In hopes people are thicker skinned in this thread.
he never stated to keep anything else out other then gore, and nudity. Even with those gone this game would still be M rated for the language, and violence that is in it, as well as certain part tadpole included. Also that tadpole part can be skipped along with the rest of intro scene. So tadpole/intro arguements invalidated.
Language, curse words, etc oh my. the amount of 'bad' words that come out of childrens mouths these days, more so in denser populations is truelly astonishing especially when it can and does come out of a 4 years old mouth. Again OP said nothing about this being taken out of the game, after all his kids could hear it at any part of the day, either at school, walking down the sidewalk, on tv, you name it it's out there. So again language arguements invalidated.
Nudity/gore = Mortal Kombat had a setting to turn off gore, which locked any attempts to use fatalities, and other gory moves, as well as turn off blood. As do many games, they all for the most part have that option to turn off blood. Still they are rated M. Nudity depending on what culture your in, us Americans are for some reason in large part afraid of seeing naked people. It's why we do it with the lights off, we are scared of nakedness. I'm only partially joking for you out there that miss it. And scenes in game can be (unless I'm wrong) skipped I've skipped many conversations and cutscenes aren't really that much different.
So what OP has suggested is widely done with M rated games. What why, how is this. Fuck if I know oh wait.
Violence tends to get your game M rated, adult themes, such as oh lets say slavery, demons, devils. Tends to get your game M rated. There is alot more to M rating then just sex, and gore. If it and this game does involve alot of swinging sharp objects, and stabby with pointy things, and swinging with blunt things your likely to get an M rating just for the violence. If you have people cussing like Clavis again an M rating. If you have a cutscene anywhere like the opening of BG3 you'll get an M rating for that alone. Which I think was well done btw, but supposedly I'm a condescending arse, with no right to make a point, blah, blah, blah. Oh wait I tend to be.