Larian Studios Forums Beyond Divinity (English) General "M" rating based only on violence?

Was <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beyond.gif" alt="" />'s 'M' rating based on violence alone? I find that a bit suprising...there are MUCH more violent games that don't earn a Mature rating...

Anyway, kudos to Larian for having the potatoes to resist 'toning' things down for the US release....alot of game companies take that route these days, and I think its blasphemy. All real RPGs should have an M rating.

In my copy of the game there are servered body parts littering dungeon floors (especially BF dungeons), in the Citadel (act 1) there are severed heads in baskets, DK makes a joke about the meat we eat (to rest) is actually imp, I also get a "SQUISH" followed by blood splats whenever I critical something 'organic'. I'm unsure if this is in all versions of the game, but... blood and/or body parts usually lead to an 'M' (15+, sometimes even 18+ here). Silly? Probably, but then aren't all censors? I am sure some of the humour is 'risque' as they say also. They are the only possible reasons I can think of. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />

Maybe it's the imps. They can be crude buggers at times. Especially the short ones. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shhh.gif" alt="" />

I would have thought the rating was more for some of the dialogues and sexual innuendo...the horny gay doctor springs to mind...hilarious!

lol that's probably it. I totally forgot about him <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ohh.gif" alt="" />

Not to mention when somebody dies (even skeletons or ghosts) either at the same time as or directly from poison, there is a very graphic scene with sound effects of them throwing up and then dying.

The only descriptors on the back of the <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beyond.gif" alt="" /> box are Violence and Blood & Gore. DD had the decapitated heads, the eviscerated bodies and the whole bit and was rated Teen. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

The enemies in Divinity were pretty much all non-human, though. Games have used green blood rather than red (to make the aliens more alien) to drop the rating.