Poll: What should "We Dare" be rated?

[Xanadu84]

If I can extrapolate the ideas in the game from this trailer, then I say give it an M rating. Why? Well, because 12 year old's CAN PLAY GAMES RATED M! This isn't alcohol, where the neighbors might hear some kids playing their Wii too loudly, call the cops, and suddenly kids are going to court, and parents are getting calls placed to Social Services. No, a Mature rating just means that if a kid wants the game, a parent is going to have to be in the store, look at the game, and give the cashier the okay. And you know what? I think that's perfectly reasonable. We all talk a big game about Parent Responsibility when it comes to video games. I say we practice what we preach. A game where there is even the implication that someone is supposed to, say, spank my hypothetical teenage daughter, is a game where I want to know what she's buying. And if she did want to buy this game, I would probably let her. I would also have a serious discussion with her about how she plans on playing this game, and set boundary's for her as a parent. It would give me the opportunity to be more involved in her life, and work with her to make good choices. And isn't that what its all about?

 

[Woodsey]

And that last part - are you kidding me? You created a thread to question what people would rate the game if it was really based around spanking each other, as opposed to what the game is actually like? Well then what is the point in that?

I could play Wii Golf with a girl, and do my best to rub myself up against her arse. Just because I'm playing that way doesn't mean there's anything like that in the content of the game, and that is EXACTLY what is going on with this game and its advert.

To answer you last question, it's because I believe that the actual game will be as such. The emphasis on gameplay from the trailer is based on being sexual, therefore it is not ridiculous to assume that this is the way you will actually be instructed to play the damn game. It's called "We Dare".

Now, unless you can discuss something without the need to act like an ass, this discussion is over. I was looking for people's reasons for their justification of rating, not a pointless argument in which you try your best to be overly hostile and attack my opinion.

Whether you believe it will be as such is irrelevant, because you don't know. All we have to judge it on are the few seconds of gameplay (looks harmless) and the rating (sounds harmless).

The emphasis on how the people are playing is made mildly sexual, the game itself isn't. Like I said, if I play Wii Golf by grinding with someone, that doesn't make the game itself more sexual, only how I'm playing it.

If I appear rude, it's because I feel like I'm smashing my head against something when trying to convey some fairly simple logic.

 

[DanielDeFig]

Just watching the trailer, it was quickly apparent that what happens on-screen is more than mild (two Miis kissing and flying/dancing, by reacting to wii motions). And while the actors (in typical advert actor fashions) were super excited, and decided to put the wiimote between their lips and in their pants, there is no indication the game asks them to do so.
If it does, then it's just as as the mother in today's article said: "a modern day spin the bottle", and i would give it a 13+ rating (nothing wrong with 12+ rating, i just think more 13 year old would feel ready to play such a game than 12 year olds. Then again, when i was 9, we played spin the bottle at parties sometimes).
If the game doesn't even give suggestions for HOW you go about shaking the wiimote in order to get the miis to kiss and dance on-screen, then i would give it a Universal rating. Nothing wrong with kissing and dancing, and if someone decided to shake the wiimote by sticking it down their pants and having someone slapping their butt, then that's their decision.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

If Thomas the Tank Engine was marketed as some sort of high class porno (bear with me here), but the actual show obviously didn't contain any of that, would you then expect the show itself to be rated for adults only?

well you know..pierce brosnan is the narrator now, so there could be underlying persuasions in the dialogue ;]

Did not know that xD Just looked at him recording some stuff on Youtube, and now it all sounds sexual.

haha yeah when i first heard him on there i sat there shaking my head in complete disbelief. and you are right, now thomas and friends all sound...different.

 

[jamman]

It'd be like putting an 15+ rating on twister...

 

[Verlander]

Why argue with the professionals? The game shows no nudity, violence or anything. How you choose to play it is up to you. Remember, games ratings are not necessarily the same as games target audiences

 

[A Curious Fellow]

R for Retarded.

 

[00slash00]

well i know the article said its nowhere near as suggestive as the ad implies, but since thats all i have to go on, 18+.

 

[SamuelT]

Kinda following from the discussion going on in here.

It doesn't matter if the on-screen visuals show an apple being eaten, or a duo flying through a happy castle. The advertisment clearly suggests that this game is meant to be played via suggestive handling. You could just move the controller gently up and down instead of having the entire spank-manouver, but that's just like playing the sports thing with flicks of the wrist; it's not how the game was meant to be played.

Of course, I haven't played the game as of yet, but of what I can see this rating shouldn't be 12, more 16. The same as many carny shooters I've played.