What It's Like to Work on Ultra-Violent Games Like Mortal Kombat

Re:What It's Like to Work on Ultra-Violent Games Like Mortal... by XorNot on Sunday May 12, 2019 @07:28PM (#19895285)

It's because violence is much easier to explain then sex.

In western civilisation most people can get through life and never even come close to having to make decisions about directly committing violence.

The answer of: just don't is in fact entirely adequate - not necessarily complete but almost always the right answer.

Whereas almost everyone "does" sex at some point. But in depicting it the exact same act takes on a huge number of implications depending on context - including violence.

Ergo it's not actually so surprising it's rated the way it is - conversely I still agree the blanket R or whatever is not really helping overall.

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Re:What It's Like to Work on Ultra-Violent Games Like Mortal... by watwut on Monday May 13, 2019 @02:11AM (#19896730)

Female nipples exist outside of sex scenes too. Movies from countries where nipples are not censored have them in non-sex scenes occasionally.

But also, I am not sure how much your explanation makes sense. Germany has more censorship on violence and less on sex or naked things and their experience with sex is pretty much similar.

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Re:What It's Like to Work on Ultra-Violent Games Like Mortal... by chii on Sunday May 12, 2019 @08:29PM (#19895566)

I reckon it's more that the American puritan values are very much pervasive - so much so that people don't even realise they have it.

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