Would your gaming hobby be completely ruined if you couldn't play M-rated games?

[Kongroo]

I don't think it would be feasible unless you're someone who is comfortable with missing out on the majority of games released.

I love all types of games but I'd be missing out on too many classics to pass up M rated games.

 

[Deleted member 13798]

Probably. I play a good variety of games but trend towards darker stories. Those are often M.

 

[TheBeardedOne]

No, but I'd miss out on a lot of games that I enjoy.

 

[Kain-Nosgoth]

It wouldn't ruin it, but we will miss out some amazing games, it wouldn't be positive imo

I mean it depends, some serious topics from the story would be rated M and yeah i would really miss them, especially games like Silent Hill or more recently The Missing!

 

[Th0rnhead]

It wouldn't completely ruin gaming for me, but a lot of the games that I would be playing would be primarily gameplay based, rather than somewhat narrative driven. A lot of M rated games have strong narratives, and I would definitely miss that. Games like Wolf Among Us, the Zero Escape series, Life is Strange, Fallout: New Vegas, The Last of Us, Until Dawn, etc.

I'd have to turn primarily to JRPGs for my story fix.

 

[Aiustis]

Nope...rarely play M rated games.

 

[BurnKnuckle21]

I play so few M rated games, and I wish games like Tomb Raider would remove all the terrible man shooting and let me dangle from cliffs.

Honestly, M stands for immature.

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That's quite the sweeping generalization. Not all M rated games use the freedom provided by the rating just for gratuitous violence.

 

[LazyLain]

Ruin? No. Be lesser for it? Yes.

Some of my all-time favorites are M-rated... Turok, Silent Hill, Perfect Dark and Fatal Frame, to name a few.

 

[Tetra-Grammaton-Cleric]

it was a joke...

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My mistake.

 

[SmittyWerbenManJensen]

My mistake.

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It's my fault. I thought I put an /s in that post. Anyway, have a good one.

 

[Etain]

It would be seriously hurt/diminished, but not completely ruined. A lot of my favorite games are in the E or T brackets, even some pretty violent or bloody ones. It'd suck to lose RE4, the Zero Escape games, NieR, and most of the MGS series (just off the top of my head!) but I'd still have a lot of my favorites.

EDIT: Though that'd remove the Souls games, so it'd arguably ruin the more modern period or at least some years. At least I'd have DSII?

 

[hibikase]

I would argue that a kid growing up without M-rated games would develop better gaming tastes.

 

[Psychonaut]

Most of my favorite games aren't M-rated, but I would be sad to miss out on some absolutely amazing games like Hitman and Persona. It wouldn't be ruined but, now that I think about it, I probably wouldn't buy a PlayStation. In this scenario, I'm a Nintendo-only player.

 

[applejuice]

Most of my favorite visual novels are rated M (for violence and blood, not tiddies) so it would be pretty different seeing as 999 is rated M and that's what really got me into them.

 

[Shadow]

I mean, there are definitely some games where a Mature rating is questionable. But plenty of games are rated M for a reason...

I'm not a parent, but I'm inclined to agree with the decision your parents took. If you asked me right now, if I would let an 8 year old play something like GTA or DOOM; my answer would be No. I don't think that would 'ruin' a kid's access or enjoyment of the hobby.

I don't think there's a shortage of less mature games either. For one thing, there's pretty much all of Nintendo's output; and BotW (rated T) was the Consensus GOTY 2017.

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My brother let me play GTA 3 at the age of 9, and it was fun as hell. I had no idea what strippers and stuff were at the time, and I didn't care haha, I just wanted to drive and use cheats to do crazy stuff.

And as for the thread, nah, I don't even play that many M rated games to be fair. I could live without them.

 

[TheBored23]

Up until this gen, this wouldn't have been too much of an issue for me; I had Nintendo consoles growing up and shooters didn't have any interest for me. Even now, there are enough racing games, sports games, and platformers I enjoy that I wouldn't be bored. But there are definitely things like and Hitman and Assassin's Creed, just to name a couple, that I would greatly miss.

 

[Theta]

I don't know. Some games I own came before the ESRB. Some games I own are indie and did not obtain any ratings by the ESRB.
But I would guesstimate that the majority of the library does contain Mature rated games.

 

[Nameless]

"Completely Ruin"? Nah, but it would it take a catastrophic hit -- especially with releases from the PS2 era to present. No Souls, MGS, Witcher, Mass Effect, Deus Ex, Rockstar Open Worlds, Battlefield, any Survival Horror worth mentioning. What a terrible timeline.

I'd still have Morrowind, Ueda, most great JRPGs, and the few Nintendo IPs I care about, thankfully.

 

[Cronogear]

I would definitely miss the Soulsborne games, but other than that? Meh.

 

[RetroCCN]

Nope. I couldn't even tell you the name of the last M-rated game I played.

 

[Shadout]

I have no idea what the rating is on the games I play.

Checks Dark Souls. M rated. Oh, yeah, it would be painful.

 

[Japanmanx3]

No. Not at all actually.

 

[Ryouji Gunblade]

No classic Halo, Nioh, Dark Souls, or Bloodborne... ouch. Even ODST was M rated.

Oh and RIP Metal Gear Solid and Bayonetta.

 

[Deleted member 3208]

Nah. Most of the games I play aren't M rated.

 

[Skyball Paint]

This year would be pretty shit if I couldn't play M-rated games. No RE2, no Sekiro, no DMC5.