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Heavy Rain's David Cage: Creating mature games a 'massive challenge'

February 08, 2010 in Interview comments 10

Quantic Dream's David Cage explains the difficulties and challenges in creating a mature game such as Heavy Rain. Cage discusses the differences between censorship in video games and the rest of the entertainment industry and touches on region-specific censorship.

When Quantic Dream CEO and co-founder David Cage watches movies or television, he dreams of the day when game designers can have the same liberties. Cage, whose mature interactive drama Heavy Rain hits stores later this month, says he feels that censorship in games is "probably the strictest in all the entertainment industry."
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    Daweii Feb 9, 10
    Surely it's not that difficult. These days if you want to push the boundaries make it optional and you get away with a mere mature rating. I mean it is getting to a stage where GTA V could start with an MW2 like warning, saying this game features children and animals that can be harmed do you want to keep them in the game yes/no. That option right there would stop the game getting banned no matter how violent the game could be towards children. Simply put it's a lot easier now to make a mature game than it was 10 years ago.
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      Seproth Feb 9, 10
      Tell that to Australia.

      Besides, I don't think killable children will fly any time soon. Skipable or not.
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        Daweii Feb 9, 10
        Fallout 1 and 2 did it.. Didn't cause much of a fuss then, Fallout 3 does it if you set off the nuke. I wouldn't say it's that out of reach all it takes is a developer in the mainstream brave enough.

        I mean look at Manhunt, that game shouldn't have been allowed if you think about it. As it is an ultra violent murder simulator yet that game was allowed and it opened the gaming world up to so much more violence. Now nudity is accepted because developers had the courage to put some tits in a game..

        So many things in the past people have said, "that shit ain't gonna fly bro, it's too hardcore" and yet developers have already dabbled with killing children in games I don't think we are that far away from it becoming mainstream.
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          Seproth Feb 10, 10
          Well look at Mass Effect, they had a sex scene that wasn't even graphic. Then GTA is always under fire.

          There's always going to be games like Postal, like JFK assassination, like hentai rape games. That exist because not enough people pay attention to stir up problems.

          Bully, a game where you are in free roam with other kids caused a stir because it was supposedly GTA in a school. If it were actually GTA in a school, it wouldn't have gone as smoothly.
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    Goldva_X Feb 9, 10
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    'massive challenge'
    Must... resist... using 'ATTACK ITS WEAKPOINT FOR MASSIVE DAMAGE' meme.
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    Twin_Master Feb 9, 10
    Well, considering in this day and age all the shit that gets piled onto games for their "mature" content, I would say it is a big challenge to get away with just that. We see movies about violence against animals and children, yet it's got no place on the gaming console.
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    hustlegaming Feb 9, 10
    Honestly, David Cage is the most pretentious game developer I think there ever was. Just read his twitter page, it's literally unbelievable.
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      DystopiaSticker Feb 9, 10
      He's Sony's Peter Molyneux to me. For different things they say of course, but each of them are developers that go a little over the top and distract from the products they create. They're both good at what they do, but Peter overhypes his games and David Cage acts like slapping random tit scenes on to his games makes him the best, most mature story teller out there.

      omg lol his twitter REALLY is hilarious. Thanks for suggesting it. I looked it up and it turns out it's fake, but I could quote ALL of them... It's so chalked full of drama. There's his wish to prove Leonardo DiCaprio's underestimation of him wrong, which suddenly turns vaguely homoerotic. There's a demand that all low scores of HR are because the reviewers played it wrong. At the same time, a low score equates to the level of pure slander... and then boom, a jab at Dante's Inferno.
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      BANDITO ATTACK Feb 9, 10
      he's a tryhard. it's what he does.
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    dwg14390 Feb 9, 10
    Of course making a "mature game" is a MASSIVE CHALLENGE.

    People moan and bitch about how most games seem "silly" or "stupid" because it exaggerates and crap or is oversexualized or some other crap. Yet when you do make a mature game people bitch that their isn't enough titties in the game.

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