I really take issue with your point here. American censorship can be criticised for its hippocrisy or misplaced values (think Grand Theft Auto and the Hot Coffee uproar), but that has no reflection upon what dcb was trying to say. It is strikingly naive to say that sex and boobies constitutes a mature experience... adult yes, but mature?RainSong wrote: What I can't really understand is why so many people in US and western european countries have so big problem with computer games being _mature_ (is being mature a bad thing? I dont think so) and showing _normal_ things for mature people in them. I play computer games for more then 15 years and am bored with the childish approach to them and childish content in them. The Witcher was rated M (Mature) and to mature audience was it dedicated (the developers said it on many occasions). Normal adult person shouldn't be shocked by cursing or sex as these are probably normal parts of his life, so I really can't understand why so many people has problems seeing these in computer games (are computer games for children only? statistics show that most of the gamers are adult people...)
As dcb pointed out, giggling high-schoolers can produce something incorporating sex and such like. This may make them "adult" in nature, but mature is a different word entirely. I have not had an awful lot of time to spend playing the Witcher since I purchased it, but I can say I find its treatment of more 'mature' themes to be wholly blunt and meaningless. As dcb pointed out, adult themes seem to have been thrust (no pun intended) into the game in an attempt to make it appear more thematically developed and complex. Ironically their attempts to distance the game from a mass marketed RPG instead resulted in a childish approach to these 'mature' themes.