esrb improvements

While the ESRB has been a solid system of rating games,

there can be improvements to help in giving information

to the user as well as the parent or guardian to show content

as well as content control info.

my suggestion to the ESRB is to show whether a game has any

content controls to regulate gore or/and language in a game,

because parents and users alike actually search for such content controls.

for example, I have mormon friends who love videogames, but because of their

religon they are restricted to E-T rated games unless ced. M rated game has some sort of option

to turn off gore in any way to make the rating void. They love halo and counterstrike (1.6, cz) and play them

all of the time because they have a content lock or a graphical option that will turn off the gore.

if there are any ideas of yours to improve the rating of video games in any way, please post.

thx. :D

I've never understood how being able to turn blood on/off has made people more comfortable with a game. You're still shooting/stabbing/blowing up someone..

On topic, I'd like to see the ESRB and the MPAA fold into one entity. That way games to just use the same ratings as movies and industry doesn't have to teach the ESRB system to parents, also maybe games will get fairer treatment.

As a gamer and a parent, I think the current ESRB system is fine. It's much more in-depth than the MPAA system, and clearly states what is contained in a game.wmg1299

word.

trust me the MPAA is worse than the esrb.

they are a movie makers nightmare.

nearly ever movie in exsistence has been

edited because the rating was too high for the

movie makers to accept. Clerks 2 was almost nc-17

and theres hardly a reason why it sholdnt be pg-13

You want the esrb to continue in its seperation from the MPAA

because if the MPAA merged with the esrb, the original artistic value

of the games you see today will be lessened tremendously.

the people on the hotspot (awsome podcast) say that movies get a

an easier break than video games, and they do. The problem is MPAA

would discriminate even worse on games than there already is.