| Gamer_of_the_Year said: 1) LOL! If you don't see what the big deal is...fine, that's YOUR opinion. But you're in the minority I promise you. Being a fan of Naughty Dog's for years and seeing them gradually progress from a company making GREAT but cartoonish platformers that are RATED E for their entire Playstation existence....which has been a great existence for them and now seeing them leap from Uncharted which revolutionized video game graphics and presentation to a now fully fledge mature experience in nothing short of an EVENT for any Naughty Dog, Sony, or GREAT GAME fan. 2) It has ELEMENTS of horror but ND has said the main focus is on emotion and character (Ellie and Joel) and not the horror. I am Legend the movie isn't Rated R it's PG-13 (the virtual equivalent to Rated T) and have you ever heard of Plants vs Zombies lol....there's a zombie game not Rated M. 3). Again, you missed the point. I'm not saying it's Rated M because of it's themes. But since THIS IS Naughty Dog and they have proven to be story and character driven game makers, the fact that it's Rated M gives them a limitless canvas to explore all sorts of things you couldn't in a Rated T experience in more graphic, real, and intense ways. How you don't understand that is BEYOND! me....haha 4) Duh...lol |
1) "seeing them leap from Uncharted which revolutionized video game graphics and presentation to a now fully fledge mature experience is nothing short of an EVENT..." I'm wondering what you mean by "mature" in this sentence -- are you referring specifically to the game's ESRB rating, or more generally to the tone and themes of the game? If it's the latter, then I disagree because Uncharted was just such a mature experience, so Naughty Dog isn't "leaping" anywhere; they're continuing to provide excellent, "mature" gaming experiences. If you meant the former, then I disagree on the grounds that an M-rated game is no more noteworthy (or eventful) than a T- or E-rated game.
You still sound like you think the rating is indicative of the thematic maturity of the game. I can guess from what we've seen of The Last of Us that it probably WILL be more character-driven, more "mature" than Naughty Dog's previous games -- but this has nothing to do with the rating. The ONLY thing you can glean from the game's rating is how detailed the violence and how pervasive the profanity will be. There are many E-rated games that are very thematically mature, just as there are many M-rated games that are anything but. In short, learning the rating told me absolutely nothing about this game that I didn't already know just by watching a couple of trailers.
Maybe you feel that the reason Naughty Dog wasn't making quite so thematically mature games in the past was because they were restricted by their E-rating. This is incorrect. It is fully possible to create a mature experience in an E-rated game. If Naughty Dog did not do so, they either did not intend to or they did no know how to.
2) Plants vs Zombies is not a horror game. It's basically a tower defense game. I Am Legend isn't a horror game, either. It's a movie. Also take note that I said practically a given.
3) "the fact that it's Rated M gives them a limitless canvas to explore all sorts of things you couldn't in a Rated T experience..." At the risk of sounding like a Nintendo fanboy here in this Sony thread, you need to play Majora's Mask.
