But you are ok with your children hearing the profanity and seeing the violence and gore?
[Edited -- SigilFey]
We've all been raised on violence and gore.
What about Hanzel und gretyl getting kidnapped by a cannibal Witch, which they throw, alive, in a burning oven?
Now, yeah, there are actual reason you don't show porn to kids.
As I said earlier, that game WILL ends up in kids hands, as every game did, from Mortal Kombat to GTA. (Cause that's how it is, we all played game we shouldn't have, you can blame parents as much as you want, kids will always do things in their back, I remember knowing kids that smoked pot and cigarettes when I was like 12... So...)
Also, the game is distributed by WB, a big wide selling machine.
You can be sure it'll be toned down to acceptable level to make sure the game makes maximal profit while keeping the most faithful adaptation of that world, but it has limits.
That game should be legit even without sex, violence and gore.
Remember that people will most likely stream their gameplay on YouTube, Twitch, etc...
So, I guess we can expect something pretty soft.
CDPR wants to tell a mature story, so, sure, it'll will involve sex, nods to sex, some kinky scenes.
It's a mature setting in which sexuality is present, yes, but I don't think overusing sex and having 10mn long interactive sex scenes or very detailled pénétration adds anything.
The game is splattered all over the place, so it'll be played by a loooots of different people/age.
Sure, I'd love to have a cool gore system with brain and guts splattered all over the place, but as for sex, it won't add much to the game, it would probably hurt it more with pueril scandals (some people only wait for that to ban it).
Videogames have less freedom than movie or music simply because it's a different media and it's often played by youth (more time on their hands and they tend to consume more), the softer your game is, the more you'll be able to sell it, and given the cost of that game, they need to sell a lot of it, so just do the math.
An underground movie or music band can do whatever they want. It costs way less.
For a AAA game, they have to find the right middle so it can be acceptable on a more large audience, it's how business work (remember the game hatred, it was just an edgy dude killing people for no reason and people freaked out, I don't remember such outrage for movies like human centipede or A Serbian Film, it's a different media and a different style of story telling).
They have tons of people to pay, a big budget, they have to make concessions.
[Edited -- Devivre]
Seemingly, female V gets raped at some point.
Should we live that scene with full nudity and seeing everything ?
Sure, that may be a good slap in the face with how ugly that world is, but you can probably understand why it would be way more tasteful if it's only suggested.
In short, I've nothing against extreme violence or nudity, but I can get why they'd need to find the right middle for it to be acceptable by differents culture and probably add a switch to remove some blood or genitals.
Just like the USA have a thing for their guns that is kinda "alien" for an european folk.
While in europe women go topless to the beach without much trouble while american folks seems more sensible to that.
Différents cultures, differents shock value :/
