Agreed completely. Its why I feel the medium needs to move with our age. A lot of us still game and will likely still game in the future and I hope the market reflects that and makes more mature subject matter. I want to be able to tell my kid "You see, that pixel shit was the first mature drama of its time, had gay sex, mofos getting killed, BAD WORDS and everything" lol
If I had to teach a course on it, FEAR EFFECT, Metal Gear Solid 1 and The Last Of Us series would be my opening chapter. Ideas once thought to wild to be in a video game, became normal and accepted and decades later we would laugh at the idea of a game not having those ideas to some degree.
Fear Effect with sexual content in general.
Metal Gear Solid with a fuck ton of concepts, the idea that you didn't need to kill ever enemy, a story with a scripted, voice overs, musical score by a Hollywood composer etc I remember as a kid hearing others debate if it was needed in a game as a lot that talk on "its suppose to be a game not a movie" was out and about, yet now it would be weird as shit to have massive AAA game release with no story, no voice overs, no big musical score etc.
The Last Of Us series, amazing writing. Nothing was left on the table, they spoke and acted like how real Americans would very much act. The level of violence, they didn't hold back on the subject matter and if I never seen a Mature rated game, I'd assume that is what they are (or should be) with that rating. The Last Of Us level of violence is brutally honest with how humans behave and what gun does to ones body.
We don't watching Breaking Bad and pretend its the only show that people die in violent ways, thats any show with that rating about that subject matter. That should be the same way with games. Looking at the industry now, we have a long way to go, but I can't wait until there is a whole ass genre of violent mature rated games for us to go HAM on. lol