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JWeinCom on 09 February 2013
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Player1x3 said:
JWeinCom said:
Player1x3 said:
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.

Hahaha, now he's gonna try and convince me how a plot in a mario game is more mature than The Last of Us...keep it comin, i need good laughs ;D

Shooting with gore and blood = mature. Go check how PEGI and ESRB are rating a game. TLOU is more mature than mario in every way shape and form.

So... if the ESRB says something is mature than its mature?  Lolipop Chainsaw is clearly a more mature experience than Journey.  I must ask, without a trace of sarcasm, are you a 12 year old boy?

There are 2 types of mature content. There's visually mature content (blood, violence, sex) and there's a mature story (that desnt necessarily need to have the things previously mentioned), deep, complex gameplay and intriguing characters. These 2 aren't exclusive to one another. But the point is, TLOU has both types, Mario has neither 

No.  When the ESRB rates a game, they're not describing the content as "mature".  Saying that The Last of Us has "mature" content because it's rated "mature" is like saying that Smash Bros has "teen" content or that Lego Batman has "everyone 10 plus content". 

The ESRB describes the intended audience, not the content.  When they say "mature" they mean that the game is suitable for audiences mature (as in old) enough to make their own choices regarding entertainment.  It has nothing to do with the or maturity of the content.  You could make a game about a man farting for 20 hours straight and saying fuck repeatedly and the ESRB would rate that as "mature".  Conversely, you could make that uses the idea of chasing a princess as a metaphor for the atomic bomb, and that game would be rated "e".

The Last of Us may have deep, complex gameplay and intriguing characters, but you didn't make that argument.  The argument you made was that the Last of Us was more mature because

a) It uses more buttons.

and

b) Look! He shot that dude!