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Leplaya
07/21/2011, 05:41 pm
My sister's boyfriend(Who's a fan of the comics) found out from yours truly about Telltale doing Walking Dead. And I would like to know what the game is going to be rated. I told him that it would likely be T or M but I'd just thought I ask since he's worried about the good stuff being out. Good stuff referring to what made the comic series good.
Jake
07/21/2011, 08:55 pm
We don't know the exact rating since there game's not done and ready to be rated yet, but we intend to keep the good stuff in. :)
Darkblader
07/22/2011, 02:24 am
What do u mean by the good stuff? It actually sounds like your thinking dirty.
Jake
07/22/2011, 07:29 am
Haha I kept that ambiguous because I thought it was funny. I assume Leplaya is referring more to the horror/gore/depravity that shows up from time to time.
RAnthonyMahan
07/23/2011, 10:21 am
I don't think there's any way for this to not be M.
Gman5852
07/23/2011, 11:55 am
I don't think there's any way for this to not be M.

There is. Them totally bombing it. Of course we dont want that now do we?
Leplaya
07/26/2011, 08:12 pm
There is. Them totally bombing it. Of course we dont want that now do we?Whats wrong with this being M rated? Telltale has done that CSI game that was rated M.
Rather Dashing
07/26/2011, 08:43 pm
Whats wrong with this being M rated? Telltale has done that CSI game that was rated M.
...I think you got Gman's meaning backwards. He was saying that the way this game could NOT be "M" is if Telltale bombed it, that is, you can't do this game right without content that would necessitate an "M" rating.
Strayth
07/27/2011, 05:27 am
That is not entirely true though.

If they suggest horror instead of just showing plain gore, I wouldn't mind.

Though yeah, the actual story needs some freaky scenes.
Gman5852
07/27/2011, 06:29 am
That is not entirely true though.

If they suggest horror instead of just showing plain gore, I wouldn't mind.

Though yeah, the actual story needs some freaky scenes.

Yeah, Im not a fan of gore, but I do know the comics have some freaky scenes like Tyson's decapitation and since telltale wants to be "true to the comics" I would assume there will be some freaky scene like that, and knowing ESRB, that will be "M".
Darkblader
07/29/2011, 10:09 am
Will this mark Telltale's first M rated title?
Blind Sniper
07/29/2011, 11:14 am
No, the CSI games by Telltale are M and although I don't think Poker Night and Hector are rated since they aren't sold via retail or console, I believe they would get an M rating had they been rated by ESRB.
Darkblader
07/29/2011, 02:09 pm
Why the devil didnt poker nite and hector didnt get rated? Doesn't Telltale want to avoid the complaints from the stupid ones that bought the games thinking it was for children?
Gman5852
07/29/2011, 02:41 pm
Why the devil didnt poker nite and hector didnt get rated? Doesn't Telltale want to avoid the complaints from the stupid ones that bought the games thinking it was for children?

They dont have to.
They only have to if it is retail/console released.
The rest would be the parent's fault.
Also, thats a double negative:p
Jake
07/29/2011, 03:12 pm
Why the devil didnt poker nite and hector didnt get rated? Doesn't Telltale want to avoid the complaints from the stupid ones that bought the games thinking it was for children?

The App Store has its own internal ratings/warnings/parental controls for "adult" content, and Poker Night had a switch you had to throw manually to unbleep the cursing, which put up a warning. I think, at least on Steam, we also put Poker Night behind an age gate, but I can't remember.

And yes, CSI was rated M. Any game which starts you off with a case where you have to "swab the inside AND the outside of the condom" for DNA evidence is probably going to get slapped with an M pretty quick.
Rather Dashing
07/29/2011, 03:31 pm
I don't hit an age gate when going to the Steam page for Poker Night. And that's in an Incognito Chrome window on a computer that's brand new.
Jake
07/29/2011, 04:07 pm
I don't hit an age gate when going to the Steam page for Poker Night. And that's in an Incognito Chrome window on a computer that's brand new.

Weird! I remember it being discussed. I guess it was decided to not bother.
RAnthonyMahan
07/29/2011, 08:36 pm
No, the CSI games by Telltale are M and although I don't think Poker Night and Hector are rated since they aren't sold via retail or console, I believe they would get an M rating had they been rated by ESRB.

The Walking Dead will probably be the first "true" M-Rated Telltale game, though.

I don't really count the CSI games as Telltale products since, even though they develop the games, Ubisoft/CBS are the ones that decide everything. I think.