And mass-produce it so the game was only rated AO for a few months
But if you dig around you can still find some copies that were produced during this time. Detroit is patched
Everybody knows what the ESRB is
if you don't it's a rating board that was created in the 90s as a
Response to angry parents not knowing what their kids were playing with video games and as a result
We now are used to getting those little letters on the box of our games
and if you're younger
You would always have to hope your mom didn't see the M in the bottom corner when you were at
Gamestop trying to pick something out, but the ratings boards don't always get it
Right, and there have been quite a few?
High-profile games throughout the years that actually had their ratings changed by the ESRB for one reason or another
So today today
We're going to be taking a look throughout gaming history at 10 of the biggest games that had a rating change
By the ESRB. So let me know if you've actually seen any different ratings on these game boxes drop a like and here we go
First off is no man's sky. Now. This was pretty controversial
I'm sure I don't have to remind you guys why this game was so hated upon release
But the controversy goes even deeper than that. It goes deeper than the broken promises when the game was being hyped
We heard a lot about multiplayer aspects, but when the game launched there was no multiplayer elements at all
Now this obviously pissed people off and it also led to discovery that the removal of the multiplayer was a super late change in fact
It was such a late change that the game box had already been printed with a higher rating because of the multiplayer the original European
Print of the no man's sky box was rated 12 Plus due to the online elements
But after the online was axed game stores crudely printed out a bunch of 7 plus stickers and slapped them on the boxes
which was obviously
discovered by players pretty quickly
Which is part of what led to all the backlash towards the developers for cutting a promise feature of the game now today no
man's sky features multiplayer
Prominently it sits with a T rating from the ESRB but it still stands as an example of how not to launch your game
Next up is crash bandicoot insane trilogy with an N. Now Crash Bandicoot is an icon of the ps1 era
however
If you compare the original ratings for his game with the writing of the remastered insane trilogy from a couple years ago
You probably noticed a pretty obvious difference the writing the crash insane trilogy contains the original three crash bandicoot games
Remastered for the mahtim systems the first two crash games were rated ka which is the lowest rating in
ESRB can give and the third one was ready to eat for everyone
But when you go over to the insane trilogy, all three of them are rated E 10, so what exactly happened?
I don't know the original games were all given extremely low ratings due to them being cartoon platforms with pretty much no
Inappropriate content but for some reason the remasters got a higher rating for cartoon violence and comic mischief
And I guess the crash game suddenly became inappropriate when you improve the graphics, or maybe it's just the times changing
At number eight Fahrenheit now this game came from Quantic Dream back in 2005
And it's also known as Indigo Prophecy in North America was an interactive drama
It had a very strange relationship with the ESRB as it had its rating changed many times sometimes without any reason now originally
The game was rated AO due to the sex scenes
that's the worst rating you can get so Quantic Dream decided to release two versions the mass produced version that cut all those out and
got an M rating and then the director's cut that kept them in and held the dreaded AO rating however in
2016 something weird happened Quantic Dream remastered the director's cut which was ready to a o
but then it got an M rating this game was rated AO when it first came out and now
It's been remastered to look even more realistic and none of the bad scenes were cut out
And it gets a lower rating
I guess the ESRB decided that those scenes weren't actually that bad but to be fair
you'll be seeing quite a few games on this list that got reira leases with different ratings despite not changing any of the
Content I guess the ESRB standards change with the time. I hope you guys are enjoying this top 10 really quick
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hotline Miami this was a very
Well-received game but sparked a bit of controversy due to its graphic nature in this fast-paced top-down shooter
You played as a silent protagonist fighting back against the Russian mafia with a series of violent
But stealthy attacks the game had a very unique visual style the gameplay got it tons of attention
But the extreme violence rubbed some people the wrong way including the ESRB
Originally, the game was rated M for Mature for the PC ps3 ps4 and switch
But when the game was added to the Microsoft Store on the PC in June of this year
It was mysteriously given an AO rating now keep in mind the content didn't change in
The Microsoft Store version is exactly the same as the Steam version which is rated him and the ESRB never really clarified
why they did it but
clearly
something about the game bothered them and it was brought to the
Microsoft Store and rating it got bumped up even weirder. The game was later brought back down to M
Which is where it's at today. So what happened here?
