Sexuality in gaming, your stance?

[themilo504]

Having characters be attractive? Sure whatever.

Having romance subplots or even worse sex scenes? Keep that as far away from video games as possible, I will never understand the appeal of romance stories or the point of sex scenes so do me a favor and just make the main characters asexual, especially if they a silent protagonist.

 

[kogane]

IMO, As long as it's not just tasteless teenage pandering such as Giant/Bouncy boobs, oversized asses, or any outfit that's exposing too much, I'm cool with it.

...That's not sexuality in gaming. Those are sexualized images. Sexuality is desire, agency, identity. The sexualized are images people stare at, objects. Whether you have a preference for big breasts, small breasts, women in bikinis, or wrapped in layers and layers of Victorian garb, that doesn't really address the title you've chosen which is sexuality in gaming.

I would love to see female characters portrayed as active bearers of sexuality at a level where they're not just titillating viewers. I think that could make for a lot of scenarios to explore, and is also ground that very few games cover.

Well said, well said!

re bolded: Most of the time, the sex scenes in the Mass Effect series are fairly good at this, but other than this I'm drawing a blank. Which is both pretty telling and pretty sad.

 

[Dragonbums]

IMO, As long as it's not just tasteless teenage pandering such as Giant/Bouncy boobs, oversized asses, or any outfit that's exposing too much, I'm cool with it.

...That's not sexuality in gaming. Those are sexualized images. Sexuality is desire, agency, identity. The sexualized are images people stare at, objects. Whether you have a preference for big breasts, small breasts, women in bikinis, or wrapped in layers and layers of Victorian garb, that doesn't really address the title you've chosen which is sexuality in gaming.

I would love to see female characters portrayed as active bearers of sexuality at a level where they're not just titillating viewers. I think that could make for a lot of scenarios to explore, and is also ground that very few games cover.

Well said, well said!

re bolded: Most of the time, the sex scenes in the Mass Effect series are fairly good at this, but other than this I'm drawing a blank. Which is both pretty telling and pretty sad.

The only woman I can think off the top of my head that fits that category is Bayonetta. That's it.

 

[Specter Von Baren]

IMO, As long as it's not just tasteless teenage pandering such as Giant/Bouncy boobs, oversized asses, or any outfit that's exposing too much, I'm cool with it.

...That's not sexuality in gaming. Those are sexualized images. Sexuality is desire, agency, identity. The sexualized are images people stare at, objects. Whether you have a preference for big breasts, small breasts, women in bikinis, or wrapped in layers and layers of Victorian garb, that doesn't really address the title you've chosen which is sexuality in gaming.

I would love to see female characters portrayed as active bearers of sexuality at a level where they're not just titillating viewers. I think that could make for a lot of scenarios to explore, and is also ground that very few games cover.

Well said, well said!

re bolded: Most of the time, the sex scenes in the Mass Effect series are fairly good at this, but other than this I'm drawing a blank. Which is both pretty telling and pretty sad.

I think Morrigan from Darkstalkers fits pretty well.

 

[King Zeal]

Well, Morrigan is used more as a tease than an actor of sexuality. She's a character that essentially offers sex with almost every word or action, but that's it.

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Well, if we have female nudity, I don't see why we should draw the line at male nudity. Or sexualizing male characters. I find it curious that male gamers don't mind being treated like oversexed chimps who will buy a game purely because it contains breasts. Do they really not find their intelligence and character being so underrated insulting?

Are there many games that actually do sell purely based on their sex appeal? Even if there were, I don't know that I'd call intelligence and character into question. Character being subjectively perceived and intelligence not being showcased by one thing that a person likes.

 

[Hambers]

What, you didn't notice all of the

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character development and DIGNITY that Miranda was presented with? All of the work and camera angles Bioware used to make her seem

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believable and well rounded?

Yeah, neither did I.

You see I always thought the lingering ass shots in Miranda's conversation were a way to manipulate the user to side with Miranda the way a male Shepard might be. She was genetically crafted as the perfect women, one advantage being to use her looks to influence people. I thought it was a clever meta way to work this into gameplay. Your Shep is in a conversation and Miranda wants him to do as she wishes, camera slips behind her bum, framing Shep in the background, her bum dominates the screen, you are looking right at it. She's using her feminine wiles on Shep and on the user.

Or maybe its just an excuse for some T&A. But I'd rather believe, you know?

OT: Unless it goes beyond what is physically possible (Ivy's giant breasts in her SCIV costume)or believable in the context of the game's setting (boob windows in body armour in Warface) and it has a purpose other than titilating the user than sexuality is a good thing. Sexuality exists in all media and certainly in life, having games barren and sexless would make for a blander, less realistic medium.