Maturity dissonance in gaming

[Bells]

Don't you find it weird that the more "mature" a game rating is, the more... well... immature the game seems to be?

Surely not the case for all. Some games make very good use and earn that +18 rating and that AO symbol on their boxes legit. Others... not so much.

To me right now it would be silly to even suppose that the game makers aren't aware of this. To think that they don't know that under 18 kids want and buy +18 games all the time... and that's their actual market.

I dunno, sometimes it makes the Entire Rating system for gaming content seem like a really big corporate ploy, y'know? To get lawyers of the back of big companies for their gaming content. "It's not our fault your kid played our game, we clearly labelled that it was intended for an older audience"...

Sure... but that's not actually what most of these games are targeted at... right?

I mean, think of Mortal Kombat for a second. The new one. Surely gory and bloody, but the last adjective i would tag to that game is "mature". Not in the sense of "Maturity" but going even simplier to the fact that this is not content i would expect to drive in the larger mass of customers at that age rate.

Although, to be honest, there are a LOT of "bro-minded" gamers out there that would gladly giggle with Awe and superiority that their fatalities and impossible cleavages and sexy minigames are "totally for grown ups only"...

This a broad topic to tackle, there are layers and angles here... but overall, sometimes it bothers me that just like it bothers some when a move that clearly has an adult mindset gets dumbed bown by a PG+13 rating, games get Dumbed Up. By masking themselves as some sort of "Forbidden Fruit".

A remain thought from the dark age of comics where many of these gamers grown into, where the "raddest" thing to ready was Spawn and where a Hero that doesn't blow the head off of everybody was a wuss...

But does that affect our ability of actually having mature games? For damn sure we are over saturated with bad content in the recent years, and bad form in game making. From our chest high walls to the brown or blue pallets of color to the obligatory minigames and turret sections among many other tropes of recent gaming...

Maybe our classification is bad, or maybe the loud group that drives what the industry makes is just overly intoxicated with it's Pre-Order bonuses and online DRM and Tits and leather in gaming to ever notice when they are being played... i dunno, i just find it weird that most of the time a game appears rated for Adults or 18+ hardly ever i felt the game actually earned that.