what Wikipedia says.In the US there are similar ratings being TV-Y and Y7.
Do you know anything about the German ratings? Because in Germany interspecies reviewers was rated a mix of 16 and 18 meanwhile in the US it was released by a porn company and yet banned in Australia when you guys do have porn rating. However in both the US and Australia it was rated MA (but OUR MA is 17+)
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@@matthewkrenzler1171 I know!
As an Australian, I have never heard of RC! Congrats on teaching me something new about my country lol
Random trivia for some reason : can you guess the only thing that has two different age ratings at the same time in Australia?
I don't know but I've seen one of the Final Fantasy games on PS1seems to carry a PG or an M.
No idea if this is what you're referring to but I have a physical copy of Halo MCC that's MA15+ but digital editions are rated M. This also makes it so Halo 1, 2 and Reach are all M now when they were MA originally
Also as an Australian, I don't know
Please tell us
These people are dying to know
11:53 This rating is in Poland too, I think this appeared since 2010 (But it looks kinda different), or something like that, when I was a young kid I have seen videos with yellow triangle and 12 in it
I like how you and rocket sloth both made videos about game age ratings on the same day
Something weird about games in the UK is that while most games use the PEGI system there’s the occasional few that use our film ratings instead. It’s not even random small games or games based on films either, some of the games I own that do it include The Orange Box, Bioshock, GTA 4, Max Payne and the entire PS3 Uncharted trilogy, and there’s plenty more that I see being sold in stores. I’ve also noticed it’s only ever 6th and 7th gen games in my experience (although I do remember seeing a Switch game with a PG rating on it which looked really weird). Even weirder is the fact that some prints of games will have a standard PEGI rating and others of the same game will have the film rating instead. I’ve also noticed that (aside from the Switch game I mentioned earlier and one other Wii game I once saw) it’s pretty much always mature games. The games I own with film ratings on them are all 15s or 18s according to the film board. The last weird thing I’ve noticed about them is that unlike games rated using the PEGI system, games using our film ratings have the rating on the spine as well as the front and back for some reason. I’ve looked high and low for a reason as to why some games are rated this way over here, but I can’t find it.
my grandma has gta 4
Yeah, I own SpongeBob: Atlantis Squarepantis on DS and it uses the U rating from movies.
i was always a bit worried on my copy of smash brawl being teen rated for a long time idk if it actually happen but i have a memory of my mom questioning me a bit until she saw was mostly Nintendo characters maybe my mind putting tricks on me but i was still woriried about that for awhile
Yeah, my Smash Brawl is PEGI 12 but I don't mind anymore.
That was me with Zelda: Twilight Princess. My mom was okay with me playing Zelda as a kid but not T rated games, so I had to hide the box
The UK also used to have BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) ratings for some games and had used them before PEGI were established but have since standardised to exclusively using PEGI which happened during the 7th generation so similar to your point about reprints having the K-A and E ratings some later game reprints in the UK from that time have prints with completely different age rating systems on them.
Before PEGI, there used to be ELSPA. And the first age rated game was "Dracula" on the ZX Spectrum.
The E10 rating basically feels like a rating for hockey games at this point lmao
Idk there’s still a decent amount of games that get that rating lol
Mario Odyssey is my favorite Hockey game!
@@atravellingbleach8668 LMAO
@@atravellingbleach8668I know right? I don't know why that game is E10+!
Here in Australia we have the OFLC ratings and they’re great. They’re applied for movies, tv and games and they’re clear as day, green G, yellow PG, blue M, red MA-15+, black R-18+/X-18+ and on the boxes of the game or DVD/Blu-ray there’s the reason it’s rated like that, a PG game might have “mild cartoon violence, game experience may change online”, for example
finished watching the video and it’s cool that Kiro mentioned our system, many people forget it. He didn’t mention the fact the reason for classification is displayed on the box, though.
misrating Love Live Rated M for dingus reasons i blame hillsong worship for that to the point to just became hillsongia
@@janchristianursuaaguilar7434none of these words are in the bible nor can i decipher any of them I'm sorry, but yeah the oflc has a problem with rating things too high/outright banning them or rating some pretty gross shit way too low. Really the aggressive censors and odd "crack slips" are my only issue with the rating system
Great Video!!
