Do you want Telltale to make an M rated game?

[Secret Fawful]

I don't really watch horror films or play horror games to be scared. I don't enjoy being scared. I watch the films for interesting stories, entertaining villains, entertaining monsters, great atmosphere, cheesiness, because I can sometimes get some comedy out of them, etc. It's why I actually prefer horror-comedies or horror films of the 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, and 80s to what we get now. Gore for the sake of gore doesn't interest me. Neither does being all "bad" or "gritty" or whatever the hell Rob Zombie thinks a good horror movie is.

As far as games, it's the same basic thing.

[JedExodus]

What's in a rating. However a Telltale game with more mature tones and attitude would be what i'm looking for def.

....and good puzzles

[figmentPez]

I never want to see a game (or movie, book, TV show, etc.) throw in "mature" content just to bump up the rating. I know it happens to movies, and it's just plain stupid when movies shoe-horn in something to get a PG-13 rating.

If violence or language is part of a story, then I say put in just enough for the right emotional impact. However, if there's nudity or explicit sexual content, then count me out.

[Remolay]

Originally Posted by swedish_jedi

Not a bad game but for an M rated game it's not really that mature.

It's the most mature rated M game that I have ever played.

[WarpSpeed]

As long as it's not throwing in a bunch of you-know-what just to get that "M" or "AO" rating. Where it would be good is if there's a natural mature storyline that would have to be edited or throttled back until they are able to achieve a "T" rating.

Telltale doesn't want to limit its audience, of course, and certain ratings will cause certain people not to buy it. To resolve that, what I'd like to see is multiple versions of the game, "T" or "M", same price, buyer decides which version they want. The "Parental Advisory" CD industry has been doing this for years, and the unedited version always outsells the edited one, but the makers can point to the edited one whenever someone complains. Telltale has already shown that they can choose different storylines on demand if known in advance. (Sam & Max 201 versus their Christmas special, which has different solutions to puzzles.)

In short, as long as a good tale is told, it would work.

[Gman5852]

Ok a better explanation from what I said is if the humor is M like TF2(a pornography starring your mother will be the second worse thing that happens to you) fine, if it is like Left 4 dead M then no.
Unless the L4D is with the Poker Night cast.
Poker night 2: Left 4 dead 3.

[MusicallyInspired]

Totally.

[redm]

I love horror movies but I don't like snuff films.
*cough*saw*cough*

[Bloody Eugene]

Originally Posted by Nintendo Boy1

An Amesia LIKE Telltale game would be kinda cool.

Amnesia is just awesome!
But I don't think that the Telltale Engine is good enough for a first person shooter.
(and personally I think that the Telltale Engine is becoming really old now - no tessellation, no HDR, no Ambient Occlusion, etc.)

[Drake Sigar]

No. Telltale are all about rekindling my childhood, which needs nurturing after constant abuse from money-grubbing Hollywood executives.

[mgrant]

Originally Posted by Irishmile

I tried playing Amnesia... I was just bored.. But I do not scare easy... its probably why I'm not entertained by horror films either.

Watch 'em with a mate. That's what I do, and even if it's not all that scary there's fun to be had taking the piss out of the thing.

Originally Posted by divisionten

Not all M rated games are T&A or gore. The Persona series, for example, always gets a solid M and its mostly for stuff that happens off camera and the occasional curse.

True, that's actually what I think makes things more unsettling. In continuing with your mention of the Persona series, take Persona 4 for example. You never get a really good look at the murders, all you can really tell is that they're...unnatural. It ups the tension and definitely explains why the towns folk are freaking out a bit that the cops don't have any leads. Murder is always scary, a murder you can't explain is absolutely terrifying.

Plus Persona 2: Innocent Sin gave you the chance to punch zombie Hitler in the throat with the physical manifestation of your MIND. Atlus better localize this game at some point, I'm telling you.

[Irishmile]

I think the TTG engine could probably do a FPS... all they would have to do is realise the environments completely and give the player control of the camera.

Lets hope they do not start making them though.

[RAnthonyMahan]

Originally Posted by Irishmile

I think the TTG engine could probably do a FPS... all they would have to do is realise the environments completely and give the player control of the camera.

Lets hope they do not start making them though.

If you want to get real technical, there's been an FPS with the Telltale Tool already.

But what fun would a full FPS be?

[Secret Fawful]

Originally Posted by RAnthonyMahan

If you want to get real technical, there's been an FPS with the Telltale Tool already.

But what fun would a full FPS be?

Must play Strong Bad's CG4AP NOW.

[coolsome]

Theres the FPS bit in the Fright of the Bumblebees with the porage gun.

[corruptbiggins]

I don't see the point in having a mature rated game just for the sake of it. If there was a story that they wanted to tell in a realistic manner, that would lend itself to a mature setting then I'm all for it. I don't believe Telltale would ever go down the route of producing 'mature' content for no reason but would if the story required it.

[Secret Fawful]

I want as many big, floppy breasts as Telltale can fit into a 2 gig game. Conker: Gone Wild! please.



Or Leisure Suit Larry: Lust in Space.



They should hire me just to come up with cool game titles.

[Sarendor]

I am against this idea. First, I am sixteen years old, but other than that I just don't see the point of graphic animation and such. It is hard enough for people like me to imagine the disaster without seeing it.
Also, one of the things that makes games like King's Quest and Bone so charming and special is their purity. This is one of the things that cause me to love them so much and regard them as classics. (Besides, of course, of countless other reasons.) The one game which I will certainly not touch in the Great Adventure Bundle is Penny Arcade Adventures. (Besides, it's not even a quest!)
I also don't think that a game needs to contain blood and gore in order to be dark or dramatic. Compare Quest for Glory 3 and 4, for example. While the third game was the only one in the series with bloody death animations, (a fact that lowered its value for me, by the way,) no one who played the series will deny that the fourth game was the most frightening.
So, if Telltale will create an M rated game, I might play it, and I might even enjoy it, but I would think that it could have been better.

[redm]

If Telltale were to finish the bone series it might dance on the edge of getting a Mature rating. Honestly more than anything else I'm interested in seeing that project get picked up again.

[PainDealer]

Originally Posted by Secret Fawful

Or Leisure Suit Larry: Lust in Space.

You called "/end thread" when Leisure Suit Larry was first mentioned and you come back to mention it yourself. Make up your mind man!