Games With Naked People

[honestdiscussioner]

I think I was pretty shocked in GTA 4: Liberty City Stories when we saw not boobie, but the full on cock and balls of a U.S. politician.

 

[neonsword13-ops]

L.A. Noire was the only game I could take seriously with nudity.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Daggerfall, of all games, was riddled with nudity. It had everything from partially implemented prostitutes, to naked nymphs, to paintings that you could find as rare drops, some of which were literally 90s softcore porn, as in photographs, not pictures made for the game. The game came out in 1996, and I don't know of any AAA game with that much nudity between Daggerfall and God of War.

Was it strictly for PC? If not, which console? I imagine it's PC if it rendered photographs.

PC only. If you don't know what it is, it's the second Elder Scrolls game. Bethesda released the whole thing as freeware when Oblivion came out. It's also the best game in the series. You can get a preconfigured installer <link=http://theelderscrolls.wiwiland.net/?title=Daggerfall_:_DaggerfallSetup_EN>here, if you're interested.

 

[knighthawk42]

Most of the games I know of have already been stated. Just thought of the desire demons in Dragon Age. That is one thing I find interesting is that the medusas and sirens in God of war are topless as well but since it is not sexualized as much it does not draw attention. I found it frustrating working in a video game store when a parent was ok with blood and gore, but a boob would send them over the edge. I mean, they will see one eventually, right? As far as my kids are concerned(when I have them) I hope they never see someones head get blown off, but I know that one day they will see someone else naked.

 

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

LA Noire has nudity, and it's possibly the first game ever made that shows a vagina.

Not particularly attractive ones, but vaginas nonetheless

Actually I think Witcher 2 might have him beaten there, cos:

Spoiler

Gerralt wakes up in bed next to Triss from the first game, and in a surprisingly tasteful manner, gently caresses her. The camera follows down and BAM, there's Triss' crotch in all its glory

It sort of took me off guard actually because unlike most other games, the nudity isn't built up (Mass Effect) nor was it hyped pre-release (Heavy Rain). It just happened, and the game continued, treating its player like he had a brain.

 

[Solo-Wing]

rapelay is an obvious contender.

Well any games from Illusion really. But yeah that is the most obvious.

 

[PeePantz]

Daggerfall, of all games, was riddled with nudity. It had everything from partially implemented prostitutes, to naked nymphs, to paintings that you could find as rare drops, some of which were literally 90s softcore porn, as in photographs, not pictures made for the game. The game came out in 1996, and I don't know of any AAA game with that much nudity between Daggerfall and God of War.

Was it strictly for PC? If not, which console? I imagine it's PC if it rendered photographs.

PC only. If you don't know what it is, it's the second Elder Scrolls game. Bethesda released the whole thing as freeware when Oblivion came out. It's also the best game in the series. You can get a preconfigured installer <link=http://theelderscrolls.wiwiland.net/?title=Daggerfall_:_DaggerfallSetup_EN>here, if you're interested.

Why thank you good sir. I knew the name, but couldn't place my finger on it. I personally never got into the ES series due to lack of a functional gaming PC. I've missed a lot of great games and it saddens me to have a history of gaming solely on consoles.

 

[Katana314]

I thought the moment of nudity in Lost and the Damned was really funny. The whole scene had hidden his *thing* in so many unusual ways, and then finally just as you're leaving...it's right mid-screen.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent puts no clothes on its corpses. Also, there was an indie game called The Void with nudity.

Heavy Rain was unusual in that it had nudity on one of its protagonists...and while the game had a sex scene, the more explicit nudity was NOT during that. Also amusingly, you get an achievement for AVOIDING showing any nudity. (What a dilemma for achievement-hunters)

I'm trying to remember if any Africa-based games have had nudity; around there, it's not even really customary for breasts to be considered a "private part". Women walk around topless, and it's so common men kind of lose interest quickly.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Daggerfall, of all games, was riddled with nudity. It had everything from partially implemented prostitutes, to naked nymphs, to paintings that you could find as rare drops, some of which were literally 90s softcore porn, as in photographs, not pictures made for the game. The game came out in 1996, and I don't know of any AAA game with that much nudity between Daggerfall and God of War.

Was it strictly for PC? If not, which console? I imagine it's PC if it rendered photographs.

PC only. If you don't know what it is, it's the second Elder Scrolls game. Bethesda released the whole thing as freeware when Oblivion came out. It's also the best game in the series. You can get a preconfigured installer <link=http://theelderscrolls.wiwiland.net/?title=Daggerfall_:_DaggerfallSetup_EN>here, if you're interested.

Why thank you good sir. I knew the name, but couldn't place my finger on it. I personally never got into the ES series due to lack of a functional gaming PC. I've missed a lot of great games and it saddens me to have a history of gaming solely on consoles.

You're welcome, and I have some good news about Daggerfall; if you have a computer at all, you can probably run it. You can run it natively on a 486DX, which if you've never heard of it, was the main Intel processor right before the release of the original Pentium, and if you have a modern computer of any flavor -- which you would have to to be posting here -- you can run it quite easily in Dosbox. The link I provided even sets up a custom install of Dosbox that will run the game for you. Arena is also free and even easier to run, but it's not anywhere near as good as Daggerfall.

 

[Alucard788]

I find it sad that many games lack male nudity. I mean if we were to take games, and movies from an alien perspective they'd think that females have proper parts and the men have no parts. Leading them to believe that we breed in odd ways.

