{"id":3902,"date":"2010-02-09T11:54:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T17:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=3902"},"modified":"2010-02-09T11:54:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T17:54:01","slug":"what-would-they-be-rated-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/09\/what-would-they-be-rated-now\/","title":{"rendered":"What would they be rated now?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"prs04\"Zach P. Asked<\/strong>:\u00a0Recently, I’ve been wondering about a few classic M rated games and I\u00a0was wondering if your previous rulings still stood from the old site.\u00a0The list is as follows, it might also be helpful to know which ones\u00a0have filters: Call of Duty 4, Call of Duty 5, Gears of War, BioShock,\u00a0Left 4 Dead, Resistance: Fall of Man, Resistance 2, Assassin’s Creed,\u00a0Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, and Fallout 3. I know that, lately, your\u00a0reviews have been a little more liberal so I was just requesting some\u00a0re-reviews based on your new, liberal perspective.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/p>\n

Good questions Zach. True, I have become more lenient as my kids get older and now that the heat is off the industry. When GamerDad launched games were still blamed by everyone. Journalists, lawyers, psychologists and parents were more scared. But gaming has made great strides since then, so defending them conservatively became – in my opinion – less helpful to parents. Also, by liberal and conservative I’m not talking politics. \u00a0On the Right we have the culture warriors and the Left we have hand-wringers.<\/p>\n

Ok, first off, me: Yes, some would get lower age scores from me. But back then I had a bunch of reviewers and I always let them have their say. \u00a0Basically what kids oughta do is encourage their parents to let them rent the game – to see if it passes muster at home. Or visit Youtube and watch some game footage. Or visit ESRB.org and read their reasoning for their ratings. They added this feature despite my suggesting it multiple times and them saying “Not a good idea.”<\/p>\n

You are 100% right that there should be a site that lists Age Filters and how effective they are. \u00a0I’ve encouraged Whattheyplay and CommonSense to do this and they haven’t. \u00a0My other great ignored idea is to give info on age capability. \u00a0This is tough but CRUCIAL for parents shopping for kids 2-7. Board games do it, why not video games?<\/p>\n

Call of Duty 4, Call of Duty 5, – 15 years old<\/p>\n

Gears of War, – 17 years old<\/p>\n

BioShock, -15 years old<\/p>\n

Left 4 Dead, – 15, less if horror movies aren’t a problem<\/p>\n

Resistance: Fall of Man, Resistance 2, – 15<\/p>\n

Assassin’s Creed, 13- 15<\/p>\n

Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, \u00a0– 13 seems more appropriate<\/p>\n

Fallout 3, – 15 is probably best, depending on how much sexuality is a problem<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zach P. Asked:\u00a0Recently, I’ve been wondering about a few classic M rated games and I\u00a0was wondering if your previous rulings still stood from the old site.\u00a0The list is as follows, it might also be helpful to know which ones\u00a0have filters: Call of Duty 4, Call of Duty 5, Gears of War, BioShock,\u00a0Left 4 Dead, Resistance: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-askgamerdad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}