It wasn't a mistake because it stayed there for quite some time before being brought back down
I guess we'll really never know why this game got bumped so much a
number 6 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater for now
The Tony Hawk games were always weird with ratings almost all of Tony's games have had a raving of teeth
Despite not being very bad
It seems they were always kind of on the border v & tu and being right in the case of Pro Skater 4
There was actually an e rated version it launched in
2002 for the Gamecube the ps1 the ps2 and the Xbox then it came to PC & Mac the following year
It's a beloved game many consider to be the best of the series
But if you look at all the boxes side-by-side
You will notice that the ps1 version actually has a different rating from the rest
It was hit with an e rating while the rest got the normal T the ps1 version
the game is pretty much the same in terms of gameplay with the only difference being smaller levels and the removal of blood and that
Was all they had to do to get the rating lower
The gameplay was the same music same dialogue saying the only change
Was a removal of blood and it got bumped down to an e rating and ironically
In the main version of the game there was an option to turn the blood off
So you have to wonder if they had just permanently turned the blood off but they've got a lower lower rating all the way around
cracking into the top 5
Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time widely consider one of the this games ever made released for the n64 in
1998 this was the first fully 3d Zelda game and it revolutionized the way people looked at adventure games now originally
The game was rated e simply for violence, then it was rereleased several times with the same writing
But when the game was brought to the 3ds in June of 2011
The writing got bumped up to eat in for animated blood fantasy violence and suggestive things
And the reason for this is likely because the e10 rating didn't exist when Ocarina first came out
But still that's a bit of a jump from the original writing and believe it or not
This isn't the only Zelda game to get a rating change as we segue into the next one Legend of Zelda
Majora's Mask often considered the darkest Zelda game aside from Twilight Princess
Mask was released for the n64 in 2000 then it was ported over to the Gamecube in
2003
Now many people consider Ocarina to be the best
Zelda game a ton of other fans say Majora's Mask takes the cake because it was darker
It had tighter gameplay and a more unique structure now originally this game was rated E
But even back when it came out people were skeptical of whether or not that was appropriate after all
Majora's mask was dealing with some pretty heavy themes and had some really scary sequences
And naturally when the game was re-released for the 3's in 2015
The rating was bumped up to eat in for animated blood fantasy violence and suggestive themes and strangely
Majora's Mask has been re-released on the Wii and the Wii U prior to this and it kept that original a rating but when the
3ds version comes along it gets bumped up to eat in so I'm not sure what the reasoning is at number three. Halo combat
Evolved now this one is actually pretty interesting because there is hardly any information on what happened
Back when the original halo was getting ready to be released. It was locked in with a T rating
In fact, it was even quite a few boxes produced with that T stamp on them
but
Reportedly right before the game was set to launch and go into full mass production for stores the ESRB did a 180 and re rated
The game 2m
Which is the rating that it launched with in according to a few interviews with people close to Bungie the ESRB?
Contacted them last minute telling them they had
reconsidered and decided the game would be more suited for the M rated audience and they gave me the list of changes they could make
if they wanted to keep the T rating, however
These changes were either too trivial or the it just weren't worth it and they were too big to actually get done
So Bungie said screw it and accepted the EM rating
So if you do some digging you can actually find some of the original prints of the halo 1 box with a T
Braiding and they now serve as collectors items for the halo community. But obviously the change in rating didn't do anything in
Halo was a success at number 2 GTA san andreas now, I'm sure you all know about hot coffee
Yeah
Uh-huh released in late 2004 GTA san andreas was the final GTA game for vi console generation
The mini still considered to be the best
Originally released with the standard M rating had you traversing a massive open world while going through the story completing minigame side missions and causing
as much havoc as you chose to but
Shortly after the game came out a mod was released that cranked up the dating minigame from the base game to a fully interactive sex
Game between your character and an NPC as it turns out the sequence was originally going to be part of the game
But Rockstar decided to cut it last minute, but instead of actually deleting it they blocked it
so of course these files were discovered and it didn't take long for modders to release a patch that
Unblocked it and put it back in the game parents were pissed at this explicit little mini game
which is ironic considering how much other inappropriate stuff is in and
ESRB was forced to demand a recall and rewriting of the game
All existing copies were recalled and the writing was changed to AO and Rockstar was forced to make a new version of the game
with this sequence removed
Entirely and then the game was released with the original M rating since this is before consoles has easy online access
So Rockstar couldn't patch it out
He had to make a whole new version of the disc and mass-produce it
So the game was only rated ao for a few months
but if you dig around you can still find some copies that were produced during this time before it was patched if
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Oblivion, one of the greatest RPGs of all time and one that really thrust elderscrolls into mainstream the fourth
Mainline Elder Scrolls game and it launched in marks of 2006 for the PC in the Xbox
360 and one thing that had a lot of people well one thing a lot of people didn't know
Is that the game was actually rated T?
When it came out come other games on the market even other Elder Scroll games
Oblivion was pretty tame and the T rating made sense as it turned out
Bethesda was originally going to include nudity for certain characters, but they had cut it out to get that lower rating
Unfortunately, just like GTA san andreas. They didn't delete the files. They just locked him
So after the game came out players figured out how to disable the locks on these characters and get nude female
characters in a game that was rated T for teen
Obviously ESRB wasn't happy about this and demanded the game be rated 2m
Which Bethesda complied with and all the future prints of the game came out with em instead of T, although?
Bethesda put up a little bit of a fight
They tried to argue that since the content wasn't intended to be seen by the player because the vast majority of players would never see
it it was unfair to have the change of the rating but
That was shot down. I mean nudity is on the game disc. Yeah, you just can't digitally remove it
So I'm gonna ask you guys
Do you think a game should be?
rated if unused files
Or found or do you think a game should be only rated based on the content that is fully presented to the player and there?
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