Topic: Can the T rating be considered family friendly?

There's PG-13 Movies like Ant Man and Pixels getting advertised on kids networks, and they're considered family friendly. Parents do take their kids to these movies. But can the T rating be considered family friendly too? I've played several Teen rated games like Valkyria Chronicles that were actually very tame, and well, teens are family too. Now obviously this doesn't apply to every T rated game, I certainly wouldn't give an 8 year old InFamous or the Xenosaga games, but can certain T rated games be considered family friendly like certain PG-13 movies?

It was when I was a kid. Blood, gore, boobs, and perverted fantasies are totally family-friendly in the late 90's!

Each person will decide for themselves. The age ratings are there for a reason, but that didn't stop my Dad from showing us Aliens when we were kids and that is a great movie. Each person is going to have their own interpretation for the rating systems. If I have kids, I will be following the age rating systems unless I have played the game myself and have decided it is ok for my child.

Adding on to this, different levels of maturity and how you raised the kid can factor into whether or not its okay to show them something above their age range.

This puzzles me as to how FE: Awakening really ends up as T. Sure, it does some minor swearing and yeah, there are some slang words here and there but I honestly don't see it being a T game when Kid Icarus Uprising basically has that same level of content that Awakening has.

If a game has any swearing in it, it's an automatic T rating. I can't imagine the uproar that'll occur if a game with swearing gets an E10+ rating.

Yes in my opinion they can.

I think a good example of this is twilight princess. Sure it is dark and more gritty than other zelda games but can still be played by younger audiences. I played for first time at 8. Also just because a movie is pg-13 doesn't mean the same as other pg-13 movies. Transformers sometimes felt like it was pushing the rating but other films rated that way such as revenge of the sith or some of the Harry Potter films dent feel that way. Sort of like twilight princess.

It depends. I mean, Super Smash Bros Brawl and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess were rated T.

On a slightly different note... I feel like when I have kids, I won't want them to play games like GTA or Resident Evil right away. But then, yet, I was a kid who played those games when I was in the single digit ages, and I turned out A-OK. So I sometimes wonder why I even worry about it.

Depends on the family. I guess.

Depends on the game. Some T rated game end up being kind of a adult (a lot of JRPGs) and make the review uncomfortable, some are mid-way and really are teen games (like inFamous and Uncharted), and some like Brawl and Star Wars: Battle front really are family friendly.
@Brewsky Rune Factory 4 is E-10 and had swaering. It has a decent number of Ds, Hs, and As in it. I think it has the B word too. You'd have to use the S word for an automatic T rating.

@Jaz007: Just out of curiosity, why do you say JRPGs push the envelope more than InFamous?

I'm not dissing InFamous (I actually really liked it), but I'd say it pushed the envelope more than any "T" rated JRPG I've played (note: the darkest JRPG I've played is Final Fantasy X).

@RR529: I haven't played them (well, I'm listing them partially because I haven't played them), but I'm not talking about FF. I'm talking more about games like Record of Agearest War, Demon Gaze, Mugon Souls (I think); if you loot at screenshots for these games and look up reviews, you'll see what I'm talking about. Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment has a guy having his face shoved into mostly exposed breasts (by the girl). (The spoiler is for those who don't want to see the details this discussion would entail, not for actual spoilers.)