| Onyxmeth said:
You're also going about it all wrong. It isn't the game that is Mature, it's the audience that should be mature to handle the images and gameplay of Madworld. I still don't get why people can't grasp this concept. |
The problem has been around for a while but the release of the Wii pretty much set it on fire.
You see, a couple years back gamers saw the HD consoles (360/PS3) getting vastly more M-rated titles while the Wii was slated for a lot of E-rated titles. Consequently, the Wii fanboys were mocked by PS3/360 fanboys and told their games were for kiddies. Of course, they resented that treatment and responded in kind by bashing M-rated games in the form of saying that they're actually immature (completely ignoring the purpose of the actual ratings).
Today, this has grown from a simple flame war into a mindset. People who put so much effort into bashing games rated Mature a couple years ago have drilled that mentality into themselves. Now they look down on games rated mature and will often take time just to bash them on that rating alone. Although, hypocrisy kicks in nicely every time a game rated mature is released for the Wii in some of those posters. They'll be happy to brag about having mature rated games on their platform of choice while bashing mature rated games on other platforms.
Meanwhile, the people who called the Wii's games kiddie still hold that opinion though they're not as vocal as they used to be (at least on vgChartz) as they tend to get banned a lot faster than the above group.
You can actually still see a slight resemblence to the original flamewars in a post from above in this thread:
Esa-Petteri said:
And every game with cartoony graphics is made for little kids? |
Anyway, there's your history lesson on why there's so much debate around M-rated titles.
