Are there any GOOD mature games?

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#1  Edited By COSMONUTS

I'm not looking for porn games or anything like that. The thing is if you think about the level of relationships that are in games they are pretty immature. Even something that GoW that is extremely explicit just comes down to a virgin's fantasy of what sex might be like. So are there any games out there with real meaningful relationships that a mature person could believe and fall in love with?

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#4  Edited By captain_clayman

LA noire 
mass effect 
i guess heavy rain

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#5  Edited By beargirl1

i don't know. Persona 4 has stuff like that i think?

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#6  Edited By SadPatrol

So you want a romantic video game? I guess heavy rain.

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Second Life

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#8  Edited By JoeyRavn

Red Dead Redemption, Alan Wake and Deadly Premonition have (on different levels) realistic and likable couples.

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#9  Edited By helios1337

hmmm, The Longest Journey?

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#10  Edited By 1337W422102

Gotta go with the only true answer:
@Rolyatkcinmai said:

Rapelay

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#11  Edited By laserbolts
@captain_clayman
LA noire 
mass effect 
i guess heavy rain
La noire? Hmmm
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#12  Edited By ventilaator
@captain_clayman said:

mass effect

HA. No. 
 
Mass Effect has some of the fakest and forced "maturity" ever. In the second game Miranda literally goes "Sex? Y/N" after you've spoken with her a bunch. Absolutely no attempt at any feelings or emotion in the characters whatsoever, just a "you can do this now if you want"
 
The Uncharted series has the most believable relationships I've seen.
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#13  Edited By Akrid

School Days.

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#14  Edited By valrog

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings

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#15  Edited By gamer_152  Moderator
@Ventilaator said:
@captain_clayman said:

mass effect

HA. No.   Mass Effect has some of the fakest and forced "maturity" ever. In the second game Miranda literally goes "Sex? Y/N" after you've spoken with her a bunch. Absolutely no attempt at any feelings or emotion in the characters whatsoever, just a "you can do this now if you want"
Not that Mass Effect necessarily had the deepest sexual relationships of any game, but I think the example you gave says more about Miranda as a character than anything else and I think the "you can do this now" nature of it is more of a problem with sex as a component of modern game design than anything else, personally I thought Mass Effect still had some interesting characters to interact with. I also have to put in my vote for Persona 4 as well.
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#16  Edited By zaglis

Half-Life 2 
Half-Life 2 Episode 1
Half-Life 2 Episode 2 

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#17  Edited By ventilaator
@Gamer_152 said:

@Ventilaator said:

@captain_clayman said:

mass effect

HA. No.   Mass Effect has some of the fakest and forced "maturity" ever. In the second game Miranda literally goes "Sex? Y/N" after you've spoken with her a bunch. Absolutely no attempt at any feelings or emotion in the characters whatsoever, just a "you can do this now if you want"
 personally I thought Mass Effect still had some interesting characters to interact with.
Yeah, but unfortunately getting it on with Mordin wasn't an option :(
 
By the way, I'm probably the only person in the world who went through both Mass Effect games without boning anybody. I didn't want to do it just for the sake of doing it, because it is a role playing game and I'm taking the character and his decision through multiple games, but the moments where an option has been given have alllllll been so painfully fake and off putting that my Shepard is completely unboned.
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#18  Edited By SomeJerk

GTA4 is the closest I can come up with. Who didn't get a bromance with Jacob? Even when I was just driving/flying around blowing things up and not doing missions or races I'd have him with me.

School Days gets quite mature a bit into it, I must say. I don't regret going through that one, and I do facepalm at the Mass Effect business.

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#19  Edited By Yummylee

Silent Hill 2? The relationship between James and Mary/Maria is fittingly haunting and one of the best psychological character studies within the franchise. 

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#20  Edited By Hot_Sawce

Gears of War 2 -- MARIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

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#21  Edited By louiedog

There was a thread that was pretty much the same as this a week or so ago. I think it was over in the Catherine forum. It's a good question and one that I'm interested in finding a good answer to. Many people seem to misinterpret the question every time I see it asked about games. They see mature in the definition that the ESRB rating uses it, which seems to be that you need to be mature to handle a game. What you seem to be looking for are games for which maturity is needed to understand and relate to them. 
 
As far as games like that with realistic and meaningful relationships? I don't know, but I'll be following this thread to hopefully find some. I wouldn't be surprised if there were some more obscure adventure games that are like that, but with the caveat that they're from small teams who can't afford the polish and localization to make games up to the standards set by bigger titles with mass appeal.

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#22  Edited By Damian
@Ventilaator: Miranda was bred largely for her sexuality, and she exposes deep-seeded insecurities for which Sheppard must offer comfort to drop her guard. I don't think that's very unrealistic at all. There are (sadly) PLENTY of people who behave like that with far less motivation. 
 
As to OP's question: I don't believe so, no. But Skyrim will feature relationships. Maybe they can work some magic in that department. Though I wouldn't hold my breath for that feature to knock your socks off.
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#23  Edited By Video_Game_King

Fragile Dreams and Fire Emblem. Fragile Dreams for the philosophy and characterization, Fire Emblem for the politics and how fucking dark it can get...and the characterization, which is also pretty damn dark.

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#24  Edited By MudMan
@Abyssfull said:
Silent Hill 2? The relationship between James and Mary/Maria is fittingly haunting and one of the best psychological character studies within the franchise. 
I like that example. 
 
I'm very intrigued about Catherine on this front. We'll see how that comes together. 
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#25  Edited By CosmicQueso

Go play Catherine. Let us know how it is.

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#26  Edited By iDarktread
@Hot_Sawce said:
Gears of War 2 -- MARIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Hah.
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#27  Edited By Cold_Wolven

Uncharted 1 and 2, some of the best acting between characters in a video game.

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#28  Edited By aspro73

I'd consider Enslaved to have a decent portrayl of an a mature relationship between adults.

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#29  Edited By Aronman789

Pokemon.

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#30  Edited By mnzy
@aspro73 said:
I'd consider Enslaved to have a decent portrayl of an a mature relationship between adults.

 
But yeah, Enslaved has some of that.
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#31  Edited By AhmadMetallic
@zaglis said:
Half-Life 2  Half-Life 2 Episode 1Half-Life 2 Episode 2 
wat
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#32  Edited By jmfinamore

I'd say Red Dead and Enslaved have done the best (from what I've seen) this generation. 

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#33  Edited By Sooperspy

Heavy Rain