curl-6 said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
curl-6 said:
M rated games appeal more to teens than over 20s.
It's teens that tend to want to feel "grown up" by playing things with violence, wearing, nudity, etc, qualities which are usually more immature than truly mature.
Once they become adults they usually become less obsessed with such things and adopt a more balanced gaming diet.
Games like Zelda are, in many ways, more mature than something like COD or Gears of War.
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No...Nintendo games mostly aren't mature. Much like metroid i would let a child play Halo and metroid before COD or Gears of War. They are fun games but they are games that at best a teen can play if they had to put a starting age up solely because of the art style and the level of violence from Links weapons. COD deals with gritty details embedded in reality that you just dont want kids to see if you are a watchful parent. Gears of War is gore on another level. Bullets shred your foes into pieces. Mature means having content children below a certin age shouldn't see. You have to be of a matured age or mind to see them. Some people arent ready to see them. It has desensitizing qualities in the violence. This is the same reason people are complaining about Robocop not being Rated R. Movie companies want the kiddies to come and watch the films much like the other fellow said so they targeted a PG13 rating so they could boost the sales numbers. They are softening up everything Robocop is so that kids will be permitted to see it because god knows the rated R version of the first Robocop wasnt classic. *sarcasm*
I think what you're saying is you find mindless violence immature. Thats a completely different argument to which I would say given some games have stories, the violence wouldnt be mindless.
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What I'm saying is that most M-rated games are aimed more at a (male) teen audience who are drawn to things like violence, swearing, nudity, etc, because they are at the age where they want to be "grown up" and hence are drawn to things they see as being adult.
With most people, by the time they're over 20, these things are no longer new, exciting, and edgy to them.
Well adjusted adults don't feel the need to prove they are adult through the media they consume.
Basically, a game does not have to be M rated to appeal to over 20s.
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What we label as Mature should be resereved for things that are actually, mature. Not juvenile crap.
This is why I prefer the Pegi system.
