Then, he doesn't know the real extent of a violent game. Violent games are not to make people more violent. They require to be played by mature people that enjoy the experience of a violent story or action. It's like sad movies are not to make people unhappy (so they require to be watched by who has a happy and stable life). Maturity, in its multiple dimensions, can be seen as the key word to explain all of this. People need it to drive a car or to use a knife. It's not that we can say they aren't dangerous objects, I would rather say we need maturity to use them. We also need it to be affected by a sad story or to simply understand a joke. In the end, it's all a matter of understanding what we are dealing with. And the problem with videogames is that they are still a novelty and they are improving very fast, so it's natural there are many people that still don't understand them and are only able to highlight the dangers inherent to them. If this game producer isn't capable of understanding the extent of his own job and explaining it to the others (even to his grandmother), then he shouldn't deserve to be a game producer. In his next visit to Alabama, how will he be able to explain to his grandmother what he does in case someone claims the videogames he produces make people addictive to them?

I simply don't understand why. What does non-violent games have that violent games can't have too?

It isn't necessarily tied into a deeper story, indeed. But is the non-violent content necessarily tied into a deeper story either? I don't think so.

Has it happened to you that you saw conten in a vg that you thought it was unnecessary, disgusting and not fun at all?

It has happened to me a lot specially regarding violence against animals

well, manhunt is an example which was not really necessary (but i still liked it) but which examples do you mean? especially with the animals. i know a lot of games where you kill animals to have something to eat or stuff like that but this makes sense and isn't different to how real life is or was.

Well i think violence is for immature people, im past all that, i like all different genres, tired of asking people what games they play and its always the same answers, guess its the sheep mentality thats becoming more and more abundant in this world, i guy at work even admitted he owned a PS3 and fifa just for conversation purposes, and he doesnt ever play it.

"... when I would visit my grandmother in highly religious..."

When I read this part, I knew what was coming! But seriously, this shouldn't be the prime reason for leaving the company...

What Zod95 said, if you can't give a meaningful explanation to someone about your game which has violence (I can't consider GTA over the top violence) content, then really you're not qualified to have any saying in it... GTA franchise is more of a game that shows you how less fortunate has to live, more like be lucky/happy/satisfied that you do not have to go through this life just to survive. But if you are, just work your buttocks off to escape from that, just you don't have to trample others to work for your goal. And as far as the trailers go, GTA5 will be the best examples of it

^lol

tl;dr version?

Dangerous hunting and similar games for example Pezus

The other day started the CoD BO II campaign, remember they guy that burns inside a military jeep at the begining?
i didnt enjoy that, i think that was unnecesary realistic violence

for example i dont find Madworld to be offensive at all

I respect his opinion, even though I have no problem with violence in video games. If you have a beef with the violence level in videogames today, then I hope you share the same sentiments for the movie / TV industries as well, which IMHO are just as bad if not worse than the violence in videogames.

Videogame violence is (for the most part) over-the-top and borderline cartoonish, like a cheesy 80's B-grade horror flick. Mainstream Hollywood movies and TV shows these days however depict a level of visceral violence that sometimes makes even myself cringe a bit, especially shows like Game of Thrones, which I love but my god there are some violent and graphic scenes in that show that videogames just cannot touch.

Compared to the fate that the one redhead hooker (I can't remember her name at the moment) suffered at the hands of Joffrey a few episodes back, shooting hookers in GTA is mere child's play.

Violence is cheap, and I believe that's what some Nintendo fans have been posting against in some of their posts. A lot of the games seen on non-Nintendo consoles follow the violent trend and it begs the question "why?". I understand that it makes money, but it is the lazy way to make games.

Right now I'm playing FFX, and although there is violence, it's not the focus of the game, and the game employs romance, laughter, concepts of dogma and other very interesting things. If games continue in their current trend of pleasing the trigger-happy gamer, it leaves those looking for more substance unsatiated.