Cabal on Teen Rating

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Cabal on Teen Rating

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There's another thread of interest on the <a href="http://feedback.blackisle.com/forums/">BIS forums</a> about <a href="http://lionheart.blackisle.com/">Lionheart</a> and shooting for a <b>Teen Rating</b>. In the thread, <a href="http://feedback.blackisle.com/forums/sh ... 44062">Why shoot for a T-rating?</a>, <b>Cabal</b> states the sad reality of the business:<br><br><blockquote> The publisher ultimately requests what rating a game should aim for based on a whole slew of factors that I am only partially privy to. When a publisher submits to the ESRB, they hope for a specific rating and then the ESRB rates the game. Depending on what comes back, the publisher may have to decide to change things to get a different rating. Things like adult language, blood, affect the rating, and these are usually placed on the box with the rating. . The ESRB sets some pretty specific guidelines to differentiate 'E' from 'T' from 'M'. The more realistic your blood and giblets get, the more mature your game gets.<br><br><u>Obviously, getting the M rating and excluding the teen market takes a chunk away from sales</u>. But there is no reason that Lionheart has to be a gore-spattered fragfest to be a good fantasy rpg. Personally, I don't think there is a strong correlation to the amount of blood you have and the quality of the game (<u>exception FPS and pure combat games</u>). Lionheart will have combat, there will be violence on the level of other fantasy RPGs, and we'll put in appropriate detail to make the game better.<br><br></blockquote>Okay, here's the irony for those who missed it. <a href="http://lionheart.blackisle.com">Lionheart</a> was originally supposed to be a combat focused RPG, right? What do you want to bet that they were <b>always</b> shooting for that Teen Rating?<br><br>Anyway, it's a <a href="http://feedback.blackisle.com/forums/sh ... 4062">neat thread</a> for those of you who actually like a touch of gore when killing something!
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Lionheart was originally supposed to be a combat focused RPG, right? What do you want to bet that they were always shooting for that Teen Rating?
Damn those BIS people. Always conspiring against the average Joe Consumer. I bet they have something to do with the Illuminati as well.
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Anonymous wrote:Damn those BIS people. Always conspiring against the average Joe Consumer. I bet they have something to do with the Illuminati as well.
Okay, anyone else miss the point?
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Saint_Proverbius wrote:Okay, anyone else miss the point?
*Raises hand rather sheepishly*

Uhhh... I don't think I got it sir.

Are you saying that Lionheart won't be a combat-oriented RPG? Are you saying this tone-down to "T" BS is really what they were aiming for? And that the game will actually have some more dialogue or something instead?

*cringes and awaits response*
(Hopes he doesn't have to go see the headmaster and get cained again)
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Cabal said that gore was important for first person shooters and combat heavy games. Lionheart was originally going to be that way, only with a Teen Rating.

That's irony.
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