But there's still a difference between what you have and this torso. For one, does the strippers graphic nature become adult because of nudity or because it's a undead thing? If it had been 'properly' clothed, would that change the appeal of it or even it's adult nature?

The answers are made up and the questions don't matter...

There's a clear difference between macabre art's depiction of death as humanic symbolism and this statue's intended appeal.

So just about all of them assume and make clear heighten levels of aggression; what about heightened levels of violence?

One can only hope. This stuff looks great! An expansion on the story, or hell even stand-alone missions to this place would be awesome.

I agree with that sentiment. It a perfectly placed and reasonable thing to assume. Just because what I like or dislike is different from others viewpoints does not make them wrong; it's preference. But it's also something that has a clearly defined line to it, and it settles on 2 sides of an extreme. That's not going…

My opinion of a tongueless Kakihara statue would be much more different for a dismembered torso actually. For one, the Kakihara isn't dead in that situation, there's no 'victim'. While a tongueless Kakihara is disturbing, the content isn't 'adult' in the same sense of Dead Island's statue.

You reading too far into what I was saying. I have a problem with the statue as it's own disturbing thing, my bigger issue is with the the fact that it was even considered for being bundled with a game at all and somehow got the okay to be made. Something like this is borderline taboo with an obvious adult theme;…

Your welcome.

I have no idea...

You smell that...

Oh, so you understand what mature means...

I don't know how I feel about this. On the one hand, I do enjoy all of Skype's services...

Exactly my point. Why even do this? Sure the game has mature themes...

That's the thing though, this isn't obviously marketed towards children and I'm pretty sure this 'collectors' edition won't make it past online retail. Hell I'm pretty sure there won't be any advertisement for this edition either since all of this. But the game will be marketed in open audiences like you said, which…

I enjoy my share of blood and guts in the context of a fantasy setting because it is something that's clearly seperated from the actual world and draws me into the setting being portrayed as a world building process...

Who says they both don't? My main problem is the fact that this was even considered. Sure it's bad that it's a dismembered female torso that is provactively playing to the game's theme, but it's also something that in any context is a taboo and one that's is both disturbingly suggestive and downright inappropriate.

No, as with matters of sexuality and the advertisement for things such as tobacco, alcohol and adult products, there would be obvious restriction as to where, when and how such things can be.

So do I, but there's no doubt it's a very trashy movie. Then again, the movie was also about seperating what defines something as prerogative between one's own views and the norms of society...

I just don't understand what kind of foresight could even have allowed this to happen. This is definitely something I would only ever imagine being in a sex shop or some crazy demented taboo website.