JWeinCom said:
Clearly the game with guns is more mature, and not the one with an incredibly clever hilarious satirical plot (paper mario ttyd). Cause you know, he's shooting a guy. Shooting=mature. |
I think you are falling into the trap of "Oh it has guns and violence, it must just be a generic game attempting to interest the "adult" audience".
Sure, some games use gore and violence as a selling point and then label the game as mature. Not all games are like this though. The Last of Us is going to deal a lot with the relationship between Ellie and Joel as they struggle to survive. The gore and violence isn't used as a selling point, it's used as a tool to show off just how desperate the situation has become. Like the trailers/gameplay has illustrated, the situation is so dire that the chance of another living human being betraying and killing you is almost as high as a clicker chasing you down and devouring you. It addresses the morality of killing another human being for the sake of survival.
I think you are being far too dismissive.








