{"id":34663,"date":"2013-02-07T12:54:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T10:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=34663"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:37:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:37:58","slug":"heavy-rain-creator-says-video-games-need-to-grow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/heavy-rain-creator-says-video-games-need-to-grow-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Rain creator says video games need to grow up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-34665\" title=\"Childish games?\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/02\/CHILDISH.png\" alt=\"Childish games?\" width=\"141\" height=\"141\" \/><strong>David Cage<\/strong>, the director of the Playstation 3 exclusive<strong> Heavy Rain <\/strong>says that the games industry needs to grow up and stop making titles just for teenagers and young adults.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the DICE Summit in Las Vegas about the state of the games industry Cage slammed <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/call-of-duty-black-ops-2.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Call of Duty<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gta-v.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grand Theft Auto<\/a><\/strong>, saying that developers should be making games that are more mature.<\/p>\n<p>Cage listed nine ways games need to change, so they can become something adults as well as children will want to play:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><!--more-->Make games for all audiences.<\/li>\n<li>Change our paradigms.<\/li>\n<li>The importance of meaning.<\/li>\n<li>Become accessible.<\/li>\n<li>Bring other talent on board.<\/li>\n<li>Establish new relationships with Hollywood<\/li>\n<li>Changing our relationship with censorship.<\/li>\n<li>The role of the press.<\/li>\n<li>The importance of gamers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the full transcript at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/186167\/David_Cage_Game_industry_has_Peter_Pan_Syndrome.php\"><strong>Gamsutra<\/strong><\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n<p>As an adult who plays games, I know that actually there are lots of  games already that are deeper than Call of Duty. Cage gives great  speeches and knows how to be controversial, but he&#8217;s not the only  developer making games that offer something more than just killing.<\/p>\n<p>Blockbusters like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bioshock.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bioshock<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dishonored.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dishonored<\/a><\/strong> are anything but dumb shooters, and really make you think as well as  being great games. Telltale&#8217;s <strong>Walking Dead<\/strong> adventure brought many players  to tears, such was its emotional intensity.<\/p>\n<p>There are many indie games that explore interesting narrative and topics generally ignored by mainstream games. <strong>Proteus<\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dear-esther.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dear Esther<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>Journey<\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/lone-survivor.en.softonic.com\/web-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lone Survivor<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thirty-flights-of-loving.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thirty Flights of Loving<\/a><\/strong>&#8230; the list could go on and on!<\/p>\n<p>In ignoring their existence, Cage is being unfair at best, and rude at worst.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you agree with David Cage that games need to grow up? Do you think Call of Duty is childish?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Cage, the director of the Playstation 3 exclusive Heavy Rain says that the games industry needs to grow up and stop making titles just for teenagers and young adults. Addressing the DICE Summit in Las Vegas about the state of the games industry Cage slammed Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto, saying that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/heavy-rain-creator-says-video-games-need-to-grow-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heavy Rain creator says video games need to grow up&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-34663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333398,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34663\/revisions\/333398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34663"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=34663"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=34663"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=34663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}