David Cage calls on industry to 'grow up'

Gamespot's next article should be titled: "We choke on yet another load from David Cage OMFG tastes so good!"

Spec Ops: The Line, BioShock, & Deus Ex: Human Revolution are very mature shooters. We need more games like those & the narrative brilliance that people like David Cage bring out.

Cage's comment simply sounds self serving: "My vision of what makes a good and mature game is right and everything else isn't mature."

This guy needs to get off his moral high horse. Heavy Rain was an ok game and not as phenomenal as Cage thinks it was.

Amen, preaching to the choir Cage.

More games like Red Dead Redemption, LA Noire, and other Rockstar games please. 

 @DIGN Good call, nice mention of MOH, which in my opinion carried a huge emotional weight to it and exposed the tragic reality and high risks that soldiers all face, a thing which most games avoid. Dealing with the fall out.

Now THATS adult. HOW many protagonists just die off in the COD series without even a mention???? 

BUT we all aknowlege this as a problem! Once again this guy is waxing lyrical about what he thinks and just leaving us with industry jargon and buzz words. He's really not saying ANYTHING we haven't already thought or wished for, he' just spewing out what he thinks we want to hear. Its THAT simple. This guy isnt breaking any barriers. he meeting industry mile stone neck a neck with other devs.. he's NOT blazing any trails. 

If he wants to be more adult, ill send him my Tax papers... Patronizing B*****d. 

Too bad most of us are trying to do that, but when you have dumb parents buying their kids CoD4: MW v1.3 every year and then companies like Activision, Infinity Ward, and Treyarc influencing them to buy it we get stuck with this crappy infinite loop-hole where only one game can prevail. 

   I don't agree with shooters making the industry not "mature" or "grow-up" it's the fact that CoD ruined the market for any other game especially shooters. You can have a mature shooter that draws out emotion, I know that Medal of Honor(2010) almost yanked a tear at the end, MoH had the best story out of current "modern shooters" but since it wasn't CoD it was tossed aside and overlooked by alot of people.   If you haven't played it you can pick it up for like $10 now, though the game might be a bit dated now.

The first time I kind of agree with this guy.

Mostly agree, after all the hype of "new" games I always feel they weren't really new and certainly not innovative, just re-packaged. Such a downer. There are so many mature players out there hungry for really new ideas. They still haven't cottoned on to the fact that adults like to use games consoles and pc's for their enjoyment. Yet everything is geared up for children. How they are able to sell more grown-up orientated games will be a challenge though, seeing how many parents buy certain shooter/war games for their very imature offsprings even when they know they are in the wrong...

He's right. There will always be a place for games that don't deal with mature themes, great games from Mario to Halo, but we are a young art that still needs to grow up. We need to start being more mature with our art, we need to tackle the themes that we haven't yet, and we need to do it seriously. There is so much that we can show through this medium, and it can only serve to make the industry better. I am not saying that all games have to be mature, Hell a part of being a mature adult means you have to admit you still like things that aren't mature (every person likes at least one thing that's immature), but we can't just sit where we are at.

Too bad 'Heavy Rain' was not particular emotional, mature or actually fun. I played through it all the way out of curiosity, but to my view it really does not deserve the acclaim that it has received.

I really enjoy playing Heavy Rain. I think it is a valuable game ,and I'm definitely looking forward to Beyond : Two Souls ;D

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Perhaps he also wants the industry to stop (Peter) Pan-dering to the people who don't want games to be deep, difficult and long. I know I do.

The industry need to approach subject matter more maturely. And I mean in the sense of Dead Island. While the game itself (mechanics, violence, story, yada yada.....) may not have been 'innovative' or 'mature'. Look at that trailer. THAT was mature. While zombies are old news that trailer struck an emotional chord with me. It was POWERFUL to watch that family's demise. With the right music, correct shots, and setting, they created a very mature theme in an otherwise immature setting.  I truely believe THAT is what Cage is talking about. We need more emotional impacting story. Not necessarily more Heavy Rain but again, Dead Islands trailer is a prime example of what I mean.

I think by "mature" what Mr. Cage really means is serious.  But what I believe he tends to forget is that a video game has the word..game in it.  Meaning it should be fun.  Now the only work of Mr. Cage's I've played is Heavy Rain, and while I could use many positive adjectives to describe that game (such as different or interesting) fun is not one that comes to mind when I think of Heavy Rain. 

I do not believe games cannot be both serious and fun though, plenty of fun games have serious themes, Bioshock immediately springs to mind.  It was a fun game that touched on very serious themes.  I hope with Beyond David Cage manages to be both serious and fun, but he shouldn't lecture an industry that is about entertainment for not being artsy enough for his taste or demand that developers spend AAA development money on games that will sell like indie games.  The movie industry has the major studios for big blockbusters and indy studios for high minded films, the game industry has went much the same way and in the end the consumer has plenty of options to choose from in both instances.

You tell em Mr Cage!!!

Fully agree with EVERYTHING.  Man knows his brown excrement.

I think Beyond: Two Souls (with the voice of Ellen Page) is one of the strongest reasons to buy PS3. 

I hear where he's coming from. Retailers/publishers aren't taking many risks on games that are creative and different.

Games don't need to grow up. At least not in the way he's talking about. I just think he wants to see explicit gore and sex in every game. A game can be "mature" without being rated mature.

It's unfortunate, but I think David Cage is ultimately calling for more diversity in the industry and people are interpreting it as David Cage saying that only one type of game should be made, the total opposite of his point.  He's not saying that every game should be super serious and mature.  He's just saying that SOME should, and it shouldn't be relegated to low budget $10 XBL/PSN/Steam games.

He is pretty much the only one in the industry putting AAA-shooter budgets behind titles that aren't based around shooting people up, racing cars, etc.

David Cage can talk about the video game industry to grow up while sadly Activision is selling millions of Call of Duty video games. The only people that should grow up are the gaming audience, not the video game industry (except Activision, EA, Ubisoft, and Crapcom).

I'm with you Cage.

If you ask me there arn't enough good, honest fun childrens games around. We have what? Lego stuff (yay!), Little big planet and rachet & clank which has been hit and miss this generation. Also, what wrong with shooting aliens, robots and giant, irradiated lizards?

While I agree that there needs to be more innovative ideas in the industry, it's the audience that needs to grow up.  It's not difficult to keep an eye on games that aren't shooters with aliens, zombies etc. It is more to do with the millions of people buying the same game year after year (which blows my mind, how are people not tired of Call of Duty?).  I'm looking forward to playing the waves of downloadable games on psn and Steam, none of which are shooters.David Cage has too much ego to take seriously, Heavy Rain had clever concepts, but for a game that is driven by the story, there were WAYYYY too many plot holes, plot conveniences, terrible terrible voice acting, mediocre to bad writing and so on and so forth.