It's these kinds of statements that sometimes get under my skin. As I mentioned in the letter, I don't need to explain my reasons for them to be valid, but I will explain a bit here on this issue. Can I "handle" seeing a naked person? Can I "handle" seeing gore or hearing strong language? Of course I can. I'm not going to flip out and start crying and roll myself up into a little ball at the first explict thing, but what so many people don't seem to understand is that It's not a question of being able to "handle" it, it's about what I think is good for my mind. Can you "handle" eating a bunch of unhealthy food? Sure you can, but there are consequences. I try to be careful with what I feed my mind. I try to avoid gore, language, and sexual nudity. Not because I can't handle them, but because I don't believe they are good for me. If you think they are good for you, or not harmful, that's fine. That's your call. I'm not here to tell you what media to view. But I know that I want to keep them out. Of course I already have a choice, the choice to not play, but I'm hoping for a third option. As a paying fan of the series I don't think it's wrong for me to ask for an option to make the games more acessible to me without infringing on anyone else's play experience. I have never understood why such queries make so many gamers angry. You said "don't dilude it," and that's fine. I'm not trying to change what you will see and hear when you play the game. If the toggles are added, you don't have to use them.
Just don't play it seem like that best option. You should know what you're getting yourself into before you pick up a product. You played it, you know that there are warning on the label about what to expect. At the end of the day, it just seems like wasted resource to appeal to very few players. I would prefer those resources to go elsewhere.
Funny, a game I've been playing, Life is Strange, is rated M, and has no nudity, even with a shower scene for the (female) protagonist. Nothing below the shoulders was shown.
There is violence, even shootings, but not a whole lot of blood. Certainly no exploding heads.
There is a considerable amount of foul language, yes. And a considerable amount of mature subject matter (drug abuse, rape, suicide, etc)
SO yeah, just because there's an "M" stamped on a game, doesn't mean it's necessarily "Mature"
So teens should play games about rapes, suicides, drug abuses, and violence with blood in it?
Most teen games have to censor out the blood, that's strangely make a difference. In T-rated games, when they get impaled, no blood is being shown. Violence is T-rated, foul languages, touchy subjects, blood are what make it M-rated. I'm not sure what you're arguing about here. There is a standard being set about what being considered Mature, and it's not what you or I consider, but what the ratings board consider, and the threshold is usually lower. Moreover, we are so desentisized to what being considered mature due to the market being oversaturated with them. Back in the day, it would be a huge deal to see the kind of stuffs we see today.
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