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Captain_Tom on 03 November 2014
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Cream147 said:
Captain_Tom said:
LOL make games for adults. I know I will piss a lot of people off by saying that, but that's the truth. The Last of Us is deals with mature themes and complex subjects that people who have grown up, hunger for. I may love Paper Mario, but I need something more complex too.


I shouldn't respond to this, I'm only taking the bait, but how can I resist! I'll try and do it diplomatically.

You really think that people play supposedly "adult" games for the mature themes and complex subjects. Get out! That's just a front. People play these games because society tells them to play these games. It's funny that you use "The Last of Us" as your example because that's like the only big game that really works. Don't talk to me about GTA V's "mature themes" and "complex subjects" for example because I don't even want to hear it. It's maturity in the most immature sense. Would you call Call of Duty an "games for adults"? Assassin's Creed? I certainly wouldn't for many, many reasons. Yet those are the games that sell systems.

The problem is obvious! It's got nothing to do with adult games. It's because Nintendo consoles don't have enough Western multiplats (and when they do they're rushed inferior versions) or indeed Western games in general.

EDIT: I don't presume to talk for your motives to play games like The Last Of Us, but I'm just talking about the average person who plays video games.

I will talk to you about the mature themes in GTA V, and AC.  

GTAV: GTA is basically a parody of the American lifestyle and ideals.  It touches on subjects such as the torcher and detainment of people without due process, the disalusionment of the Americain dream, and hypocrysy in our political system.  Have you actually played the game and payed attention to it?

AC: Some of the assassin's games are dumber than the others, but ACIII for instance deals with a lot of interesting questions such as "Is it better to safe, or free?" , "Are the people we demonize necassarely the bad guys", and it also dealt with some contrivercial things that did happen during the American Revolution that most forget.