I'm sure this question has been asked before, but I would like to know the differences inbetween (topic). Especially Mature and Teen.

Moved.

I would have thought this topic's home would be more obvious.

Biskit Comics
I'm sure this question has been asked before, but I would like to know the differences inbetween (topic). Especially Mature and Teen.

Forgive the crappy drawing but in a nutshell, this.



You can shoot someone in the head and it can be teen. But the amount of gore, language, and even the SOUND they make when they die can be the difference between teen and mature. There's also nudity and sexual themes, but I wouldn't want to post that here.

It can be more than what you see there, but you can only go so far when posting in this forum...

I bet the "E" version of that comic would be a water pistol shooting water all over the guy's face. :)

fixed :P

The Entertainment Software Rating Board website. [esrb.org]

Or.

The backwards logic guided system. [classification.gov.au]

Have fun reading. None of it makes any damn sense to me.

FoxmanZEO
The Entertainment Software Rating Board website. [esrb.org]

I remember when it was Entertainment Software Rating Bureau...

now I know how to post my comic ratings

Biskit Comics
now I know how to post my comic ratings

But I thought we were talking about games...?

The rating system for games is more conservative than the rating systems for any other medium. This is because games offer a more, I guess "personal" is the right word, experience. Watching someone else kill a character is vastly different from killing the character yourself, so naturally the ratings are as relaxed as they are for say, movies and comics.

Take, for example, Assassin's Creed. The game is rated M, but the level of violence isn't really any more extreme than a PG-13 action movie. Oblivion has an M rating, but the even more violent Lord of the Rings films are only PG-13.

So I don't think you can base your comic's rating on the ESRB. Sure, the ratings on this site are the same as the ESRB's ratings, but the difference in mediums should be taken into account.

I believe a certain mod misinterpreted his question XD

Basically, E is no cussing, no graphic violence (I.E. Showing someone get shot then a pool of blood under him), and certainly no sexual themes.

T allows for mild language (not an F-bomb every sentence, of course), some violence and blood (Again, within reason. You can't, say, have rooms filled with mangled corpses), and very limitted sexual themes (certainly no nudity).

M, I belive allows for plenty of cussing and violence (There is a limit, but it's pretty high), and partial nudity.

A, you can pretty much do whatever you want, excluding illegal content.

I think so, at least.