Globe & Mail reports that while Rockstar's new fantasy racer provides thrilling action, serious criminal overtones make it unsuitable for younger teens, which puts its ESRB rating in question. From the story:
"Obviously, parents are the best judges of the sort of entertainment that their children are capable of safely consuming, but the problem here is that many moms and dads have come to rely on ESRB ratings rather than actually try or watch the game themselves. They see a Teen rating affixed to a game and figure it must be fine and dandy for their eighth grader.
Perhaps this is just a case of a game slipping between the cracks of the current rating system. I'm not sure we need a new age bar to fill the gap between Teen and Mature games-the ESRB already has six categories (one more than the MPAA). However, it seems to me that the occasional and inevitable inadequacy of a rating system centred on immutable ages is worth calling out on the level of individual games."
Midnight Club: Los Angeles was a great swansong for the arcade racer, but now the genre’s a bit less packed, it’s time for Take-Two to bring it back.
Hold on now...Heat was actually a step on the right direction. Hell even 2016 NFS was. I wouldn't say it failed per se.
Yes, yess and yesssss!!
I loved dub edition back in the day, had a killer soundtrack aswell.
LA was sick as well, cmon rockstar give the people what they want and being a classic back!!
Dub Edition was my absolute fave!! I hope they think along those lines if they bring it back
Midnight Club 3 is the best Street racing game imo. Also Midnight club was the real start of waypoint racing. It really pushed the open world race design to the next level, Where you could race on roofs etc. We need it back asap
GR: "It has been far too long since we’ve got to play a new Midnight Club game. It has now been a decade since Rockstar San Diego released Midnight Club: Los Angeles for PS3, Xbox 360 and PSP. When its open-world racing title came out, it seemed like the natural evolution of the PS2-era street racing titles that were all the rage. The map of Los Angeles was massive (it was bigger than all three of Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition‘s cities combined), and there was more variety than ever before in terms of car customization and race types."
It’s time for Rockstar to make more new games period.
Ever since 2013, this major publisher hasn’t released a new game outside of releases. They’ll finally do so soon with RDR2, but that’s only one new game in 5 years.
We don’t even know what future titles this massive publisher has in the imminent future, which is unheard of for a publisher of that size or of any size. No other publisher could get away with that.
That maybe true but red dead redemption took 8 years to make and from what we've seen it looks fantastic. You dont want them to be like Activision and EA do you
If Rockstar's output is more akin to their output from previous generations, that's not going to make them like EA or Activision. Quite the opposite.
EA and Activision make far less core games now as well. The disparity between PS3 EA and PS4 EA is crazy. The PS3-era EA actually made a large variety of great games in spite of their questionable business practices
@ that
You think every publisher that offers multiple quality titles a year will end up like Activision or EA?
Rockstar released multiple games last generation and that never happened, so idk why they can’t do the same thing this gen. Yeah a game can take a long while to develop, but that shouldn’t mean they don’t release any other games as a publisher in the meantime
I definitely agree that we need a new Midnight Club, but I don't really trust Rockstar to be able to pull it off. The last couple entries were awful, and after seeing what the did with the dumpster fire that is GTA Online I can only presume they'll try to pull the same BS.
Midnight Club LA was not that great. If they make a new one, I hope they make something similar to Midnight Club 3. That game was the best in the series, at least for me.
A distinguished trio of Rockstar Xbox 360 titles are coming to the Xbox One Backward Compatibility catalog next week: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Midnight Club: Los Angeles and Rockstar Games presents Table Tennis.
Definitely with you on the Midnight Club but Table Tennis was pretty awesome too!.
Hell yeah! Gamestop has Table Tennis for $2.99 now, and Midnight Club LA Complete for $9.99, Guarantee the prices will rise tomorrow so get them now.
I literally just bought LA Complete but for PS3 instead due to their 4 for $20 ($16 with Elite Pro) sale. Glad I have my receipt at least.
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