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Should they make an M-rated Metroid game?

Yes!! 79 62.70%
 
No 47 37.30%
 
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MTZehvor on 09 April 2017

I remember there being a similar controversy when the latest Ace Attorney game got an M rating, and my opinion on that is pretty much the same here.

If the developer wants to include something that will make the game better and would result in an M rating, go for it. I'm not quite sure what that would be; maybe the game has some kind of destroyed residence with M rated gore to show how awful a certain group of bad guys are. With that said, I wouldn't suggest pursuing an M rating just for the sake of having it. Making a game violent just for violence's sake isn't a mark of good game design.



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monocle_layton on 09 April 2017
CaptainExplosion said:
RolStoppable said:
Making M-rated games isn't a sign of growing up, it's a sign of being juvenile. This idea is merely another path to create a mess like Other M. People who are attracted by an M-rating don't have the brains to handle Metroid, people who like Metroid don't want a dumbed down game.

Being M-rated doesn't mean it's going to be dumbed down trash like Call of Duty. Look at recent ones like Doom, Mortal Kombat X, Wolfenstein The New Order and The Binding of Isaac. They're all well-loved for their quality rather than their edginess.

 Call of Duty used to have decent campaigns before it went downhill. 

 

I just got Ghosts a few weeks ago for $4. The campaign is actually pretty fun.



VGPolyglot on 09 April 2017
RolStoppable said:
VGPolyglot said:

So, the question is, what do you like? Do you dislike any game with an M rating? (Or I guess 18 rating for PEGI).

I like games regardless of rating. I dislike games regardless of rating.

The main problem that video games with a high age rating have is that they usually get it because of a glorification of violence, unlike movies where it's actually common to also see high age ratings for depicting violence as deplorable. Glorification of violence often goes hand in hand with shallow gameplay; it's an easy way to sell mediocrity, because there are many impressionable people out there. This is quite typical for games made in America, but it's nowhere near as pronounced in Japanese games which tend to put thoughtful gameplay systems first and have violence as less of a selling point. Japan's way to sell mediocrity to impressionable people is sex, not violence.

Well, sex and violence are both more heavily censored in Japan than in the United States, because of CERO's strict censorship. However, while they were still able to get away with it, they were more violent than the United States. For example, Resident Evil was censored in the west, while it wasn't in Japan.



collint0101 on 10 April 2017

Metroid feels like it could become M rated in the same way Arkham Knight did. I doubt the devs would go out of their way to get a M rating but it would just kinda happen and they would keep going with it instead of trying to tone things down. They shouldn't actively push for a M rating but if it happens go for it.



SegataSanshiro on 10 April 2017

So you want a strong mature series to be rated mature to make it more juvenile and less Mature with a Mature rating.
Stupid idea. Doom is just Juvenile with the gore but Doom has always been that. Metroid has not nor needs to be. M rating adds nothing.

You want Metroid Other M (for Mature) rofl. No thanks. Leave my precious alone.



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curl-6 on 10 April 2017
SegataSanshiro said:
So you want a strong mature series to be rated mature to make it more juvenile and less Mature with a Mature rating.
Stupid idea. Doom is just Juvenile with the gore but Doom has always been that. Metroid has not nor needs to be. M rating adds nothing.

You want Metroid Other M (for Mature) rofl. No thanks. Leave my precious alone.

Enough with this myth that M-rated = juvenile. Silent Hill isn't juvenile. Bioshock isn't juvenile.

Metroid doesn't lose anything by embracing what it's already been doing to a fuller and more effective extent.



SegataSanshiro on 10 April 2017
curl-6 said:
SegataSanshiro said:
So you want a strong mature series to be rated mature to make it more juvenile and less Mature with a Mature rating.
Stupid idea. Doom is just Juvenile with the gore but Doom has always been that. Metroid has not nor needs to be. M rating adds nothing.

You want Metroid Other M (for Mature) rofl. No thanks. Leave my precious alone.

Enough with this myth that M-rated = juvenile. Silent Hill isn't juvenile. Bioshock isn't juvenile.

Metroid doesn't lose anything by embracing what it's already been doing to a fuller and more effective extent.

Metroid doesn't need to be anymore than it is. Forcing more violence and gore into Metroid does make it more Juvenile. Metroidis a series about atmosphere and often the less it shows you and less you know is what makes Metroid work. Adding more blood and violence cheapens it and removes a massive aspect of the build up of atmosphere.



curl-6 on 10 April 2017
SegataSanshiro said:
curl-6 said:

Enough with this myth that M-rated = juvenile. Silent Hill isn't juvenile. Bioshock isn't juvenile.

Metroid doesn't lose anything by embracing what it's already been doing to a fuller and more effective extent.

Metroid doesn't need to be anymore than it is. Forcing more violence and gore into Metroid does make it more Juvenile. Metroidis a series about atmosphere and often the less it shows you and less you know is what makes Metroid work. Adding more blood and violence cheapens it and removes a massive aspect of the build up of atmosphere.

It's not forcing anything; Metroid already has blood and violence. It's had mutilated corpses and splattering guts since Prime 1. Metroid is and always has been a dark series inspired by the film Alien. Embracing this fully would simply be fulfilling the franchise's inherent potential.



sc94597 on 10 April 2017

Nintendo should focus on making a good Metroid game. If that means it will get an M rated, okay, but I really don't see anything changing significantly which will warrant an M-rating that wouldn't also make the game worse.



Safiir on 10 April 2017
RolStoppable said:
Making M-rated games isn't a sign of growing up, it's a sign of being juvenile. This idea is merely another path to create a mess like Other M. People who are attracted by an M-rating don't have the brains to handle Metroid, people who like Metroid don't want a dumbed down game.

Actually, thinking M-rated games is a sign of being juvenile is a sign of being juvenile. Whether it's better to make M-rated Metroid is one thing. Personally I'd prefer it remains a 2D (pseudo 3D maybe) metroidvania style. But hating on M-rated games because they're M-rated is...like I said - juvenile.