This scratches the content itch I like
You went into a lot of detail into ESRB, while glossed over interesting things about PEGI. One thing about PEGI, unlike every other system you listed, is that it's language-independent. ESRB is English, CERO is Japanese, USK is German, but PEGI has no language. This is why all rating are numbers only, because numbers are universal, and why that special rating is just ! because it's not any language. The content ratings, which you didn't even show, are also just symbols. These are just symbols because they aren't language. You can read up about these symbols in your own language, and then you can know what these means regardless of what language the box is in. You can therefore purchase games in Spain and still understand the PEGI system.
I just want to imagine a game, with the cover translated to English, German and Dutch to be like. Instead of 18 it would be A for Adults, E for Erwachsene, V for Volwassen. Then trying to buy a game in Poland having it rated N for Nastoletni and having no idea what age that is.
When I was repalying Mega Man X4 for my review marathing for it, I found it funny that it was KA rated when you have to remember: that's the MOST DARKEST game in the entire franchise. I alos like how they changed that specific rating with E and E10 which we know today.
As an Australian and seeing the other rating systems, I think I prefer ours the most due to the colour coding, letter systems and occasionally number as well.
PEGI is designed with no language. You can't use "G" for general, "R" for restricted and "M" for mature when it should also work for German, Polish, Turkish, Hebrew and more languages. For example, "A" in English would be 'adult', but "A" in Germanic languages would be 'general'. This is also why the "parental guidance"-rating on PEGI is just "!" because it doesn't have a language.
I can get behind what you're saying about the colours though. So red for 18, amber for 16 is good already, but then green for 12 and blue for 7 and 3 (not important to have huge distinction between these two lower ratings). I am confused why Australia goes green-yellow-blue-red when it makes more sense with blue-green-yellow-red.
While we can discuss if the ages should be 3-7-12-16-18 or something different. If it's going to be the one and best system of all, globally, certainly it should just be numbers, not text.
In Europe i mainly see two different types of ratings on boxarts. You got boxarts with a Pegi rating on it and boxarts with both Russia’s and Germany’s ratings on it
I think the rating system actually made games better cause most were for everyone already n it was rare to have adult games, but the rating systems let people make any type of game and make it good (:
No it doesn't, even today games have to censor a lot of stuff to lower their age rating. Take for example the awful pokemon diamond and pearl remakes: they had to cut out the casino section of the game or else PEGI would label the game as 18+, and that's outright unsellable. In reality no one pays attention to the silly numbers on the box but they end up affecting the games a ton for the worse
You forgot to mention that around the era of the PS2/DS we used to have the PEGI plus rating (3+, 7+, 12+, 16+ and 18+) but we no longer used them and i don't remember why we used them
Just different style. I, actually, prefer the old style because it looked more serious and resembled ESRB rating.
@@ArtemyMalchuk yeah to be fair i kinda miss the PEGI Plus rating
The GameStop employee training video
Austria (where I live) is special when it comes to video game ratings. Sometimes they only have USK, sometimes only PEGI and sometimes they have both PEGI and USK at the same time on a video game cover.
Mexico made this decade their own rating system for the Moms than don't know what the M on their children games mean. But it's kinda weird, some releases like Nintendo ones have it printed in the cover art while other games only have a big ass sticker over the plastic covering the ordinary ESRB rating.
The rating is similar to CERO and PEGI having letters with colors (A, B, C, that)
The sticker is for games that got imported before the system got implemented, or for smaller/cheaper publishers that don't bother printing different covers. Even some ESRB ones come in English/French because they simply distribute the North American box without making a different one in English/Spanish for Latin America (i.e. looking at my shelf, Bayonetta and Sonic are all English/French, Nintendo first-party ones are all English/Spanish).
