Re: Including content ratings in games

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On 9 March 2016 at 18:30, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek in waw pl> wrote:
> So "Cartoon Violence" can be merged with "Fantasy Violence",

I don't think these are the same at all. If you look at the age
differences reported here
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/about-us/our-mission/about-our-ratings
you can see the different types of violence are treated differently.
You're probably right in that Fantasy isn't well defined, and we
should fix that.

> "Realistic depictions of bloodshed" and "Depictions of bloodshed and the mutilation of body parts"
> can be replaced with "Depictions of bloodshed or mutilation of body parts".

I don't think mutilation can be equated with bloodshed. I always think
back to games like Doom where you see "splatter" but not much more.

> I think you can drop "Humor" totally, it's legal in most jurisdictions after all.

I'm not really concentrating on the legality in a specific country,
more about suitability. I'm not sure I'd want my 3 year old repeating
profanity from a video game just yet.

Richard.