I get upset with video games. Some say it is funny., Skullgirls, E3 2012, and new Tomb Raider videos make up my bouquet Options

[Joeplork]

Part of it also has to do with being "edgy" and mistaking it for being a bunch of immature crap. Then thinking this makes your work more daring and better.

Yes, you're right. There is a misguided notion of "edginess" in there, as though putting in an attempted rape on Lara counts as video games addressing mature issues, but, again, this edginess needs to be properly integrated. If you're going to put in an "edgy" issue you need to know WHY you're doing and if/how it fits into the overall narrative and (AGAIN!) tone of the work. I think the way that Crystal Dynamics guy completely fucking backpedaled after the controversy came up and just plain claimed that "oh wait, actually, j/k, we didn't put any sexual assault in the trailer or anything that looks and sounds a HELLUVA lot like it" hugely highlights just how thoroughly unprepared they are to handle these issues. I get the feeling they slapped the scene in with little more than the idea of being "edgy" since they were later so quick to dismiss it as being not "edgy" at all and how could you even think it was attempted rape, hmm? Don't be silly.

People need to take their sexual assault cues from Silent Hill 2. Nobody got all mad at that game for its rapey bits because, in a fucked-up psychological horror world, Pyramid Head is completely permitted to force himself upon a freak-mannequin or two.

[Yaoi Huntress Earth]

Edgy is a title you earn, not give yourself or blatantly aim for. *cough*Dark Brain Comics*cough* It's a lot like being metal/badass, it wrecks of too much effort when you try. I couldn't agree more with what you said.

[Matto]

Everyone of those videos were hilarious.