killeryoshis on 01 February 2010
| raisinghelen said: I'm mature and I like mature games. There don't seem to be many available though, at least not what I'd consider mature, M rated yes but mature no. I find very few games on the 360 that are actually mature, most seem to be M rated with violence, blood and have references to sex or swearing but they seem more aimed at teen boys who perhaps think that playing such games makes them more 'grown up'. There are of course exceptions that are M rated, have mature themes and mature gameplay. Recently I bought Silent Hill Shattered Memories for the Wii. This is a great example of my kind of mature game because it isn't drenched in violence, blood or swearing. Sure there are elements of that in it but they don't drive the gameplay as much as the story does. It also is a very cerebral experience as it had me thinking about the moral dilemas even after I had put the controller down. I would really like to see more games like this that are actually mature and thoughtful. As to mature games selling on the Wii, well I'm sure that they would if they had the same elements that big selling M rated titles on 360/PS3 have, those being high production values and big advertising campaigns. So far there hasn't been a single M rated Wii game that has had all the elements, either they are low budget, are too short or have no advertising at all. Few publishers seem prepared to take a risk, opting for the 'safer' 360/PS3 but no studio has gone bust or lost a vast amount of money making Wii games (even M rated ones) like they have when producing 360/PS3 titles (i.e. Haze, Lair, Too Human, Bionic Commando etc). |
Looks like somone hit the nail of the thread and expose what mature games really are. Any medium. Doesn't matter what.
Movies,Games music whatever! Use the mature rating to impress the little kids and make them fell grown up or use them
as entertainment. Of coruse their are some games that use it right. But most of them don't