Fun fact about Brazil's rating:
I don't know if still is like this, but there was a time that sexual non-explicit short scenes would be for 14, sexual non-explicit long scenes would be for 16, and all the explicit and pornographic scenes would be for 18. However, if the sexual scene was a homossexual one, it didn't matter how long and explicit it was, it would jump straight to 18. I think it also applied to gay kisses with no sexual tension at all, but I'm not sure.
oof
For many years in the 2000s. On GameSpots website Gran Turismo 2 had a T for Teen rating with the pixel Teen logo on the artwork.
Thanks for talking about the Australian classification system! Love to see us getting mentioned 😌
honestly find it confusing
the "classificação indicativa" is usually only seen on tv or movies, considering out of like 50 games i have physically, only one of them uses that system (it has an L for "livre" :D)
maybe it's only for more recently published games, I also have a ton of games and all of them use the ESBR rating
for the pegi and esrb discrepencies: PAL territories have much harsher laws against gambling of any kind. Even fake gambling or gatcha. even stuff like the game corner in pokemon
just everything and anythign with gambling typically gets a much higher rating in PEGI
Yeah, and the reason for Poker Club getting a PEGI 18 is because apparently, there are/were plans to add microtransactions to the game, allowing players to buy the ingame currency with real money, which is gambling.
Yet PEGI doesn't consider lootboxes as gambling.
I'd say, maybe a bit harsh, but if you can use real money to directly or indirectly purchase a random chance to get an item ... that's gambling. That's no the only definition of gambling. But if you can purchase in-game tokens, to pay for a random price, that should certainly be gambling.
An interesting thing I have found are combined ESRB ratings. As of now, I only know for certain one released as a standalone version, Yomawari: The Long Night Collection, which is a 2-in-1 exclusive Nintendo Switch version of the first two Yomawari games (Night Alone and Midnight Shadows). However, what is interesting about this specific version is that Night Alone is rated T by the ESRB while Midnight Shadows is rated M (on-screen depictions of a character taking their own life and more gore). As such, the Collection has the T and M rating.
The PEGI16 rating in my collection always throws me off because I’m used to seeing the T rating. 2 of my PEGI16 are special editions we can’t get in the US and the other was a game I couldn’t find anywhere else so I got desperate.
Edit: corrected the rating. I put 14 instead of 16 🤦♂️
I have some old PAL PlayStation 1 and I've seen ELSPA ratings on them, and I literally do not know anything about them, I found basically no information on them other than it was a predecessor to PEGI.
If you're able to find some more information, I'd love it if you'd make another video on age ratings ngl, especially with some messed up stuff (e.g. New Super Mario Bros being rated PEGI 3 originally, and later being rated PEGI 12 on the Wii U VC purely because of minigames like Luigi's Poker).
Not gonna lie, would also be interesting to hear someone actually talk about the cursed triangles on PAL Nintendo game since the GBA (sadly it doesn't curse Australians lol)
Gen 2 Pokémon games also went up to 12 for this reason!
An oddity is that the UK kind of has two ratings systems. Some games have PEGI ratings, but tons of my games have a British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) on the cover instead of a PEGI rating. I have no idea why, but the majority of my PS3 games are BBFC while the bulk of my PS4 games are PEGI so maybe it was a point-in-time thing? I don't think I have any games that have both a BBFC and PEGI rating, but I'm curious to check through my collection now.
It says that officially PEGI became the standard (and legally enforceable) in 2012, but I think from 2010 the transition from BBFC to PEGI started, at least from what I've seen looking around
7:10 PEGI is newer than the ESRB but some countries had their own rating boards and systems prior for example in the UK the BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) had been rating games as far back as 1986.
its weird because Halo 3 had the BBFC rating of 15, which is usually only for films?
