Starfield gets ESRB rating!

https://www.polygon.com/23716729/starfield-sex-drugs-esrb-rating

Starfield’s M rating all but confirms jetpack sex

The Entertainment Software Ratings Board has passed judgment on Starfield, and like Bethesda Game Studios’ other games (Fallout 4, The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim) the spacefaring role-playing game will be an M for Mature-rated game. Expect violence, foul language, sex, and drug use in Starfield when the game launches later this summer.

When it comes to violence, players will use “futuristic guns, lasers, axes, and explosives to kill enemies,” according to the ESRB’s content description of the game. “Combat is fast-paced, with frequent gunfire, cries of pain, and explosions. Attacks on some enemies can result in blood-splatter effects; several environments depict blood stains on the ground around corpses.”

While the violence sounds graphic, the sex in Starfield sounds pretty tame. The game’s rating says players can expect “some suggestive material in the dialogue, and after sharing a bed with characters.” The best of those suggestive lines? “I’m all for getting a little wild, but next time let’s try it without the jetpacks,” as noted by the ESRB. My Starfield character, whom I will role-play as having nothing but jetpack-equipped coitus, better not say that and break my immersion.

Finally, the rating also reminds us that Starfield will let you get high on that primo stuff: space fish juice. Starfield’s drug of choice is called Aurora, and as noted by Bethesda way back in 2021, players will get some when they visit a destination called Neon, a “pleasure city” built on a massive fishing facility. That facility processes a breed of psychotropic fish that creates the naturally occurring drug, and, according to the ESRB, players can even work there at some point in the game.

Starfield is slated to hit Windows PC and Xbox Series X on Sept. 6. The game will launch day one on Game Pass. In June, Bethesda and Microsoft promise a deep dive into Starfield in a livestream titled Starfield Direct.

Oh snap, surely this is a sign that Starfield is really come out this year (sorry for calling you Shirley). Thoughts, SW? Are you excited? I'm looking forward to it! Hardy might lose it though.

Ew, who has sex with jetpacks?

OMG, OMG, OMG. ;o

lol :P

It’s looking promising, I’m ready for some more role play.

We'll see how the direct goes. They've been drip feeding info about the game when it should have been full speed ahead months ago. RIP to the console version though 😂

Sex with jet packs sounds painful.

Xbox Series X has 12tb of power, shouldn't it be ripping this up? Don't tell me Phil is going to disappoint us again.

Well, at least one thing objectively positive. Boobs in space.

Didn't Bethesda say no romance in the game?

Looking forward to the mods though lol

Sounds hot tbh

Hopefully this game is running a bit better than that slideshow they displayed the other year.

Zero grav sex?? Count me in.

At least its not yet another T rating from MS. Look at what happened to the Halo series ever since they changed it from M to T. Even the ai companion in the multiplayer sounds like a dumbass Fortnite character😂

Yeah I'm hearing they promised 2 frames more thanks to modern optimization techniques.

Feel like bungee cords would work better.

Woo hoo! Sex with jet packs baby! I’m hyped.

I still don't know what to expect from this game

you expect it to not be on PS5 😎

@Pedro: Well you can at least expect no jetpack sex, confirmed by this ESRB rating.

@SolidGame_basic: This game not being on PS5 really is eating you up.🤣

I think you forgot that I'm almighty manticore 😎

@SolidGame_basic: So yes.😂

Jetpacks, space drugs, and anti-natalists! Sounds good to me!

Mandalorians?

Groovy

🚫 on PlayStation

Or peoples pretend PC's and Xbox series X's

Oh snap?

@SolidGame_basic: Creation club.

Sounds like Fallout in space.

@shellcase86: don’t tell kvally 🤭