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JWeinCom on 09 February 2013
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no plz, no more Heavy rain...

What does that have to do with anything? Did you even read the article?



I dont want videogames to be like movies with people crying, serial killers, drugs and sex and people talking about traumas and feelings on a hyperrealistic environment, just no, i already have my real dose of those things EVERYDAY OF MY FUCKING LIFE I WANT GAMES!

Then stick to your plumber saving a princess  from a giant turtle for billionth time for the last 25 years. Leave realistic, deeper and more complex games to people who want their experience to be little more fulfilling than just using 3 buttons to pass a level


Except that Mario isn't a story driven game?  And OMGZ THIS GAME USES LOTSES OF BUTTONZ!!! IT IS SOOOOOO COMPLEX AND MATURE!!!!

Are you going to try and convince me how games like TLOU, Heavy Rain and Journey aren't more mature and complex than platformer mario?

 

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Gimme a fuckin break dude

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.


I'm not being dismissive about the last of us.  There are tons of great and mature games that feature guns in them.  I don't know much about the Last of Us honestly.  My PS3 is broken, and I won't have the money to replace it for some time, which kills my interest in this game.  Could be great for all I know.

What I'm dismissing is the fact that when he wanted to prove that something was mature, his first instinct was to pull up a picture of some dude getting his head blown off.  Clearly, the argument being made by those pictures was

"Game A features a shot gun and blood and game B features bright primary colors.  Clearly game A is more mature."  I'm not trying to dismiss the last of us.  I'm trying to dismiss the idiotic and ironically immature argument that was put forth.