@@LawrencePG I think they didn't switch over fully until much later than 2003
@@goatbone ahhh thanks for clearing it up
God is PEGI nostalgic, i remember as a kid seeing the new cool "mature" game, and watching the trailer on youtube, and the first thing i hear is "PEGI 18". I got chills everytime i heard it.
With the Australian Rating system, the R18+ rating was also only reserved for TV and Film until 2013. A few games that would have otherwise been rated R18+ were infamously banned in Australia before the rating was introduced to games, I think L4D2 was one of them.
The ACB also seems to take implications and depictions of sexual violence pretty seriously. Infamously one of the Atelier games, Atelier Rorona Plus, which is rated pretty low (B in Japan, 12+ in Europe, T in the US) in other countries is rated R18 here. I haven't played the game myself but it's because of something that was humorously implied?? This is even weirder because the original non-remastered version of the game is rated PG lol
In the US for TV we still don't have a R-18+ category
Yeah it’s reason why hotline Miami 2 was banned in Australia over a staged R-word scene but apparently you can get it on the Eshop even though it’s banned
Games clasified as teen in usa and pegi 18 in europe are mostly games that contain money games such as casino
Thought you would talk about the USK and how they used to ban a lot of games back in the day. For example Goldeneye 64 had to be reissued to the USK in 2021 to be included in Ninento Switch online as the original release was banned. Today they aren't that strict anymore and after checking it again it's not banned anymore. This second check also spoilered the inclusion of GoldenEye in Nintendo Switch online as it was made public before Nintendos announcement.
Great bVideo BRO props
13:33 Don't expose me like that.
I started playing gta same age as that
@@alexpickgaming We share something in common.
Perhaps a weird take, but I sorta like the ESRB system? They're pretty context-based when it comes to reviewing, so for example a game with a kid-friendly artstyle and a non-explicit plot isn't going to get a T only because say, a character says "suicide" once (yeah I'm thinking of Professor Layton). Their little sticker is also as non-intrusive as possible, so you don't get the entire cover art ruined like the USK in Germany.
And IMO it's telling that people's biggest beef with them is still something that happened around 15 years ago (the Elder Scrolls IV rating change, which yeah it was totally on them). There IS the more recent lootbox controversy, but they're only one piece of the problem and most responsibility should actually be taken by legislators IMO.
I agree, it's pretty easy to understand and I like that there's basically only 3 ratings, which is all you really need. The rest feel pretty redundant.
Also the ESRB and CERO ratings are the only ones I don't mind on the box art. They're pretty sleek and nonintruvise. All the colored ones look a little tacky to me. Germany is by far the worst though.
@@Skyblue-bq6ev I think 18 gets into a legal threshold that goes against the idea of the ratings being more of a "suggestion". 18+ is also doomed to be associated with porn so it'd be weird to group most M-rated games in the same category as those.
*a game with a Kid-friendly artstyle and non-explicit plot isn't going to get a T*
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Australian here. Postal 4 is on the banned list. But it's not banned for us on the steam store.
I have 1 game in my collection that is PEGI 15+. Didn't know it was exclusive to where I am from. Quite interesting.
Personally wouldn’t say Pegi 18 is the same as the esrb’s Adult only, I’d say it’s more like the M rating
From my experience it feels as if Pegi 16 is used more as a middle ground for games that don’t quite fit either 12 or 18 ( for example bayonetta 1 is 18 while 2 is 16)
This does lead to things such as the entire halo series being 16 besides halo wars 2
Even with all the more graphic things in the 1st 3 games it’s rated the same as the relatively tame things in 5 and infinite.
On a related note some games in the UK got rated by the BBFC (the British Board of film classification) leading to games like halo 3 getting a 15 rating but funnily enough Mass effect 1 getting a 12 rating
ESRB to PEGI I would argue is: E to 3, E10+ to 7, T to 12, and M split into 16 and 18. Ao is also 18 of course.