It's funny and sad that modern men are so ashamed of there own bodies. Nudity in games should be equal,(in context),and not always portrayed in a sexual way. The male body is nothing to be ashamed of.

*sigh*...but there I go...dreaming again....

 

[tahrey]

Beat 'em & Eat 'em to go with Custer's Revenge...

Also innumerate cruddy strip poker games down the years.

Oh yeah. Final Fantasy 6. Very blocky sprite nudity, but nudity all the same.

Plus I'm sure there was some in Barbarian or a similar other game on my Atari ST, but if it's not that I can't remember what the name is.
Or it might have just been a terrible sprite-edit done by me & my bruv after getting hold of an editor util. (Or did we just make it from scratch in Shoot Em Up Construction Kit?)

 

[razerdoh]

Custer's Revenge?

best game ever

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

LA Noire has nudity, and it's possibly the first game ever made that shows a vagina.

Not particularly attractive ones, but vaginas nonetheless

Actually I think Witcher 2 might have him beaten there, cos:

Spoiler

Gerralt wakes up in bed next to Triss from the first game, and in a surprisingly tasteful manner, gently caresses her. The camera follows down and BAM, there's Triss' crotch in all its glory

It sort of took me off guard actually because unlike most other games, the nudity isn't built up (Mass Effect) nor was it hyped pre-release (Heavy Rain). It just happened, and the game continued, treating its player like he had a brain.

I wasn't really surprised myself since the Disdain and Fear [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/trailers/3255-The-Witcher-2-Disdain-and-Fear] trailer features a few snippets from the (completely optional and easily missed depending on your dialog choices) elven bathhouse scene with Triss, one of which showed her diving through water sans clothing. And of course the first official trailer had exposed breasts in it, so I went into the game expecting nudity to just be something that happens from time to time.

Now when Geralt wakes up outdoors after one particular sidequest in naught but his breeches only to discover

Spoiler

that he got himself a tattoo of a naked lady brandishing a sword and shield on his neck while he was roaring drunk the night before

that was actually surprising, heh. Now I can't imagine the character without it!

 

[Matthew Wilson]

Obviously they've already been said but Lost & Damned has a dick and balls in it (from a character called Stubbs no less) I saw the scene then replayed with my friend who hadn't seen it. He spent the entire scene a little creeped out that there was a naked man on screen but when the dick was shown he walked out. I think that was allowed due to the comedic effect it had, also it showed how ballsy (pun intended) Rockstar are.

In L.A. Noire's case the context in which the naked women are found means it's not sexualised, taking any and all ammo from Fox News.

 

[Netrigan]

It's the puritan influence. Drives me nuts.

It's a really weird puritanical influence. It's more like we decided there were certain rules to follow and we don't tend to go outside the lines too often. Nudity in movies perfectly okay (even if played on TV), while nudity on a TV show is against the rules, even on cable (HBO excluded).

I know American TV was far more daring than British TV up until the late 60s when the BBC scrapped the really restrictive rules they had enshrined and the inmates were allowed to run free. This didn't happen in America mostly because productions hadn't felt truly restricted. Some small scale rebellions, but not the widespread one England saw.

 

[Woodsey]

LA Noire has nudity, and it's possibly the first game ever made that shows a vagina.

Probably not, and The Witcher 2's got plenty - and since it was released everywhere on the same day LA Noire was only out in the USA, I declare it the winner!

(But there probably is something else.)

I always considered it specific of US culture to be honest. You guys there over the ocean seem to really have something against nudity in media. Even most action flicks with loads of violence, swearing, explosions just shyly hint at the side boob while many European movies have full frontal nudity without having the 18+ rating slapped on it.

For the same reasons Witcher 1 was so 'shocking' due to it's sex cards. It's something that in Poland where the game was developed was not even noticed, it was taken as natural yet the western world (mostly US) somewhat raged about it.

The issue was more that the sex cards were stupid, although I agree Americans have their priorities in the wrong order.

 

[distortedreality]

Probably not, and The Witcher 2's got plenty - and since it was released everywhere on the same day LA Noire was only out in the USA, I declare it the winner!

I don't know about you, but I just finished a play through of The Witcher 2 and all I saw was pubic hair. Maybe my version has a vag filter or something?

 

[Mallefunction]

I don't mind nudity, but it needs to make sense in the context of the game and shouldn't be shoe horned in for shits and giggles (Bayonetta). I also think that it should be more evened out. Yes, we see a lot of shirtless men in video games, but if you're going to show ALL of the female body, it's only fair to do the same with men occasionally.

I would prefer if players had the option to skip stuff like sex scenes, but I understand that developers sometimes use those scenes in the story for a reason outside of cheap appeal. So I wouldn't want to censor them just because some people are thinner skinned than others.

 

[Mallefunction]

I find it sad that many games lack male nudity. I mean if we were to take games, and movies from an alien perspective they'd think that females have proper parts and the men have no parts. Leading them to believe that we breed in odd ways.

It's funny and sad that modern men are so ashamed of there own bodies. Nudity in games should be equal,(in context),and not always portrayed in a sexual way. The male body is nothing to be ashamed of.

*sigh*...but there I go...dreaming again....

THANK YOU! Honestly, when I saw WATCHMEN, I remember people being more freaked out over seeing John's body than all the bloody gore nor the sex scene that occurred later on. I'm a woman, but I never understood this shyness.