Now this is freaking hilarous!

Now we all know I like me some breasts (First game I buy when I get the 360?  Dead or Alive 4).  However, to assert that turning Samus from kickass bounty hunter to voluptuous runway model would make the Metroid series "more mature" is both laughable and sad at the same time.

It's laughable because this little boy (and he's clearly a little boy) seems to equate sex and violence with maturiy.  It's pretty clear that the originator of this thread has never seen a naked woman in his life.

It's sad because, with the exception of God of War the Metal Gear Solid and Resident Evil series, and a couple of really fringe RPGs, sex and violence is really all that makes M-rated games "mature."  Most of the M-rated games on the market exist solely for shock value.  Really, what makes games like Grand Theft Auto, 187: Ride or Die, Devil May Cry and the like get their M-ratings?  Is it a gritty story?  Is it hard-hitting social commentary?  Is it characters who are facing real emotional challenges?  Is it games that require a high level of skill that only an adult could hope to have?  No.  It's sex and violence.  If anything, the real "mature" games are found in the E, E10 and T ratings.  games like the Final Fantasy series, Megaman Legends 1 and 2, Metroid Prime, PQ: Practical Intelligence Quotient, the Lunar games on Sega CD and PlayStation, these are the real "mature" games.  Why?  Because instead of using the cheap gimmicks of sex and violence, they engage adults in ways that few kids could ever hope to understand.

However, the 13-year-old boys who make up most of the market for M-rated games will never understand this, because it's cooler to have blood, breasts, swearing and explosions than to have creative storytelling and gameplay.

To the idiot who thought to make this thread: You are not a gamer.  go find some Lara hentai and entertain yourself with the joystick between your legs, but leave my Samus the hell alone!