Initially, my vote was 'no,' but now I'm undecided and here's why:
It's not an objection to the program idea, but to the strategy in general. Historically, I've found that found that games that are deliberatly created to chase after mature content are doomed from the start creativity-wise. More often than not, adult content is substituted for good story-telling as a sort of mental crutch for the writers involved. Here, the hope is that by innudating the audience with enogh violence and profanity, the game will somehow divert attention away from it's own shortfalls. The same strategy is attempted in movies, literature and most other art forms. In a nutshell, it's real easy to overemphasise shock value over substance.
But it
can work. There are some novels that tell incredible stories though violence in order to get the right message across.
Full Metal Jacket and
Apocalypse Now revealed the atrocities of warfare with stark imagery.
Lord of the Flies and
Ender's Game used violent death scenes to reveal the creul side of humanity. The Old Testament needs no introduction. There are a lot more examples, but it looks like I'm starting to type up a novel of my own here...
I guess what I'm saying is, the concept could work, but that shouldn't be the sole purpose. If the idea is going to fly, then from a developers' standpoint it would be most prudent to establish a solid game concept (difficultly, character developement, replay value, originality, optimizations, and so on...), and then build the mature elements around that later. But my reasoning here already makes too many assumptions about the game.
Wheter the content is mature or not depends entirely on the story you're trying to tell, what audience you're trying to capture, and what your goals are for the game in general.
. This is the one thatll be on ticalc
