Age of Conan is an MMORPG (massively multiplayer online rampaging puerile game) developed by Norwegian gamemakers FunCom, the same ones who made the quite good pointy-clicky The Longest Journey and the endless (not as in "never-ending", but more as in "doesn't have an ending") sequel Dreamfall. Age of Conan, however, is not a point and click in the traditional sense, but in the modern sense: Point at monster, click monster, monster dead. The MMO part comes from the fact that there's thousands of other human players clicking the same monsters as you, and sometimes clicking you as well. Eerily similar to real life, then.
But enough technical mumbo-jumbo, the reason for this post lies in a different, more seedy part of town. You see, AoC (that is, Age of Conan - try and keep up, please) is an "adult", "mature" game. Translated: It's got boobies and violence. Although boobs and violence are hardly anything new in videogames (we even got'em in the real world, you know), it's somewhat of a change from the reigning champ of the MMO universe, World of Warcraft (WoW), with it's cartoonish style and rather humorous sensibilities. Which is okay. An MMO with a big, fat number "18" on the box, not a problem. The problem arises when it is continously, and retardedly, passed off as "a game for adults".
I got news for you, boyo: Big boobs, heads rolling and blood splattering across your screen as you kill things is not "adult content". In fact, it's a very good definition of "adolescent content". Or, as Cartman would put it, dude, that's totally immature. I'm not saying you have to be a 14-year old boy in order to enjoy AoC (although it undoubtedly helps), I'm just saying that you've got one inside you, and that's the one howling with satisfaction as you're chopping off heads while ogling impossible cleavage, not the reasonable, election voting grown-up that you've later become. Well, at least I hope so. Wouldn't want Conans big-breasted hussy as president, really.
So, here we've got a game aimed squarely at young boys, which they can't buy 'cause they're not old enough to do so. Good stuff. Anyhow, I wish FunCom all the economical prosperity they'll need to continue the TLJ franchise. After all, Dreamfall still needs an ending.
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I'm a man with few words ... so ... well writen ... i enjoyed reading it ...
You are attempting to play freud and categorize age-specific behaviours under the false label of social normality. You simply cannot decide what is and isn't immature, when an adult finds gratification in video game breasts and violence it a symptom of a social condition, how do you seperate an adult from the child. By buying into this 'child within' psychological shortcut?
Also if you are going to make assumptions you need to get numbers and demographic statistics to back up your claims, even though this is basically a rant of how you interpreted the phrase 'adult content'
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