A good analogy to the current gaming taboo climate would be to look at Psycho. During production one of the most controversial aspects to the movie that the studio execs wanted removed was not the now famous shower stabbing scene...it was the fact that there was a scene where a character flushed a piece of paper down the toilet.
Having a toilet in a movie was scene as taboo at the time, flushing the toilet made it even worse as this was seen as crude and filthy.
And look at where we are now with the 500 sequels to the american pie trilogy were the main form of "entertainment" is nothing more than fart jokes.
My point is that society deems certain taboos okay but other lesser taboos cannot be seen by an audience that chooses to see it but after awhile it becomes accepted as norm and then it gets used to death.
Sex scenes in video games are now reaching this point. When Rockstar did it (if you can even count a shaky camera over a car or house a sex scene) it was controversial. It was kind of controversial when Mass Effect did it but now you have the God of War trilogy with a sex scene in every game which is now the norm for the series. The fact that God of War 3 changed the normal wenches to Aphrodite, the Goddess of love, to keep things different just proves my point
Having a toilet in a movie was scene as taboo at the time, flushing the toilet made it even worse as this was seen as crude and filthy.
And look at where we are now with the 500 sequels to the american pie trilogy were the main form of "entertainment" is nothing more than fart jokes.
My point is that society deems certain taboos okay but other lesser taboos cannot be seen by an audience that chooses to see it but after awhile it becomes accepted as norm and then it gets used to death.
Sex scenes in video games are now reaching this point. When Rockstar did it (if you can even count a shaky camera over a car or house a sex scene) it was controversial. It was kind of controversial when Mass Effect did it but now you have the God of War trilogy with a sex scene in every game which is now the norm for the series. The fact that God of War 3 changed the normal wenches to Aphrodite, the Goddess of love, to keep things different just proves my point