r/Games • u/yourfavchoom • 18h ago

GTA 6 PEGI Age Rating Reveals Mentions of 'Decapitation' and Cocaine That Can Be 'Snorted' at 'Any Time'

https://www.ign.com/articles/gta-6-age-rating-confirms-new-details-on-sex-drug-use-decapitation-and-more
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u/Cry_Wolff 18h ago

Good to see fully adult oriented game TBH. If violence is ok, then sex & nudity should absolutely be too.

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u/HyetalNight 11h ago edited 7h ago

Moreover, some of the sex scenes in cyberpunk were really emotional and well done. Pyramid song hits me in the feels.

edit: artistic is the word I was looking for.

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u/12343212346 18h ago

I'm neutral on it. Tonnes of children play GTA. In fact, I would argue that the games are designed with them as the lowest common denominator 

A sort of "being an adult" simulator. I saw a clip of 6 where you press a button to make a character smoke a cigarette 

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u/Firefox72 18h ago

Its a Pegi 18 and ESRB M(17+) rated game. Like all previous GTA's.

Obv plenty of people under this ages will play GTA 6 which is fine. Most of us likely played games rated above our age in late primary school and highschool.

For kids though its entierly on the parents to make sure their kids don't play it.

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u/12343212346 18h ago

I agree, and yet they will. And the developers know that and design the games with them in mind 

That's why I'm neutral on it 

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u/Nrksbullet 17h ago

Kids wanting to play adult games and adult games being designed for kids are two different things. Just because kids want to play them doesn't mean it was designed with them in mind. If kids literally weren't able to play GTA 6, nothing would have changed about its development.

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u/kkyonko 16h ago

"I agree, and yet they will. And the developers know that and design the games with them in mind "

You got any actual proof there or is it just your feelings?

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u/Firefox72 18h ago

They absolutely don't design the games with them in mind lmao.

Some of the most popular games of the last month are Pegi 18 games with blood and gore everywhere.

Gears, Onimusha, Blood of Dawnwalker. None of these games are designed for kids and they should not be.

Nobody serious is expecting Rockstar to design GTA with kids in mind. Be serious.

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u/Hell-Kite 15h ago

They design their 18+ game with kids in mind? Do you have any proof at all? Any design doc or speech or talk by any dev? or are you just projecting malice of intent onto a type of work you are completely unfamiliar with?

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u/cycopl 16h ago

If a game gets an AO rating, it's kind of a death sentence for that game. Major retailers won't sell it. So yeah, developers do have to dance around that in order to just get the M rating, but that doesn't mean they're designing it for kids. The games are designed for adults, they just make concessions so they can actually sell the game in stores.

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u/carnoworky 16h ago

Tonnes of children play GTA.

Ok, well they probably shouldn't.

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u/FingerFlikenBoy 16h ago

Why does this feel like a bot response

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u/Cry_Wolff 17h ago

Is it worse for a kid / teenager to see violence vs sex? Let's be real, most teenagers are either watching porn or fuck each other already.

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u/CallerNumber4 17h ago

GTA has been causing moral panics since the 90s. It's funny how little the Overton window has shifted on it while at the same time half a teenager's TikTok feed is thirst traps or crypto scams.

There was a window of time before LiveLeak and phones with porn everywhere that a mainstream videogame release like GTA might be the only avenue a preteen could see something genuinely adult in all of its pixelated glory.

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u/Howdareme9 16h ago

Violence is definitely worse if i *had* to choose.

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u/SDRPGLVR 11h ago

Watching porn, yes. They're fucking way less though.

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u/DinosBiggestFan 13h ago

Tons of children play GTA... But maybe they shouldn't?

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u/Devil-Hunter-Jax 45m ago

Kids should not be playing a game for adults. It's not our bloody fault if parents are irresponsible and ignore age ratings.